Mixed crackers, jalapeño cheese things, guacamole, sour cream

This is a very brief review, written more in the interests of keeping myself awake than in any expectation of people being around to read it on Boxing Day. (Although I know Boxing Day¹ isn’t a thing outside the UK and possibly some Commonwealth countries, so some Pineapples will already be back to business as usual.)

While I was at the care home I received several lectures from the Occupational Therapist on managing fatigue – i.e. not doing too much and taking enough time to rest – before she finally gave up in the face of my stubborn intransigence and told me I would just have to learn from experience. I hate to say she was right, but she was right: by the end of yesterday I was nearly falling asleep in my chair, and today my legs are back to feeling like they don’t really belong to me. Lesson learned, even if the lesson is to be quietly grateful that, despite Wizzard’s yearly imprecations², it isn’t Christmas every day.

There isn’t much of lunch to review, as it was mostly made up of things I have already reviewed. The bits that are new:

Sour cream and onion dip: very good sour cream flavour with a few small pieces of crunchy onion. The best part of the three dip pack by far.

Crackers, from a mixed box: rosemary, poppy seed, mixed grain. The rosemary ones initially didn’t seem to taste of much, but with the second one I found the herb flavour, and decided they’re quite good after all. Poppy seed – taste mostly of the fine sprinkling of salt on the top, which isn’t a complaint. Their fragility was a problem, though, and I suspect I will find more bits of cracker when I go to bed tonight, as penalty for eating lunch while sitting on my bed. Mixed grain – the best of the bunch for eating with something as they’re a bit sturdier; topped with a jalapeño cheese thing, some guacamole and some sour cream they were pretty good, if not exactly the easiest things to eat tidily.

Dinner tonight will be leftovers from yesterday with some fresh roast veg, possibly followed by a hot pudding and custard as both mum and I seem to be having a hungry day. Catch y’all later!

1. If you’ve ever wondered why it’s called Boxing Day, it’s because it used to be the day when collection boxes were opened and the contents given to the poor, or at least to those members of the poor deemed not too smelly and likely to appear sufficiently grateful, to paraphrase Terry Pratchett. ↩︎
2. If you’ve never been in the UK around Christmas you probably won’t know the song I’m referring to, you lucky person. ↩︎