How is your post-Christmas diet shaping up? January is supposed to be a time for fresh starts – healthy eating, wholesome walks in the countryside, that sort of thing. Not so for me. We get given so many food related Christmas gifts that the first half of January at least is awash with sugar in a veritable sea of fudge, fruit liqueurs and violet creams.

Thursday was a particularly shameful day for me as I was entirely alone and so had no one to look at me, eyebrows raised, as I reached for the seventh biscotti.

Here’s roughly what I ate (in chronological order): View Post

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You’ll never guess what I did this morning.

It’s not a challenge or anything, if you know me at all you will literally never guess. At 7.35am, when Belle left for school, I left with her (a miracle in itself as I am normally still in bed) and went for a jog.

*pauses for regular readers to wipe up the tea they will have undoubtedly spluttered all over themselves*

I say jog – it was day one of the couch to 5K programme, so was a minute of jogging then a minute and a half of brisk (although probably not as brisk as it should have been) walking, for a total of twenty minutes. The runners among you may scoff, but for me this is a big deal, and it’s only now, a couple of hours later, that my face is returning to a vaguely normal colour. So pleased with myself was I in fact that I very nearly did something rash like add ‘run a marathon’ to my 40 things before 40 list, but I saw sense just in time and figured I should probably pace myself. View Post

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This competition is now closed.

I’ve got a little competition for you today. When I was first approached about it, I have to confess that I saw the word ‘IQ test’ and immediately wanted to take part. It’s not that I’m competitive, I just like to be the cleverest. All of the time.

"Be food smart"Don’t panic though, it’s not an ordinary IQ test – this one is a food IQ quiz, to see how much you know about hidden nasties like fat and salt. Apparently 77% of respondents have scored 50% or less, so I’m sure you won’t be able to resist seeing if you can do better.*

The quiz is part of the he Government’s healthy living initiative Change4Life and the new ‘Be Food Smart’ campaign, and as an extra incentive, everyone who signs up to Change4Life gets one of these funky ‘Meal Mixer’ healthy meal planners:

"meal planner"

If you’d like to win a meal mixer AND £50 to spend on food at the co-operative, all you have to do is take the food IQ quiz and share your score. There will be a bonus entry for liking the Slummy single mummy Facebook page and for every time you share this post.

Entry will close on 30th January and a winner will be picked at random after that date.

Good luck!

*I got 75%. Just saying. Not that it matters. *Whistles casually*

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