Fogged

I've developed a new smoothie love these past days. It's a combination of banana, apple, blueberries, cinnamon & water. It's simple and you get to eliminate plenty of apples :)

It's also fluffy and rich and ideal for this cold days, as the cinnamon&apple combination remind you of apple strudel or mulled wine.

We've been in a state of fog these past... weeks, actually. I had to take a trip back home, to finally enjoy me some sunshine, after being stuck over 2 weeks in fog, fog and more fog. So after 2 weeks I finally saw this:

What a sight! And warmth! My eyes could hardly focus, unaccostumed to bright light.

We're expecting my niece/nephiew any day now and we have invited the newlyweds over for a traditional Sunday lunch feast. My, her belly grew out! It's hard to imagine there's a living being growing inside, feels so bizzare :) And you see the little feet sticking out, making bumps in the belly :-) I recon, next time I visit, I'll be an auntie :)

Anyway, we cooked delicious food, and with leftover pumpkins rolling around from Halloween, we made - for the first time ever ever - pumpkin soup, served in pumpkin shells with an addition of roasted pumpkin seeds :)

Wow, was it delicious! I sure am making it again! 

I also discovered that Loving Hut has gone winter-style, now serving food in heat-preserving containers, that are - OF COURSE - eco friendly, made of sugar cane and biodegradable! Wow! I wonder, if they can serve food like that, also using biodegradable bags, why can't everyone? We pay for it, we deserve to have what we want! :-)

This is so important and most easily comes to attention when buying vegatables and fruit in supermarkets, where you need to put everything in plastic bags, that are only used for about 20 minutes! And then, to waste with it. When I can, I put price tags on the products directly (bananas, large veggies etc), but I would seriously appreciate biodegradable bags, thank you. I was long one of the rare freaks that brought tote bags to supermarkets, just because it seemed ridicolous always buying new plastic bags I had no use for. Now everywhere they support reusable bags, totes. It's time to take that a step further, do you agree? Let us have biodegradable fruit & veggie bags!

Just think: when I buy groceries I usually buy: lettuce (1 bag), cabbage (wrapped in foil??), cauliflower (foil), chinese cabbage (bag), peppers (bag for each kind of pepper), courgettes (bag), eggplant (bag), bananas (never a bag!), apples (bag), tanjerines, lemons, grapes, ... you name it. That's like 10 or more plastic bags in one shopping spree! And they're too small to actually be reused for other things or garbage, and I cannot use it for bio waste since it's plastic. So, a petition seems in order to supply shoppers with eco bags!