I read a great Spark Article recently about creating good snacks to have on hand when the urge to eat strikes. The idea is to keep cut up fruits or carrot sticks in the fridge or small servings of nuts or cheese ready to go. This is really important for me. My diabetic diet calls for 3 meals and 3 snacks a day to keep my blood sugar level. It is much better for me to have a banana with me at work for a late afternoon snack than for me to get a bag of peanut M&M's from the vending machine. I'm making a good effort to snack healthy as well as eat healthy meals.
Some where along the way I ran across the following poem by Mandy Coe and the pun at the end cracked me up.
Mandy Coe is a prize winning British poet. (I guessed she was British by the title. A cheese and pickle sandwich just sounds like something the Brits would eat.) To me the poem also addresses one of the reasons people snack - it's easier than a relationship. Tell me what you think.
Go To Bed With A Cheese And Pickle Sandwich
by Mandy Coe
Go to bed with a cheese and pickle sandwich.
It is life enhancing.
It doesn't chat you up.
You have to make it.
A cheese and pickle sandwich
is never disappointing.
You don't lie there thinking:
Am I too fat?
Too fertile?
Too insecure?
Your thoughts are clear,
your choices simple:
to cut it in half
or not to cut it in half,
how thin to slice the cheese
and where you should place the pickle.
From a cheese and pickle sandwich
you do not expect flowers,
poems and acts of adoration.
You expect what you get:
cheese... and pickle.
You want, you eat,
and afterwards you have eaten.
No lying awake resentful,
listening to it snore.
Safe snacks.
It comes recommended.
