Interesting story in the news today

DGD likes making smoothies but they always have to be the same - banana, yogurt and berries (preferably strawberries) and sometimes icecream.
Not so healthy with the icecream but delicious and very cold!

GS2 (5) likes making smoothies and produces green ones with all sorts of stuff in them. Still, rather that than Red Bull DH and I have been eating Houmous since the 60s the legacy of eating in Greek restaurants in SoHo I suppose.DD (being a biochemist) just stresses the importance of lots of different colours.

Love aubergines in a caponata,find avocado boring,very fond of beetroot and spinach and celeriac. Porridge oats ,quinoa,couscous are store cupboard staples. Matcha I've had in Japan and didn't like it and octopus revolts me especially after that awful woodcut from the British museum.had various healthy green smoothies in oz and felt unimpressed.

The only time I ate celeriac (not that long ago in fact) I started to itch all over and found that afterwards I can't eat celery either now, so no, it is not on my weekly shopping list.

It was a joke as I cook lots of celeriac Jane; it is a bit of a low-carb staple. Just can’t imagine many millennials would have cooked with it (though I may be being unfair). Ditto octopus which OH used to catch all the time on holiday.
I agree about spirulina, vile stuff.
Love avocado, another staple here.

Interesting, Jane, Caffeine has a "wiring up" effect on the brtain, so it is believable that drinking a lot of it could cause some people to see things that are not there.

They found that three cups of brewed coffee (or seven cups of instant) equivalent to about six cups of strong tea, nine colas, four Red Bulls and about one-and-a-half cups of coffee at a boutique café made the people in their experiment have a three-times-higher tendency to hear voices and see things that were not there than those who consumed the equivalent of a half-cup of brewed coffee (or one cup of instant coffee).
"It is possible that the association between caffeine intake and hallucinations was due to the fact that people who are prone to associations tend to use caffeine to help them cope with their experiences, said Durham psychologist Charles Fernyhough, who worked with Jones on the research."

I think I am safe enough with two or three cups of medium strength spread over the day.

We have eaten most of the things on that list. We had quinoa last night and it is beetroot and fennel tart tonight. MyDiL gave me some spirulina as she said it is helpful to diabetics. Bit of a swampy taste bough.

mamie we had some lovely celeriac soup recently at the Carriages Cafe in Bellingham.
I came home & bought a celeriac & made soup and remoulade.

I would be tempted to say, “How interesting, do give me your top three celeriac recipes, we have a massive crop this year”.
?

elegran www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/3230-caffeine-hallucinations.html
Article about a study at Durham University about the association between caffeine intake and hallucinations.
It does say at the end that the people who had the hallucinations could be taking in more caffeine to help them cope with whatever was causing them to have the hallucinations ......

The hallucinations could be due to an excess of caffeine, which you could get just as easily from a jar of instant. The calorific value of Starbuck's coffee depends on which you choose - from a small americano at 5 kcal to a large caffe mocha with whole milk and whipped cream at 465 kcal. A large latte comes in at 180 kcal. Not many main meals have only 180 kcal, unless you are dieting fiercely.

There are some very interesting nutritional charts on their website www.starbucks.co.uk/quick-links/nutrition-info

Starbucks coffee is hallucinogenic
Perhaps they make it with magic mushrooms

You'll never know whether or not you like something if you don' try it GabriellaG!

From BBC Good Food:
Avocados are an excellent source of monounsaturated fat and vitamin E. However, avocados are high in calories due to the high fat content. Half an avocado counts as one portion of your 5-a day and those managing their weight might want to consider limiting the number of avocados they consume to two per week while increasing the portions of other lower calorie fruits and vegetables^

Avocados have more soluble fibre than other fruit and contain a number of useful minerals such as iron, copper and potassium and are a good source of the B vitamin, folate

100g of avocado contains about 19g of fat, of which 12g are monounsaturated fats (only 4g of saturated fat).

1-17, 19, 21-25, 27-38, 40, 42, 43 = NO.
Sourdough
Granola
Smoothie
Spinach
Blueberries
plus the last 7 on the list = YES.

IMO, people who repetitively dose themselves with coffee shop calorific coffees, are on another planet.

That was to gabriella

Starbucks coffee is hallucinogenic
Who knew?

Avocado has no taste. It, like several other foodstuffs, has been bought by a cult following who snap up every so called 'superfood', yet the avocado, matcha, wheatgrass, chia seed brigade insist that they're healthier for eschewing what was once thought of as normal food as eaten by their parents and grandparents.
Meat itself has no taste unless marinaded or rubbed or stuffed.
When I look at Waitrose magazine, or any other foodie mag, the plates of food are strewn with pea-shoots, seeds, dabs of jus and look like a jumble of barely describable food elements thrown together. Messy plates/slates.
These are people who strut about the streets with halucinogenic cups of Costa/Starbucks/Cafe Nero sickliness, the calorific value of which would equal a normal main meal.
I'm all for bringing back sensible eating and not lauding 2 scallops with a smear of pea puree as a proper meal.

Jalima and what about zabaglione? My favourite dessert from the 70's

Did any of us in our 20’s and 30’s eat the same stuff as our parents?
No - I first sampled spaghetti bolognaise in a student flat aged 18. Foreign muck!
Or did we do adventurous things like buying Elizabeth David’s books and terracotta chicken bricks from Habitat?

I still have my terracotta chicken brick.

Even in my wee Scottish backwater in the 60’s we knew about avocado and prawn mayonnaise as a starter!
Yes, the staple starter

I've tried a Wheatgrass smoothie (in Australia).
Love blueberries and we have tried to grow them without success, we love olives too.
Couscous and quinoa I eat occasionally as DH doesn't like them much; chia seeds in smoothies made by DD!
Vegetable crisps, including parsnip - yum, I have to stop myself from eating a whole packet.
Had 'smashed' avocado on toast for lunch today.

I have just bought a packet of Melissa tea - has anyone tried it? We haven't opened it yet.

Just off to do my knitting

Another load of inter-generational B****cks

I have blueberries every day...love them

What an absolute load of bunkum. Salmon, beetroot, spinach, walnuts, almonds, lentils, porridge for God's sake - all these are 'unusual'??? There are only two things there that I've never tried - one because I've never heard of it (matcha) and the other because it's just empty carbs (cronut). As for the rest, I haven't 'tried' them, I've been eating many of them all my life, apart from a couple that I just don't like, e.g. quinoa and houmous. And judging from this thread, it sounds as if most of us are the same.
Just another loony survey carried out by 20-somethings who think we're all sitting in a rocking chair, knitting, with a cat on our lap and our silver hair in a bun.
Must go, got to put the meat and two veg on for dinner

Eaten everything on the list but the first four and never seen them, if I had, I would have tried them for sure

Load of hogwash, we eat most of these foods on a regular basis.
I bet we see another newspaper article being written about how oldies are not stick in the muds and can actually be adventurous.