Deep brown sozzled cakes full with raisins, sultanas and rum
crisp toast with lashings of salted creamy yellow butter
hot roast homegrown potatoes that sizzle and sing
white fish huge with crisp golden batter
chips soft and bendy with fat
tempura
Copyright © 2022 Kim Whysall-Hammond
Over at d’Verse, Misky has asked us to write a poem about food. I’m on a low carb diet, heading for Diabetes remission. This little poem is an ode to those foods I can no longer eat, as I steadily reduce…….
The Cheesesellers Wife 
I can’t either, but I love your poem. 🙂❤️
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Thanks!
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It’s mid morning here, Kim, and your poem is making me hungry, particularly that white fish in batter!
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Proper fish and chips cannot be beaten!
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Delicious write! You made me hungry ❤️❤️
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Writing it made me hungry!
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Oh the forbidden fruit… it’s always the one we love the most.
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Yes indeed!
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My husband is diabetic, and many of those foods are also off-limits, although he can balance things throughout the day and then have the occasional treat.
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I am trying to reverse my diabetes— once that happens I may be able to occasionally eat these treats!
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Oh this is so yummy. And I love that you wrote about food that you cannot eat. Cheers.
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Thank you Grace!
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Oh wow !! This is tough !! I have had to just eat these food infrequently over the years as my digestive system has never coped well with them. But I am able to eat them occasionally. I find I can get away with eating a little of them at lunch time sometimes so that I have the rest of the day to burn them off.
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I’m on a very strict diet— although I’m also struggling to recover from covid and so have been recently eating a small amount of carbs just to get through the day…..
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It is certainly really hard to eat what suits two very different health conditions. All the best to reaching your diabetes remission.
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Thanks!
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How very sad that you can’t enjoy those lovely fish and chips
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Yes Derrick, it is!
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I feel for you Kim. We’re in the same boat, diet-wise. We’re completely gluten free too. Good for you for improving your health this way. Congratulations.
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I’m trying to achieve Diabetes remission, and it’s hard!
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Yes, eating counter culture (and counter one’s own tastes) is very difficult. I eat a low carb almost no sugar diet because it’s good for my mental health. Good for you for putting in the effort to counter your diabetes! It takes a lot of discipline.
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I have felt so much better on my low carb no sugar diet, even before my average blood sugars dropped in the normal zone!
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Yes, me too, Kim. It really is worth it to me. Nice when you can feel the difference. Have you written a poem about it?
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Great poem, terrible not to be able to eat fish and chips. My one lapse while on a strict (GP recommended) diet was fish and chips.
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:)
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Nothing to beat fish and chips! Your ode made me hungry.
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Love your descriptions of the food!
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Thanks- they are all yummy!
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