"All my life, I've eaten too much and slept too little..."

...commented Steve the other day. It's amazing how little you eat when you
prepare it yourself and you only eat what you're hungry for. We're both
charter members of the 'Clean Plate Club' and as such, when presented with a
plate of food tend to eat a plate of food.

On this trip though, the amounts on the plate have grown smaller and
smaller. For breakfast, we split a bagel. Lunch is half a sandwich each,
maybe with a bit of fruit. Dinner is usually a smallish piece of meat and
some veg or a pasta / rice meat veg combo (a curry, Jambalya, carbonnera,
etc.). If we go out to lunch and eat a WHOLE BURGER, we tend to have cheese
and crackers for dinner. This morning we each had A pancake with A slice of
bacon. We are probably eating a quarter of what we used to eat.

Steve has probably lost 50 pounds, none of his clothes fit him anymore.
Mine's coming off a bit more slowly, but I put on a pair of shorts that I
wore when I was 28 and managed to button them up so that's a definite
improvement. The big test will be when we get back home and put on the
motorbike leathers, that should be really interesting!

We're not good at deprivation and there certainly hasn't been any of that at
all. The food we've been eating has been great (see the recipes), we've
just been eating less and less of it.

We're also sleeping like ROCKS! And what a treat that is. It's been years
since I've had a complete and deep night's sleep. If the anchorage isn't
rolly, we sleep at least 8 and sometimes 10 hours - what a difference from
my 6 with a 'two hour middle of the night reading so I can get back to sleep
interval'.

As we get further along and the supplies dwindle, I'm experimenting with
different combinations based upon what foods I have left. This one came out
particularly yummy.

Spaghetti Carbonnera (on Steriods)

1/2 a tomato
a handful of black olives
1/2 a cup of chopped very salty ham
one stick of celery, chopped
1/2 onion, chopped
2 heaping tblsp of cream cheese
2-3 heaping tblsp of sour cream
Enough angel hair pasta for two

Boil the water for pasta and cook pasta while doing the following:

Fry the onion and celery in a little olive oil, when softened and lightly
browned add in tomato, olives and ham. Cook through. Mix in cream cheese
until it is melted and coats all the ingredients. Mix in sour cream and do
the same. Pour in the cooked pasta and toss all together.

I'm sure it fails all health guidelines, but I'm also sure it's healthier
than what you get from a package and you certainly have a better idea of
what's in it than what you get from a restaurant. Besides it was absolutely
delicious - enjoy!