Sausages

~Sausages~

Sausages. I love them all. Chipolatas, Cumberland, chorizo, saveloy, whatever the sausage, I love it. I might as well be called a sausage connoisseur. Those little meaty things are easy to cook and can be eaten with anything. You can include them in casseroles, sandwiches, on pizza, with pasta, with chunky chips and loads of vinegar, with mash or as part of your breakfast. You don’t even have to do much to make a sausage taste good. You can sling it on the grill without adding seasoning, and it’ll still taste good.

Health. I’ve always known that sausages can be so unhealthy, but I didn’t realise the extent. This one night, I ended up on the internet reading about sausages—one article after the other. Processed meat isn’t that good for you but tastes so good. Like bacon, it’s lovely but unhealthy. Who doesn’t love some tasty bacon on the breakfast bap or with eggs or with anything!

The thing that scared me the most is that overeating processed meats can increase your risk of getting cancer. Not just processed meats, red meats were thrown into the unhealthy section too. They say we should eat red meat in limited quantities. But I love steak and oxtail. I know, oxtail isn’t everyone’s thing but its amazing. It has to be cooked right.

So, after spending some time on the internet reading about sausages and other processed meats, I’ve decided to be healthier. As much as I love sausages, I must cut down on them. I have to turn to fish. I’m not keen, but I have to try. I want to be healthy and fit and sexy in my seventies, and still, be partying like...I don’t know like what because I barely party now. I’ve always been a homebody, and with covid around, I’ve become glued to the sofa. I want to be healthy and live long. I want to look and feel forty when I’m seventy!

Fitness app. I’ve just downloaded a fitness app that helps to track my daily calorie and nutrition intake. This app is fantastic. I just add my meals throughout the day, and it calculates the nutrients and all that jazz for me. I input everything I eat, and it breaks it all down for me into fats, sugar, carbs, protein, fibre, macro and micronutrients! I can then see where I need to cut down or increase. The first time I documented my food for the day and I input sausages; I got the shock of my life. The fat content in a single sausage is relatively high. It made me sad a little.

The app has made it easier for me to keep an eye on my nutrition and calorific intake. This is one of the benefits of technologies. There are plenty of apps that you can download and use to log your food, and then it calculates the nutrients for you. If you’re thinking about focusing on your nutrition, an app is the way forward.

Meal plans. Every week, I’ll prepare a list of what I want to eat during the week. Planning is an excellent idea because it stops you from impulse buying. I’ll have to consume more fish, fruit and vegetables. I’ll also need to be creative with spices and seasoning when making that fish. Seasoning is super important when eating healthily because no one wants to eat a bland meal. If your veges don’t taste nice then you’re not going to stick to eating them!

Sausages will have to be a once-a-week thing or once a fortnight thing.

A fitness watch. I decided to get one to encourage me to work out more. I set myself a goal of eleven thousand steps a day. There’s a woman I work with who hits thirty thousand steps a day. Just wow. One day, I’d like to get that many steps a day, but I’m not there yet. I’ll start small and then gradually increase the goal.

This spring, I’ll improve my health by these simple steps; a fitness app, meal plans (eating fewer sausages), and gradually increasing daily step count goal.