Lemon meringue pie, spicy Mexican pork and chicken tikka masala

All are currently being cooked by Ben - a bizarre combination of smells, but no doubt delicious when they're all finished! In the 'high anorexia days' he wouldn't have eaten ANY of these things. There are still 'no go' foods on his list, however...


Anything too chocolatey or too fatty. Anything with butter or cream. Anything full fat and he still won't drink semi-skimmed milk. And he would have a problem with anything 'off the shelf' in, for example, a cake shop because he couldn't micro-analyse the calories and fat content...

So we still have problems with these things.

And, like every mom of an anorexic teenager, I wish to hell that 'nutritional labelling' had never been introduced - on foods, on websites and in printed recipes.

Goodness only knows how someone with an eating disorder would cope with eyesight like mine; I've long been at the age where I need to reach for the reading specs in order to read the small print. I couldn't read nutritional labelling on supermarket foods for love nor money, lol...