Make sure you have your 5-a-day, eat clean, organic, veganuary! How about you have some fish fingers followed by a bowl of Angel Delight instead…
Culture is soaked in nostalgia right now so there’s no reason why your plate should be any different. You’ve heard of comfort food, well a ‘kid’s tea’ is the ultimate comfort food. Nothing will make you momentarily forget that we’re living through a pandemic, unable to get on the property ladder, and on the verge of a climate catastrophe quite like tucking into a plate of chicken dippers, chips and peas.
We’re lucky enough to have a home-cooked meal nearly every day, usually made from scratch with fresh ingredients but that somehow makes the times when we have a ‘kid’s tea’ even more enjoyable. Nobody gets as much pleasure out of a bowl of pasta with sliced up hotdogs, in the cheapest tomato sauce you can find, covered in thickly grated cheddar, as we do.
Think of it as an act of self-care, it might not be ‘good’ for you but it’s certainly cheering. So forget being healthy for one night, worrying about your weight is so pre-pandemic, and if you want to see green google a tree or something. Instead get some turkey dinosaurs in the oven, squirt yourself the biggest dollop of ketchup and prepare to spell rude words with some Alphabites.