I feed my cat slightly snooty food. Not handmade by local artisans, but not the stuff that regularly goes on sale for 3/$1 and is made of ‘meat by-products’ (muskrat tails?) and woodchips (probably). It means that, this week, I will be spending more on Hamish than on myself.

Early Monday morning tired rather than starvation mode tired.

I always did say that he eats better than I do. He’s a prince, even if I catch him drinking out of the toilet sometimes.

I’ll do a report on what I ate today later because, well, it’s 8:11 and I haven’t eaten anything. I’m boiling soaked-overnight chickpeas for supper later. I’ll have my oatmeal once I get to work. For now, I’m drinking a big mug of hot water with a pinch of ground ginger and a pinch of brown sugar (approximate cost, about 2 cents). It’s not tea, but I kinda like it (for now).

It’s not tea, but I like it. For now. It’s even tea-coloured, which is kind of soothing.

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Avoiding malnourishment is not just a matter of eating enough calories, after all. Deficiencies in Vitamin A, zinc, and iron are especially common and can be very dangerous.

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