Well….Today I managed 2 slices of toast at breakfast. I was unable to finish both the sandwiches I made from 4 slices of bread for lunch and I had a couple of triangles of toast with my home-made leek and potato soup at dinner tonight.

So, let’s see…. 2 + 4 + 0.5 = 6.5 slices of bread today.

This was an experiment, as I usually have Gluten Free Rice Porridge (not forgetting the ‘orchard fruits’ (comes in the packet )) for breakfast. Maybe a couple of pieces of toast with tomato or cheese or pesto, or something, for lunch and, more than likely, some fish or chicken (or other protein) with vegetables or salad for dinner.

The trouble with today’s consumption of 6.5 slices of is that I’m still well off the required 11 slices in order to achieve the proposed correct intake of folic acid. A very good thing I’m not pregnant, I reckon!!

All I know is that, if I tried to consume the amount required, I would put on weight, find my digestive system reacting to the amount of bread I was consuming and have no room for foods such as fruit and vegetables and sources of protein.

With huge acknowledgements to the importance of folic acid when pregnant, I have to ask who could possibly have come up with this seemingly harebrained scheme when both Australia and New Zealand are facing concerns with an over-weight population?

Thank you, John Key, for at last moving to acquire some legal advice. Maybe, just maybe,  we can get out of this bizarre contract with Australia.