Exploring the Pleasure of Mindful Eating and Savoring Food

Imagine transforming your relationship with food and amplifying the pleasure of eating, just by choosing mindfully and savouring each bite. Sounds enticing? That's exactly what we're exploring in this episode. Taking inspiration from a recent indulgence at a local bakery, we delved into how the act of savouring food can enrich our lives and help us appreciate the fullness of flavors. The science of it is equally intriguing - our brains, it seems, can't tell the difference between what we imagine eating and what we actually consume. 

Buckle up for a culinary journey that's as much about sensory experiences as it is about food. From reminiscing about the unique smells and flavors of the places we have called home, to the delight of savoring a small beer, we're talking about how food, smells, and tastes connect with our emotions. We also tackle the impact of the fast-food industry on our eating habits and how mindful eating can help us navigate that. As a bonus, we also discuss the transformative potential of fine dining and gourmet cuisine. This episode is a veritable feast for your senses! As we promised here is the story we mentioned in this episode from our book Stress Free in Three Minutes;

PASSING THROUGH

"Eat me quick," said the hamburger.
"Stuff me down," said the cream cake.
"No room for me," said the mega muffin
"I want to pass through you too.
Don't leave me sitting here alone.
Eat me fast!
I'm so yummy and will make you smile, as you eat me quick and stuff me down.
I can't wait to pass through you, although I might get stuck somewhere deep down inside and fester for a while.
Never mind!
I want to make you mine."
Maybe it's time to stop
and think about what goes in and what comes out.
Think about how you feel and how you know what really does you good, what is going to pass through you, today, tomorrow and the next day.
So smooth, so light, so fresh, so healthy - nutritious foods that leave you feeling as if they journeyed through you and left you with the gift of life.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Savouring Food for a Fuller Experience
• 9:12 Mindful Eating, Enjoying Life
• 18:42 Savoring Food and Sensory Experiences

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Savour your food, to savour your life. Yeah, what does that actually mean? I'm talking about it. Get real with the English sisters this week. Please do subscribe and follow us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast, because it makes such a difference to us, doesn't it? It makes an enormous difference to us, and we really want to spread the news, spread the news about all the topics that we talk about, and hopefully, our ultimate desire is to actually help as many people as we can, absolutely so. We actually found out that our podcast listeners are from, like there was an average age that the we got wasn't there, yes, so thank you very much, thank you for you listeners out there. And so let's get cracking then. So what's it about today? So, from wherever you're listening, let's savour this episode to the full, to the fullest. And what does that mean? Actually to savour things. We love doing that, don't we? We do.

Speaker 1: 1:13

I actually find this morning we bought some special treats because it was a special day for us. We were celebrating our podcast, and we actually thought, okay, we're going by. We went to the bakery. It was like a coffee shop, but they do bake. No, it's actually. They make them there, don't they? Yeah, oh yeah. So it's a real bakery. Did they actually say they're a chef there? Of course they're a pastry chef. There's a massive pastry chef. They prepare all their goods. I didn't know that. Oh yeah, they make all the pizza dough everything. I've seen them. Yeah, and then all the baked bread, do they make it from scratch, from scratch. So there's none of this like artificial products there.

Speaker 1: 2:00

Oh look, I haven't gone into the big details of it, but it's a bakery. It's your local one. Yeah, it's a. It's a pannier fee shop where they make bread. It's a bakery and it's also a patisserie. They have their own specialities there, don't they? Yeah, yeah, they do. So they're very proud of it, aren't they? They are Well, I don't know if they are, but I hope so. They're. Always. They look pretty chuffed for themselves. They're pretty happy, yeah, so we went there.

Speaker 1: 2:30

But so we had one little treat and we shared it. It's like a cornetto. It's a bit like a brioche. It's the equivalent of an Italian brioche, a bit like a croissant. But it had this. Like lovely, it's not the cornetto. I scream oh no, no, it's a baked pastry. It's more similar. It's a bit like a croissant brioche, yeah, like a croissant, yeah, but it's got like cream in it custard, custard cream.

Speaker 1: 2:58

And we took a long time to decide which one, didn't we? Yeah, we did. We were looking at all of them for quite a while. I think that's where the idea came from about. So bring us through.

Speaker 1: 3:08

The idea is not just to jump into things quickly, to take your time and decide. You know, what do I fancy? And as we were looking I mean as I was looking at each they had the donuts with the chocolate in. I was imagining eating one. I was thinking I don't fancy all that Nutella. Yeah, no, we didn't want the chocolate one. No. And then the next one. I was thinking what would that taste like? The pistachio one? I don't like pistachio much. No, we took such a long time.

Speaker 1: 3:37

I think the lady was thinking come on, get on with it. No, to be fair, we were not keeping her from her work. No, there was nobody else there, there was no one there, and she was preparing our coffees for us. Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't have wanted to hold her back while we were deciding, but what I mean is that it's this whole visual experience before we actually ate the thing. Yeah, you're right about that. So that did so much. I mean I could. I can visualise all those beautiful pastries and cakes there now, yeah, me too. So that adds a lot of enrichment and experience to my life, as it probably does to yours. Well, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 4:16

I think I've always kind of done that with food, but I think sometimes we can forget to do that because of our lives. It's because of this rush rush lifestyle, do you think so? Yeah, so I think you know, if you are going to go and treat yourself as we say treat, because obviously they're not things you're going to be wanting to eat every day. No, no, you're not concerned about your health. They're like special occasion things. Yeah, sweets and treats and cakes and things that have got, you know, all the extra sugar in that you wouldn't normally be wanting to eat, maybe.

Speaker 1: 5:03

And if you do savour it, I think you really enjoy it, and then sometimes you'll find that you don't enjoy it that much. You don't want any more of it as well. You get fuller faster because you, the one today, I did enjoy a lot, you did, didn't you? Yeah, but we had some in the UK recently which I did not enjoy. No, I know, and I thought they would be nicer than they were. Yeah, that was a bit of a disappointment, but, yes, I think the more you savour it, the fuller you become, mentally as well as physically, because your stomach has a kind of intelligence and it understands.

Speaker 1: 5:40

It's actually been scientifically proven. It's the same as if you imagine something. Your brain cannot really tell the difference between imagination. I'm laughing because I'm thinking. You know, someone would say I can tell the difference. Yeah, I'm using some. I sure know if I've eaten it or if I haven't eaten it. But it's actually true.

Speaker 1: 6:01

And remember, we were on, definitely, when we used to help people like that, used to overeat. We would, you know, we would say to them obviously, please don't do this. If you're under-eating, I mean, that's a warning that this is not for you, this thing. But if you are, if you want to savour something, you know, just by imagining that you're eating it beforehand, you will actually imagine it and it's almost as if you are eating it. Yeah, and then you can think oh, I'm not that bothered anyway. Yes, that's if you don't want it.

Speaker 1: 6:34

But, like today, we enjoyed it thoroughly and we've still got one we bought, how which we're going to eat later Because we've savoured it. Yeah, so we're like I'm still looking forward to that. Saving it sorry, I mean savour. We're like savouring and saving, yeah, at the same time. Are you still looking forward to it? Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, I'd almost forgotten about that. No, I haven't. Oh, because you really wanted a special cake.

Speaker 1: 6:58

And it was funny because my hubby said to me you sure do, you and your sister, you love cakes and biscuits and things. You're always looking for the sweet treats you should go around. And then I looked at him and I looked at his breakfast today and, honestly, this is he's in so many jokes, he's so much sweet, my goodness. He had four like OK, little cereal kind of biscuits. So it's supposed to be healthy. Yeah, they're supposed to be, but they're loaded with sugar. A muffin, a little muffin, it was like a half, like what you would think of a muffin in a UK or in America, because it was a likely Italian muffin and another light little cake. And I said to him honestly, that's what we wouldn't even have that in a week. No, you're just having it for breakfast. No wonder you don't go around looking for sugar. And he said oh, this is nothing, I'm going running later. We didn't even say that, but I can imagine in his head he thought of it that he likes running, because he likes running, yeah, and he's fit and everything. But I think how long can he get away with all this sugar? Because he's just really not healthy, as we all know.

Speaker 1: 8:08

No, it does cause a lot of problems for some people. No, your blood sugar levels are important to become aware of, yeah, and they can affect your mood so much as well. So it's not only just about weight control and everything. It's also about how you mood. Oh, no, definitely, what you put in your body really does affect you, doesn't it? Absolutely. It affects your mood, your emotional, how you're feeling. Gosh, it can affect you so much.

Speaker 1: 8:32

Yeah, and that's bringing to mind about that lady that saw us, I don't know, when we were at a conference and she said how do you stay fit? Can I just ask you, ladies, how do you stay fit? And I thought, how do we stay fit? Well, we do, we try and do? I mean, I do a little bit of weight training and you're good at that. Yeah, I have a lot of weight training. It's not really that much. I hardly ever get to 10,000 steps in the end Really. But I try and do Well. You would Well sometimes if I'm more, but like now, it's summer, I don't usually and but really I thought no, the real reason is that we save for our food and we listen to our bodies to know when we're full or not.

Speaker 1: 9:12

Are you right about that? Yeah, that is a real reason. That's a real reason why we've always managed to stay quite fit and within the recommended Normal weight range Health weight for our body type and our age. Yeah, you're right about that. Yeah, I really do enjoy saving everything and if you ask me about something that I had, I'll remember the flavor Exactly. I will remember the smell and the flavor of practically everything I eat, because we smell things a lot. So we were picking it's like animals. We were picking the melons this morning after we went to the bakery. Then we went to buy some fruit in the local fruit shop and I just picked up this melon. I was like sniffing it and this man said oh, this is this elderly man. He said they don't smell like what they used to smell like, but it actually did. It did it had this smell of melon. Yeah, it smelled of melon Gosh.

Speaker 1: 10:08

I remember when I was in the UK as well recently, when I passed that fruit shop to remember how delicious the fruit smelled at once. That's what I mean. You could smell the cherries, you could smell the fruit, and smell is directly connected to your mind as well. And what you smell, you might remember, smells it. You know odours, the nice ones, you know even from your childhood, of course. So it's quite a deep rooted, isn't it?

Speaker 1: 10:41

Yeah, so eating can become quite an emotional experience if you eat mindfully as well. You know, if you savour, if you smell your food for everything, what are you doing? But even if you like have a sandwich for lunch at work, well, when we were having no sandwiches, I wasn't enjoying them a lot. What sandwiches, I can't remember. I'm going again In London. In London, yeah, some of them were rather sticky, but I don't know the ones that were stick to your upper roof of your mouth. The tuna one was nice, yeah, yeah. But I mean you can have some sandwiches. You know, like here in Italy they make some delicious sandwiches. The Italian one, it does not stick, no, with the mozzarella and the baked bread and the basil and the tomatoes, and you can taste everything.

Speaker 1: 11:37

So you know, even if it's just something like that, well, even like a drink. I mean, I remember I had. I had a song dog, because I don't usually eat like the tramid sine, the little sangridges that they sell here in Italy I don't know you eat them, no, but I had one. It was absolutely delicious and they had at the, the golf club where I go, they had a Draft beer. I can't even say a beer, so I had like a little one, and even that I was noticing the. The scent of it was so strong and Fruity I was gonna say the same thing. It was so fruity. Yes, the beer I had. I actually went for a pizza and I had a beer and I thought, gosh, she smells of fruit like. And what was it? She made a barley, yeah, obviously. Yeah, I'm showing my ignorance here. Yeah, it was no, but it was molten barley and it was just. But it I could. I could taste it, yeah, and smell it. Yeah, because if you taste and smell and even if it's just a small beer or whatever You're eating or enjoying, enjoy it my little, just gobble, gobble, gobble, because when you gobble up you can't.

Speaker 1: 13:03

If you just Like, eat something. Also, if you're distracted, if you're not looking at your food. Yeah, you're. Your brain will not actually assimilate that. You've eaten that and you have that feeling of being full either. I know you will just want to eat more, but without actually enjoying it. No, because your mind is actually distracted, like when you eat popcorn and you're watching a movie. You would think that's a pretty simple and basic thing to do. However, the fact that you're eating the popcorn and your mind is watching the movie something that you probably really enjoying You're doing two things at the same time. It's not really a good idea, because you can't really fully save for the popcorn or the movie. Yeah, but it's such a normal thing, you know, get the popcorn, get the snacks. You can get the snacks to eat, so you'll eat more snacks and they'll make more money.

Speaker 1: 14:01

Oh, in the theaters, yeah, I'm talking even at home. You know that's a food industry, isn't it? They put two and two together. Oh, yeah, it's like diamonds, our girls, best friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a bit of a myth. It's not a myth, it's a bit of a. It's been constructed.

Speaker 1: 14:18

Yeah, that's the same with food. They put two together, they, they, they, they. They stick food together with emotion or pleasure Experiences, so that you will become almost addicted to it. Yeah, yeah, you are, and, and usually they're high-fat and high sugars. They don't put carrots in this in the movie. Did, yeah, some more an apple or apples or something healthy? No, noise might be annoying, but so other things that you're opening and they can't make a hell of a noise and crisps and things, yeah, they do make a noise. Yeah, anyway, that's not to take the joy out of nothing, popcorn out with. It's lovely when you have a movie, but, yeah, I would suggest you have it in the break and just eat it, you know, mindfully, and actually taste it. Yeah, enjoy it.

Speaker 1: 15:11

Yeah, I think the fast food industry, with the fact that it's actually called fast, kind of has done something to us all, really probably. Well, yeah, because it's like fast and you know, yeah, it kind of like you know words do influence us, yeah, so it's kind of quick. Just grab something really fast and then go on with your day. I Mean you can eat fast food really mindfully as well and really taste everything in a hamburger or whatever you're gonna be. Yeah, gobble me up, yeah, yeah, yeah, you actually wrote that story in our books. Yeah, one of our books. Fast food yeah, fast and quick, fast and quick, and then I'll pass through you and leave you. I can't remember how it goes exactly, have to put it. I'll put it in there in the description. Yeah, yeah, right it in the description. That was quite pungent, wasn't it very pungent, because it's sort of like festers within you, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:27

Anyway, going back to the discussion of how, if you savour your food, you savour your life, I think it becomes a bit of a habit. You start eating slower, you start becoming more aware of what you're eating and it kind of spreads out into different aspects of your life, doesn't it? It's only because it's you become mindful of one thing, which is your food, the food that enters your body. You also start becoming more mindful of other things that happen around you your environment yes, so you might. Relationships, nature. You might start noticing, like you know the old saying of take your time and smell the roses. You know you might actually go and smell a rose. Well, you might notice that there's roses there. Yeah, you might actually go and smell one if you're not allergic and, you know, enjoy the perfume. I went back to that.

Speaker 1: 17:26

I was again because I'm learning golf. I was at the golf club and I was walking and my hubby was saying come on, you walk so slowly on the golf course. You normally walk so quickly, you're walking so slowly. And I didn't think I was walking that slowly. He goes off at my very quick, very quick. But my son said to me mom, you walk slowly because you want to enjoy the scenery and look at the roses and enjoy. And I said, gosh, you're so right, it's so beautiful. It is beautiful there. Yeah, it's amazing, I love it. I just want to see the trees and the roses and the, just the scenery, yeah, and the nature, and that's why I walk slowly. But I mean, I wouldn't really have noticed that, that's why I walk particularly slowly. No, no, you realized it. I realized I was savoring it. I was savoring that moment, yes, so if you, even if you just start off with one simple thing, like just the next meal you have, notice the flavors, notice the smell, notice the feeling, the texture as it enters your mouth and touches your tongue, you start noticing these really small things Can really make a difference to your entire, the way you live your life.

Speaker 1: 18:42

I'm thinking as well about this film. It was like an indie film called Bobette's Feast and it's how this, this lady, comes into this Nordic community, into a little house. It's very Spartan and they just have broth Babe, basically bone broth or something every day. They have like a gruel every day. And she was, she was like a French, she was got all the French cuisines. I don't know, I don't remember she's French or not, but she, she had all this was a very famous chef in where she came from and she prepared this for spices and they like when, first of all those and reaction of no, I don't want to, this is not foreign, yes, it's like we.

Speaker 1: 19:25

But then as you watch, the film evolves. You watch, have it. They're body change, giving me the shivers actually, because how they, how they, the sensory experience of it was just something so foreign to them that they'd never had before. They was so like blown away by all aspects of their life. So the love lives there. They're everyday life there, appreciation of things. That it was. It was very it's a very beautiful film actually.

Speaker 1: 19:56

Yeah, I don't think I've watched that. I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna say Wow, yeah, I'll be ready to read. I like films with some. Yeah, I mean, I don't. Sometimes I don't. But yeah, depends what mood, if I know, I will save it. You might find it on YouTube now for best feast, cool, I mean, it's a very slow film. You have to be in the mood to save it. Yeah, beautiful film is very well filmed. Wow, I definitely watch it. Cool, yeah, those kind of things really can make a difference. You know that.

Speaker 1: 20:34

I think that's why, when you actually go to a restaurant, you might be in that right kind of mindset. You think I'm going to a restaurant, yes, there's a chef that's gonna prepare, and that's when you might think, mmm, I really want to taste the food, mind you. So I mean, I think you have to go to like the one, one of those really posh restaurants you spend an absolute fortune on, and then I might that newville cuisine and you taste a little by, and then you might be more on that mindset Because, just, I mean, I've never really been to one of those. Really, really, I went to one once. It had this red door and it was like, oh, really made a real statement about the door, and it was like with a famous chef, and then it was all tiny, tiny bites. It was delicious actually.

Speaker 1: 21:21

I remember like even just some little lentils in this like little, like a lentil little ball, made Some kind of little deli and it had this little lentil sprout on the top of it. It's like one tiny little ball. And my husband was going what the hell is this? Yeah, he was moaning and I said, let's just taste it. And then when you taste it, you thought, my god, you know, it was incredible. It was one tiny.

Speaker 1: 21:48

Obviously you don't go to these places when you're feeling really hungry and you want like comfort food, however it you know it was. It was an experience. It was definitely experience. But yeah, I say, even if you're not going to those, you know we're just having a bite of pasta, definitely a bite of anything you're having, because I'm always telling my husband that he's a gobbler. He'll gobble anything an incredible velocity. I see him and I and then he looks at my plate. So I say no way, you know, don't you gobble up your plate and see what's left on my place?

Speaker 1: 22:27

I like the way when you're out, he always says you order for me, I don't want anything. You order, you order something and then, and then we'll share it. Sometimes he says we won't share. No, no, I don't want anything. I mean, you know he's trying to look after his weight. Yeah, but that's your stuff, give me a little bit of that. Yeah, I mean, well, that's because when we're out, normally we have the hotel bed and breakfast is not bed and breakfast, I mean the breakfast, and that's very you know, normally it's a buffet breakfast. Even when it isn't that, even when we're in Italy and there's no buffet breakfast, really the same he always wants to eat your.

Speaker 1: 23:07

I tell you it's an issue because I say for my food and I'm savory and I can really taste it and Whereas he gobbles it up, I say you've already gobbled it, was it nice? It was okay, what was it like? That was good. You know, it's very basic. He I mean I'm not saying he has to verbalize it Couldn't say you can enjoy your food and and that's it. But at least you know if it was good or not you can tell me. I think most of time he really doesn't. It's not really aware of whether it's even good, and it's like the habit as well of watching TV.

Speaker 1: 23:43

And he's over weight. Yes, he's overweight. Yeah, and he struggled with his weight, lord, always. Yeah, and Well, I mean, my hubby does the same. He gobbles, he gobbles fast. Yeah, he says it's because he was one of five children but there was always plenty of food at his house. Maybe he's right, maybe there was more of a like, but he was, he was a little one, so a lot of them had left by the time. Oh yeah, I think that's perfect, but it could. But anyway, he hasn't struggled with his weight because he's so, he's, does so much. He's lean yeah, he does, because I think also bless, maybe genetically, but also because he does a hell of a lot of running. Yeah, yeah, definitely, but otherwise I think he would probably have more problems. Yeah, because he does gobble fast.

Speaker 1: 24:29

Gobblers tend to to not be aware of what they're eating and the quantity that they're eating, because they're gobbling. I don't learn. I mean, I don't want to go back to him, to my hubby, again, but like he'll get, he'll overeat and he might get a tummy ache, and then he's got. He has got better now, but he'll, if he sees something he really likes, he'll go for it. He'll go for it. I'll gobble it, and then gobble it fast without realizing how full he is, and then he'll get a tummy ache from it. Yeah, it's bit.

Speaker 1: 25:04

That's a bit of a Paradox, isn't it because you would think why I enjoy it a bit of an enigma, I mean, for me, but I understand the reason is quick satisfaction and then, even though you regret it afterwards, yeah, but I think if you eat what, I think, if you don't take the time to smell the roses or savour your food, the same thing will happen that you won't have, that your body will not have time to say hey, to understand what's happened. Oh, I've had this sensory experience. I've had, hey, that's enough. Now you know you can stop. Yeah, totally yeah, I've exactly.

Speaker 1: 25:48

Yeah, already, from the smell I understand that something good is coming. I mean, I remember walking home from school and our mum used to bake us the most. She was a wonderful baker, I was going to say, because her baked goods were delicious. She would make homemade bread and apple pies she learned how to make the best English apple pie ever, even though she was Spanish and cakes and everything. So I remember coming home from school right at the end of the road almost I could start smelling the anticipation of those delicious bread with the butter on it. You know, whatever it was that was coming, the goodness that was coming. So I think, if you can, you know, learn to use that sense of smell. It can really help. You savor, definitely, and you remember it afterwards? You do, because it's nothing.

Speaker 1: 26:45

I think it's sad if you can't remember what you've just eaten, because it means that in life you're just kind of rushing through life without actually forcing the stop, the pause button for one moment, yes, without savoring any of your experiences properly, always on to the next thing. And that's why so many people struggle with anxiety and with the feeling that there's not enough time as well. Yes, in this lifetime. I think you're right. Yeah, it's like that other film with the remote control that he just he was so rushed and busy in his life that he just kept on. He had this like magical remote control, I don't know. Yeah, I mean I've seen it. He would fast forward all the things he didn't like, he didn't have time for, like his kids bedtime fast forward, meeting his wife talking or nagging to him about something quick, fast forward it. And then he jumped ahead like 10, 15 years and he suddenly looked back and he thought, gosh, where did my life go Exactly? What did I do? I was just fast forwarding all these moments in my life.

Speaker 1: 27:49

I think we all do that to a certain extent. You know, we do have like in our mind this fast forward thing. We want to jump ahead of time all the time, as if we're time travelers, without realizing that only here and now is what's really important, I know, but we all want to do that. I think it's because we're amazing as human beings that we can do that. We can imagine the future, yeah, but I think if you are, but if you imagine the future and you imagine eating something delicious and then you go and eat it, it's going to you're going to have double the benefit of it.

Speaker 1: 28:31

But if you're always, yeah, but if you're always imagining ahead of yourself and always racing ahead without actually appreciating what you're doing, now that's different really, isn't it? Definitely it's different to actually anticipating pleasure. Anticipating pleasure is one of the best things. It's like going on a date night yes, even if it's with your husband, with your wife, with whoever it is. You have that kind of like programmed and so you know you're going to. You anticipate the pleasure, you're anticipating having a good time, whatever you know, and that in heightens the. You know the experience because you know, unless it's because you're in the moment, yeah, unless you're not in the moment, and then you don't even realize it, you're not enjoying it, you're not enjoying it and now you've always going on to the next.

Speaker 1: 29:21

And that's why a lot of there's a lot of marriages fail as well, and not relationships fail, because people are always ahead, ahead, ahead, looking for what's better, what's better the grass is greener instead of being in the present moment and actually savoring what you actually have and the feeling gratitude for what you actually have. Yeah, feeling gratitude, you're right about that. Yeah, I think. Also, if you look at the food and you feel grateful for the food that's there, for the nature that that created it, for the person, the whoever planted it or whatever it is you know, baked it, baked it Then that also enriches the experience. Well, it's made with a lot of love food, isn't it? Definitely, and it comes from a lot of hard work as well. And you know, like you eat a piece of bread that's been, you know, made in a bakery and you think, gosh, there's somebody that actually got up like at three o'clock in the morning to make this bread and prepare it, and then you know, so I can go and buy it in the morning. You know, that's pretty amazing that person who made that. I know it's a business, but they made it because they enjoy making it, because they need to make it. Whatever it is, they made it for me. It's lovely to feel grateful for that. It's a gift in a way, enriching. Enriching, that's a lot it does. Yeah, definitely it can really enhance your life If you think like that in every single way.

Speaker 1: 30:56

You start by tasting the next piece of food you put in your mouth. Nothing forward to that doughnut, are you? But we've also got some nice fresh vegetables. I was thinking about those cherry tomatoes I tasted yesterday and I she thought, yeah, they're like little red berries. You know, they were so tasty, I had them cold from the fridge and I and I they were little treats. Yeah, they were. I thought, gosh, these taste so good. Caprese for lunch, so that's nice. So that's mozzarella with basil and tomato. Yeah, looking forward to that. I love basil and all the herbs Because they're sensory as well, aren't they? The smells that come from it's intense, it's sensory of growing it as well. I've got a little plant on my balcony, so in the garden, but that one died. Yeah, I've got rosemary.

Speaker 1: 31:47

Even water has different tastes, of course it does? I noticed that one. It's really. Yeah, it's all about to Spain. Yeah, the water tastes different. It tastes different to the English water, the minerals, you know they taste different. I know it's amazing, incredible. Everything has its own taste. Well, thank you for savoring this episode of our podcast and we look forward to hearing from you. Let us know what you're going to savour next and if you are gobbling your food or if you're savouring it or if you're going to change your hat. Slow down, slowing down and savouring I mean we highly recommend it. Oh, definitely, it enriches your life. It enriches your life. You can still go around and have a really busy schedule, but you can still have the time to savour your food. This is just a few moments, really Love and smiles from the English sisters. Bye-bye.