My son has recently been really keen to share all his food with our cockatiel. He’s mostly quite good and only wants to give our cockatiel fruits and vegetables, but the other day, he was walking round with a piece of cheese, and asked me if the cockatiel could have some. I was very unsure … Read more

I was emptying the food recycling can the other day, and sitting right at the top of the bag was the two old corn cobs from our steak night the night before. As I was taking it outside, my cockatiel flew over and started pecking away at the old cobs—it made me feel bad that … Read more

I’ve been trying to eat less meat recently, and so I’ve been making a lot more veggie versions of some of my favorite dishes. While making chilli the other day, the vegetarian version called for celery, of all things. I was a bit dubious, but I decided to try it anyway. While I was cooking, … Read more

I was making a salad for lunch the other day, and I tried something I’d never had before: arugula. I’ve never been all that adventurous with the food I eat, but I’ve been trying to change that recently. That means trying a lot of new stuff. Probably the person who’s most interested in my new … Read more

After I got back from the allotment the other day, I laid out everything I had picked and realized that I had almost definitely harvested too much. Carrots, particularly—I don’t know what I was thinking! I managed to make good use of most of the food I picked, but one person I thought might be … Read more