If my mother could see what I'm eating now, she would be very proud. No, not that I've become a good cook (I think this is what happens to most of my friends, you know, living alone and having to learn to cook, etc. But not me, I'm hopeless. I do cook sometimes: pasta, salmon, tumis kangkung. But everyone can do that, cooking pasta is no rocket science). It's just the fact that now I can eat vegetables.

Back in Malta I could find halal chicken nuggets in the supermarkets (might be unhealthy but they were tasty so who cares), we often ate in a halal Indian restaurant, and I had a Muslim friend who was kind enough to invite us for dinner every now and then. I could continue my habit of avoiding green things on my plate. Here, however, I don't have such luxury. There are several halal meat shops around the city centre, but, having reached a certain level of laziness, I decided it was too much of hassle to go shopping for main supplies in Albert Heijn and go for halal meat in a different shop. So I tried vegetables.

Now I can't even imagine how I managed to spend more than 20 years of my life without vegetables. Here is my favorite snack now: broccoli with hummus. I get this from my friend. Basically you can cook or not cook the broccoli. Some people think raw vegetables are healthier, but I prefer raw because it's tastier, and most importantly, easier ^^.