Abdul Rais talks about his experiences of diet and food. He explains that due to his background he doesn’t routinely eat very rich South Asian food! He talks about the usual things he eat on day to day basis. Abdul Rais admits he loves rice - but does limit how much he eats in a meal. Lastly he talks about takeaways and eating out and fried food.
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I'm very fortunate in the sense that I'm not in love with the South Asian food. I came to this country at a very young age, about the age of 12, and so I spent most of my life here and also So my interaction with the non-Asian community has been far greater due to my career and neighborhood and so on where I've been living. So for me, diet is not an issue. I have, for example, sometimes when I'm talking to my South Asian friends, they're shocked that my breakfast is either two boiled eggs or an avocado or some nuts. And it's like, is that all? Is that all you eat? And then for lunch, I've always had a sandwich for lunch and that can, it depends again on what the fillings are but sometimes maybe just a cheese sandwich or sometimes you can get these salami pieces or avocado or whatever, and an evening meal varies from day to day, you know, maybe chicken liver with some, you know, a salad or some vegetables, maybe dal or, you know, just chicken on its own. Red meat very, very rarely, I think it could be like two, three months, and two, three months. Chapatis, not unless I go to somebody's house, we don't cook at home, so chapatis, so that's something that, you know, doesn't bother me. I love rice, but I have a set target of three tablespoons full of rice on my plate, that's it, and then the rest will be filled with, you know, salad and other vegetables and, you know, fish. I love fish. I love seafood. So, you know, I can cook fish curry and prawn curry and stuff. Eating out is a rare occasion. takeaways are a rare occasion. We do do it, but maybe once in a month might do takeaway, once every couple of months might go out to eat somewhere, but generally speaking it's done at home and a lot of the time it's not fried stuff at all really. The only time I'll eat anything fried is if I go, what, if I fry an egg or if I go out somewhere and you know have samosa or something. So no frying takes place in our house and it's just a way of life really. I don't have an issue at all.
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