{"id":10366,"date":"2013-05-08T20:05:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/?p=10366"},"modified":"2013-05-15T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:33:28","slug":"then-and-now-specialk-changes-over-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2013\/05\/08\/then-and-now-specialk-changes-over-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Then and Now #SpecialK30 Changes over 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an entry into the “BritMums\/Special K \u201cHow I\u2019ve changed Linky challenge<\/a>” \u00a0Sponsored by\u00a0Special K.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Let’s be honest here I only entered this for the prizes. Sometime in the last 30 years I had tried Special K and HATED it. I thought it was bland, plain and flavourless. It reminded me of drop a dress size, and an image of a red dress. The reason that I’m not the petite thing I was 30 years ago (apart from the age and 4 kids factor) is that I LOVE food, – food with flavour that is.<\/p>\n

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The box arrived, and I rolled my eyes at the fact that there was 37% extra free – deep joy!<\/p>\n

I filled up a bowl – for purposes of taking a nice looking picture. My husband piped up that he’d eat it – and I told him good because he may need to finish this bowl that I’d just filled up.<\/p>\n

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OH MY DAYS how WRONG was I!!!!<\/p>\n

See the thing is they’ve changed the recipe. It now contains three grains (formerly 2) – rice, wheat and barley – and is made with wholegrain, for a source of fibre as well as 8 vitamins and minerals.<\/p>\n

This gave it so much FLAVOUR and TEXTURE.<\/p>\n

Thing is I think they’ve gone wrong though, as it’s marketed at women who want to lose weight* – when actually it was more Crunchy-Nut (you know one bowl is never enough). In saying that though it did fill me up (I have been struggling not to have crisps straight after my breakfast, until I switched to Special K).<\/p>\n

*disclaimer – this is a joke, the new recipe is actually even healthier and less than 2% fat.<\/p>\n

So how have I changed over the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

Well in 1983 I was an only child<\/p>\n

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Me with my Mom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was just me and my mom, and she did all the worrying. She made sure I ate the right things, did the right things and made sure I felt loved.<\/p>\n

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My late brother who died aged 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My only sibling had died in a road traffic accident<\/a> – so my mom had a lot to worry about.<\/p>\n

And I didn’t help – with wanting to wear my dodgy pink shell suit jacket to school, my wanting to buy everything from The Body Shop – and wear it all at once at school, to my relationships with boys, fights with girls, and sneaking off to the Dome when I was only 15 (a nightclub for over 18s).<\/p>\n

Despite this my mom was a truly inspirational person, always one to help others – and I like to hope that 30 years on I’m even a\u00a0smidgen\u00a0like her.<\/p>\n

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Now it’s my turn to make sure my kids eat the right things, do the right things (or at least know right from wrong) and feel loved.<\/p>\n

I hope if nothing else my mother is proud of me.<\/p>\n

I have achieved:<\/strong><\/p>\n