Thoughts about diets and cooking Some time ago I ate food that wasn’t good for me. I kept a bad diet. I liked what the most people ate, junk food like fried potatoes, fried cakes, crisps, some kind of snacks like sweets and cookies. Also, I had fizzy drinks like cola, Pepsi and local made sparkling water. It’s easy for me to put on weight so when I start to eat fattening food I usually put on a couple of kilograms at once. So now I try to cut down on all sort of cookies and sweets but it is not to me keeping it up. I don’t like to go on a diet because I don’t keep it up for a long time and then it is more likely to put on even more weight. So instead of a dieting I get exercises and eat plenty of healthy food. So I think that dieting is some kind of wasting of time. One of the foods that are good for you is a self-made food, for instance, a borsch. I learn one of the easiest recipes. It has a quite number of ingredients but it worth this. At first, take some of the meat, it doesn't matter what kind of meat you use, but it’s better to use beef meat and boil it until cooked. While the meat is boiling, peel potatoes and chop them. Then put them aside for a while. Chop some cabbage. Then chop carrot, onion and beetroot. Fry them on some oil stirring. When the meat is near to cooked, add chopped potatoes and cabbage into beef stock. If you like, add smashed garlic to frying vegetables. After the vegetables are fried, add them into the saucepan. Borsch is usually served with sour milk and crackers made from rye flour in middle deep dish. I can say that it is not the only one recipe. There is the one when borsch is cooking in an oven in small pots. As for me, I like eat borsh with small baked cakes with minced beef.