Another obsession sneaking up on me when I should be working

Mmmm, chickpea salad in a jar! You know I'm making this. After Magnolia Square, of course! I found this at The Kitchen.

And here's another little obsession that has snuck up on me ... food. To be more specific, foodies and their food ways. I love food and hate when an opportunity to eat a good meal is wasted by something ordinary or, worse, horrid. But I'm not a foodie. I experiment at home but the minute I need to prepare anything as simple as a tossed salad for company I freak out a bit.

I think it started when I was so excited about our new herb and vege garden and the thrill it is to go out with a pair of scissors to harvest something for lunch. I make a point of using food from the garden every day. And this led to a new visual project I've been playing with in the background, and that's taking photos of my food. Which is, by the way, a fabulous way to literally watch what you eat without counting calories!

And then I realised the Photos You've Liked section in Instagram is mostly beautiful photos of peoples lunches. That's a bit weird.

But it wasn't until this morning's crazy Google bookmarking session that I realised I may have stumbled on another obsession. Food.

So here's a quick 'paste and run' of the food inspirations that got me thinking. And it's only quick because I'm on a tight schedule this morning and blogging wasn't on the list - oops! Tomorrow is the first day of the wonderful Magnolia Square and I have a squillion things to do to be ready.

See you there, and bon appetite!

A de-constructed cupcake in a jar - brilliant! Thanks to Kimberly's comment below I can now credit this amazing bit of wonderful to My Cakies blog

Herb garden revelling in the morning sun!

My favourite breakfast - avocado and feta on toast - mmmmmmm - anything requiring a squirt of lime juice is fine with me anytime of the day.