Andrea McLean famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.
-- Andrea McLean

#Children #Ideas #Sugar
Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.
-- Andrea McLean

#Home #Eating #My Family
Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.
-- Andrea McLean

#Eye #Nuts #Peppers
I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
-- Andrea McLean

#Needs #Cards #Use
I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.
-- Andrea McLean

#Men #House #Normal
The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.
-- Andrea McLean

#Taken #House #Done

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar
I was of the â€œWhen life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didnâ€™t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuffâ€ school of thought.
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material in the living hepatic tissue. The second entirely chemical action, which can be effected outside the influence of life, consists in the transformation of the glycogenic material into sugar by means of a ferment.
Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I discovered this. I've cut out all starch such as potatoes, noodles, rice, bread and pasta.

Andrea McLean famous quotes

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