Aug 20, 2026 · 46 min · 11 segments
What To Stop Buying Before You Plant Anything DESCRIPTION Spring success doesn't start with buying seedlings — it starts with deciding what you're going to stop buying from the supermarket. In this…
Now, what I said before is 100% true.
Y- your gardening success this spring is not gonna start with what seedlings you buy.
It's going to start with what you decide to stop buying from the supermarket, and I think that's the most important bit that you can go into your spring growing season thinking about.
Um, certainly for us that's been the case.
Um, handy helper and I have both been on a very big, um, health kick of late, uh, which has been fantastic.
We've lost a little bit of weight.
We both feel a lot better.
More impressively, his snoring has stopped, which for anybody out there who's got a snoring partner, you would sympathize with me on what that feels like.
Um, his snoring has completely stopped, like, in the space of two weeks, just gone from pretty regular to nothing at all.
Um, and it's all down to a ketovore, carnivore kinda diet lifestyle.
Um, if you're in any doubt, go and check out a guy called Eddie Abdou, who...
Abdou, Abdou, I think that's how you pronounce his surname.
He talks about insulin resistance in, uh, particularly in people who, as they get older, they become more insulin resistant, and both of us kinda looked at it and went, "Holy shit, that's us." So, we have started eating so much less of the crap that we would buy from the supermarket anyway.
We are eating basically green, leafy vegetables, meat, eggs, fish, cheese, nuts, and that's pretty much it at the moment.
That's all we're eating.
Um, and we're not eating too much of some of those things.
Like, the cheese and the nuts are...
You know.
We're still having milk, but only at certain times during the day.
We're not overloading our system with sugars, 'cause milk is a sugar.
It's a form of sugar.
Um, lactose is a, is a form of sugar.
Um, so we're trying to cut down on all the sugars going into our system to get our insulin back to normal.
Now, what I said before is 100% true.
Y- your gardening success this spring is not gonna start with what seedlings you buy.
It's going to start with what you decide to stop buying from the supermarket, and I think that's the most important bit that you can go into your spring growing season thinking about.
Um, certainly for us that's been the case.
Um, handy helper and I have both been on a very big, um, health kick of late, uh, which has been fantastic.
We've lost a little bit of weight.
We both feel a lot better.
More impressively, his snoring has stopped, which for anybody out there who's got a snoring partner, you would sympathize with me on what that feels like.
Um, his snoring has completely stopped, like, in the space of two weeks, just gone from pretty regular to nothing at all.
Um, and it's all down to a ketovore, carnivore kinda diet lifestyle.
Um, if you're in any doubt, go and check out a guy called Eddie Abdou, who...
Abdou, Abdou, I think that's how you pronounce his surname.
He talks about insulin resistance in, uh, particularly in people who, as they get older, they become more insulin resistant, and both of us kinda looked at it and went, "Holy shit, that's us." So, we have started eating so much less of the crap that we would buy from the supermarket anyway.
We are eating basically green, leafy vegetables, meat, eggs, fish, cheese, nuts, and that's pretty much it at the moment.
That's all we're eating.
Um, and we're not eating too much of some of those things.
Like, the cheese and the nuts are...
You know.
We're still having milk, but only at certain times during the day.
We're not overloading our system with sugars, 'cause milk is a sugar.
It's a form of sugar.
Um, lactose is a, is a form of sugar.
Um, so we're trying to cut down on all the sugars going into our system to get our insulin back to normal.
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