I was with a friend the other day who was asking me how on earth I have managed to keep up with the pace this year without being ill. I was ill last November, but since then I have been fine. I think I had a sniffle for a couple of days recently but it dried up very quickly – and I did not have a cough, a temperature or a loss of taste/smell.
Headaches have come, I had some tough times with headaches. But I still carried on working throughout the pain. Being busy at work may have helped me cope with the pain…or it may have made it worse – I don’t know!
Well, when my friend asked me how I have kept going, I thought about it and said….SPRING ONIONS!!!

I have been hungering, no craving spring onions all year. From week to week, I could not get enough of them. I had a lot of salad throughout the summer, always covered with finely chopped spring onions. But I was throwing them over almost every other dish I ate.
Could spring onions be the secret source to my superpowers this year? I am sure they have some good things inside them, besides being very tasty.
But in truth, I think that love (family and friends have been a huge emotional support to me), joy (I feel so much satisfaction from knowing we are helping people) and hope (I have a very clear view of the future as this corrupt system starts to buckle) have helped me do what I needed to do from day to day.
I am not taking anything for granted though! I know at anypoint I might become ill. But in the meantime, I am still not bored with spring onions. They are so delicious. My favourite food of 2020 is undoubtedly SPRING ONIONS!
Your post reminds me of the book Holes. Onions saved the day.
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I don’t know the book – but I find it totally believable that onions could save the day – anyday!
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I call them “green onions” but I agree they do have some medicinal properties. I believe an ingredient from onions is used to help make scars less visible.
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….and they just taste so goooooooooooood!
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I love them too! I love to top them over my soups or chili! So good. And I haven’t (knock on wood) been sick either! There might be something to this onion thing!
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lol – let’s stick them in a vaccination vial and market them!
Scrap that – I don’t know if vaccination humour is allowed at the moment!
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We call them scallions! Always in my refrigerator!
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So delicious!
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I got into an almost heated arguement with my grocery service for sending me wrong spring oinions. I like the ones with smaller white part and thin short green parts. They are packed with flavour.
I love spring onions too. I chop them and freeze in olive oil so i have them available when i want.
They totally could be your secret to strength i believe in them.
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I think we need a spring onion appreciation society!
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Ahhaha we definitely do.
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Love these so much
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I have always known you to be a man with a highly distinguished palate ā¤
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I’m a fan of spring onions too. Also, sweet white onions š
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So yummy!
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Sounds like you have a colourful diet, the power a great diet gives you is huge!
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I have been a vegetarian since I was six and now have a dairy intolerance. So variety is very important to me. A good diet and plenty of sleep do wonderful things.
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Ok yes sleep, I love my sleep too!
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