Mab, I hope you can manage enough nutritious food to help you put on weight - my gory 'putting on weight' story is stomach churning so don't read further if you (or anyone) is feeling queasy ... when I was young, before I got married, I was going out with a crofter's boy on the Isle of Lewis and had a lunch with the family one day - typical greasy fried food - with added liquid fat poured over the lot ... UGH!!! I didn't go there for another meal. It was fairly traditional for up there, though, as they never wasted anything (sheep's head soup anyone?) - every part of any animal slaughtered off the croft was used - hence haggis as well was more common than it is today. They also lived a fairly rugged outdoor lifestyle and the weather was not always particularly warm so any food was always welcome.
