Where low-fat diet clashes with low-purine diet

Breakfast
wholemeal bread: check
non-dairy margerine: check
coffee: decaffeinated - ouch!
non-dairy milk: check
peanut butter (or even cashew butter!) - no
avocado - no
any other spread that is not Marmite - no
sugar (or any slight sweetener for coffee) - no

So we did some provisioning at the local Waitrose supermarket.  Vegetables, bananas, Guardian newspaper, lentils, chili and tikka sauces, cashews, caffeinated coffee, peanut butter, and a good range of vegetarian quick foods - patties, pie, sausages, nut roast, and Linda McCartney (oops! - dairy... if only she'd been vegan).

decisions, decisions

If you look closely at the avocado, you'll see it calls itself "perfectly ripe" - this turns out to be either a brand name or an aspiration, because it's not.

Back to the Marmite.

Not ideal.  A gout-free diet shouldn't include yeast extracts.  Still, I have to wait for the avocado to ripen.

Marmite - a yeast-extract spread, manufactured from 1902, England.  Main ingredients: yeast extract, salt, vegetable juice concentrate
Vegemite - similar to Marmite, with some vegetable/spice additives, developed 1922, Australia
Promite - similar to Vegemite, but softer and sweeter.  Developed 1950s, Australia
(Apparently the Australasian Marmite is made in New Zealand with a modified recipe, including added sugar.)

Lesson: Prepare.  Then be flexible, if you can put up with a temporary situation.