Weezl and friends Phase 2 -giving it a whirl for Shirl! Testing meal plan for a month

SusanC_2

shanks77 wrote: »

Ok where is everyone? On the days i work you post like mad on the days i am free you all disappear and get a life not fair. Work your life round mine please xx

I just spent three hours listening to my friend on the phone. I actually had to interrupt her part way through so I could go to the toilet.

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

another thought though...

y'know all this 'stuff' that goes along with Jamie books though? Isn't it that stuff that means it's ok when a jamie recipe goes wrong?

Like the whole, young, trendy, flat in London/house in the country with a gardener called brian, beautiful wife and 3.5 children. And posh ingredients, from Jamie's Italian friend Genaro.

It's just all so unspeakably glamorous. So when it goes a bit wrong, we're still eating the sexy dinner made using the glamorous ingredients out of the beautifully shiny recipe book with gorgeous photography.

But when you'r following 'cheap family recipes' that you just found on google one day, and their bog standard cheapy bread made from smart price flour goes wrong....

Do you see what I mean?

I'm not being self-deprecating so's people will big me up, I just wonder if we are not as failure-proof as Jamie, because he comes with a whole lot of (rather beautiful) baggage, which we don't.

So you're saying people are more forgiving of a Jamie Oliver recipe because he's "cool" and we aren't?

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

So you're saying people are more forgiving of a Jamie Oliver recipe because he's "cool" and we aren't?

well kinda, yes

except it's not you that isn't cool :cool:

artybear

:j

SusanC wrote: »

So you're saying people are more forgiving of a Jamie Oliver recipe because he's "cool" and we aren't?

I think we are cool we're hip and retro...and into being all new age....and I went to a festival so we are cool!!!!:D

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

:j

I think we are cool we're hip and retro...and into being all new age....and I went to a festival so we are cool!!!!:D

arty you are our minister of cool

we keep you as a symbol of our young and with itness

(and other things too)

weezl74

example of coolness, demonstrating washing your fresh veg:

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

bear with me arty!

Do you not feel ever so slightly more.... hunts for the right word 'oooh I'm liking my lifestyle today' ish when eating a Jamie recipe than an old-style one?

I'm not being feisty, I'm genuinely intrigued. Cos even though I am frugal mcdougal compared to a lot of my chums, I do get a bit of a buzz when we go to Liverpool to see our pals dave and lorna, and dave knocks up a mexican thing a la Jamie and we shop for it in waitrose.

I'm just not sure I can ever make shopping in asda for shirl's chicken and onion pie have quite that level of va va voom!

Isn't that just down to personal preference though? Personally I would be less likely to use a Jamie Oliver recipe because I'm more likely to think it'll be overly complicated and have unecessary/expensive ingredients in it. (Although I probably wouldn't be looking at his recipes anyway because he's too trendy which means I would automatically have excluded him anyway: If people are trying to be cool and trendy then I'm not that interested - I'm more interested in something actually being good rather than presenting a certain image.) We used to have a Waitrose and I really liked it because you could get a lot of good reduced stuff. And (ignoring the fact that my food expenditure is higher than the planner's) even if I was rich I wouldn't feel comfortable spending the large amounts some people do on food - I would still choose to make things like bread yoghurt etc. myself because I feel it gives me better value and better quality. Yes I probably would spend more because there are things I would choose to have more than we do currently but I wouldn't cool/trendy/great because of my food choices.

(But I've always been someone who isn't greatly affected by marketing or peer pressure so I'm probably not very representative.)

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

example of coolness, demonstrating washing your fresh veg:

But Weezl just take your lettuce into the garden and stick it under a hose, take a photo and bobs your uncle your cool too
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

:rotfl:not another spooky area of weezl/susan similarity?

:rotfl: I'd forgotten about all our weird similarities.

Lesley_Gaye

I think the whole teaching to fish thing may well impact on Shirley throughout her life

I now feel compelled to price my dinner, and feel out of control extravagent if it costs more than £1, and happy if it is 50p or less

I now go everywhere thinking, I don't need that, I could borrow that, why would I buy that etc etc. Went to an agricultural show and didn't spend anywhere near as long there as I normally would as I didn't want to spend any money and I looked at everything as ways of extracting cash from me. I walk around my home town and look at all the shops with different eyes

In short, once you start doing this kind of thing, your aspirations could well change and the consumer culture of our society begins to show itself in a very different light. EG I have started watching adverts trying to spot the 'come and buy me' power points, I was in the CoOp and walked around it bargain spotting and seeing all the calls to buy everywhere

We are all influenced by advertising, much as we think we aren't

Edit - just read your post SusanC - the above sentence was written before you posted, and is def not a pop at you

I thought I was doing all this already by the way!