Cook AT HOME, for God's sake!!

bud-miser

Maybe there is a forum dedicated to cooking but I couldn't find it! Please feel free, M Moderator, to move this wherever appropriate. Maybe the students forum would be quite an idea...

I seem to hear with monotonous regularity people complaining about how short they are of money - and then sitting down to a cosy evening watching non-terrestrial (i.e. paid-for) TV with a nice, microwaved £3-worth of microwaved 'ready meal' in front of them.

I'm sorry but, as far as the latter goes, patience has to run thin. Do it only once a week and a family of four runs up an annual bill of £750. I don't know about you but £750 comfortably buys my family its annual holiday. They say the art of cooking is dying - but I wonder if it could experience a renaissance if enough 'moneysavers' realised:

A. Just how much money is lost to Mr Tesco through the purchasing of 'convenience foods'.

and

B. Just how pleasurable (and tasty)(and easy to do)(and CHEAP!!!!!!!!)(yes I know, that last one's a repetition of 'A', but what the hell..) a home-made macaroni cheese can be!

V.Lucky

Have you seen the Old Style Forum? Full of old style ideas for cooking, cleaning etc etc.

Might be just what you are looking for!

V.Lucky

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=33

astonsmummy

bud-miser wrote:

Maybe there is a forum dedicated to cooking but I couldn't find it! Please feel free, M Moderator, to move this wherever appropriate. Maybe the students forum would be quite an idea...

I seem to hear with monotonous regularity people complaining about how short they are of money - and then sitting down to a cosy evening watching non-terrestrial (i.e. paid-for) TV with a nice, microwaved £3-worth of microwaved 'ready meal' in front of them.

I'm sorry but, as far as the latter goes, patience has to run thin. Do it only once a week and a family of four runs up an annual bill of £750. I don't know about you but £750 comfortably buys my family its annual holiday. They say the art of cooking is dying - but I wonder if it could experience a renaissance if enough 'moneysavers' realised:

A. Just how much money is lost to Mr Tesco through the purchasing of 'convenience foods'.

and

B. Just how pleasurable (and tasty)(and easy to do)(and CHEAP!!!!!!!!)(yes I know, that last one's a repetition of 'A', but what the hell..) a home-made macaroni cheese can be!

Definately get urself over to OS It's right up your street! You sound like a true old styler!! :T

bud-miser

Personally, I think saving more than enough money for my family's total Christmas spend, merely by giving up one piece of laziness a week, is a 'neat idea', as one Ollie North once said.

I think he viewed himself as pretty 'new style'...!!

bud-miser

Oh and by the way, quite seriously I don't think that suggestions of this kind should in any way be treated as old-fashioned or fuddy-duddy.

That would give a victory to Messrs Asda and Tesco etc and their clear wish to make moronic couch potatos out of us all.

SOME people might think that their new kitchen is only for show and not to be used in anger but I'd rather be thought of as an old eccentric if the alternative is to belong to that class of citizen.

Sorry if this sounds 'OS' but that's rather in the ear of the beholder...

aurora_borealis_2

I just had a lovely chinese takeaway. Full of colouring and additives. it was delicious

Jay-Jay_4

Chill out and go over to Old Style will you?

Jay-Jay_4

Not you aurora :rotfl:

bud-miser

Good for you. Personally, I cook my own chinese dishes - very easy and at one tenth the cost of a 'takeaway'.

Enjoy.

aurora_borealis_2

bud-miser wrote:

Good for you. Personally, I cook my own chinese dishes - very easy and at one tenth the cost of a 'takeaway'.

Enjoy.

Oooh, put some recipes on the old style board for when I become converted