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linzi1978 wrote:

If anyone would like to ask any questions about the prossess of making ready meals i will do my best to answer them!

Does anyone who sees the process actually eat them?

tomstickland

jamieoliver wrote:

I've spent two years being PC about parents, now is the time to say, 'If you're giving your young children fizzy drinks you're an ar$ehole, you're a to$$er. If you give them bags of crisps you're an idiot.

Excellent!

Sarahsaver

With anything food related you see it differently once you have worked on the serving/production side. I worked in bars too and I would not drink beer at rock concerts having worked at a large outdoor event...Also I know what to look for in bars and it is shocking how many people serve drinks incorrectly, makes me wonder if anyone is really properly trained anymore.
You would think that brand new cloths and gloves are used when the production line of crisps is cleaned, wouldn't you, and you would imagine them to be cleaned HOW often???;)

calleyw

It boils down to a couple of things

1) People are lazy
2) people don't how to cook
3) People can't be beothered

Cooking is not rocket science.

I am shocked when I see people shopping. The other day I was in a supermarket and there was family and they where buying these lunchables. And I was like :eek: do they not have home and cheese and crackers at home.

I know of people who moan about having no money and then they buy sandwiches everyday and ready meals.

It has been proven that eating a basic diet of meat and veg in various ways rather than processed food and squash and fizzy drinks have a remarkable effect on the behaviour. This has been proven in prison where the inmates are less violent.


Yours


Calley

Horasio

Most of the food in the supermarket is repulsive. I much prefer the fruit and veg, dairy, bread (brown) and meat section.

We used to live on the ready meals and when I do have one on occasion, I gag now

thriftmonster

I have noticed that it is getting harder to find "real food" in the supermarket as everything is value added/ processed/ ready chopped. They seem to be hiding the normal stuff

Sarahsaver

thriftmonster wrote:

I have noticed that it is getting harder to find "real food" in the supermarket as everything is value added/ processed/ ready chopped. They seem to be hiding the normal stuff

That's good for us OS'ers as the fresh stuff is often reduced to clear:)

mah_jong

My local small supermarket is small but its been changing over the past year or so , to a more convenience type store, is this because of the large supermarket at the edge of town???

Although there is a fresh fruit veggie stand the baking stuff is now down to 3 or 4 foot wide. That includes sugar, {all varieties}flour eggs, sultanas etc There is a larger space for cocacola !!! So its not just a case of it being hidden!! Perhaps the long term plan is decreasing to point of extinction!

I despair at times!

laughing_cow

thriftmonster wrote:

I have noticed that it is getting harder to find "real food" in the supermarket as everything is value added/ processed/ ready chopped. They seem to be hiding the normal stuff

That's so true of the Sainsburys Local near my house. I was quite excited when it opened. I thought it would be really useful for top up shopping - particularly for fruit/veg/salad items which are either weary or non existent at the corner shop. However, about 3/4 of this Sainsburys is taken up by crisps, sweets, drinks and ready meals It's annoying because we've already got a good off licence and a corner shop which is even better stocked with crisps etc. We don't need more of this stuff - we need a bigger fruit and veg section! Even more annoying, they're always having 'special offers' on the fruit which are nothing special at all - 2 for the price of one on strawberries and mangoes which are so manky I sometimes think that they've been delivered to the shop by accident when they should have been taken to the dump. :rolleyes:

Anastacia

It might take us a bit longer to cook but i think its much quicker to shop. I walk along the sell fruit & veg ailse, the meat ailse, dried foods (pasta, rice, burghal) and the dairy ailse. The rest of our huga asda is pointless to me. Sure this must save a bit of time.

Looking on the bright side i have noticed more people are bring home made lunch into work these days. Some still rush out to the sandwich man (usually the lower paid oddly enough) but the rest of us are on leftovers, cheese on toast etc. Its a move in the right direction i think.