As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

THIRZAH

My grandmother used to use a block of salt for salting beans. She would break it up and put it between the layers.

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

ceridwen wrote: »

Found the article re the "engineered meat":

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2008347/Test-tube-burger-coming-soon-Lab-grown-meat-needed-feed-world.html

Thats not the first article I've read about this - just the latest.

Now - heads off to finish dinner thinking "Wonder if I should give up quorn? Is that a "just one of those things" experiment in engineering food - or does it have the same agenda? If it does have a "feed the world" agenda - then I really should give up buying it on principle".

Does anyone know if quorn was invented on a "fake food - to help feed the world agenda" or no? I DO wonder - and if its a sorta Soylent Green type scenario - then I had better give up buying it I guess....

REVOLTING that they're thinking of engineering meat. Makes me want to vomit. I'm currently in the process of becoming pescitarian (no meat, but will eat fish & dairy), and would STILL rather eat a good, free range, natural, looked after living animal, than 'meat' that has been grown in a lab!


As to Quorn, 3 major points for me...

1) it's not vegan, the binding agent is egg white.

2) it's not suitable for people with funghi or egg allergies (the protein is from funghi, the binding is egg white).

3) MY BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH IT - it's processed!! You'd be better off blending mushrooms and eggs, then simmering in a frying pan to make an omlette, then cutting to strips, then adding to your dishes!

Scuse me while I :mad:

Pee

I've tried Quorn, with high hopes. Ok it is processed, but very low fat and nutritious. In fact I'd rather eat fresh and tasty vegetables and just avoid eating meat rather than eat that sad replacement.

lizzyb1812

scottishminnie - I did not snort rose wine at the thought of you painting outside in your knickers - however the thought of what my neighbours might do if I did the same ..... thank goodness for tissues :eek:

I've been under bargain curtain mountain this weekend - having had a good look at the quality of them and doing a bit of research I realised that my under £8 had got me several £100's of curtains so the quick cut and resize job turned into a measure twice, cut once, tack and sew carefully project. The leftover bits of curtains plus the valance trimmed in a matching but different colour fabric will be enough to make a patchwork throw for my bed - which I'm hoping to turn into a quilt with a dark blue sheet and some quilting. I've got the sheet, just need a MSE source of quilting/batting.

No foraging this weekend but I did go to the glass recycling bit at Asda and found a huge glass jar that someone couldn't get into the recycling bin - it will be great for my dehydrated mushrooms.

Hope everyone has had a good weekend and looks forward to the new week

Lizzy

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

Reverbe wrote: »

This is odd because I have to wonder what is in Tesco filled pasta as whenever I have some of my flatmates leftovers which usually are the pesto filled ones I end up with a massive stomachache.. Now I can eat pasta -no problem and pesto - no problem - so I have to wonder what on earth Tescos puts in it. Particularly as Sainsburys filled pasta has no such effect..

I can't eat A*DA ready cooked (hot) chicken for the same reason. ALL flavours make me ill. Not *salmonella* ill, but...ya know. The people behind the counter can't tell me what's in their seasoning, head office can't tell me what's in their seasoning. So I stopped buying it.

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

Still playing catch up here...:o

kezlou wrote: »

but the "white things" are also essential, especially if a person can't eat wholemeal but can tolerate white plain / bread flour. I get really bad cramps after eating wholemeal products.

SAME HERE. You might have a slight intolerance to INSOLUBLE FIBRE. If I eat wholemeal WHEAT products, such as wholemeal bread, weetabix, etc, I suffer. Oats I am fine with.

If you want more fibre, up your green veg and beans/pulses intake. MUCH easier on the stomach and bowel.

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

chirpychick wrote: »

Oh and someone said about buying battery eggs and i can empathise with this, we went to Morrisons on Saturday and i brought their value eggs but it was really hard for me then hubby said, im not giving you the choice these are the eggs we can afford - sorry chickens but when we have more money we will go free range! It made me feel less guilty as i just thought - it was him not me! :rotfl:

It makes me feel terrible sometimes but we have to do what we have to do. I just wish supermarkets value eggs were free range!! They should insist upon it!

EGGS - at the moment...

AS*DA free range eggs - £2 for 15

Sainsbugs basics eggs are barn eggs, £1.78 for 18
(currently they have a promo on free range eggs - £2.31 for 15)

hope this helps

lucielle

Hello everyone, I love this thread but struggling to keep up. Can anyonr point me in the direction of the curry and chicken recipies please?
Thanks
L

ceridwen

..which is a useful reminder that this version of the "Its Tough" thread is getting RATHER long and unwieldy.....

KITTIE
What do you think about starting a new installment of the "Its Tough" thread - as you are the founder of this thread? Maybe entitled summat like "Its Still Tough...and the Workhouse is still threatening"?

GreyQueen

Good morning all and I hope everyone is limbering up for the work week (evil cackle, keeps eyes on the clock).

I had a happy afternoon after my dial-up went off at 4pm as usual and decided to wander up the road to Little Mr T as I'd meant to get some mushrooms in L!dl earlier and had completely forgotten and was also cursing a lack of initiative as I could have, if I'd had the b*lls and remembered in time, climbed over a fence near the lotties onto a field and there would've probably been some field mushrooms to be had. Still, off to participate in the cash economy.

Little Mr T on a Sunday less than an hour before closing time was almost empty but for drifting people gently wandering around the aisles, one or two things to hand, but obviously awaiting something. I smiled to myself as the penny dropped and a small cadre of shop staff emerged from the back room, golden guns at the ready, and with cheerful goodwill set about reducing stuff.

No one was grabby or mobbed or harrassed the youngsters with the task of reducing things to a few pence each although the bargains were truly splendiferous. I myself emerged with a loaf of bread for 15p and twinpacks of chicken breasts, welfare-grade off local farms, at 20p each. I have tucked them into the freezer for a ChocClare's Chinese Chicken later this week.

It was interesting to watch my fellow bargain hunters; a cross-section of ages from young lads and lassies, probably students, through all the decades up to pensionerhood. There were ladies who by their apparel and accents were relatively recent arrivals into the UK, and good ole boys and gals from the city with dialects that you can cut with a knife.

What stuck me was the democracy of being skint, and the courtesy which was being exercised to each other, you have this loaf and I have that loaf (identical products) and we all get a turn and no one feels left out. The assistants were jovial, asking how much we wanted the bread reduced to (we decided 15p, collectively) and it was actually a lovely experience. I drifted back down the streets to Shoebox Towers feeling very positive about my fellow human beings.

My goodness, what a contrast to the brawl in M & S at whoopsie time when people who are likely to be much more affluent to start with than the Mr T crowd, were acting in the most appalling manner, positively scary.

Re dietary fibre, I had some troubles in the gut a few years ago and was entensively investigated and the conclusion was IBS. Kept a food diary and took it back to the clinic and have the bizarre distinction of being one of the few people (probably) who has been told by an NHS dietician to eat less fibre.:rotfl:

I agree with the poster who suggested upping your fibre with veggies as if I eat too much wholemeal, I get IBS. Too much dairy also doesn't sit well, particularly yoghurt, even the most righteous natural yogs are no good to me. I tend to favour good plain cooking as it feels better to me than a lot of rich ingredients. Once a peasant, always a peasant, eh?

Oh, whilst I was loitering in Little Mr T, I decided to check the acetic acid content on the vinegars (I know, how sad ) and was surprised to discover that ordinary table vinegars are 5% or 6% but that Sarson's Pickling Vinegar is itself only 6% whereas my research (OK, googling) from yesterday, revealed that pickling vinegars can be up to 18% acetic acid.

Soooooo, if Sarsons Pickling is no stronger than a regular table vinegar, why would savvy people like ourselves pay a considerable premium price for it? Just as easy to buy a few pickling spices and dump them into the jar with the onions. We always did this when I was a child and it's great fun catching a little ball of some kind of spice between your teeth and yelling as your tastebuds go nova.

Hmm, thinking on.......have a good day, everyone.