This is one reason why Old Stylers cook meals from scratch and avoid ready meals!

TKP_3

Snow_Angel wrote:

You do-check some of the posts with banoffee pie recipes earlier in the thread. Just make sure you always keep the water topped up to at least half-way up the tins. I used to make this every week in the ski chalet I used to run and the guests absolutely loved it.

In Europe though, you get condensed milk in big squeezy tubes, boil them as usual and then just squirt the caramel over the pie. SOOOOOOOOO much easier than tins ..... I've never seen those squeezy tubes of condensed milk in the UK anywhere though. If anyone spots them tell me immediately!!! :rotfl:

You can get the squeezy condensed milk tubes in Sainsbury's and Tesco's. I've never tried them boiled though - should try!

TKP_3

ScoobieGirl wrote:

Thanks - you've given me the confidence to try it now. It will also help the banana mountain in my kitchen - although it probably won't do any good for my diet

If I see squeezy condensed milk I'll let you know - I don't fancy the chances of that lasting long in my house. I could quite happily eat that out of the tube, and save some for later, where as I can only get through 1/4 can before I feel sick

Yes, that's why I buy the squeezy tube as well as tins of CM - I can just squeeze some out (to eat) whenever I feel like it :rotfl:
I have never had a tin explode when boiling - just do 2 things : never let it boil dry, and never open until it has cooled

THIRZAH

Shirley Goode's blog is at https://www.shirleygoode.com. The sticky toffee pudding recipe appeared sometime early in December.

Snow_Angel

TKP wrote:

You can get the squeezy condensed milk tubes in Sainsbury's and Tesco's. I've never tried them boiled though - should try!

:j :j :j :j :j must re-check my local tescos. they didn't have it last year. lets hope they do now

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Ah condensed milk the stuff of my childhood when things were scarce we had it spread on bread instead of jam. also my Mum used it in tea instead of fresh milk. Children of my era 1940s onward will remember the reason why we had so many visits to the school dentist's .Sugar may have been rationed but we found our sweet-tooths elsewhere.
Many's the time I have almost severed a finger getting the top off the tin, mmm blood flavoured condensed milk ,we didn't care in those days, it was something sweet that was all that mattered

countrymusicfan

I am a diabetic so take aspartame instead of sugar, but when I was in America, someone was selling diabetic candy in her candy store. It was peanut butter cups which I love so I had one. I had cramps, the runs and was dreadful. I was told it was the aspartame but Americans eat it by the handful with no ill effects. I can't even drink 2 diet sodas because it does that to me. I gave my best friend some diet soda for Christmas and warned him about letting his son have too much in case it went for him as well.
Will try Spenda.

Jo_anne_2

moggins wrote: »

I have a real problem with Aspartame being in everything as my little girl has severe reactions to it. One moment I have a happy placid little soul, after Aspartame she turns into a raging whiney monster. But of course she wants what every other child does, luckily she now understands that there are certain things she cannot have and I'm having to read labels constantly because it seems to be in everything!!

My son reacts badly to aspartame. When he was a toddler, we had 3 years of turmoil with his behaviour until we discovered the link with aspartame in his diet. Avoiding it was a nighmare at first, cos so many foods and drinks contain it. Even when we'd cut it out of his diet at home and got his behaviour on an even keel, he'd be given a drink at playgroup or at a friend's house and the symptoms would begin. In the end, we had to make sure he always had his own drinks with him! The typical symptoms were that his pupils would dilate, he'd start rocking and touching things repeatedly, he'd run round in circles and would not respond to any one talking to him and withdraw in a manic internal world. It was quite scary. He's a perfectly normal child now. I sometimes wonder how many children labelled as disruptive or hyperactive are actually sensitive to aspartame in their diet?

angel81uk

I've got a really sweet tooth, always have, but sweeteners taste awful! For as long as I can remember I've had problems with artificial sweeteners so I've avoided them for years. Whenever I eat/drink anything containing them within 5 minutes I get a tingling sensation just below my cheekbones followed by a migraine which forces me to bed for the next 3 days. Not pleasant at all. I'd much rather stick to sugar and eat a healthy, balanced diet with increased toothbrushing!

daisyhun

i dont think you fully realise what aspartame is made up from.

its made from 3 different chemicals one of which is formaldehyde, which is what is used to embalm bodies. i personally do not think digesting this is healthy.

also did you release that the recommend intake is 7.8mg per day and in your average can of diet drinks there is more than 2 times this amount.

daisyhun

but it maybe true that eating fruit makes us ingest methanol, but natural products such as fruit also contain ethanol which acts as a natural antidote and the 2 cancel each other out.