Preparedness for when

Possession

This is for you GQ (this is what my 12 yr old green stripe belted son is aiming for, LOL!).
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jk0

Err, guys... we only get 1% of our gas from Russia?

So say Russian output goes down to zero, then a massive market opens up in Europe for the 99% that we don't get from Russia. So massive in fact, that it will be uneconomic to push gas down a pipe to Blighty.

We are in the sh*t, just as much as Germany, in my view.

Frugalsod

nuatha wrote: »

You can eat soap, still not sure I want to be eating palm oil.
Its a permanent issue, you find a product you like, build up a stock, but before you replenish, buy a single unit and consume it - just about everything I stock as quick meals has been revamped or "improved" in the last 36 months. Most of them have been improved to the point where we can't stomach them anymore.

Longer term it will impact the supermarkets as it reduces the trust consumers have in their own brand products and branded products themselves eventually. I am doing far more cooking from scratch and so not only have seriously reduced the cost of my food I am also being less impacted by these sorts of cons. I regularly scour the internet for recipes so I can make my own versions and I am eating a lot better because of it. My food tastes better because there are no additives and while my bread will go off in a few days I eat it before that is a risk. My intake of salt is very much lower as I have stopped eating ready meals as much as possible, so my health is improving all the time. My only regret is not trying this much sooner.

jk0

Frugalsod wrote: »

Longer term it will impact the supermarkets as it reduces the trust consumers have in their own brand products and branded products themselves eventually. I am doing far more cooking from scratch and so not only have seriously reduced the cost of my food I am also being less impacted by these sorts of cons. I regularly scour the internet for recipes so I can make my own versions and I am eating a lot better because of it. My food tastes better because there are no additives and while my bread will go off in a few days I eat it before that is a risk. My intake of salt is very much lower as I have stopped eating ready meals as much as possible, so my health is improving all the time. My only regret is not trying this much sooner.

Oh, that reminds me how I got my Bolognese sauce recipe: I just bought all the ingredients on the back of the Dolmio jar. I was trying to cut down on my sugar, so I left that out.

VJsmum

Frugalsod wrote: »

Longer term it will impact the supermarkets as it reduces the trust consumers have in their own brand products and branded products themselves eventually. I am doing far more cooking from scratch and so not only have seriously reduced the cost of my food I am also being less impacted by these sorts of cons. I regularly scour the internet for recipes so I can make my own versions and I am eating a lot better because of it. My food tastes better because there are no additives and while my bread will go off in a few days I eat it before that is a risk. My intake of salt is very much lower as I have stopped eating ready meals as much as possible, so my health is improving all the time. My only regret is not trying this much sooner.

The new in talk calls this "clean eating". I just call it eating. I have recently given up sugar and wheat - for the most part. I'm not coeliac but having read up on the (pseudo) science and seen the effects on my own body, i am convinced that i am better off without it. The work of Michael Pollan, Gary Taubes and Robert Lustig is very interesting - especially Michael Pollen in relation to this very issue ( I have a feeling some here may be familiar with this). There are others also. The theory is that you shop from the periphery of the supermarket, where all the fresh stuff is. I rather like Michael Pollan's postulation of "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants" and Chocolate is a plant, right?

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

Oh, that reminds me how I got my Bolognese sauce recipe: I just bought all the ingredients on the back of the Dolmio jar. I was trying to cut down on my sugar, so I left that out.

Yes I do that as well. Also you can eliminate all the additives as well.

Frugalsod

VJsmum wrote: »

The new in talk calls this "clean eating". I just call it eating. I have recently given up sugar and wheat - for the most part. I'm not coeliac but having read up on the (pseudo) science and seen the effects on my own body, i am convinced that i am better off without it. The work of Michael Pollan, Gary Taubes and Robert Lustig is very interesting - especially Michael Pollen in relation to this very issue ( I have a feeling some here may be familiar with this). There are others also. The theory is that you shop from the periphery of the supermarket, where all the fresh stuff is. I rather like Michael Pollan's postulation of "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants" and Chocolate is a plant, right?

Clean eating might be a new term for what we all did in the 50's and 60's. Okay cutting the sugar is probably new but then we were not as fat in the 50's and 60's.

I think of it as old school cooking. All it does is recover the 30% of spending that was going to make it more convenient. I am cutting the salt and sugar but I do find that many chefs recipes do contain ingredients that are probably irrelevant and by skipping those as well you can cut the costs even further without impacting the taste.

VJsmum

The general rule (not that anything is a "rule", people can do what they like) is

Don't eat anything you can't pronounce
Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognise
Don't eat anything with more than three (or is it five?) ingredients
Don't buy anything that has been through more than one process, so pork becomes ham (one process) becomes cheese and ham pizza (2 processes, therefore out)

I have also read "eat as much junk food as you like as long as you cook it yourself" which is what I've tried to do with the kids. They have nuggets and chips, or burgers - but I make them

jk0

VJsmum wrote: »

The general rule (not that anything is a "rule", people can do what they like) is

Don't eat anything you can't pronounce
Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognise
Don't eat anything with more than three (or is it five?) ingredients
Don't buy anything that has been through more than one process, so pork becomes ham (one process) becomes cheese and ham pizza (2 processes, therefore out)

I have also read "eat as much junk food as you like as long as you cook it yourself" which is what I've tried to do with the kids. They have nuggets and chips, or burgers - but I make them

Those are good rules VJ's Mum. You are so right about the number of ingredients. Anyone looked at one of Jamie Oliver's recipes? There must be twenty things in there! Even if I could find and afford all twenty, what am I to do with all the leftover ingredients?

I make homemade cheeseburgers on Saturday nights. Yum.

mardatha

I use a WW2 cookbook that even tells you what time to start preparing and in what order, so that your dinner comes out on time. It also tells you how to cook the whole meal in one pot. That's just so easy and simple that I stick to it.