Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't eat skin or salt, so crackling's off the agenda for me. I do remember, 35-40 years ago we'd sometimes have pork/crackling for Sunday lunch. If I ever had to cook any such thing I'd be thinking that the entire inside of the oven would end up splattered with pork fat as it spits.

When I went on these pills I was told to reduce my salt intake. As I take very little salt anyway I don't have much to cut. Recently my friend pointed out I have so little food and almost no processed food that this advice wasn't actually well tailored to me. I did ask about this the other day and was told (when I made the appointment) chances are I have been taking too little salt so I am now under instruction to try eating more. It seems very counter intuitive in a world where we are always told we need less! I don' tend to add salt to cooking most things ( roast pork is one exception, there are others, in fact, I salt most birds skins too...and so expect people to season themselves at the table. I would never add say, to say, chips. In fact I don't think I add salt at the table to anything.

PasturesNew

Morrisons (are the only supermarket that) sell flavoured English muffins. Cheese/onion and cheese ones. I'd deliberately chosen Morrisons today just to try to buy some (before they sold out, which they always do by 11am any day). So, there I was and they had 8 packs of each! But ... 75p/pack, or 2 for £1. So, I had to get the 2 for £1 (else I can't buy one pack as I feel ripped off).... and, as I'd made a special trip for these.... had to buy two packs. Trouble is, they are both "BBE 06 May" .... so now I have to eat 8 English muffins in the next 2 days, so that sorts out everything I'll be eating.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...I take very little salt ...

I've never used salt and never understood why people cook with it then sprinkle it on food. Salt's nasty tasting. However, I have, in the last 2 years or so, started putting a small sprinkle of salt on spuds when I make them up for mashing. I, too, probably have "too little salt", if there is such a thing. Even the baked beans I prefer/choose when possible are "low sugar, low salt" varieties.

I never used to even have salt in the house. I've only got it now as I was trying out some "Internet DIY Miracle Cures" re my leg last year.

blin

PasturesNew wrote: »

Trouble is, they are both "BBE 06 May" .... so now I have to eat 8 English muffins in the next 2 days, so that sorts out everything I'll be eating.

It's a best before, not a use by. If you keep them in the fridge (do you have a fridge?) they'll be fine for at least a week.

PasturesNew

blin wrote: »

It's a best before, not a use by. If you keep them in the fridge (do you have a fridge?) they'll be fine for at least a week.

Yes ... it's borrowed, but clean and works (and is almost empty ... except a small tub of cherry tomatoes, one lump of cheap cheddar and some Lidl marg)



I'll stick the packets in there next time I stand up (room's small, it's only 8' away, but not going to do it now).

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never used salt and never understood why people cook with it then sprinkle it on food. Salt's nasty tasting. However, I have, in the last 2 years or so, started putting a small sprinkle of salt on spuds when I make them up for mashing. I, too, probably have "too little salt", if there is such a thing. Even the baked beans I prefer/choose when possible are "low sugar, low salt" varieties.

I never used to even have salt in the house. I've only got it now as I was trying out some "Internet DIY Miracle Cures" re my leg last year.

Sme people get sniffy about people seasoning their food at the table...when they feel they have presented it perfectly seasoned. I hold no such opinion. I know most people like more salt than I do.


I have salt in the house, I do use it and expect others to, but....salt lasts me ages and ages and ages. Here I have salt from when I lived in Italy and some Maldon box a parent gave me when we moved in. I have also bought Himalayan salt in the past because its girly and pink.:o

lostinrates

blin wrote: »

It's a best before, not a use by. If you keep them in the fridge (do you have a fridge?) they'll be fine for at least a week.

Welcome blin.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Morrisons (are the only supermarket that) sell flavoured English muffins. Cheese/onion and cheese ones. I'd deliberately chosen Morrisons today just to try to buy some (before they sold out, which they always do by 11am any day). So, there I was and they had 8 packs of each! But ... 75p/pack, or 2 for £1. So, I had to get the 2 for £1 (else I can't buy one pack as I feel ripped off).... and, as I'd made a special trip for these.... had to buy two packs. Trouble is, they are both "BBE 06 May" .... so now I have to eat 8 English muffins in the next 2 days, so that sorts out everything I'll be eating.

Sainsbury's sell mature cheddar and black pepper ones (and spiced fruit ones) - I have a pack in the fridge which were bought yellow stickered (so on the bbe date) a week ago - they've been in the fridge since and are fine (had one yesterday). Depends how 'adventurous' you are with best before dates though... I think I'm a bit extreme.

Edit: I'm sure I've had cheese muffins from Tesco too. I like the savoury English muffins - esp with marmite

michaels

We never add salt to anything, most people when they come find the food tasteless, we find if we go out anywhere or cook prepared meals (like tonight with a heat and serve pie) that it is extremely salty.

Football team are the super Saints.

Put new inner tube on bicycle as we had one the right size and it seemed less hassle than a puncture repair and the new one went down on our short ride 'round the block' so I guess despite my careful inspection there must be something in the tyre.

blin

lostinrates wrote: »

Welcome blin.

Thank you. Long-term lurker, very occasional dropper-in. Fond of mushrooms.