Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

michaels

michaels wrote: »

And now a confession. With all the car and other hassles of the previous weeks I have failed to get them any Easter Eggs this year. Normally we try and get them one small egg each (I am generally fairly anti sweets and chocolates on health grounds and I can instantly see when any of the kids have had a sugar hit in terms of increased activity and stroppiness). however I looked in the cupboard and found 3 buttons eggs we had bought in the past and not given them, in this case the past being best before 03/11...however they were still interested and on opening them they seem ok so they have now been eaten - I will let you know if there are any ill effects. Please don't tell the NSPCC.

I sometimes wish I could write eloquently as I feel there is a money saving gone to far blog inside me

PasturesNew

I do remember getting an easter egg in a mug one year......

Jacket spuds for tea at Maison Pastures. Again. Once you've bought a 2.5Kg bag of spuds you have to get through them before they start to grow and be unappealing . Although I do know I've had some OK in the past 3 weeks past their sell by date.... the last lot went quite soft quite quickly.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I sometimes wish I could write eloquently as I feel there is a money saving gone to far blog inside me

You should have gone to flubit for a job

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

best before 03/11

Chocolate is fine, the only thing it can suffer from is being stored badly (in the sun) and so changing colour. I remember a Blue Peter episode donkey's years ago, probably Valerie Singleton and John Noakes - they had a World War I soldier's bar of chocolate on the show and they said it'd still be edible.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Chocolate is fine, the only thing it can suffer from is being stored badly (in the sun) and so changing colour. I remember a Blue Peter episode donkey's years ago, probably Valerie Singleton and John Noakes - they had a World War I soldier's bar of chocolate on the show and they said it'd still be edible.

That's true. It's relatively pure for a fatty food (most fats are mixtures of related compounds) so there's a tendency for the fats to separate out as a white "dust" on the surface but it doesn't affect the eating properties at all.

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

I do remember getting an easter egg in a mug one year......

Jacket spuds for tea at Maison Pastures. Again. Once you've bought a 2.5Kg bag of spuds you have to get through them before they start to grow and be unappealing . Although I do know I've had some OK in the past 3 weeks past their sell by date.... the last lot went quite soft quite quickly.

leek and potato soup, potato omelette, bangers and mash, potato salad, potato and spinach curry, spicy baked eggs and potatoes.

loads more than baked spuds

we had a massive lunch, 2 gourmet burgers from a small business in brighton. queued for 45 minutes, scoffed in 15 and still full 4 hours later.

i have a np conundrum. our sheets are tatty, they are fine/serviceable but not great looking. do i ditch them and buy new ones or wash them in a hot wash and use them a bit more?

zagubov

misskool wrote: »

leek and potato soup, potato omelette, bangers and mash, potato salad, potato and spinach curry, spicy baked eggs and potatoes.

loads more than baked spuds

we had a massive lunch, 2 gourmet burgers from a small business in brighton. queued for 45 minutes, scoffed in 15 and still full 4 hours later.

i have a np conundrum. our sheets are tatty, they are fine/serviceable but not great looking. do i ditch them and buy new ones or wash them in a hot wash and use them a bit more?

It's a MS site. The answer's already there in your question!:beer:

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

... I looked in the cupboard and found 3 buttons eggs we had bought in the past and not given them, in this case the past being best before 03/11...however they were still interested and on opening them they seem ok so they have now been eaten - I will let you know if there are any ill effects. Please don't tell the NSPCC.

Agree with the others that chocolate is OK to eat however far past its date it's got. If the fats separate a bit then the texture goes wrong, but it's still not harmful.

silvercar wrote: »

My kids think they are deprived because I wouldn't let them go trick-or-treating. The whole idea seems so wrong. Maybe its heredity, I was never allowed to go because then only the chavs (but they probably weren't called that) did it.

zagubov wrote: »

I loathe trick-or-treating. In guising, you told a joke or sang a song but you never do anything mean-spirited, no matter how negatively you were received.

It was a universally good-natured event. Way to ruin a benign tradition.:(

I'm with the two of you on that, and won't let my kids go. DS has absorbed my views and now disapproves of it himself, but DD sometimes wishes she could go with her friends. But then DD is rather an impulsive, live-in-the-moment sort of person, whereas DS is very logical and a chap of firm convictions. Once I had explained to him about the Nestle boycott he became way stricter about it than I am - he won't eat Nestle, whereas I merely won't buy it, but eat it without raising issues of conscience if somebody else has bought it. Meanwhile, DD begs for nesquick to make pink milk....

misskool wrote: »

i have a np conundrum. our sheets are tatty, they are fine/serviceable but not great looking. do i ditch them and buy new ones or wash them in a hot wash and use them a bit more?

I consider myself something of a lightweight because I merely use sheets (regardless of appearance) until I wear holes in them. My mother would have sides-to-middled them. (Well, she would have when I was little and they were skint. Perhaps not so much once we'd grown up and moved away and they weren't pauperising themselves paying out most of their income in school fees.) I have several sheets with ink stains on them. This is the result of discovering that crosswords are my most effective treatment for insomnia, and then falling asleep without putting the lid back on the pen.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

leek and potato soup, potato omelette, bangers and mash, potato salad, potato and spinach curry, spicy baked eggs and potatoes.

loads more than baked spuds

I know... but it's [a] effort fancying that.

Soup - not got a saucepan big enough at the moment.
Omelette - frying pan's in storage at the moment
Bangers/mash - got that later in the week as I bought a pack of 8 sausages
Potato salad - needs to be summery and needs other stuff with it.
Potato/spinach - hate spinach (never had it though) and no saucepan
No idea what spicy baked potatoes are .... wedges?

I did my baked spud with cheese and beans.

Nikkster

I've spent the past couple of days in Manchester with a very dear friend who I have recently reconnected with. We have talked, laughed, almost cried, slept in late, and drunk A LOT of cocktails. Yesterday we left the house at 2.30pm, had our only meal of the day (with a cocktail), spent the afternoon evening walking around town and drinking more cocktails. We got back home at about 1am, ate some marmite on toast washed down with a glass of red wine, then went to bed when we couldn't keep out eyes open any more

Just catching up...

A belated Happy Birthday lir - hope stomachs have settled down by now

Nice to 'see' ndg back

Bedsheets: I would keep them until I found a suitably MSE deal

Chocolate: I wouldn't be bothered by the best before date, but as we've already established, there is very little that I eat 'in date'