Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

zagubov

I know many people who've been struggling to care for or find care homes for elderly relatives. It must be infuriating dealing with how difficult it is to find good places like that.

There was an article somewhere recently about Swiss sending their elderly to care homes in Thailand where the quality was high but the prices affordable. I think the justification was that the elderly relatives weren't compos mentis enough to realise how far away they were from where they used to live.

Actually just googled it and there's a few articles about it at the moment.

chewmylegoff

there is an interesting paradox occurring on BBC's This Week, as the odious Katie Hopkins, whose "job" is to just say offensive things to get attention which requires less actual work than going to the job centre to sign on, argues that benefits claimants should just get off their @rse and work. I really wish the TV lot would make her a benefit claimant so she can practice what she preaches.

Generali

Mr Kipling? Dry 'pastry' with over sweet fillings. Not nice.

I do miss the odd bit of British industrialized food (e.g. Monster Munch and the odd ready meal) but Mr Kipling isn't on the list.

purch

Mr K's Apple & Custard Pies,c'mon it's an apple pie......................................................., with custard in it.

Genius :eek:

What's not to love about that ??

Each pie contains Calories 237 12%, Sugars 17.9g 20%, Fat 9.9g 14%, Saturates 3.3g 17%, Salt 0.20g 3% of an adult's guideline daily amount

purch

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I may have dropped a ball at work. I got appraisal feedback from one of my direct reports this morning which said "I only realised that chewmylegoff was my manager when I was asked to fill this appraisal feedback in". To be fair, he has only been here 6 weeks and I've been on holiday for three of them, but still...

No, no that's a good sign Chews. It means that you are a highly skilled modern manager with interpersonal and communication abilities that get the best out of your staff.

Personally, if I was his boss I'd sack the moron.....but then I'm old school.

vivatifosi

purch wrote: »

Mr K's Apple & Custard Pies,c'mon it's an apple pie......................................................., with custard in it.

Genius :eek:

What's not to love about that ??

Each pie contains Calories 237 12%, Sugars 17.9g 20%, Fat 9.9g 14%, Saturates 3.3g 17%, Salt 0.20g 3% of an adult's guideline daily amount

I bought some Sainsburys Basics mince pies to take into work for us to have with our tea (we always bring in bits and bobs that we see on offer).

You still get the same dry pastry an a meagre filling, but they were 10p for a box of 18, which is pretty hard to beat, whatever the calorific value.

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

I bought some Sainsburys Basics mince pies to take into work for us to have with our tea (we always bring in bits and bobs that we see on offer).

You still get the same dry pastry an a meagre filling, but they were 10p for a box of 18, which is pretty hard to beat, whatever the calorific value.

We still have some of those in the fridge, at 10p it looked like a no brainer but they are proving a hard sell at home, however i would be too embarrassed to take them to work.

On the other hand like a lot of the country we eat what we can afford not only what the food snobs tell us is to.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

We still have some of those in the fridge, at 0p it looked like a no brainer but they are proving a hard sell at home, however i would be too embarrassed to take them to work.

On the other hand like a lot of the country we eat what we can afford not only what the food snobs tell us is to.

I don't think anyone has died for want of a fruit pie, non food snob or otherwise. Where as lots of people are suffering too many fruit pies, or more o the point, the idea these are part of a daily diet not an occasional. RP has eaten two boxes of mr kilplings fruit pies, along with a bout a third of the Christmas cake ( which he ate all but four slices of alone, I gave RP a third to take away, and the rest was eaten in time here:( fir ate ate a couple of piece I know ) this week. For a diabetic its kind of reckless. Unlike fir, who ate an entire panforte to my amazement, RP get little exercise and carries extra weight.......the sugar is not 'offset' in anyway.

If we were talking about someone struggling to maintain weight and with no sugar problems then a different kettle of fish ( despite my personal preferences).

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Mr Kipling? Dry 'pastry' with over sweet fillings. Not nice.

I do miss the odd bit of British industrialized food (e.g. Monster Munch and the odd ready meal) but Mr Kipling isn't on the list.

Things I'm missing include braised celery. I had a dream pasty night where there was a vegetable orchestra and celery was the conductor and they were playing tunes like 'the mirepoix' and ' crudite'. (My veg wants are prosaically basic.

I want braised red cabbage, and Brussels sprouts cooked with bacon.

I'd like so e goats cheese, maybe even with leeks.


Ironically, I'm not sure but I could probably be allowed monster much.

I'm so switched off how I am meant to eat rather than bake bread I bought some. Its ...ok. Its exciting to eat bread. For a while. Now its toast. Toast reminds me of school. I'm allowed clear jams or jellies so long as not citrus. Or syrup. Seriously...they want me to get diabetes too:rotfl: I'm eating a piece of toast and Quince preserve daily this week, This would have been a dream in previous years. . Now its just......sweet. . I've also eaten noodles this week, Udon and rice noodles. I've managed to save the peel free potato joy as a special treat. I want fruit.


If I had calories or freedom to eat something the idea of wasting it on something so /so is ,......wasteful.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Mr Kipling? Dry 'pastry' with over sweet fillings. Not nice.

I do miss the odd bit of British industrialized food (e.g. Monster Munch and the odd ready meal) but Mr Kipling isn't on the list.

The first curries I tried were Vesta packet curries back in the 70s which took about 20 minutes to make in pre-microwave days. Loved them at the time- got me interested in spicy food

On the Med I noticed that some British expats who ran cafes for tourists with British style meal, would have curries on thier menus but had notices that there would be a 20 minute wait for any order for a beef curry so I'm imagining there was a stack of vesta packets in the store room to meet nostalgic diners basic needs.:D