The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 13

PriceySOS · 15 April 2016 at 2:25PM

9 please, Shaggy, ta

Honey_Bear · 15 April 2016 at 2:40PM

Commented and signed, Satchmo.

maman wrote: »

I'm glad you had a good time HB. Did you get to eat on Brittany Ferries? Their buffets are epic and even the cafeteria meals are good. I'm another that loves cheese. Epoisses is a particular favourite.

I'll have to look out for Epoisses, Maman, that's not one I've tried. It's my birthday today (although my MSE identity shows a different date to confuse the metacrawlers) and the trip to to France was to stock up for this evening's meal for 14 after the chocolate-making evening. The cheese is honking the house out! Fab.

I love the buffets and have taught myself how to make two of the salads they always have on them, but sadly when the ferries only have a few people on them - no vast buffet, just a tiddly one in the cafeteria on the Pont Aven. We only go when there's a cheap deal on because they need to bump their numbers up, so it's relatively quiet. I can't complain, £70 for a car and an en suite cabin overnight for the two of us isn't bad.

cathybird wrote: »

Maman and Honey Bear, my favourite cheese is Roquefort no contest, but any sort of cheese is good in my book really.

... and Roquefort was cheaper than St Auger, so we've got Roquefort for tonight - amongst other honky, mouldy, flowey cheeses.

Dizzy_Imp wrote: »

I tried. I really did. *sigh* ate 10 biscuits one after the other after weighing myself to find I'd put back on the 1.5lbs I'd lost last week. *rude raspberry noises*

Oh well, AF today though 14/30 please Shaggy - is that my next smiley?

I'm a strictly hard cheese fan. Can't stand runny, stinky or mouldy cheese - urgh

We all indulge in 10 biscuits occasionally. Sometimes for a few days on the trot, and then we stop. You'll be fine.

Total indulgence for me today, cheese, chocolate, sugary things, the lot, other than - 15/30 please, Shaggy.

cathybird · 15 April 2016 at 4:55PM

Honey_Bear wrote: »

I'll have to look out for Epoisses, Maman, that's not one I've tried. It's my birthday today (although my MSE identity shows a different date to confuse the metacrawlers) and the trip to to France was to stock up for this evening's meal for 14 after the chocolate-making evening. The cheese is honking the house out! Fab.

... and Roquefort was cheaper than St Auger, so we've got Roquefort for tonight - amongst other honky, mouldy, flowey cheeses.

Total indulgence for me today, cheese, chocolate, sugary things, the lot, other than - 15/30 please, Shaggy.

Sounds so great!

The best cheese I ever tasted was in a French restaurant where they brought round a trolley. I can't remember what the cheese was called but it was so runny it had to be handled with a spoon. The waiter diplomatically suggested it was "on the turn" and it probably was but the complexity and depth of flavour was amazing. Enjoy your cheese, Honey Bear - "because you're worth it"!!

maman · 15 April 2016 at 5:23PM

Happy Birthday HB. I do hope tonight's birthday dinner goes well and enjoy your Becks Blue or whichever AF tipple you decide to have with it. You're a star.:A

Have you made the celeriac remoulade? That's one of my favourites. Epoisses definitely falls into the honky, mouldy, flowy category! I've yet to find a way to store it without stinking out the house. Even in it's wrapper and box, wrapped in foil and inside a plastic box you can still smell it very time the fridge door opens! I'm sure you'd love it!:rotfl:

CuppaTea · 15 April 2016 at 6:29PM

1 more AFD please shaggy.

Happy birthday HB. :j

Barny1979 · 15 April 2016 at 8:54PM

11/24 AFDs today

Sandypan · 15 April 2016 at 8:56PM

First smiley of April please for 7 AF days and more importantly nights!!!! Not going to be tempted now I've declared and also sticking with day 3 of SW diet. Also bought a Fitbit on Wednesday and determined to do 10,000 steps a day, been running up and downstairs on ad breaks - good job I'm Home alone!!