Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

michaels

gfplux wrote: »

So Autumn has arrived, here in Luxembourg the calendar says so but who will notice a difference?
For me I have decided to change over my Summer wardrobe to Winter. The biggest reason is I am leaving for England tomorrow for 10 days and don't want to be caught wearing short sleeve shirts if the weather turns cold.
So it's out with the shorts and beige long trousers and in with the jeans and corduroys.
It will be great to be back for a few days. I was last here picking my daughter up from Uni at the end of May.

Give us a shout if you are in London and at a loose end for a coffee

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

My broadband/PC aren't up to watching telly online.

Never heard of him .... never heard of a 'security correspondent' either - what's that when it's at home?

when they need some intelligent comment about an item in the news that is concerned with security, he speaks.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

I just ate a thing that tasted like a cross between cough medicine and dishwasher tablets.

Probably won't buy that again.

Sounds very nasty. What was it supposed to be?

Masomnia

PasturesNew wrote: »

So it's a non-job .... probably made up and nepotism then

I don't think it is nepotism to be fair, he's obviously a very smart chap from watching it. Like I say, well worth a watch. He's someone who's on the news now and again, and watching it you feel you get to know him a lot better.

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Sounds very nasty. What was it supposed to be?

Erm, like a Tunnocks Tea Cake but Lime flavoured.

The honey and almond one was acceptable.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think, as the price of tomatoes has increased, buying a cheapo jar instead seems to be almost equivalent costings... without, as you say, buying the other stuff.

However - the big problem I've always had with jars is that way back in the 1970s when Homepride first started making sauces, I did try a couple and they were minging.

Go into any supermarket now and there are 1000 jars to choose from. How would I know which are good and which are minging? No point always eating minging food if I know I can toss my own random stuff in and at least get something edible out of it

One jar is food for a week. One jar/week is 50 jars/year. I could eat minging food every day for the next 20 years trying to find a good one!

I thinknyou are right about the price, but I wouldn't aim to eat food from jars if you don't already.

Leave it at the instant mash

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't ask that ...in case it turned out to be her speciality/signature dish that she's served to every guest for the last 5 years and, until now, couldn't actually taste it herself

I don't know what I thought my mixture of cough medicine and dishwasher tablets would taste like, but everyone else had been so complimentary about them!

Doozergirl

PN, if you are awake, Gogglebox is about to start on Channel 4

Generali

I've always grown my own herbs so buying jars has always seemed a double waste: they taste like crap and there's no cost saving over buying a tin of toms, a carrot, an onion, a celery and a garlic. Herbs are a doddle to grow (I absolutely do not have green fingers or even green thumbs as they say in Aus) and there's litte to make food taste as awesome as by adding generous quantities of herbs: a good fistful rather than one of those rather mean packets you get in Tescburys. Home grown rosemary is particularly fine.

The only time I used a pot of Dolmio was the first time I made spag bol. I got a jar and went round Safeway and got the non-chemical ingredients and put them in my basket and then returned the jar to the shelf.

If I was having a really frugal week in England then I'd make a triple batch of spag bol mix and have it as spag bol on day 1, shepherds pie on day 3 (add a tin of beans and a mashed spud top) and Chile on Carne on day 5 (add a tin of kidney beans and a teaspoon or two of chile flakes). Add two roast chickens on the Sunday to give meat for lunches and for a risotto on Monday plus maybe sausage and mash with onion gravy and flash fried liver with bacon. Maybe replace the sausage and mash with beef bourgignon.

SingleSue

I will be the one to admit to cheating and using a jar of Dolmio for spag bol, my life was far too hectic to cut, chop and make from scratch especially with my hands.

Not that we have it that often anyway, so only a slight cheat....

Josh update - he has been there since Saturday and has spent the grand total of less than £30, most of that on essentials (we forgot to pack his toothbrush and special shampoo so he had to buy those plus other food stuffs) and not alcohol.