"Treats" we can't enjoy anymore

Mrs_Thrift

Eliza252 wrote:

Shop bought puddings, they taste artificial, they're expensive and the packaging! dont get me started - there is nothing better than home cooked bread and butter pudding when your in need of comfort food!

Ooh why did I start this thread at this time of day? My stomach is rumbling and now I'm drooling! It's a good look! :rolleyes: (And I still have more than half an hour to go at work.....)

Curry_Queen

Eliza252 wrote:

Shop bought puddings, they taste artificial, they're expensive and the packaging!

Ooooo yes that's another one we no longer buy! DS used to run down the shop for a tinned Heinz sponge if we fancied pudding but now I can make one just as quick in the microwave and add whatever flavouring I like to it


... and much cheaper too!!!!

System

Every Saturday, and more often than not most Sundays too, MrJudi and i would go out for breakfast to the local bikers cafe. It cost him about £10 a time with the full cooked breakfast and a cuppa. Although i enjoyed not having to cook the breakfast, i always felt guilty about the cost. So now, i cook a full cooked breakfast at home at a fraction of the cost..... mind you i miss not having to cook it but at least i know the foods fresh.

Lillibet_2

I can't be a committed as the rest of you, I can still cheerfully munch my way through a Chinese or pizza takeaway as a treat:D , admittedly (Sp?) I do get very very thirsty afterwards but I have always assumed thats beacuse I grew up on a salt free diet?.


If it helps any other Chinese takeaway munchers feel guilt free, Chinese food in China is equally salty & highly coloured, although doesn't taste anything like UK Chinese takeaway but I suspect that's because we have food hygiene laws & ingredient control here:eek:

Ticklemouse

I will admit to having a sweet tooth, but I find chinese take-aways too sweet and too artificial too. However, the one thing I can't eat now is an Indian take-away, because of the salt. I always knew they were salty, but now I can't stomach that much - in fact, it never reaches my stomach on account of the fact that my mouth can't take that much.

We were never really allowed fizzy drinks as kids, but I did used to like American Cream Soda and Dandelion & Burdoch - trouble is, I know what's in them now, so whilst I still like the taste, I won't drink them.

And fish 'n' chips did used to taste better out of newspaper (Ok, I'm only old enough to remember the outer wrapping being newspaper, but must have been the smell )

Curry_Queen

Ticklemouse wrote:

And fish 'n' chips did used to taste better out of newspaper (Ok, I'm only old enough to remember the outer wrapping being newspaper, but must have been the smell )

Oh I definitely agree on that, they just don't taste like what they used to, not that I really eat them these days

Ticklemouse

CQ - I don't have any sort of take-away very often, but I did send Mr TM to the chippy last saturday night and very nice they were too - and far too many

I wasn't so much a ticklemouse as a bloated mouse that night

Edit to keep Sir Squeaks happy

So I couldn't really enjoy my chippy treat cos I was so bloated ....

Will that do Sir? Please, pretty please?

Curry_Queen

Ticklemouse wrote:

I wasn't so much a ticklemouse as a bloated mouse that night

:rotfl: that'll teach you


We better watch out Mr Squeaks don't come along with his in a moment to stop all this chatter in these two threads

squeaky

It's about time you old hands caught on to the trick of adding a bit that is obviously on topic at the tag end of your posts...

..that'd help keep the youngsters in line too!

Ticklemouse

Squeaky - above edited. Will that do. Now, for this post ...erm.....

I used to really enjoy Cadbury's cream eggs, but I find that not only have they shrunk, but the creme inside is often a bit 'gritty'. Or is that just me?