THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

The world can end, for all I care. My three-week cough bug has now turned into a ripsnorting cold... and I'm usually the picture of health. Off to bed now, it's warm up there!

Get well soon, pet, there's some nasty coughs around this winter, hopefully rest and warmth will ease the symptoms. I'm a firm believer in crawling off to bed at an early hour with a HWB as a restorative for many illnesses.

VJsmum

Oh is the world ending?

F**k it - I'm off to drink all the wine :beer:and eat all the chocolate :EasterBun

:rotfl:

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Good Girl!!!

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

Oh is the world ending?

F**k it - I'm off to drink all the wine :beer:and eat all the chocolate :EasterBun

:rotfl:

Probably. As the tagline on a certain website has it; on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

I've plans for all sorts but, just in case aught happens overnight, I shall eat one of the YS pain au chocolats tonight with a gallon of mint tea. One cannot be too careful in these times, what?:p

Si_Clist

GreyQueen wrote: »

You get the waytrose comic? There's posh for you.

Well, strange to say there are actually one or two things we buy regularly which are actually cheaper in Waitrose than elsewhere, particularly with the 20% off them we get upon production of the sickeningly-named "MyWaitrose" card. And that's what allows me to pick up a copy of the house magazine gratis. If it's free, I'll have it - especially when it's always good for a snigger at the aspirations of the middle classes

GreyQueen wrote: »

Porridge with 15 ingredients? Heck, I don't think I've ever cooked anything with so many things in it, even if it's a proper recipe.

Same here. If somebody were to right now offer us a crisp tenner if we could place 15 distinct ingredients upon the kitchen table, I doubt very much we could do it ...

Nargleblast

I read somewhere that those thin chips served at the burger place called Mc something have at least 15 ingredients. Also that they are made from a particularly big variety of spud grown in Americky which are namby pamby spuds prone to blight. The pesticides used on them are so poisonous the farmers stay out of the fields for two days after spraying. It is all our fault of course, demanding really long thin chips.

Karmacat

I went shopping with my brother between Christmas and New Year, for the first time ever, and left to his own devices he's a bargain hunter, like me. We had a joyous time comparing prices in the various shops in the town we were in Kelloggs cornflakes 750g in Iceland, £2.68. Waitrose own cornflakes, 750g, £1.68! It surprised me so much I remembered it!

ivyleaf

Si_Clist wrote: »

Well, strange to say there are actually one or two things we buy regularly which are actually cheaper in Waitrose than elsewhere, particularly with the 20% off them we get upon production of the sickeningly-named "MyWaitrose" card. And that's what allows me to pick up a copy of the house magazine gratis. If it's free, I'll have it - especially when it's always good for a snigger at the aspirations of the middle classes



Same here. If somebody were to right now offer us a crisp tenner if we could place 15 distinct ingredients upon the kitchen table, I doubt very much we could do it ...

That reminds me of the days when newspapers would hold competitions and offer "a crisp oncer" as the prize

DigForVictory

Er, 15 ingredients? I'd empty the store cupboard of the odd food gifts we got - smoked paprika springing to mind (had to google before writing that thankyou letter) & have a dark suspicion we could lay 15 weird things on the table without opening more than 3 cupboards.

However, maybe bizarre spices aren't "ingredients"?

Embarrassingly, we ran out of mince yesterday. Himself had to cook with bacon. Ahem, oops.

moneyistooshorttomention

Si_Clist wrote: »

I'm despondent. When I make my breakfast porridge, I use organic rolled oats, tap water and the cheapest table salt I can buy. Total number of ingredients = 3.

I see that according to the current Waitrose comic, I've got it all wrong. Their recipe for a bowl of porridge lists 15 ingredients, three of which I've never heard of.

Oh, what it must be like to have sophisticated tastes ...

:embarasse

How did they manage to get it to 15?

Quick count for today's one was porridge oats, milk, pomegranite seeds, stewed apple, flaxseed and bee pollen. That equals 6.

Max. I could make it would be to add in nuts, some sort of "sweetening", something chocolatey. Still only 9.

Trying even harder - add cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, chia seeds, hemp hearts.

Right - got to 14 and I've run out of ideas for a 15th. Guess I can't claim a tenner then?