Aldi - not a heathy option 700 calories!

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

You'll probably find that lots of shops sell things you don't really want.

glider3560

Also, when it comes to making your own, you can buy ready cooked chicken, which doesn't cost much more than raw.

It comes frozen, simply throw it into your salad (or whatever other meal) frozen, then it'll be nicely defrosted and ready to eat by lunchtime.

I find this great when I need a quick homemade meal or didn't have any meat fot the previous day dinner.

TheGardener

glider3560 wrote: »

This tweet? https://twitter.com/MrChrisDrew/status/782978591504134144



The response doesn't seem in any way like you have them a compliment.

Nope - not the reply I received to my tweet nor am I MrChrisDrew. Seems someone else was commenting on the same changes - as I said - its was obviously a popular product.

I'm a grown up now - I can read packaging - I am aware of whats in the bowl. I chose (like many) to buy a pre-pack for a number of reasons. Sanctimonious post on how to save money and make my own heathy food - really? Been there got the tee shirt in ways you would never know. Are posts about delivery services, freezers that don't work or carp customer service any less 1st world problems than my little rant about a salad bowl? - nothing to do with the post I made.
Sorry to have troubled you all :rotfl:

pelirocco

TheGardener wrote: »

Nope - not the reply I received to my tweet nor am I MrChrisDrew.

I'm a grown up now - I can read packaging - I am aware of whats in the bowl. I chose (like many) to buy a pre-pack for a number of reasons. Sanctimonious post on how to save money and make my own heathy food - really? Been there got the tee shirt in ways you would never know. Patronising comments about how I can make my own salad for less than £1.50 per day - nothing to do with the post I made.
Sorry to have troubled you all :rotfl:

Obviously you weren't aware what was in the bowl !

My late mother in law was always puzzled why she couldn't lose weight as she ate salad......along with the lettuce , cucumber ancient tomato she would have ham, a hunk of cheese some crisps and a large piece of French bread and butter lol

TheGardener

pelirocco wrote: »

Obviously you weren't aware what was in the bowl !

On the contrary - I was fully aware of what was in the bowl, that was why I noticed the difference - and the 'old' style one had less than half the calories of the 'new' one. I eat salad at lunchtime because the carbs in sandwiches or pastry etc make me sluggish in the afternoon - not because I want to lose weight. However, I'm not keen on eating nearly half the adult daily recommended calories in one salad bowl

suki1964

TheGardener wrote: »

Nope - not the reply I received to my tweet nor am I MrChrisDrew. Seems someone else was commenting on the same changes - as I said - its was obviously a popular product.

I'm a grown up now - I can read packaging - I am aware of whats in the bowl. I chose (like many) to buy a pre-pack for a number of reasons. Sanctimonious post on how to save money and make my own heathy food - really? Been there got the tee shirt in ways you would never know. Are posts about delivery services, freezers that don't work or carp customer service any less 1st world problems than my little rant about a salad bowl? - nothing to do with the post I made.
Sorry to have troubled you all :rotfl:

Sorry you feel that my post is sanctimonious , was never meant to be


I do feel that for what you are paying, you aren't getting the nutrition needed

Seriously a 20 min prep on a Sunday night and voila, a healthier lunch

I do understand that popping a pre made meal in the basket is easy, but as you have now discovered, it's not really the healthy choice

There's many pre made/pre packed salads out there that have mores saturated fat, salt, sugar and calories then a Big Mac meal


And we wouldn't eat a Big Mac meal every day

TheGardener

It was just a little dummy spit - I thought this board was just a 'get it off your chest' post thing - I wasn't expecting replies or to have to justify myself.

I have spent 30 years feeding a large family including making 5 packed lunches every day - year in - year out, feeding 6 mouths every evening - caring for (and feeding) older relatives and working full time. Much of the food we all ate was home grown as money was too tight to mention. I am old enough and intelligent enough to know how have a healthy diet. Now there's just me to cater for most days and you have no idea how much joy it is sometimes to pick up a pre-pack lunch and TBH- I really don't care if its got a few dodgy chemicals in it - I don't eat MacDonalds - ever - nor do I live on processed food

TheGardener

:rotfl::T
I wish I was as blond as the guinea pig.But then the pig is pretty much all of us in some shape or form isn't it?

I don't eat them everyday - I don't 'avoid' MacD's, I just don't like them, I don't like pizza or fizzy drinks either - drank my first and last bottle of coco cola 40 years ago. The salad bowl is/was a wee luxury (in that I don't have to make it) I don't buy it as a healthy option and I doubt I eat enough of them to cause any real damage coming on a lifetime of a high quality - if meagre at times - home cooked diet with plenty of exercise growing a lot of it myself thrown in.
I'm touched by everyone's concern for my health :A

newgirly

I'm surprised by people's attitude towards you re your opening post. Many people do buy pre packed food, as a whole I think many on these boards are probably more enlightened about homemade meals and money saving an your average person. Surely we should support anyone who questions supermarkets on their products when they suddenly shoot up in calories. More so when it's a product that by many is perceived to be healthy?

LABMAN

I like heathy...nice fresh air to have a walk around and enjoy X