Cooking for one (Mark Two)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

.....steak bake,.... if it's anything like the other in the pack I'll be hunting the steak in the bake....

I find that. I love the idea of the bakes/slices, but the reality is it's pastry overload with no filling. The same as a lot of individual pies are.... I'll always look at the slice/bake ranges, then sigh and think "not worth it/empty inside".

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I find that. I love the idea of the bakes/slices, but the reality is it's pastry overload with no filling. The same as a lot of individual pies are.... I'll always look at the slice/bake ranges, then sigh and think "not worth it/empty inside".

Put it this way I shan't buy again not a patch on Greggs ones :o which I do enjoy.....

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

Put it this way I shan't buy again not a patch on Greggs ones :o which I do enjoy.....

I've only had 3 Greggs' products in 10 years. One was a Xmas freebie, a Festive pastie, in ~2007-2008. In the last four years I've picked up a hot Cornish pasty twice from there, just because I was hungry and wanted instant food to take back to the car and eat (rather than finding food, driving home, having to actually cook something).

They were all "fine". But, on the basis of bakes being mostly unsatisfying I'd have never tried a Greggs one. I'll bear that in mind in case I'm in there in the next 3-5 years.

I dislike the whole shop experience - if you don't know what you want, you can't get close to the counter to see what they do and stand/ponder what you can see -v- the menu ... and you can only see what's what when it's your turn to be served. so I've walked in MANY times and just walked straight out again as I need time to look and mull.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've only had 3 Greggs' products in 10 years. One was a Xmas freebie, a Festive pastie, in ~2007-2008. In the last four years I've picked up a hot Cornish pasty twice from there, just because I was hungry and wanted instant food to take back to the car and eat (rather than finding food, driving home, having to actually cook something).

They were all "fine". But, on the basis of bakes being mostly unsatisfying I'd have never tried a Greggs one. I'll bear that in mind in case I'm in there in the next 3-5 years.

I dislike the whole shop experience - if you don't know what you want, you can't get close to the counter to see what they do and stand/ponder what you can see -v- the menu ... and you can only see what's what when it's your turn to be served. so I've walked in MANY times and just walked straight out again as I need time to look and mull.

There's a time and a place for a Greggs steak bake (or cheese & onion one) - on a bitingly cold day, you're hungry and the bakes are just the oven they are fab... Their coffee & bacon butty is ok too but again it has to be in the right circumstances. For me mainly freezing my bits off in a cold railway station while travelling with work:)

moneyistooshorttomention

Surprised to read the problems re getting a "dry cut" at hairdressers. I know sometime back I was experiencing some problems getting this at various hairdressers. Then I found a hairdresser who did that for me regularly for years (a one person business).

Then I moved here - and have had to do some chopping and changing of hairdressers to get the standard I'm used to (there are some **** hairdressers around here - haystack haircut I've spotted on one woman that I thought had done a blimmin' awful home job on herself on the one hand and a hairstyle totally unlike my own done on me by the first one I tried here:eek:).

So I swopped and then I swopped again.

But all 3 hairdressers - the wrong haircut style to what I had said I have, then the intermediate one and now the one I am using at present have duly accepted me going in and confidently just saying "I have just a dry cut please".

Maybe that's the thing? Don't ask if they do a drycut - as it gives them the chance to respond to a question and say "No". Just say confidently/with smile on face "I have a dry haircut. When can I book an appointment please?". Then you've made a statement of what you have and there are only two answers they can give to that one:
- "We don't do dry haircuts (ie ever/for anyone)" - and chance that you'll catch them out doing so if they ever do for anyone and you find out

or

- "We can fit you in next Saturday at 2pm".

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Caron - didnt realise your hair was so long! You'll find it a heck of a sight easier to manage now:)

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Caron - didnt realise your hair was so long! You'll find it a heck of a sight easier to manage now:)

It hadn't been cut since the beginning of June 2016 and grows like a weed so there was rather a lot of it :eek:

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

It hadn't been cut since the beginning of June 2016 and grows like a weed so there was rather a lot of it

I once decided to grow mine to my elbows ... about 20 years ago. It never grew... apart from a strip at the back it wasn't interested in growing at all. Oh yes it'll need trimming and go a bit frizzy .... but it never GREW. When it was trimmed it was always back to where it started... so I gave up.

I last had mine cut in about 2012 I think. Nobody sees me; I just pin it up

Every few months I cut a few random bits off myself ... that re-tames it ... and I'm fine with that. "Nobody's looking at me" so it doesn't matter.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I once decided to grow mine to my elbows ... about 20 years ago. It never grew... apart from a strip at the back it wasn't interested in growing at all. Oh yes it'll need trimming and go a bit frizzy .... but it never GREW. When it was trimmed it was always back to where it started... so I gave up.

I last had mine cut in about 2012 I think. Nobody sees me; I just pin it up

Every few months I cut a few random bits off myself ... that re-tames it ... and I'm fine with that. "Nobody's looking at me" so it doesn't matter.

In my teens I could sit on my hair - it weighed a tonne.......:eek:I got it cut to shoulder length after developing migraines and Dr said my hair might be contributing to it. It wasn't but never grew it that long again.

karcher

caronc wrote: »

There's a time and a place for a Greggs steak bake (or cheese & onion one) - on a bitingly cold day, you're hungry and the bakes are just the oven they are fab... Their coffee & bacon butty is ok too but again it has to be in the right circumstances. For me mainly freezing my bits off in a cold railway station while travelling with work:)

I love the cheese and onion one but it has to be hot and sadly, so often they are at best, luke warm

So then I have to take it home to warm it up which rather defeats the purpose of the fast food thing.

But I do love them and when they are hot they are delicious.

A rare treat (for me) when on the move/travelling, but one you can't really beat

caronc

karcher wrote: »

I love the cheese and onion one but it has to be hot and sadly, so often they are at best, luke warm

So then I have to take it home to warm it up which rather defeats the purpose of the fast food thing.

But I do love them and when they are hot they are delicious.

A rare treat (for me) when on the move/travelling, but one you can't really beat

yep best when scalding hot