Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

badmemory

According to DS it is the texture of tinned spaghetti that is the problem especially if you are accustomed to the real stuff.  Never had it myself, just seeing it was enough.

Cheery_Daff

People are very opinionated about tinned spaghetti! 😂 and opinionated about other people's about tinned spaghetti 😂😂 

I often had it as a kid - partly because I hated baked beans with a passion, still do 🤢 Very easy for my mum to give my sister beans on toast and me spaghetti on toast and no arguments ensued 😂

Anyway, I might break into the first tin tonight and will report back... Maybe just on toast first to remind me, then I'll do some more experimenting...

EssexHebridean

I reckon they'd work well thrown into soup as you reheated it to eat Cheery - so they heat through without actually cooking! I can see what BM's DS means about the texture though - I recall it as being very un-pasta-like!   

greent

I tend to buy a pot noodle at the start of the academic year and keep it in my desk drawer as an emergency hot lunch. You can feel the judgement of people when eating it 😁😁 - I don't think that itsu noodle pots get the same judgement.....

Cheery_Daff

I get bored of other people's opinions of my eating habits. I was vegan for several years in the early 2000s, way before it was cool, and when it was really NOT catered for, and constantly had stupid questions like 'what do you have for breakfast?' (Er, toast??) And people telling me I was eating bird food 🙄 When I eat a salad people comment 'ooh, that's healthy!' When I eat some mass produced thing, or (shock horror) margarine instead of butter, people make comments about UPFs and chemicals, or if I eat all home made people make comments about that too.

Blah blah. 

I'm not vegan any more (I am still veggie though), I eat tofu and UPF-filled sliced bread. Yes, I have margarine, and often butter too (not at the same time 😂). Sometimes I eat nuts as a snack, sometimes I eat Mars bars. Unsurprisingly, I, like most other people, am a complex mix of inconsistencies, and, yes, I get very bored of people having opinions about what I'm eating 😂

Jessy103

Yes, cheery, please send me all the hoops 🤣

I've been veggie 24yrs and still get asked loads of questions. The latest one from people who seem to be offended by me being veggie is 'if you don't want to eat meat then why do they make all the veggie stuff meat flavoured?!' 
Erm... I never asked for that mate, most veggies/vegans didn't, its to encourage meat eaters to eat it and stop eating as much meat! 

EssexHebridean

You know my views on people labelling foods Cheery - the food snobbery just needs to stop! And don't get me started on the way people are always happy to pass judgement on how much a woman might have on her plate - funny how you never hear anyone say to a chap "ooh - you going to eat all that love?!" isn't it!  

KajiKita

I’m bracing myself for the questions and comments about ‘still’ not eating meat my dad will make when we go up in a week or so’s time … Mr KK has been briefed to ride shot gun and help me change the subject swiftly! 😉😂

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Yeah other people's judgyness can get in the bin.
I went veggie at 13 and pasta is still my food bestie in any form!
Though while everyone is entitled to their opinions, getting several spaghetti hoops on a tine of the fork, covered in tomato sauce, with grated cheddar dripping off it, is an elite dining experience and I will never be moved on this 😂

Cheery_Daff

Glad I'm not the only one who gets grouchy about other people having opinions about what I'm eating 😂 Dont even get me started about people commenting on how I drink my tea! 😱😂😂

On the way home from seeing Mr C Snr. Largely uneventful, although we did cause a slight commotion 😱 We took him out for a bit, and when we got back, the care company were on the very of calling the police to get in the house because they couldn't get in, and because his mobility scooter was outside, they had to assume he was inside and incapacitated.

No harm done, but it all could have been avoided if (a) Mr C Snr had taken his phone with him, and/or (b) the previous carer had put the key back in the key safe 🙄 Or if we'd been back earlier, but they do vary in the times they appear. 

Anyway, hopefully we'll get home without any other mishaps!