Cheryl, who spends 15 hours a day cleaning.

Curry_Queen

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

And if C_Q's reading this, I meant Aldi's chicken ready meals

:rotfl:

Nile wrote:

You shouldn't feel quilty about buying food from a high quality company such as Marks & Spencer (I have no connection to them;) ), I know from experience how they audit their suppliers......to ensure that M&S food is the best.

Nor should you feel guilty about putting your feet up and eating chocolates........are you listening divadee?:D

Must dash........need to get to M&S to buy some belgian chocolates.......for me.:j

I've never said anything against buying from M&S have I? ... eh, have I?

I do admit to drooling over their foodie ads on tv tho'! :drool:

A colleague I worked with some years ago used to buy all her food in M&S and she'd come in every morning with a bag of pre-cooked convenience food from there for her lunch! ... must have cost her a fortune!! :eek:

Fortunately (for my pocket) I don't have access to buy anything from them, foodwise, and I've not even looked to see if they do online delivery ... and no, I don't want to know!

Sofa_Sogood

Nile wrote:

You shouldn't feel quilty about buying food from a high quality company such as Marks & Spencer (I have no connection to them;) ), I know from experience how they audit their suppliers......to ensure that M&S food is the best.

Nor should you feel guilty about putting your feet up and eating chocolates........are you listening divadee?:D

Must dash........need to get to M&S to buy some belgian chocolates.......for me.:j

Thanks Nile, I don't feel that guilty tbh

As empty nesters that don't each much, (can't understand why we've both gained weight all of a sudden ) we've found that when we do buy from M&S, we don't waste half as much food as we used to. But Tesco's ready meals can be equally as good.

I don't know why I slated that poor Cheryl ..... I'm so lazy sometimes lol. But I'm still getting my head around the fact she could find 15 hours worth of cleaning (Still wondering how divadee found nine! )

And if I wasn't on a diet (that isn't working lol), I'd buy some Belgian chocs myself - but from Thorntons

Sofa_Sogood

Curry_Queen wrote:

:rotfl:

I've never said anything against buying from M&S have I? ... eh, have I?

I do admit to drooling over their foodie ads on tv tho'! :drool:

A colleague I worked with some years ago used to buy all her food in M&S and she'd come in every morning with a bag of pre-cooked convenience food from there for her lunch! ... must have cost her a fortune!! :eek:

Fortunately (for my pocket) I don't have access to buy anything from them, foodwise, and I've not even looked to see if they do online delivery ... and no, I don't want to know!

Sorry to all for going OT again, but just lolling

Some years ago we nearly bought a flat in a new development. I think it was about 90k, but as it was next door to an M&S store, my friends reminded me that it would probably end up costing twice that price :eek:

P.S. No M&S foodhalls online

elona

DH worked with someone 20 years ago who was boasting that in 3 days over Christmas he had spent over £200 in food for three people. All ready made from Marks and Spencer! Even then we thought that was an obscene amount!

DH then said nothing except that he had to get home on time - when asked if I was making something special by his colleague - he replied absentmindedly "Salmon souffle and Pear and white wine sorbet, I think!"

Guess who was trying out the Christmas pressie of a food processor?:j and the meal was a tenth what it would have cost in M and S!

Sofa_Sogood

elona wrote:

DH worked with someone 20 years ago who was boasting that in 3 days over Christmas he had spent over £200 in food for three people. All ready made from Marks and Spencer! Even then we thought that was an obscene amount!

DH then said nothing except that he had to get home on time - when asked if I was making something special by his colleague - he replied absentmindedly "Salmon souffle and Pear and white wine sorbet, I think!"

Guess who was trying out the Christmas pressie of a food processor?:j and the meal was a tenth what it would have cost in M and S!

The last time I went 'last minute' Christmas shopping elona, I spent that in about 3 hours. :eek: It's one of the only reasons that I'm happy that I don't get out too often nowadays.

But I'm not boasting btw, because most of it was either given away, or binned.

I'll have to get my OH a food processor

Debt_Free_Chick

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Sorry Debt_Free_Chick, I didn't make that very clear did I? (again )

I meant we don't buy raw chicken anymore. We treat ourselves to M&S chicken in sauces ready meals.

And if C_Q's reading this, I meant Aldi's chicken ready meals

I have to admit, I always understood that the worst quality chicken ended up in ready meals ... M&S or otherwise.

Sorry, don't want to put you off - I am equally sceptical about the quality of meat & poultry. But then, I have a simply marvellous butcher, who will tell me everything I need to know about what I'm buying. And he raises his own chooks and is a grazier ... but I digress.

Seriously, though ... be extra careful about the quality of food in ready-meals. You usually pay a premium price, but don't necessarily get a premium product - you pay for the "convenience" not the quality of the raw materials

Sofa_Sogood

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

I have to admit, I always understood that the worst quality chicken ended up in ready meals ... M&S or otherwise.

Sorry, don't want to put you off - I am equally sceptical about the quality of meat & poultry. But then, I have a simply marvellous butcher, who will tell me everything I need to know about what I'm buying. And he raises his own chooks and is a grazier ... but I digress.

Seriously, though ... be extra careful about the quality of food in ready-meals. You usually pay a premium price, but don't necessarily get a premium product - you pay for the "convenience" not the quality of the raw materials

Duly noted Debt_Free

Now I'm off to watch "Come Dine With Me" ... for the great recipes.

Bit expensive but mostly butcher bought meat (unless it's someone like last week's winner - who got the local restaurant to cook it and pass it through the window! )

divadee

I dont know I leave this thread for a couple of days and your still all picking on me Well i am all finished for the night now. Just put the hoover away (something that doesnt happen often!!!) But this week will be busy as the king and queen are coming to stay for a couple of days aka my mum and dad


I cant not have a tidy clean house for royalty coming can i?? :rotfl:

angelatgraceland

Rave wrote:

Right- don't look at these pictures if you're a clean freak with a sensitive disposition. It's our front room about 2 hours ago, taken from both ends.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.galloway3/CIMG1044.JPG
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.galloway3/CIMG1045.JPG

That's about as messy as it usually gets; 10 minutes of tidying later and having thrown out some rubbish it looks a fair bit better, and another 20 minutes tomorrow (including hoovering) and it'll be tidy enough to have guests over. The Dyson incidentally was rescued by my wife as her employer was throwing it out- but we've nowhere to store it so if anything it adds to the mess:rotfl:.

Incidentally the blue bag to the bottom right of the 2nd pic contains a 5kg bag of onions with which I intend to carry out my first experiments with C_Q's mystical sauce:).

well I know the feeling-thatts why I went to get some help from flylady.net

tootles_2

Oh my God, this thread brought back memories..........

When I had just 2 children and was a stay at home Mum ( went on to have 4 children and a fulltime job) my day was thus......

Get up and see husband off to work, childrens breakfast, wash pots dry and put away.
Upstairs children and self washed and dressed...........Bathroom cleaned, including polishing the toilet seat.........children in sitting room playing. Beds opened to air with windows open.

Washer on did a load every day, preparations for childrens lunch, sittingroom dusted and hoovered whilst children resting, kitchen cleaned, floor washed, downstairs cloakroom cleaned toilet seat polished. Washing hung out to dry. Usually managed to have a cup of coffee. Children up, beds made bedrooms dusted and hoovered.

Lunch...... pots washed dried and put away, preparations for dinner for self and husband, iron any cothes that were dry including nappies and towels..... walk with children to local park.........

Childrens tea......... they watched TV until 6pm, then bath and bed..... bath cleaned. Dinner cooked ready for OH arrival home, after dinner pots washed and dried, put away, kitchen tidied...... managed a couple of hours watching TV before bed, living room tidied before I went to bed, and cups etc from after dinner washed and put away, wash ready for bed (this was in the days before showers) toilet cleaned and bleach put down.......... BED!!!!!

No wonder I was exhausted most of the time.............