Can't believe the "food" you can buy now

billieboy_2

scuzz wrote:

Just seen microwave hamburger and egg custard mix

I've never thought of egg custard on a hamburger before :eek:

Frugal_Faerie

scuzz wrote:

Just seen microwave hamburger and egg custard mix

Eeeeew what a horrible combination :rotfl:


I feel I have to speak up in defence of a certain brand of microwave burgers with the initial "R" though ... and sound like the sort of people who steal animals in the dead of night

If you dismantle the ready-made "burger" and pop the sesame bread bun in the toaster, whilst re-heating the burger in the micro for a minute, then add a bit of salad and dressing of choice ... they are far superior in taste and texture to the pathetic efforts served up by McD's and such like

Chipps

Hi, I have been on holiday, so missed the beginning of this thread. I had to laugh when I saw it this morning though. For some reason DH and I had been talking about ice cubes, and he said "it's cheaper to buy them"
My reply was "it costs me absolutely nothing to make them, so what do they do in the shops, pay you to take them away???????"

ps. if anyone knows of such shops, please let me know - and then contact me for supplies of free ice cubes.......

moneysavingplumber

I'm too lazy to read the entire 16 pages of threads so it may have been mentioned already, but I hate ready made pasta sauces and curry sauces, I even hate passata, it usually has a very bitter taste and makes bolognese look like tomato soup with some mince and mushrooms thrown in as filler.

I like my pasta sauces to be like I would find in a good Italian restaurant. Pure fresh tomatoes, a little garlic and virgin oil, perhaps some fresh basil. Not full of salt, sugar, chemicals and dried herbs.

The curry sauces tend to all taste the same with different colours and levels of heat, but then I've never bought one, just been served them by other people. I used to love it as a single 20 something when friends would invite me round claiming to cook a "great chilli con carne". I'd watch with eager anticipation as the chopped the onion, fried it, then fried the mince, and then I would deflate as the Homepride sauce came out of the cupboard and was emptied on as the boil-in-the-bag rice went on the other burner. The sad thing is, often it seems to work out 'cheaper' to use this kind of stuff if you look at straight cost comparison, although in terms of value for money fresh is always way ahead.

Sarahsaver

We had hm pizza last night, the dough was overflowing in the bread machind because i made it at lunchtime. The total cost for 2 lovely pizzas was about £1.50, whereas the equivalent ready made would have been twice that for just one, and not as nice. Also theres the fun involved with my kids helping out. I said to them I'd much rather eat half an hour later and have hm food than get home and bung some processed yuk in the oven. We all ate well, had fun, and it's got to be better for us as a family in so many other ways than just dietary.

calleyw

Looking through my freebie Asda magazine there is an advert for warbuton all in one riddlers.

According to the packet 4 yummy cheese spread filled rolls. Aimed at kids I should mention.

Just excuse me while I go and smack my head against a wall.

At least one good thing they seems that they are going to re-introduce cooking in to schools :j

Yours

Calley

Anne_Marie_2

starlite wrote:

not sure if they have been mentioned as this thread is huge! I read most of it though and got a few laughs! teehee
-Pre - grated or sliced cheese really irritates me..
-As do the 'apple wedges' they charge 60p or so for in Boots..just buy an apple for less than 10p! (though most amusing is where it says on the back..'ingredients: apple .' heheeh)
-The fact that Sainsburys charge almost 50p more for the same pack of green beans, just already 'trimmed'
-And i cannot abide any form of 'instant noodle' ..noodles are already essentially instant, just need a couple of minutes in boiling water, you can even do it with a kettle if needs be and then add your own seasoning instead of the nasty little sachet they provide.

though I must admit to buying bags of ice..we have a chest freezer so it's impossible to make in trays.

Bags of grated cheese (and salad), are top of my list of pet hates. MIL had a bag of grated cheese in her trolley in Iceland many years ago, made her put it back and buy some normal cheese instead, otherwise she would have to walk home. Mind you, she got her own back, she went off with a bag of my shopping and used it, thinking to herself at the time, that she couldn't remember buying this and that!
Don't know if there is a moral to this story, but have never put our shopping altogether in boot ever since - and never have let her forget it!
Must admit that I have bought bags of ice once for a family party - just didn't have the room in my freezer to make or store them (bunged them in huge cool box).

[Deleted User]

Yesterday I thought I would make a trifle for lunch at my daughters today,I went into my local tesco's Metro store to buy the ingredients. jelly yes no problems,
Sponge fingers yes that's o.k. too
ah Blancemange No they don't sell it, apparently no call for it
Why do they sell the other ingredients then?
I could buy a Birds ready made one for three times the price though
I DON'T THiNK SO,ah well it's back to making an apple crumble with fresh apples and proper custard not that tinned rubbish but thick glutinous yellow comforting custard

Curry_Queen

Could you not just use custard in your trifle? That's what I've always used, only make it a little thicker so it sets more by adding a little cornflour

squeaky

I always use BOTH

If you can't get blancmange would something like angel delight work as a substitute? Probably more E numbers though...