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

crana999

A lot of these products are daft for the majority of us, but they can be very useful for people with disabilities or elderly people. Even just making mashed potatoes could be impossible for some people, but at least having the option of buying ready-made ones means they can still enjoy the food they like (even if it might not be exactly as nice as home made) and be more independent. They can also be useful for people who have extremely limited cooking facilities.

At least the option is there and it is better (IMO) to buy food that is healthy and in some way preprepared (e.g. ready chopped veg) than to buy the unhealthy ready meals that would be a lot of people's only real choice otherwise.

calleyw

Curry_Queen wrote:

Do they come ready beaten too? :rotfl:


Oh, and what happens if you want just the yolks or just the whites :think:

According to this web site you can get them whole, yolks only or whites only. And they are pasturised.


Yours

Calley

Curry_Queen

You do have a very good point there crana so maybe we shouldn't knock some of these products

I know I struggle with mashing spuds sometimes so I get DS to do them for me, but not everyone will have someone that can do things for them like that.

headchef

I like this thread. Nice to feel smug! Squeaky - I couldn't quite remember the price of value flour but I'll go and look at my receipts now. You've got me thinking. Wonder if prices do vary from store to store. You are so right about the baking isle in general. Couldn't find gelatine, only vege gel and it doesn't work! It worries me that OS like us won't be able to get the 'proper' things in a few years time.

calleyw

crana999 wrote:

A lot of these products are daft for the majority of us, but they can be very useful for people with disabilities or elderly people. Even just making mashed potatoes could be impossible for some people, but at least having the option of buying ready-made ones means they can still enjoy the food they like (even if it might not be exactly as nice as home made) and be more independent. They can also be useful for people who have extremely limited cooking facilities.

At least the option is there and it is better (IMO) to buy food that is healthy and in some way preprepared (e.g. ready chopped veg) than to buy the unhealthy ready meals that would be a lot of people's only real choice otherwise.

Crana,

Do agree with you totally. For most of the population they are capable of making mashed potatoes etc. But they are just to lazy. And there is another part of the population that just needs a little bit of help to allow them to live a better quality of life.

Who are we to judge what is good or bad product. Just because it does not fit in to our lives.


Yours

Calley

squeaky

I was once the chief engineer in a factory that produced mayonnaise. We used to buy egg in ton lots. SEVERAL tons per day.

No way can you crack eggs fast enough to make mayonnaise at... hmmm... lemme see now... 64 kilos in 90 seconds. Yes! way faster than you you can make half a kilo in your food processor!!!

(Believe me - it took me quite a while, and not a few headaches, to teach a computerised machine, wot I built, how to do something I didn't actually know how to do myself.)

In an eighteen hour production day (the other six being taken up in stripping, cleaning, and reassembling the machine - NO SHORTCUTS) we produce forty tons.

A day!

Given that a desert spoon full is enough for the average sandwich... that's 10 grams or 0.00025 percent (x100) of our daily production... just how many shop bought sarnies do you eat a day?

rchddap1

Always makes me smile though when my Mum and Sister look at me at a weekend and say...come on then...how much did you spend shopping this week...I don't know how you do it.

Bargainloverbec

I do think the supermarkets offer a lot of choice these days, and if you choose to purchase the 'convenience' food then you pay for that choice by higher prices.

Personally I avoid anything in a packet, both for money saving reasons and also it makes me want to cry how much packaging is used nowadays.

I did have a chuckle in the flour aisle the other day at a product that was pre-weighed flour and yeast for breadmakers - would cost loads more to make bread that way!

calleyw

headchef wrote:

I like this thread. Nice to feel smug! Squeaky - I couldn't quite remember the price of value flour but I'll go and look at my receipts now. You've got me thinking. Wonder if prices do vary from store to store. You are so right about the baking isle in general. Couldn't find gelatine, only vege gel and it doesn't work! It worries me that OS like us won't be able to get the 'proper' things in a few years time.

I am reading a book called trolley wars at the moment. And according to it back when Morrisons was in the process of trying to take over safeway. So late 2003/early 2004 the OFT (office of Fair Trading) said:

Only Asda and Morrisons had the same pricing policy all over the country. The others Tesco, Sainsburys and Safeway all practice/d what is called "Price Flexing" in other words charging what the local market will accept.

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Calley

calleyw

squeaky wrote:

I was once the chief engineer in a factory that produced mayonnaise. We used to buy egg in ton lots. SEVERAL tons per day.

Sorry when I mentioned catering Biz I meant cafe's and places like that. Not the 1000L bags they produce to ship off to manufacturers.


LOL!!!!!!!!


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Calley