I literally only buy and eat food I want so I never get this

sometimes I have had to go back to get something after seeing someone else with it, if that counts

I always think that my choice of products is superior and tend to think „why you buy that rubbish, mate?“

I also often think: „is that the booze for tonight or for the week“?

abs, because finally i have started to lose the excess weight I’ve had for about five years through cutting out refined sugar and reducing fat. Exercise alone wasn’t touching the sides.

Skimmed milk!? It's just white water!

Also with spinach and semi-skimmed milk and some chicken breasts (and an onion and some cheese and flour), you could make chicken Florentine and that is YUM.

My shopping trolley screams ‘single man!’ What with all the individual ready meals, pies, bags and bags of crisps, cup a soups, cider , beer, cheap wine, etc.

Do you know how to cook, Teclis? Genuine question!

Oh yes, I love to cook and think I’m pretty decent.  Plenty of compliments anyway.  Just little point in doing much proper cooking when it’s just me.  I probably have 2-3 readymeals (including pizza) a week.

Why don't you batch cook things and freeze them?

Yes I do that too of course - mainly pasta sauces, chilli, that sort of thing.  But plenty of things I like cooking that just don’t work too well with freezing so I skip them.

i did score a blinder today, a whole pallet of well over ripe strawberries arrived as i got there, reduced to 50p for a big punnet got enough for jam to make for the oldsters. Funny thing, when you start piling something into the trolley it attracts a crowd and the pallet was emptied before it was even unloaded.

Fair enough, was just curious. Btw, there's an excellent dough recipe in Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's veg book which can be made into flatbreads which freeze brilliantly!

Good work minkers.

Dusty - ta, I’ll look into that.  Bread is a problem here as while I do freeze it, buying bread in the only shop in the village is £1.99 which is simply extortion IMO. 

So I eat a lot of riveta instead.  Pondering a bread maker, it’s one of the few kitchen gizmos that I’ve never indulged in, and as I understand it you can time it to be ready and freshly baked when you wake up, which is all kinds of awesome.

Nah this is a piss-easy dough recipe. Can also make the usual loaves and stuff, it's just a mix of white flour and strong white bread flour, some quick yeast and water and then leave to rise for 2 hours after kneading, then knock it back and it's ready to go. Mega cheap cf your bakery.

That does sound easy.  Hmmm!

I tend to look in someone else's trolley and remember the thing I've forgotten to buy.

The advantage of being unemployed is that I do a ‘big shop’ once a month at about 9:30am and no one is there.  The employed are already at their jobs and the bulk of the unemployed are sleeping off last night’s cheap cider hangover so I tend to get Sainsbury’s to myself.

Teclis: the recipe is here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/05/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall-pizza

It can be made into loads of things, obviously this is pushing the pizza base idea, but also loaves and flatbreads, like above.

Cool, bookmarked, thanks :)

Wot the Sailmeister said