C R
Über Member
Chile from scratch is fairly simple and relatively quick, as long as you have the pre soaked kidney beans.
Farmers - a put upon minority or greedy gits - you decide.
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Chile from scratch is fairly simple and relatively quick, as long as you have the pre soaked kidney beans.
mjr
Active Member
We usually use another word beginning with f to describe that, but it's done with affection!
I agree with others. Cooking a simple curry from scratch can be quicker than the time taken for everyone to pick from the take away menu and then put the order into the flaming app, but maybe we're particularly indecisive.
bobzmyunkle
Senior Member
Electric_Andy
Regular
I think another problem is that there is far more choice now. In my day, we ate what was on the table (usually meat and veg in one form or another) and if we didn't like it we'd have to go without. When we chose to leave the table and go without, we were forced to eat it anyway! There has been a shift I think, that everyone now thinks they are entitled to almost infinite choice, and whether you enforce that as a parent depends on how easy a life you want. e.g, my son will eat anything but if he wants pizza or instant noodles then he has to have half a plate of veggies with it. But my partners son will refuse what we have cooked and then eat a packet of croissants for dinner. Or if he's just been paid, will order a pizza. It has everything to do with how you are brought up I think, and the attitudes you inherit/copy from your care givers
AuroraSaab
Squire
Yes, because there are usually no additives or extra stuff to those. They're just basic ingredients in convenient packaging.
We're all inclined to pick cheapness and convenience over time consuming cooking, unless we like cooking. Apart from tinned meat and veg there wasn't much choice other than to cook from scratch until the 70's when big freezers became common and affordable. Vesta meals were considered an exotic and rare treat in our house. It was a 'convenience meal' that required 3 pans and took ages to make though.
glasgowcyclist
Über Member
Last night I watched a really interesting programme on how the food industry engineers foods to be addictive. I knew they’d do some trickery but I didn’t expect companies would have thier own brain scan facility and neurologists mapping the brain’s response to recipe changes.
Well worth a watch to learn how far they go to use our own bodies’ responses to trick us into buying and consuming absolute junk.
On iPlayer: Irresistible - Why We Can’t Stop Eating
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0025gqs/irresistible-why-we-cant-stop-eating
Well worth a watch to learn how far they go to use our own bodies’ responses to trick us into buying and consuming absolute junk.
On iPlayer: Irresistible - Why We Can’t Stop Eating
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0025gqs/irresistible-why-we-cant-stop-eating
I saw that program as well and it included what I thought probably a good easy guide for people in supermarkets re UPF: Look at the Contents/Ingredients and if you see stuff you wouldn't expect to have in your kitchen then probably UPF (I assume the more such ingredients the more UPF it is).
Ian
matticus
Guru
Yes. Excellent telly once again from Dr Teulukuekuen.
Of particular note was:
- the letter offering him bribes for favourable coverage of A Big Food Corp. and
- the evidence of food companies stealing the ideas and tactics that worked so well for tobacco companies.
Almost a must watch!
matticus
Guru
Tractors getting more good PR:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0jl8973meo
“We moved everything that was low down well in advance, so we were quite lucky,” she said. “But the tractor drove through and the wave that it created knocked out our window – it also smashed a lot of other windows but I think ours was the only one that got completely knocked out with the sheer force of the water.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0jl8973meo
Man arrested over tractor drive through floods
...“We moved everything that was low down well in advance, so we were quite lucky,” she said. “But the tractor drove through and the wave that it created knocked out our window – it also smashed a lot of other windows but I think ours was the only one that got completely knocked out with the sheer force of the water.
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Rusty Nails
Country Member
Oh I can cook but get no pleasure out of it. For me every minute spent cooking is a drag. When my wife was in hospital for nine months I didn't live off takeaways or packets but survived heathily by cooking things that could be reheated over several days...stews, casseroles, chilli's, cottage/shepherd's pies, lasagnes plus loads of salads. Luckily my wife is a great cook, who enjoys it, and is happy with the household division of labour.
I am certainly not a fab foodie.
Trouble with incidents like this is it looks very like inconsiderate stupidity but "farmers" are a large group of people and there are bound to be some whose behaviour falls short. Same as cyclists, broad group and bound to be a inconsiderate minority.
Ian
matticus
Guru
Yes, of course. I just found the timing amusing!
Ian H
Legendary Member
Tenbury High St residents presumably didn't.
matticus
Guru
Oh woe is me. I found a small piece of amusement in a bad news story.
I shall now hang myself. Thank you for bringing this matter to my attention.
Ian H
Legendary Member
Just a throw-away comment. I'm not casting nasturtiums on your character.
