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This is a good one.
rather large young girl in her 20's got on the bus with 3 rather large children, and starts up this conversation with her friend
" I am going to change my doctor he said to me all my tests show I have high cholesterol 15.2, my blood pressure is high, and I am morbidly obese, and have diabetes. He was going on like this means I could die of it. I got to see the nurse for a dietary advice, like I don't know what to eat. I am not going onto all that salad and veg stuff it aint good for you. I am going to get one that doesn't go on at you"
This is going to be interesting following the progress of this one as she is a regular. The children were all eating large sized chocolate bars at 8am and then they were going into Mcdonalds
 
Isn't it awful though, that she's teaching her children this? My sixteen month old grandson's favourite foods are tomatoes and home made plain yogurt, although he's developing a fondness for homemade pizza now too. His "treats" are blueberries (cut in half) cut up grapes and occasionally, mini rice cakes. His mum though can get through a donut in seconds! She says it's getting harder to eat stuff like chocolate or cake now, because he realises that it's something he isn't getting, and will reject what he has, pointing to her's saying "this! this!" :mrgreen:
 
That's jut what I thought Lady A. No doubt she learnt to eat this way from her parents.
Had a customer today concerned about shops stopping using plastic as it could mean Tesco stop selling mashed potato, cut vegetables and boiled eggs as they all come in plastic tubs. I just thought we are rapidly heading towards the next generation not preparing or cooking food at all.
At least your grandson is heading along the right path which gives me hope.
Also had someone leave a phone on a bus and they rang up on said phone to ask if we had found the phone. I had great fun with that as she seemed totally oblivious to the fact that we must have it as I had answered it. I got her to describe the phone, and call back to see if we had found it
 
You rotter! Must say though I don't blame you and it's good that you can see the funny side. When I remember some of the "bus chatter" you used to post on the other forum ...

I must admit that, things being the way they are at the moment I sometimes get seduced into buying something ready prepared/cooked, especially if it's been reduced! Every time I do I swear I'll never do it again but ... My 10 and 11 year old great-nephews like nothing better than a plate of crudites to "keep them going" while dinner is prepared, and have done since they were 5 or 6 years old.
 
Your stories are always entertaining, bym. They remind me of Sharon and Tracey from Viz magazine. Sad though that fiction mirrors reality.

On the subject of Viz I'd assumed that it had been wound up years ago. I was delighted when a neighbour I was visiting had a current copy on his table. I particularly enjoyed a character who I'd not seen before called Ivan Jellicalls - He's a Born Again Christian.

I have to plead guilty, Margaid, to buying frozen, pre-prepared vegetables from Tesco on my twice yearly trips to town. They're 'fresher' than the manky old vegetables you can get in this remote outpost of civilisation. And an indefensible act of idleness, I always buy packets of ready to use crumble topping.

'Crudites, Rodney, crudités'. Perhaps I used to watch too much TV.
 
Frozen broad beans and peas are superior to the 'fresh' ones you buy in shops. Apart from the fact that only large and tough broad beans ever seem to be on sale, the sugar content of peas, also sweetcorn, decreases very rapidly upon picking, within a few hours. So peas which are frozen straight from the field are the nearest you can get to home-grown ones, and I've stopped buying sweetcorn now I don't have my allotment any more, it just doesn't compare. The tiny tender broad beans were lovely, but I realised that it took much more investment of time per portion, to grow, harvest and shell them, than it did to eat them - gone in a flash.
And why can't you ever buy runner beans that are truly young and tender? Supermarkets etc only seem to sell expensive, plastic-wrapped, huge ones that I would put on the compost heap. Mine were picked at a max. 9" long and you never needed to snap them to remove any stringy bits. Runner beans are so prolific that there's no reason to wait until they're too big to enjoy.
And don't get me started on asparagus. I remember eruptions of huge, fat, disturbingly phallic spears, made your pee smell funny, but incredible taste.... Nothing like the tasteless, anorexic strands packaged in styrofoam and plastic film.
 
Truth be told, Marigold I've never had home grown asparagus. But I love the supermarket version and rather enjoy the resulting toilet smells (also a feature of Sugar Puffs). So I can only drool over the possibility of the real Mcoy.
I'm soon to be taking possession of my share of a 30 month Galloway bullock. That is one half so my freezers will be bulging. What with my own lamb and locally caught sea food I feel very comfortable. But turbot, my favourite, is a rare treat. I've asked the fish monger in Lerwick to phone me when he has any but I suspect that my accent puts me bottom of the pile! :D
 
I didn't mean frozen veg Hen-Gen, and I agree with Marigold about beans although I grow Enorma which need to be quite long otherwise they are bitter. I grow a few plants (bought as seedlings) in a huge planter and make a real pig of myself with them; I know when they are ready to pick because I have frequent taster sessions of the raw beans. Even asparagus can't compete with a plateful of home grown runner beans, butter and black pepper and a thick slice of wholemeal bread on the side. We were spoilt in Suffolk as the locally grown asparagus was only a few miles away; I agree about the stuff you can normally buy. Although this is a very rural county there is little locally grown fruit or veg available.

Last night I ate a particularly disgusting Co-op "Chicken Penang with Sticky Rice" - I ought to stick to the ordinary curries, at least they taste a bit like the proper thing! I still haven't got used to cooking for one and eating alone, but I'll get there sometime. Meanwhile it's a serious note to self "MOST OF THESE READY MEALS ARE AWFUL SO DON'T FORGET IT! Local chip shop is OK but I try and restrict the number of visits ...
 
And yet, Margaid, occasionally you come across a delight. I still struggle to believe that Fray Bentos tinned steak pies are good, but they are. And if the odd surplus horse or clapped out donkey gets into the mix well who am I to complain?
 
Ah well, they've been making them for a long time so they ought to have it right by now, and they don't really count as a ready meal - you have to cook them properly in an oven, not for 6 minutes in the microwave.
 
I sometimes buy frozen veg too, things like brocolli particularly, as living alone, it's hard to use it up fresh, before it starts looking sad! And peas, yes, definitely better frozen. Especially as, even when they are in season here, the only ones the shops have come from Kenya or other far flung places! Broad beans, I normally grow enough to freeze for the year, but sadly, this year I have none. The weather was too appalling to get them planted, and it's too late now. I don't like runner beans, but green beans I do love, and hope (if the weather EVER warms up!) to grow enough to make up the lack of broad beans this year. And I am down to my last couple of jars of home pickled beetroot, so I hope my beets do well this year. Last year, all I got was four rows of leaves, with no actual beets underneath. Not sure why!
 
Hen-Gen said:
Truth be told, Marigold I've never had home grown asparagus. But I love the supermarket version and rather enjoy the resulting toilet smells (also a feature of Sugar Puffs). So I can only drool over the possibility of the real Mcoy.
I'm soon to be taking possession of my share of a 30 month Galloway bullock. That is one half so my freezers will be bulging. What with my own lamb and locally caught sea food I feel very comfortable. But turbot, my favourite, is a rare treat. I've asked the fish monger in Lerwick to phone me when he has any but I suspect that my accent puts me bottom of the pile! :D
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Do you eat your own spare cockerels as well? I suppose you could deal with them one by one, as needed, without creating more freezer problems.
 
Marigold said:
Hen-Gen said:
Truth be told, Marigold I've never had home grown asparagus. But I love the supermarket version and rather enjoy the resulting toilet smells (also a feature of Sugar Puffs). So I can only drool over the possibility of the real Mcoy.
I'm soon to be taking possession of my share of a 30 month Galloway bullock. That is one half so my freezers will be bulging. What with my own lamb and locally caught sea food I feel very comfortable. But turbot, my favourite, is a rare treat. I've asked the fish monger in Lerwick to phone me when he has any but I suspect that my accent puts me bottom of the pile! :D
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Do you eat your own spare cockerels as well? I suppose you could deal with them one by one, as needed, without creating more freezer problems.
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No, I don't. Some of the matings eg Lavender Araucana x Dominique are sex linked. So the cockerels are killed as soon as they are dry and fluffed up from the incubator. Other matings enable sexing of the youngsters at about six weeks of age. In the days of caponising it would be feasible to run these on but to do this with entire males is not really possible. I've had terrible and bloody fighting even running on males to 16 weeks before finally selecting a breeding male.
 
Local farm rears free range (fence enclosed) cockerels (and pullets) to about 23 weeks Hen-Gen. Appears they separate them as soon as they sex and keep them all out of sight of the pullets. They all seemed quite happy and peaceful and no obvious injuries. They were evenly distributed in the field keeping about 2 metres distance between each other. A few years back on holiday in Lot we saw cockerels being reared (Cou-Nu), again in a field, but that time they had less individual space, acted like a real flock keeping together but had an obviously much older (and bigger) 'peacekeeper' but again out of sight (and sound) of hens.

The usual system here is to rear free range and then slaughter all at 12 weeks, just before the fighting starts between the cockerels.
 
Never had home grown asparagus either. Nothing beats home grown beans though.
I am a rail replacement bus at Southend on Sea today. On a meal break at moment and just realised how many shops on the high street are now take aways, one is even entitled "The Trawlers Catch Kebabs" I can see some very confused children growing up thinking kebabs are some strange marine life. Shame my meal break wasn't at Leigh by the cockle sheds, lovely and fresh
 
valeriebutterley said:
Waitrose mussels are good ATM also!
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So are ours vb, plucked from the pier at low tide. Mind you, as filter feeders God knows what they've taken in. But everyone here has a septic tank and no one discharges straight into the sea so we should be alright.! ;)
I eat them cause they are free but can't really claim to be a great fan. Used to have them in Norfolk in white wine and cream and enjoyed them but after one severe tummy upset decided only ever to pick and cook my own. That old adage of ''never cook an open one and after cooking never eat a closed one is very true '
 
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