i am keen to try this stuff on the back of this thread. i shall get some in for a post-bender duvet day and report back
highly recommended dolly, and tailor-made for such conditions.
Homepride pasta bake
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highly recommended dolly, and tailor-made for such conditions.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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hmmm....sometimes the need to be badass bad supercedes all plans to be good, so veg is out of the question!
<does starjump>
Badarses don't star jump
i'm glad you liked itI know all the great cooks on here will be finger wagging but I gotta swallow my pride and admit Homepride pasta bake is like insanely good!!!
...i'm not a foodie snob like SOME people here
occasionally you can catch em doing it but aye, theyre more inclined to 'robot dance'
i'm glad you liked it
its a weird one DC, I am usually a food snob but i have my moments when not
<glances at mcdonnells chicken supernoodles and smiles>
oh i'm first in line for good food but one cannot eat well all the time. stouffers makes this frozen mac 'n cheese that is to die for. just pop it in the micro for 6 minutes and voila! heaven in a plastic tray
Y_I_Otter
Dangerous Terroirist
Why not?
time, cost, mess, hassle
he probably means 'one can enjoy junkfood some of the time'
i agree.
i think he probably means you can eat really well for very little money
tinned soup is fucking rank, btw - would cost less and taste better to make your own leek and potato soup
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Now! Funny you should say that...I am generally against all such muck as sauces in a jar but I drove me dad back to the frozen north at the weekend after 7 weeks in Oz with my sister and all he wanted for dinner was sweet and sour chicken made with Uncle Ben's sauce..." What fresh horror is this?!?!" I thought to myself but I also thought I'd indulge the old fella given that he had been travelling for about 30 hours...and I have to say, it really wasn't half bad
*not that I will be buying it meself like - I hasten to add*
Y_I_Otter
Dangerous Terroirist
That's part of it, certainly.
Manage it wisely and there's always time to prepare great meals. A great many things can easily be made ahead in quantity, and stored in one-meal freezer packs, that are infinitely tastier and more healthful than, say, Arby's fake beef.
Great food need not cost a lot-- the very best of it doesn't, in fact. See also: time.
Wipe, rinse and clean as you go and there's little mess to worry about. What's messy-- and downright environmentally irresponsible-- are bin bags full of useless containers left over from fast food and processed muck.
See: freezer packs. Also, some of the finest peasant food recipes were developed precisely because fuel and time were at a premium.
Any other excuses, DC?
Exactly! Knorr mixes are equally hideous, especially what they palm off as "leek and potato soup". Feh!
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
i saw a jar of that pasta bake stuff in the shop yesterday and i thought it looked revolting. the most unappetising colour imaginable. looked like jars of baby food for grown ups
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
and sometimes you just cannot be arsed to do any cooking and this sorta thing is good for those times............
That's what pre-bagged salads are for
Honestly, it really amazes me how fussy some of you lot are when it comes to food. Sometimes it's best just to take the path of least resistance and have something quick and easy.
Y_I_Otter
Dangerous Terroirist
We only get a finite number of meals in our lives.
Why not just eat gruel three times a day then?
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
We'll take a finite number of pisses, too, but I'll take one pretty much anywhere, nonetheless.
Johnny Canuck3
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A bit of an exaggeration, maybe?
A desire for a quick and easy meal now and then, shouldn't consign one to a three a day regimen of gruel, assigned by the Lords of Proper Culinary Behaviour.
i would estimate roughly 82,000 meals based upon a life span of 75 years and 3 meals/day
Johnny Canuck3
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Johnny Canuck3
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Manage it wisely and there's always time to prepare great meals. A great many things can easily be made ahead in quantity, and stored in one-meal freezer packs, that are infinitely tastier and more healthful than, say, Arby's fake beef.
You're doing it again with these extremes.
Just because I might have started work at 7 am, and it's now 7 pm, and I'm hungry, and so are the kids, so I'm going to stop for fast food instead of going home to prepare a nice ceviche, doesn't mean that Arby's has to be anywhere within contemplation.
Johnny Canuck3
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You know, if he wasn't dead for sure, I'd say that you were James Barber.
Johnny Canuck3
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Johnny Canuck3
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Something else about this. My wife and I work full time, so when we have time off, we like to spend it resting or doing things with the kids, not preparing advance meals in bulk.
Not to say that isn't a good idea sometimes, but it goes back to the wise expenditure of time. I think spending time with the kids, even if it means picking up some fast food sometimes, is not a spendthrift use of my time.
Because I enjoy Homepride pasta bake and I'd have to cook the gruel myself, since it's not available from Asda
It's entirely possible to enjoy something that isn't perfect. You should try it some time, you might even crack a smile if you stop fretting about what you're eating for long enough
Johnny Canuck3
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Tarannau was being a food snob on that Pizza Hut thread, and I was going to hold up Otter as an otherwise reasonable and non snobbish person who is also a chef: but now this.
no one knows, that is why its so fascinating
