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Post by bernie on Nov 19, 2018 22:02:04 GMT
I do think Christmas is best ignored. Not because I am a miserable old Git - although now you come to mention it! haha yes I am proud to be one.
Its so crap, so contrived, so plastic its disgusting.
I am soooooo not a true hippy and certainly not a DRUID but I feel and sense the solstice like a primaeval force within me and I do celebrate in the old way as a passing and a rebirth.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Nov 20, 2018 12:10:34 GMT
Couldn't agree more bernie! Winter solstice is the real reason for celebration.
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Post by duckman on Nov 24, 2018 2:00:19 GMT
If mince pies and Christmas pudding is nice to eat, why don't we eat these foods all the year round?
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Post by NomadCris on Nov 24, 2018 6:29:21 GMT
Because theyre Christmas celebratory treats. Easter eggs or Turkeys arent eaten all year either usually
Mince pies been in the shops since September cuz ive been buying and eating them
I take it youre no fan of mincemeat or xmas pudding.
Personally im no fan of Turkey i dont understand why folks eat them, at least not commercial ones theyre not nice.Been a few years since i kept them.
I dont do Christmas either,at least not in the preprogrammed way we're expected as Consumermas.
The Christmas you want you should have;The Christmas you get you deserve.
Roll on Yule 😂
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 8:43:04 GMT
I think turkey gained favour for the amount of meat on it ? Personally I find turkey as appetising as paper mache , and its a waste of curry ingredients too!
We will be having one of our chickens same as we have every week and if you only eat well/yummy food at chrismus you are missing a trick !
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Post by fenrisulfr on Nov 24, 2018 9:48:26 GMT
I think turkey gained favour for the amount of meat on it ? Personally I find turkey as appetising as paper mache , and its a waste of curry ingredients too! We will be having one of our chickens same as we have every week and if you only eat well/yummy food at chrismus you are missing a trick ! Turkey breast is excellent once you've disguised it's bland flavour with loads of cranberry, gravy and stuffing and you're half-cut enough to enjoy it. The only thing in it's favour is it's cheap. The best part of a turkey is the leg meat and the oyster muscles and I'll buy turkey thigh or leg if it's the right price and I know where it's from but there's very few small old fgashioned turkey farms about nowadays in my area just one big intensive set of barracks. The birds have loads of room there but it's not right.
There's a free-range goose farm but too much fat and too dear.
Pissed off with the festive season and it's not yet bloody December so here's a little offering for those who love it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 11:58:40 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Nov 24, 2018 11:59:48 GMT
I think turkey gained favour for the amount of meat on it ? Personally I find turkey as appetising as paper mache , and its a waste of curry ingredients too! We will be having one of our chickens same as we have every week and if you only eat well/yummy food at chrismus you are missing a trick ! I agree about commercial Turkeys theyre rubbish. I used to keep a few breeds of Turkey and they were delicious. As for missing a trick,it helps when youve the money or the ability to grow your own.Not many options if youre a pauper. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 12:13:57 GMT
yes it does help being able to grow your own food and I am certainly not poor either , but I have been very money poor in the past and did not have the oppertunity to grow veg either but I always ate well . , what I was trying to say in a clumbsy way is why make the extra effort just at chrismus to eat well ? Eating well is not expensive . there are plenty of cheap cuts of meat and cheapo veg all year round .
I guess the only value I was bought up with that I agree with is that food comes first . Good nutritious food , and if you learn to cook it from scratch , it need not cost much at all .
I am sure commercial turkey is much the same as commercial chicken in that is is a poor impersonation of the real thing . I do not like the wacking great sinews in the legs either , though you can pull them out if you can be arsed .
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Post by NomadCris on Nov 24, 2018 12:21:28 GMT
You can certainly eat better food if you buy the raw materials and make it from scratch.
Ive no idea why people on low incomes buy preprepared meals,theyre expensive amd shite but i suppose it comes down to being arsed to do it yourself.
A lot of people cant be arsed.
Maybe its a generational thing because when i was young no one would even entertain the idea of buying a meal in a package.
I dont eat any differently at Christmas to any other time of year though.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Nov 24, 2018 12:30:33 GMT
Hear hear Bungo and NC! We spend about £20 a week on food. Vanman was just jokingly complaining about brunch being too big!! We had danish pastries and bacon and egg rolls, was all free though... |
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Post by NomadCris on Nov 24, 2018 12:44:16 GMT
Hear hear Bungo and NC! We spend about £20 a week on food. Vanman was just jokingly complaining about brunch being too big!! We had danish pastries and bacon and egg rolls, was all free though... I spend about 30 a week on food,10 of that is for the cats. I buy a 25kg sack of potatoes 15kg sack of onions, sack of carrots etc it works out much cheaper than buying crappy little bags in supermarket and lasts ages. I dont see the point in buying 4 big jacket potatoes for 2.50 when you can buy a 25kg sack for 10 but people are nuts when it comes to buying food. Where i was before i used to get a big sack of past sell by or nearly out of date stuff for 2£ cheese butter cream eggs fruit veg alsorts of stuff and I ate very well but sadly im too far away to go there now. |
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Post by bigbear67 on Nov 24, 2018 14:00:35 GMT
Hear hear Bungo and NC! We spend about £20 a week on food. Vanman was just jokingly complaining about brunch being too big!! We had danish pastries and bacon and egg rolls, was all free though... I spend about 30 a week on food,10 of that is for the cats. I buy a 25kg sack of potatoes 15kg sack of onions, sack of carrots etc it works out much cheaper than buying crappy little bags in supermarket and lasts ages. I dont see the point in buying 4 big jacket potatoes for 2.50 when you can buy a 25kg sack for 10 but people are nuts when it comes to buying food. Where i was before i used to get a big sack of past sell by or nearly out of date stuff for 2£ cheese butter cream eggs fruit veg alsorts of stuff and I ate very well but sadly im too far away to go there now. I think it can be false economy buying out of date / short date food. I find if I buy things like that I end up chucking half of it away cos it's gone fucked!.. Or maybe I just buy too much cos it's so cheap?... |
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Post by NomadCris on Nov 24, 2018 14:37:57 GMT
For a potato sack full of near out of date food for 2 quid every week it didnt matter if some of it got chucked to the birds.
I rarely threw any of the stuff away in reality as it mostly all got used.
I ised to get lots of exotic cheeses and cakes and biscuits too.
I wouldnt bother buying stuff from supermarkets near sell by date as its rubbish when its fresh.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Nov 24, 2018 15:13:47 GMT
PP it might be the network.
I'm just out and about at the moment and everywhere is rammed. Asda, Sainsbury's, a mall, all busy. Somebody somewhere must have some money to spend.
Unless they are spending money they haven't got!
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