Do you eat honey?

starlit · 20-01-2013 03:11AM

Its nice in a cereal but seriously though you swallow/drink it rather than eat it unless it in something like cereal? Like it added like caramel, hazelnut or vanilla you catch my drift...

Tweej · 20-01-2013 03:16AM

I like peas with honey,
I've done it all my life,
It makes them taste quite funny,
But it keeps them on my knife!

Doc Ruby · 20-01-2013 03:17AM

Spangles wrote: »

Squeeze of honey
Half a lemon's juice
Disprin
Add water warmed in the kettle and stir

It helped me through my cold and is probably a lot healthier than the packet stuff !

A couple of Polish wans advised me to take a bulb of garlic crushed into warm milk for the cold this season. Didn't help the cold but I surely didn't get anyone else sick as nobody would come within fifty feet of me.

Honey is great stuff, they've pulled it out of the pyramids still edible. Actually they used to douse dead bodies in it for a century then squeeze out the resultant goo and sell it as a cure all. History, eh.

20-01-2013 03:20AM

I am eating it right now.

On toast.

Omnomnomnom

Ficheall · 20-01-2013 03:37AM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I am eating it right now.

On toast.

Omnomnomnom

OMG! ME TOO!!! :eek:

I think this thread is at least partially to blame though. That, my hunger, and honey on toast being the easiest meal in the house to prepare.
I'd love a pizza

DesperateDan · 20-01-2013 03:54AM

John that's a fairly random site you've linked us to there

Itwasntme. · 20-01-2013 04:22AM

I have a love-hate relationship with it. Mostly hate. I crave it about twice or three times a month and absolutely hate it the rest of the time.

lounakin · 20-01-2013 04:27AM

6 month old +, lavender honey on bread and sea salted butter: heaven.

lg123 · 20-01-2013 04:30AM

Rasheed wrote: »

Manuka is the job, I'm addicted.

I get this manuka from NZ, it's unreal. Some difference with the cheap brand of honey, couldn't go back.

Martyn1989 · 20-01-2013 06:54AM

I know it's hard to get in Ireland but if you come across creamed honey get it, you'll be milling your porridge with a squeeze of it

Killer Wench · 20-01-2013 07:08AM

Lia_lia wrote: »

I am eating it right now.

On toast.

Omnomnomnom

Yep. Smear some peanut butter and drizzle a bit of honey.

*faints*

cherryghost · 20-01-2013 08:49AM

Where do they sell Manuka honey in Ireland?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 20-01-2013 08:54AM

I'm a little Kodiak bear with round ears and course brown fur, I love honey..:)

lynski · 20-01-2013 09:02AM

use a lovely local honey for the last few years, delicious. spoon it into the kids when they are sick to help them over coughs etc.

juan.kerr · 20-01-2013 09:17AM

Whatever happened the Honey Monster?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 20-01-2013 09:36AM

juan.kerr wrote: »

Whatever happened the Honey Monster?

He died of a drug overdose.

stoneill · 20-01-2013 09:37AM

juan.kerr wrote: »

Whatever happened the Honey Monster?

Still producing his vile sperm, putting it into jars, then putting pictures of bees on it.

Ella · 20-01-2013 09:38AM

Jesus no. Makes me gag. Honey and coconut are the devils food.

zcorpian88 · 20-01-2013 09:38AM

Lovely in ready brek, try it if you haven't. Also a good way to get yourself off sugar if you're fond of it in tea.

juan.kerr · 20-01-2013 09:41AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

He died of a drug overdose.

That's sad.

fergiesfolly · 20-01-2013 11:57AM

Before I started reading this thread I was pretty neutral on the whole subject. And now I NEED honey like a junkie needs heroin. Thanks.By the by, whats a decent brand to get, now that I'll be traipsing to the shops soon.

20-01-2013 12:03PM

Got some lovely vanilla honey in germany, gonna be sad when it runs out!

Gummy Panda · 20-01-2013 12:07PM

Yes but I'm afraid of getting stuck in holes because of it

kneemos · 20-01-2013 12:07PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Got some lovely vanilla honey in germany, gonna be sad when it runs out!

Add vanilla to honey,make your own we've given the Germans enough.

Pumpkinseeds · 20-01-2013 12:23PM

I only ever have it in a hot whisky. Funnily enough my Husband recently told me that he always knows that I'm annoyed with him when I call him 'honey', apparently that's the only time that I call him honey. I honestly had no idea that I did that:eek:

lounakin · 20-01-2013 01:45PM

cherryghost wrote: »

Where do they sell Manuka honey in Ireland?

I've bought it from Marks and Sparks but you might also find it in health shops... Fallon &byrnes have it too.

goat2 · 20-01-2013 01:57PM

hfallada wrote: »

I keep my own bees and most people that hate honey like mine. As a majority of honey even it sounds irish produced is chinese and full of anti biotics and was banned by the EU at one stage the level of chemicals was so high.

A local irish produced honey is almost as good as manuka, as manuka has had millions spent on research which a small company company cant afford to show that its honey is as good.

i always buy local source honey like yours, because i beleive it is the envoirnment we live in that the bees also live in that most benefit us,
also i did try that manuka honey, i did not find any benefits, just losses really, a big hole in my shopping budget,
it has been said that you should buy honey that was gathered from beens as local to you as possible for it to have full benefits, and i beleive this.

kylith · 20-01-2013 02:02PM

I love honey. I always have a jar around the house, and have a little spoonful as a treat. Any Manuka honey I've had tastes too medicinal, though, I prefer local honey.

Interesting honey facts:
It's antibiotic, you can smear it on cuts as an aid to healing, and in a hot drink to help with colds
Eating honey produced in your local area can help to allieviate hay fever
Honey has tested better than medicine at relieving some types of coughs
Honey found in the pyramids was still edible, even after thousands of years.

uck51js9zml2yt · 20-01-2013 02:46PM

Mountainsandh wrote: »

every day, with herbal teas, and in porridge.
Some friends of ours send us this massive, 2.5 kg (no kidding) pot of honey from the Black Forest every year, it's beautiful and very different from Irish honey.
Since I love Irish honey too, I sometimes buy a small pot of locally produced one, for a change.

We go through about 6kg from the I laws hives in the Slovak mountains:)

goat2 · 20-01-2013 02:53PM

my family will not let me have a bee hive, they are afraid of getting stung, which means i have to go to local supplier,
i think it is great to have ones own, or at least if one of the family has hives, to have some of that, it is nice to know it is 100% local.
it would be a great idea if there were a bit of information with all local producers that we could call on for a few jars

Do you eat honey?

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