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Alun · 14-03-2014 09:44AM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Oh I know, I hate throwing things out. This fridge is 15 years old so it has well served it's time.

My freezer is over 30

IvyTheTerrible · 14-03-2014 09:50AM

Alun wrote: »

My freezer is over 30

Touché!

Animord · 14-03-2014 04:29PM

Hi, I don't know how anyone else is feeling but I have been totally meh about food for the last three weeks or so - just couldn't be bothered - I don't think I have eaten a single vegetable for weeks and pretty much all my meals have been sausage based... does this happen to anyone one else or is it just me?:mad:

MissFlitworth · 14-03-2014 04:46PM

I go through phases like that. A couple of times a year I'll go through a bout of basically just eating food that's a golden brown colour - goujons, onion rings, wedges, toast when I have to cook for myself. Normally when I'm wrecked, ill or sometimes in the bowels of Winter when I miss sunlight so much I'm 100% pure mope

Animord · 14-03-2014 04:49PM

MissFlitworth wrote: »

I go through phases like that. A couple of times a year I'll go through a bout of basically just eating food that's a golden brown colour - goujons, onion rings, wedges, toast when I have to cook for myself. Normally when I'm wrecked, ill or sometimes in the bowels of Winter when I miss sunlight so much I'm 100% pure mope

Exactly! I am sure mine is weather related. I have survived on Toad in the hole and French toast for weeks now! Am going for cottage pie this evening as a sort of comforting way to ease myself back into actually eating real food. clearly I shall be opening a bottle of red to go with it. It is too early?

Merkin · 14-03-2014 04:56PM

It's NEVER too early Animord. If you're embarrassed about the time, just reassure yourself by saying "well it's noon in St. Petersburg, or noon in Delhi or insert appropriate time zone here)

Animord · 14-03-2014 05:00PM

Merkin wrote: »

It's NEVER too early Animord. If you're embarrassed about the time, just reassure yourself by saying "well it's noon in St. Petersburg, or noon in Delhi or insert appropriate time zone here)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU&feature=kp

Merkin · 14-03-2014 05:02PM

Bahahahaha brilliant

Faith · 14-03-2014 06:22PM

Animord wrote: »

Hi, I don't know how anyone else is feeling but I have been totally meh about food for the last three weeks or so - just couldn't be bothered - I don't think I have eaten a single vegetable for weeks and pretty much all my meals have been sausage based... does this happen to anyone one else or is it just me?:mad:

Definitely! If it weren't for having to cook for my fiancé, there'd be very long periods in my life where everything I ate was brown and processed.

Animord · 14-03-2014 07:03PM

Faith wrote: »

Definitely! If it weren't for having to cook for my fiancé, there'd be very long periods in my life where everything I ate was brown and processed.

Lol, I hereby raise a glass of RED wine to BROWN food. I have had two (large) glasses of wine since my original post and I may just let the Cottage pie cool and freeze it and resort to cheese on toast. I also have a family pack of Crunchies - toast, red wine and crunchies is a balanced diet right?

Animord · 14-03-2014 07:07PM

Update: Cottage pie has overflowed into big brown mess at the bottom of the oven. I give up. Healthy food is far too difficult.

I think I need help.

<pours more wine>

MissFlitworth · 14-03-2014 07:09PM

Close the door on the cottage pie and eat more crunchies. Cottage pie overflow sounds like a problem for Saturday You

Animord · 14-03-2014 07:16PM

MissFlitworth wrote: »

Close the door on the cottage pie and eat more crunchies. Cottage pie overflow sounds like a problem for Saturday You

Ok. I am choosing to take this as official Boards.ie advice and am going to have more wine/crunchies for dinner.

On the upside I have my mother's steam cleaner and lots of nurofen so I guess I know what tomorrow holds.

Faith · 14-03-2014 07:33PM

For the second day running, I've put off making a stew. Yesterday we had takeaway, today we ate lunch out so it's a small dinner for us. I REALLY must make it tomorrow!

MissFlitworth · 14-03-2014 07:44PM

Animord wrote: »

On the upside I have my mother's steam cleaner and lots of nurofen so I guess I know what tomorrow holds.

Taking some nurofen & inviting your mam round to have a go of her steam cleaner?

Animord · 14-03-2014 08:55PM

Dear God, no. Mother is safely two counties away. Tomorrow holds neurofen breakfast, followed by sausages, as mentioned above, and then a little leisurely steam cleaning. Possibly some netflixing (is that a verb?) and then a little hair of the dog that is currently biting me. Well that's the plan anyway.

GalwayGuy2 · 14-03-2014 09:57PM

Hmmmm, anybody use natural greek yoghurt as a healthy replacement for sour cream?

I added to a curry and it really tastes the same.

the beer revolu · 15-03-2014 08:04AM

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

Hmmmm, anybody use natural greek yoghurt as a healthy replacement for sour cream?

I added to a curry and it really tastes the same.

I use that quite a bit. Love the Lidl one.

The Black Oil · 15-03-2014 01:05PM

Tater tots, hadn't heard of them until this morning. Apparently, you can also do a casserole with them.

MissFlitworth · 15-03-2014 01:32PM

You & I have a psychic connection. Was doing some research on places to eat on holidays (in 6 months, I like to be prepared) and came across a bar where the house speciality is some form of gourmet tater tot with pork cracklings in. Not entirely sure what they are mind you, little baby rostis?

Faith · 15-03-2014 03:30PM

I always imagined them as being small croquettes! I don't know why though, that's not based on anything other than my imagination.

Animord · 15-03-2014 03:45PM

mmmmmm, more brown food!

tater tots

StripedBoxers · 15-03-2014 05:47PM

Someone stole €30 worth of meat from my shopping trolley yesterday.

Among the different meats were the duck fillets we got for dinner on Monday. A rare treat as they are quite expensive so we were really looking forward to them.

Who, in all honesty steals meat? Is it not a really odd thing to steal, or is it just me?

Animord · 15-03-2014 05:49PM

What? How weird, how did it happen?

StripedBoxers · 15-03-2014 05:56PM

Animord wrote: »

What? How weird, how did it happen?

I don't know how it happened to be honest. I know when we left the butchers, my boyfriend carried the bags and I said to him to put them in the trolley and he did, I remember seeing them in the trolley, and it was when we were getting into the taxi I thought there was a bag missing but just assumed he had shoved it into another bag or something, but when I was sorted the meat out to freeze it I noticed the bag of meat was missing.

Steak, duck fillets, garlic chicken and other bits and pieces in it. All gone. Raging.

Its so strange. Why steal meat? It doesn't make sense, to me anyway.

Animord · 15-03-2014 05:58PM

I don't blame you, I'd be raging too. People do very odd things!

IvyTheTerrible · 15-03-2014 06:00PM

StripedBoxers wrote: »

I don't know how it happened to be honest. I know when we left the butchers, my boyfriend carried the bags and I said to him to put them in the trolley and he did, I remember seeing them in the trolley, and it was when we were getting into the taxi I thought there was a bag missing but just assumed he had shoved it into another bag or something, but when I was sorted the meat out to freeze it I noticed the bag of meat was missing.

Steak, duck fillets, garlic chicken and other bits and pieces in it. All gone. Raging.

Its so strange. Why steal meat? It doesn't make sense, to me anyway.

People are oportunists. It's mad the things people will steal just because they are there.

dipdip · 15-03-2014 06:35PM

Oh I'm sorry. What a horrible surprise when you got home.

Try to think of it this way. Perhaps you fed a hungry family who needed it. No consolation, but maybe they really were in need.

StripedBoxers · 15-03-2014 07:21PM

dipdip wrote: »

Oh I'm sorry. What a horrible surprise when you got home.

Try to think of it this way. Perhaps you fed a hungry family who needed it. No consolation, but maybe they really were in need.

I don't mean to come across as a b!tch, but, I can't exactly afford to feed a family. Myself and my boyfriend can afford to feed ourselves and the occasional treat.

There are plenty of organisations around who help out families in need with food packages, food vouchers etc, being in need isn't a good enough excuse/reason to steal from someone else. I mean, if I can afford to help someone out, I will, and I have done, but stealing?

For all that person knows I could be starving for the week now. I mean, I'm not, but how do they know that? They don't, instead they thought "feck it" and decided to help themselves, absolutely nothing can justify or excuse such behaviour.

Many times I have been stuck for cash and not been able to afford x, y or z, but that doesn't mean it's okay for me to go out and steal from someone else.

MissFlitworth · 15-03-2014 07:26PM

We don't have a 'Here's What I Had for Afternoon Tea' thread so here's what I had for afternoon tea!

Sandwiches (egg, cucumber, chewy beef, salmon), Scones with clotted cream & jam, lemon & poppy seed loaf, mini white chocolate & strawberry tart, pistachio macarons, a fruit & mousse thingy, chocolate cup with hazelnut mousse.

The usual thing with Afternoon Tea though, it's always prettier than it is tasty, some of it was way overly sweet and a little on the 'did this come from a packet?' (chocolate cups, mini pastry cases) side. I think it's the Merrion or bust next time!

The red velvet cupcake was good though, very good. Much better than the normal nasty vanilla muffin dyed red business

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