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Should have got some pork scratchings!

i had a piece and egg for breakfast yesterday, copious amounts of fosters through the day, and a mattesons smoked sausage when i got in.

eatin's cheating.

;D

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"a piece and egg" ????? is it some northern delicacy?

;)

egg sarnie.

i'm guess it comes from "a piece of bread" ........... perhaps the weegies can enlighten us.

;D

Piece is Midland speak for sandwich!   ;)

midlands and beyond then !   ;D

Seeing how these ready meals are prepared really put us off eating anything ready made. In the last few months since weve had our allotment we have eaten more veg than ever. I think lots of people just haven't got the time to be inventive.Take courgettes for instance, I know more ways of cooking them now than I ever did, due to planting too many.lol. but  it takes time and effort. People live such fast lives now that they don't have much time for the basic things. Maybe it's my age but I like good wholesome grub.

going back to keef's original posting....everyone can have what they want?....where's the family evening meal gone? anyone else remember having to eat what mum had cooked - like it or not :o - and never, ever in front of the television?

for me (note no caps, btw? it's sunday, don't do caps on sunday, caps day off) only ready prepared stuff i can think of ... filled pasta, but that's served either in a soup (like last night) or with a sauce (the night before last) so both aren't ready meals?.....pizza, basic cheese'n'tom base with added stuff when I'm watching golf, so quite recently then with the Ryder Cup(important enough to break the no-caps-cos-it's sunday rule), and world cup footies, again not a 'ready'...but my all-time weakness and third on my list is......cheap, but cheap fish fingers - no fish in them i'd think but i'm hooked on them. and they've gotta be served with tinned marrowfat  peas AND potatoes from the garden ;D still involve some cooking then..

Fish finger butties!  with tartare sauce!!  mmmmmm!!! :P

mmmmmmmmm fish fingers, they were probably the first convenience food we all had !   ;D

Not me, KP...my first convenience food was...........Vesta curries :o See that they're making a retro come-back, tho why they didn't make an immediate come-back after eating remains one of the mysteries of life - were just the job after a saturday lunchtime session at the pub ;D

all that dried and then reconstituted bits of unidentifyable thingies !  ah, we knew how to live dangerously in those days ;D

The only ready meals we have are chinese & indian take aways or pizza. Oh, and the japanese noodle soups I get from the wholesaler and I check the label ofn those.  We have a "left- over" freezer for when we want instant supper.

I won't buy supermarket/other ready meals and haven't done for the past 3 years (we were cookerless for 6 weeks). Having just finished "Not on the label" by Felicity Lawrence, I never will again. Ever.

Actual ready meals, no, I don't bother because they're usually (a) very mean portions and (b) not very nice.

I am very occasionally tempted by something on the "eat today or die" reduced shelf.  Most spectacular failure: Sainsbury's Cantonese Banquet which was so that even the dog wouldn't eat it.  Best surprise:  Tesco's lamb shanks in some sort of sauce.  Really good.    Mind you, we had fresh veg with it, it wasn't a complete ready meal.

Quote from: MrsKP on October 08, 2006, 08:07:03
i had a piece and egg for breakfast yesterday,
;D

one of us....one of us.......one of us.  ;)

i cook from scratch most of the time, and freeze things like mince, strew, soups casseroles etc..... but frozen ready meals are a godsend when you've got to get the weans from school, fed, homework done and at a tae kwon do class within an hour. espcialy when you get to the school gate and you've suddenly got another one or two coming home with you. i work a couple of night shifts a week, so sometimes get very little sleep. chicken nuggets, burgers etc come in handy.  oh and then theres the last few days before pay day...... when a lot of wierd and wornderful food gets rustled up .'that will do you good' 'there's children starving in the world' my personal favourite.  ;D

Vesta curries were the only thing I ever learnt to 'cook' when I was a kid. Then I went to college and had to learn by trial and (mostly) error.

   Always cook fresh..............tis the best way

  Oh and by the way these fritters are to die for  ;)

   http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-courgette-fritters-with-yoghurt

I cant seem to cook ready meals. I just dont think that I am a techno cook!

Hi there jaggy thistle. Another courgette recipe under my belt for next year. Thats a great website. have added it to my favourites so that I won't forget where it is. Thanks for sharing with us

Try finding ones without Lactose..... you soon know if you haven't... about two hours usually.... and most cook in sauces are packed with it....
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