I'd love it! Oh , you meant the harddisk? Er..I shall pass this time.I do like free things though. What can I say?I'm a miser scrounger
Sending a gal to bed disappointed , how could you?!

Hmmm. Thats what all the girls say to me afterwards.....

After what?

After eights? You should take tips from your "collection"

Apparently, 5 loaves and 2 fish can serve 5000 people. Profits are going to be down at Tesco's.

We can't really call that breaking news though, tescos have been living with that for some time.

"New And Improved"

If it's new, how can it be an improvement?

If it's been improved, how can it be new?

I'm pretty lazy about food.

I make batches of my own microwave dinners. Make big stew/bolognese/whatever. Eat once and freeze in boxes. Come home from work, take box from freezer, microwave. No great effort and good for you too.

I also roast a chicken and have it once hot and twice cold with salad and bread. There's only me and child though.

I really admire those who work and then come home and cook for a big family. I'm exhausted when I get back from work - cooking rice can seem like a chore.

That's exactly what I do. It's not lazy it's efficient time management. It's also much healthier than using ready meals.

That's what I do. It's just as easy to make a massive curry, chilli, bolognese or whatever.

We do that too, double quantities when we cook, the other half goes in the freezer.

Yay - great minds think alike.

I can't make a small anything really. Curry, stew, chilli, etc. are much easier to make in reasonably big batches. I have a sort of random rolling programme as well, so theres usually a bit of variety available. This means you only make one big thing every week or two - hardly hard. And then you intersperse it with a pizza here and a straightforward dinner there, on a Friday usually, when I don't work.

Don't feel so lazy now.

It doesn't have to defrost?

I hardly ever freeze things apart from bread.

If it's already cooked, you just nuke it till it's hot.

A very useful scale - now, what they call a meal on an aircraft must rank at about minus seven at best.

I'm guessing it'd take around 5-7 minutes then...?

Mother freezes pasta, but I tend to do my stuff on a day to day basis (I buy the ingredients after work).

Depends on your microwave and what, and how much you're nuking (to use Maw's phrase).

Enough for two, stew, four minutes to defrost, stir a bit, stick it in for another 4 or so. Do it another minute or two if you're not sure. It's really straightforward. If you cook everyday, Christmascake, and there's only one of you it can be a pain. 'Use a quarter of a carrot, 3 mushrooms, a third of an onion', etc.

Ewwwwiesss, mushrooms.

I'd be happy in a world with no mushrooms. It'd have to have honey roasted parsnips though, they're gorge.

I'm with you on the mushrooms, but parsnips! Euch! I'm a major fan of my own dwarf french beans though, I can just wander down the garden with the colander and pick enough for 4. Now they take 5 minutes, is that nearly a ready meal?

I love airline food.

You need help, girl, and urgently. I have to confess I like air hostesses

Watch yourself MAW - your appetite is showing.

I have a very large appetite.

The sole purpose of a "serving" is so that they can quote the serving size, rather than the actual product size, when printing the amount of fat, salt, whatever on the packaging.

I'd say they're not lying. All they are claiming is that it is physically possible to divide the enclosed material into 4 equal parts.

your right must be a lot of the little green men about LOL.

The other thing is these new meals in posh restaurants, I mean why the hell cant they put sauce over the meat not just DRIBBLE IT in some weird picasso pattern with so little of it you have to lick the plate to get a taste LOL.

You would never get fat if you ate in a posh restaurant thats for sure.