Thanks twass . Yep me too but my mum would always edge the bread out of the wrapper so it wasn't until the end that I would hear that tone in my mum's voice as she called out my name ... then I knew what was coming.

So many young folk seem to lack even basic knowledge regarding cookery or nutrition. If they can't nuke it or take straight from freezer to oven they don't want to know Yet with less expense and only a little knowledge they could eat something vastly superior. It seems that the skills passed down for countless generations are being lost!

Oh dear god I'm sounding so old!!

It sneaks up on us so sudden and unexpected

One thing I never understand is this myth how the young claim it's too expensive to cook with fresh proper healthy food as opposed to frozen and junk. It's insane

This week I've fed myself and my brother most adequately on
1 bag of potato's - £1.49
1 bag of carrots - 39p
1 bag from frozen peas - £1
Onions - 99p

All made in to yummy casseroles (Gravy - £1) with a variety of Quorn products (no more than £2 a bag) with mashed potato's and my only cheat is the accompanying frozen yorkie puds (Aunt bessies - £1.50 for a dozen)

A whole weeks healthy meals for pennies!

It also takes no longer to prepare and cook than dragging some shyte out of the freezer and sticking it in the oven !!!!!

Very true Moose. I shall be dining on a 40p cauliflower got from the local farm shop covered in cheese. Perfectly nutritious! The home made cheese sauce would cost maybe another 40p including the cheese. Yet their idea of dinner is a cardboardy pizza costing four times as much.

I read some eye opening facts the other day.

- A fifth of young adults think fish fingers are actually made from the fingers of fish.

- A quarter (25 per cent) are ‘confused’ about whether wasps make honey.

- One in six (15 per cent) think bees make syrup.

- And of those who actually do know bees make honey, one in eight (12 per cent) of them believe farmers have to ‘squeeze’ bees to get honey out of the pointy bit at the end.

- Nine per cent think potatoes grow on trees.

Absorb those FACTS whilst I go and milk my pet wasps.

Same here. At the weekend I made a bean and root veg cassarole, consisting of an onion, 2 carrots, 1/4 small swede, a large parship, 1/4 butter nut squash, half a leek, a red pepper and a large apple. 400 grams of borlotti beans - dried and rehydrated overnight. It also had a quarter botle of cider. ( iHad the rest with the first of the 3 potions it made.) I had it with herby dumplings.
I bet each portion came to less than 50p.

Last night I did a pasta thing with
3 large florets of brocolli, say 1/4 of a head that cost 42p
half a leek maybe 15p
about 25gms of bacon bits,(500gms for 81p)
Pasta (say 10p 500gms for 59p) and
a table spoon of creme fraiche - tub cost 59 from aldi
Again about 50p

You made dumpling out of an old VW Beetle that drives itself?

And hand embossed each one with the number 53!

i can see you take great pride in your dumplings.

Those are very much the sorts of things I eat. Often its a case of using up what is there....sometimes resulting in a creation rather than a recipe as such but it's usually perfectly nice and edible! More so than a frozen monstrosity made of reconstituted this that and the other

You cannot be serious.

My dumplings are a mini phenomena Picto. Two mini phenomena in fact!

Is there a euphemism in here somewheres??

somewhere!

I'm trying to give up sexual innuendos but it's so hard.

What you need is a new interest to stimulate you.

I've got one. I've been throwing a stick 5 miles and teaching my dog to bring it back!

Does that sound a bit far fetched?

I think you're barking

I have just bought a dog so at least someone is happy to see me when I come home.

My groanometer is going off the charts!! It's dangerous in here

Moose, how would your humunguous moggie shape up against THESE fur babies???

http://www.earthables.com/massive-cats-1479714556.html

Flippin heck this is beginning to scare me now. Is this some sort of cat mutation we are seeing.

I reckon the cat food companies are putting growth hormone in the mix!

They're just normal sized cats held by very small people.

Borrowers??