Things I have learnt since becoming rich (a.k.a. fuck you: Nigella and Jamie)

[TheAutumnHere]

1. Having an oven that holds temperature stops cakes falling
2. A stand mixer simplifies baking by a factor of at least 4, and improves the results
3. Branded vacuum cleaners actually remove dirt from the floor
4. Le Creuset pans don't stick, and just wipe clean
5. Baking with children is delightful japes, when timed the morning before the cleaner comes
6. Corn fed chicken is the bomb

Just leaving a note to my past self - who never cut herself any slack and thought she was a slattern and a crap cook.

I thought the “darling of the PTA” stuff was ironic. Obviously so.

Anyway, OP, I couldn’t agree more.

Do people realise how out of reach a magimix is, for people who are struggling? Yes, it is an investment - but it is an investment that many people cannot afford to start with.

In the book of Jamie’s that requires a mixer, he suggests that if you don’t have one then you can chop it all up very finely instead 😂

Or how much getting three different packets of fresh herbs and a packet of bloody pine nuts costs?

I get your point OP.

I totally get you OP. And you’re so right. It’s brave of you to post here because some people will misunderstand and see boastfulness. I know exactly what you mean though. All the work that goes into trying to live is very different once you have a bit more help. It’s not that you didn’t work before. I feel the same way. I’m so sad for my struggling past self. You should see the building work and serious DIY I spent years doing with my bare hands. Crying and saving up for a few tiles at a time. Kitchen built cupboard by cupboard and brought home miles on public transport. (All for an expensive rental flat too) Basic tools bought as I could. Now my body is worn out and I wish I could buy my old self a drill. No childcare, no help with anything. I’m still kind of stuck In many many ways, but I now have my kitchenaid, cordless dyson, Miele oven, etc and I love them and feel extremely fortunate. I wish I could meet my old skinny little self and give her a big hug and take her shopping.

Oh yes. Chopping it up very finely. Then people wonder why many D.C. are put off certain flavours and won’t eat fish stew like the French children. One too many lumps of Finely chopped coriander or shallot stuck in their teeth, I imagine

I had a friend when my first was tiny who was a food snob about her DD only being weaned on organic food and no jars.

Fool me lapped it up - until I came to her house and saw the fridge neatly stacked with those 'Little Dish' type premium baby ready meals.

Idiot me had her grandmother round every sunday batch cooking fucking butternut squash fucking puree to vary up the Heinz jars.

But yeah - those dishes were probably perfectly nutritious.

If anyone reading this is wishing they had the money to spend on either. A kitchen aid or a magimix then please DO NOT BOTHER!!!

I have both! I prefer my old kenwood mixer and food processer and wish I hadn’t given them away.

I get it OP, not sure why some posters are being twats. I laughed at your darling of the PTA comment although you are sounding LaQueen ish.

I lived in a shit, damp council flat on benefits. I was miserable and frozen pizzas for tea on a friday was also a thing. I cleaned and cooked but it was never good enough and my flat didn't feel homely.

Life is different now, I'm better paid, I have a DP who earns decent ish money, we're not rich but we're alright and that's a nice feeling. My new home feels like a home and my cooking is better because I'm happier.

This thread obviously resonates with the been poor and now not and agree, but does it really help people still in that position to feel better? Maybe half do, half don’t.

Money makes life easier. Simple.

Yes OP. Calling yourself rich is crass and tacky. To pretend you can't tell the difference between you doing that, and me explaining in a matter of fact way how you've got a very standard set up, with our own set up purely for comparison, well it's frankly dull. But pretend if you must.

Cash wise, we're not millionaires. Asset wise we are. As are so so many people because house price inflation has made their £200k home from 15yrs ago a ridiculous £850k. They aren't rich either.

You come across very deluded. I'm glad you're happy with your lot, and that's all that matters at the end of the day. Your perspective is way off.

The word millionaire is meaningless now. Your average London terrace house is a million plus. Doesn’t make all the people living in them millionaires.

@tatiana well it does if they own it without a mortgage.

I own my million pound house with no mortgage but I don’t have a million pound in the bank. I am still “worth” over a million.

I use a wooden spoon for all my baking. I’ve got a stand mixer but it’s too much faff using it. Spoon cakes are just as good.

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Yeah I agree that's not an option for everyone. We've managed to squeeze collapsed single beds and chest of drawers into a Polo before, but it's not doable for some cars. I just tend to work with what I have already if it's looking a bit tired, but when you have to move, people forget the costs of moving too. I use Gumtree for smaller items and toys for the kids. I pick up stuff that hasn't even been opened at a fraction of the price, but again, this is reliant on having transport, which you may not have on a low income.

I’m completely confused by your post about your house @Courtney555. Why are you telling us that? Equally confused by weird follow up posts below telling us how much their houses are worth

The term millionaire was coined in the 19c when having a million in assets meant something very different from today.

There are 1000s of people in London and the SE with a million or more in property they didn’t call themselves millionaires.

@Courtney555 @TatianaLarina - saying that your million pound zone 2 terraced house 'doesn't count' in making you rich is the same entitlement that says that a KitchenAid is irrelevant to making good cakes.

I could bloody well tell the difference when I was paying rent on a London shoebox!

These are homes in an active resale market! You can realise your pretend Monopoly money in three months, off the back of some sap like me that has to earn it off a salary.

I like your post and I agree with you. Especially about being May and June😬

don’t not didnt ^^

Mine’s not terraced, but anyway I didn’t say it didn’t make you rich I said it didn’t make you a millionaire.

Another thing I have noticed mopping my porcelain tiles this morning. I used to mop them with a mop until my cleaner asked us to buy a steam mop because they were going all smeary and not coming up clean.

£100 on a shark steam mop and they look lovely. If I was renting my house and didn’t have a spare £100 I’d just be a slattern with smeary floors

I made excellent cakes back in the 70s with a 50s hand blender.

These are homes in an active resale market! You can realise your pretend Monopoly money in three months, off the back of some sap like me that has to earn it off a salary.

And then where would you live?

It’s rather odd to be braggy and chippy simultaneously.

@TatianaLarina . Having a million-pound not-terraced house doesn't make you a millionaire?

It's crass to refer to yourself as rich unless you have a yacht and a golf course? A London property portfolio makes you the squeezed middle?🤣

@TatianaLarina

You'd live in zone 6 flat and commute.

Like people do who haven't had the advantage of having had the funds to get on the property ladder when prices were low - or the luck and effort to snag a high paying job do.

Doesn’t make all the people living in them millionaires.

Tbf the younger generations who have to buy them need to be millionaires to afford them & also to downgrade their expectations eg terrace, no off street parking, small garden