DD found a shopping list in Waitrose

[LemonDrizzle10]

No naice ham
Feet?

Foot file or athletes foot cream

Yes, exactly. Judging someone for the food they buy is so insidious. Let’s give each other a break fgs!

You seem nice 👀

Which is fine if you make it regularly. Otherwise it's buying a bag of flour, a block of butter, a bag of oats, and a bag of sugar. So a mix will be cheaper if only doing a one off.

Also requires a little more confidence - could be someone new to making their own food. Or someone who doesn't feel confident 'baking' something right now for various reasons.

Also making a crumble then requires you to use your fingers to mix and crumble it generally. Arthritis in the fingers would make that really painful - even if only a few minutes for your average person.I'm quite sure there are other medical and/or health conditions which would make it trickier.

So a pretty judgemental comment based on one very short list.

Are you fairly new to MN?
There used to be regular 'seen at Waitrose' shopping list threads on here in the past - and iirr it's where 'naice ham ' was once spotted too.

If people are fascinated by other people's shopping lists, I recommend this Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/305360209661209

People tend not to sneer at people's purchases though, so if you just want to slag people off for not wanting to spend time on making a crumble, it's probably not for you.

The bottom of PIL back garden has a door onto a track that runs down through fields for about 3 miles to another village. It is heaving with blackberries. MIL has frozen lots for winter. The children went collecting with her today and came back with lots and DH has promised he'll make blackberry crumble (or 'blackbry grumble' as DS2 says) with them tomorrow for tea. How do you freeze blackberries? I'm sure my granny stood them in salted water incase there were any insects in them, then rinsed them. Is that right?

Might be fresh cheese sauce, often found near the pasta sauces in Waitrose.

But lots of us aren't lucky enough to live near enough to brambles so we have to rely on Waitrose!

Exactly, cold milk, butter or margarine and some flour. Delia’s all in one method. Grated cheese and seasoning. Job done. 5 minutes.

I give wild blackberries a quick rinse and then freeze. Anything else like a insect adds flavour surely?

It is, but we're kind vegetarians so we soak them in unsalted water and scoop out the insects as they swim out then blow them dry and take them back outside once they've rested.

At least they aren't a judgemental arsehole

Do people really buy blackberries? They are like £4 a punnet, you can pick them for free.
Maybe they have a really busy lifestyle which is why they can’t pick blackberries or make their own crumble topping?

Obviously their feet hurt from being so busy so they want something nice to go on their feet? 🤔

Or could be a 89 year old with arthritis

Culinary Luddite 😂

This seems very invasive! Poor woman (and yes it is almost certainly a woman). Her shopping list posted and someone is calling her lazy already. I’m just impressed she wrote a shopping list and is going to make crumble!

Veet ? (hair removal cream)

My mother usually puts "Teeth" on her shopping list. She means fizzy denture tablets. I can never remember what to search for, so I end up ringing her to ask (I do it online and she WhatsApps me her list)

The first time she wrote teeth, I assumed it was the dogs teeth stuff, so I bought dentistix.

Steradent. That's the stuff.

She also used to write shit like "something to tickle my fancy" She meant a little treat. Again, I'd have to ring her and ask sweet or savoury. Otherwise I'd end up like the Victoria Wood sketch "I couldn't get ya Raspberry yoghurt, Sandra so I got ya a meat and potato pie instead"

Pigs' feet?

Yes just freeze them, I don't want to know what I them. Freeze and they arexdead and your none the wiser

I think the presence of onions attests to the mystery shopper’s cooking skills.

What sort of idle git buys ‘crumble mix’?

Is feet that health type stuff

Lol at getting your mum dentastix !

Some people need to get with the shopping list programme! People put the weirdest shit on their lists (and I always leave mine in the basket in the hope it makes a MN shopping list thread).