DD found a shopping list in Waitrose

[LemonDrizzle10]

No naice ham
Feet?

So what was even the point of your comment? 🙄

Qilin merely explained by mix packs are useful for some people, and you had to make a pointless comment about staples which she already knows.

And I think you must be an exceptionally bad baker if you can’t make a Betty Crocker mix taste good.

I found one in big Tesco. I hope they got the gin.

One with limited access/budget to buying full packs of flour, sugar, butter and oats when they don't cook enough to justify it. Packet mix is cheaper if just a one off every so often.

Someone with a medical condition which makes using your fingers painful.

Someone new to cooking for themselves or new to making a dessert at home.

Someone who is lacking in confidence but wants to have a go as a one off to start with.

Someone who isn't as judgemental as yourself perhaps?!

People are in a tizzy about crumble mix but no one bats an eyelid at the suggestion that we should all be out foraging our own blackberries? All the brambles near me are either festooned with the lovely baubles that ever considerate dog owners leave or fully juiced up on exhaust fumes…

I would be in seventh heaven! Blackberries and raspberries are my favorite fruits/berries. I am so jealous! 😊😉

You do realise that butter, flour, oats and sugar can be used for many other things? For many of us they are store cupboard staples.

Of course

But just because they see for me and some others, they really aren't for many many people.

I use butter daily and some sugar and flour to justify buying them in. I don't use oats normally so would need to buy in specially. As it happens I don't really make crumbles so don't need to.

However some people simply don't have these things in regularly or as staples.

And for some the simple act of rubbing a crumble together is painful. A crumble mix needs far less rubbing in - have seen it used with children with send and they found it easier than the desperate ingredients. I'd assume the same would be the same for someone with painful arthritis in their fingers.

And plums, with the added fun of a built in game at the end, tinker tailor , soldier sailor….

I bought both blackberries and crumble mix recently! The blackberries near me are very much shriveled up and it was about or under a quid for crumble mix vs having to buy all the other stuff which I wouldn't use.

Jeez, get a life.

Do read properly. I said “for many”, not everyone.

So why post a reply to my comment then? As I clearly said some people, not all - so yes for some people they are staples, for ti there they aren't.

Not sure what else your point was?!

Maybe, but it's true!

I’ve bought crumble mix before. Oh and ready made cheese sauce. So shoot me 🤷‍♀️

Dogs gravy! Is that to pour over the dogs bollix? I imagine the dog turning up its nose and giving its anxious parents the cold shoulder if its steak dinner isn’t finished off with a good glug of bisto.

Years ago a farmer we knew said I could go up onto his land where there were bushes loaded with blackberries easy to reach. I phoned a friend to ask her if she'd like to come, Oh no, I don't want to get my hands scratched. Twenty minutes after I drove by her house on my way home she was on the phone 'I'm coming over to collect my blackberries'!

Given that feet is separate to the rest of the list, maybe it means something like take dc to get feet measured (like in Clarks for school shoes or something)?

Lots of people can't rub in the flour and butter if they have arthritis, so unless they have a food blender I can see why crumble mix is a good option.

I hope you didn’t give her any?!

F ect?

I am sure that the people criticizing the person's list because it has pre-made cheese sauce and crumble mix churn their own butter, age their own cheese and roll their own pasta. I mean, they must...right?

People who get judgemental about people using mixes are annoying and smug.

As well as ready made crumble mix and cheese sauce I also buy gravy granules and instant coffee. No doubt I’d be considered lazy on here but I’ve also brought up two children by myself (no shared care), worked and then cared full time for a parent with dementia but if buying a few convenience items makes a person lesser then that’s your prerogative. As someone once said Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom.

I split my lists like this too.
Food shop items from the top down, pharmacy/misc other items from the bottom of the list up.

Dont understand why on earth you posted it on here though. I see lists left behind in the basket rack every other time I shop, dont really care what other shoppers buy to read them.

Exactly, I live alone and butter, sugar and oats aren't part of my staple diet. I've bought butter and sugar before to make a small crumble and ended up throwing most of it away (and feeling guilty about doing so) as so much was left over. I never thought of buying a packet but will going forward!

Is the one item "dogs gravy"?

I like the last list I wrote for DH to pick up.
Chex Mix-Bold
Chex Mix-Bold
Chex Mix-Bold
Vegetable and Meat for dinner tonight
Chex Mix-Bold

He called me and asked if he should pick up some Chex Mix-Bold as I hadn't made it clear.
Yeah, 45 years and he's still a smart-azz. 😄😍💖

What is Chex mix bold?!

Me too!