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lanthanum · 26/08/2023 23:39

GetWhatYouWant · 26/08/2023 19:39

What strikes me is that this person is so lazy and/or an utterly crap cook. Ready made cheese sauce is bad enough but I didn't even know ready prepared crumble mix existed, it's only sugar, flour butter and maybe oats, takes seconds to make!
Feet - maybe foot cream/ foot scrub/ deodorant? Or maybe nothing to do with Waitrose, maybe a reminder to book a chiropodist?

Crumble takes rather more than seconds if you don't have a mixer/food processor. (I have bad memories of making it at school - my mum sent me with larger quantities than specified, not realising we'd be rubbing the crumble mix by hand. The two of us from large families were there half of lunchtime. What gets me is that there must have been at least one mixer around - surely they could have taken pity on us and let us use it for our extra quantities.)

HappiDaze · 26/08/2023 23:41

It was looking quite banal until

FEET

Notcontent · 26/08/2023 23:43

Merapi · 26/08/2023 19:58

Only in Waitrose. Blackberries 😂
Every hedge in the country is absolutely heaving with them for free.

You must realise not everyone’s life and environment is the same? I live in London and don’t have a car. So if I want some blackberries then yes, I will need to walk to my local Waitrose…

RainbowZebraWarrior · 26/08/2023 23:43

EbiRaisukaree · 26/08/2023 23:12

Robert Popper, comic writer and genius behind Friday Night Dinner, writes fictional and bemusing shopping lists and leaves them in trollies for all of you people to find.

I do find mocking the list of the clearly dyslexic or poorly educated person above a bit much though, people.

I had to Google this... there's loads of them on the Web, as well as articles about it.

Here's one for starters

michalwave · 26/08/2023 23:44

Thedoor · 26/08/2023 22:51

Diet cock ck rather than ke, so continuing that spelling theme they want a bloke, possibly a Jewish one, not a block, which will get them a cock, no guarentees of if its the diet size though.
Where can you buy 5 eggs though?

Morrisons sells eggs in singles, they were 20p each last year but suspect have gone up now.

Takethefrickinhintalready · 26/08/2023 23:47

DyslexicPoster · 26/08/2023 20:33

I don't think it's to judge and mock. People like a nosy at others' lives. It's just idle curiosity, isn't it? Wonder what they are planning with these ingredients, etc.

OP can't be held responsible if others are agast that it's not full of organic spelt to be milled at home for bread. Which is all that my Waitrose list had this week, by the way. Also, clay, to fire my own crumble dish in, of course

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This is class 😆

Thelonelygiraffe · 26/08/2023 23:56

What an un-confident cook!

Spinninggyro · 27/08/2023 00:06

I reckon this list is written by someone who is pregnant, needs ready made sauce etc to cut down on time in the kitchen due to many foods they usually love making her feel sick and the feet is due to her feet hurting so she needs something to sooth them as she’s running round after her two year old all day.

CallieQ · 27/08/2023 01:04

GetWhatYouWant · 26/08/2023 19:39

What strikes me is that this person is so lazy and/or an utterly crap cook. Ready made cheese sauce is bad enough but I didn't even know ready prepared crumble mix existed, it's only sugar, flour butter and maybe oats, takes seconds to make!
Feet - maybe foot cream/ foot scrub/ deodorant? Or maybe nothing to do with Waitrose, maybe a reminder to book a chiropodist?

Wow so judgy for the person who never asked for their shopping list to be posted on MN. Who cares if they use ready made sauce and crumble mix

FictionalCharacter · 27/08/2023 03:24

I’m just wondering why they weren’t sure whether or not they wanted bread!

Gingerkittykat · 27/08/2023 05:34

GetWhatYouWant · 26/08/2023 19:39

What strikes me is that this person is so lazy and/or an utterly crap cook. Ready made cheese sauce is bad enough but I didn't even know ready prepared crumble mix existed, it's only sugar, flour butter and maybe oats, takes seconds to make!
Feet - maybe foot cream/ foot scrub/ deodorant? Or maybe nothing to do with Waitrose, maybe a reminder to book a chiropodist?

The ready made crumble mix is great for me who rarely has sugar, flour or oats in my kitchen. You just rub in butter from what I remember of using them in the past.

The only reason I tend to have flour in the house is to make a roux to make cheese sauce for cauli or macaroni, I agree ready made cheese sauce is an abomination.

tectonicplates · 27/08/2023 06:15

Notcontent · 26/08/2023 23:43

You must realise not everyone’s life and environment is the same? I live in London and don’t have a car. So if I want some blackberries then yes, I will need to walk to my local Waitrose…

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There’s plenty of blackberries in London, and I don’t have a car either. I pick them nearly every year.

MissingMoominMamma · 27/08/2023 06:41

EinyLinky · 26/08/2023 19:53

I think I'm more surprised that a shopping list was picked up and purposely taken home and photographed 😂

There used to be threads dedicated to this!!

fluffiphlox · 27/08/2023 07:51

cloudydays2 · 26/08/2023 21:32

What kind of idle git can’t read a post to see that there are many people who would buy it ? 🙂

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That would be me 😉

Whataretheodds · 27/08/2023 07:53

GetWhatYouWant · 26/08/2023 19:39

What strikes me is that this person is so lazy and/or an utterly crap cook. Ready made cheese sauce is bad enough but I didn't even know ready prepared crumble mix existed, it's only sugar, flour butter and maybe oats, takes seconds to make!
Feet - maybe foot cream/ foot scrub/ deodorant? Or maybe nothing to do with Waitrose, maybe a reminder to book a chiropodist?

ODFOD

TallerThanAverage · 27/08/2023 08:06

EbiRaisukaree · 26/08/2023 23:08

Packet cheese sauce mix: 45p. Half pint of milk: ~40p. Total ~85p.

Made at home: milk: ~40p. Butter: £1.80. Flour: 55p for 500g own brand. Cheese: ~ £2.50 for a block. Total: £5.25.

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I suppose it’s what you grew up with, my mum used to make a cheese sauce for lasagne, cauliflower cheese or whatever so I’ve always made it. I would have all the ingredients in. For a pint of milk you only need a couple of ounces of butter and flour and you wouldn’t need a whole block of cheese. If I had run out of everything and was buying from Waitrose
milk 95p
cheese £1.60 - use half 80p
flour 50p - use 10% - 5p
butter or margarine £1.50 - use 10% 15p

shopping £4.55, cheese sauce £1.95
luckily I’ve never had to work out the exact costings of a meal. I’m making a cheese sauce today for cannelloni and like I said I have the ingredients generally so I wouldn’t think of buying a packet cheese sauce. But that said I’ve got a packet of powder for tuna pasta bake in the cupboard and we’re having that in the week.

LBFseBrom · 27/08/2023 08:26

LemonDrizzle10 · 26/08/2023 19:29

No naice ham
Feet?

Don't be stupid.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 27/08/2023 09:11

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

Yes. Thank you. I live alone. Occasionally in winter I fancy a crumble for dessert. I buy crumble mix rather than all the ingredients. Pleading guilty to being lazy, altho at least I'm not sneering at people who might be (or the crap cooks either).

feralunderclass · 27/08/2023 09:22

I watch Criminal Minds have experience in forensic psychology and I would hazard a guess that the gap between the obvious food shopping list and feet points to a clear demarcation in the perpetrator's mind. Rest assured that the feet had nothing to do with food shopping.

Nanaof1 · 27/08/2023 10:03

UndercoverCop · 26/08/2023 22:25

What is Chex mix bold?!

It's a snack food. Different Chex cereal mixed with savory herbs and some spice. There are also rye chips, pretzels and cracker thingies in it. It's "bold" because it has more flavoring and a bit more a kick than traditional Chex Mix.

Bold • Chex Mix

https://www.chexmix.com/products/chex-mix-bold/

NeverDropYourMooncup · 27/08/2023 10:10

fluffiphlox · 26/08/2023 21:02

What sort of idle git buys ‘crumble mix’?

One that can't carry butter, sugar, oats and flour back home along with 4pts of milk and 4 types of cheese on top of everything else - certainly not with painful feet.

Poor woman. She's being coated off for not having hand dexterity to rub fat into flour, not being able to stand up in the kitchen for long, not having the grip strength to grate cheese, not being able to carry (or maybe afford) multiple ingredients, not being able to go blackberrying outside a city centre like a 35 year old with husband and two children can, not having a car, having to keep to a budget - and for looking after her painful feet.

Nanaof1 · 27/08/2023 10:11

bunnywarren · 26/08/2023 22:39

I work in a supermarket and someone left a small shopping list (written on the back of an old lottery ticket) at the back of a checkout recently.
We're still stumped by one of the things ('BLOCK'?) but loved the little drawing of the pyramid teabags!
Some of the others took a bit of working out.

There is so much there to comment upon, that I think I'll just keep staring at the list , laughing and shaking my head. She should have spelled q-u-i-c-h-e as
q-u-i-c-k-i-e, just in keeping with the theme and all. 😆😎😉

Nanaof1 · 27/08/2023 10:12

Thedoor · 26/08/2023 22:51

Diet cock ck rather than ke, so continuing that spelling theme they want a bloke, possibly a Jewish one, not a block, which will get them a cock, no guarentees of if its the diet size though.
Where can you buy 5 eggs though?

That makes the "quickie" fit in perfectly!

Wednesdaysotherchild · 27/08/2023 10:18

I don’t pick blackberries as the wild birds and animals need them more than I do. I leave brambles growing for the purpose in the wild margins of the garden.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 27/08/2023 10:22

bunnywarren · 26/08/2023 22:39

I work in a supermarket and someone left a small shopping list (written on the back of an old lottery ticket) at the back of a checkout recently.
We're still stumped by one of the things ('BLOCK'?) but loved the little drawing of the pyramid teabags!
Some of the others took a bit of working out.

Baking block.

It's specifically for making things like pastry short/crispy - top brands include Echo/Stork/Willow, but most of the supermarkets do their own version.

It's an alternative to using half butter, half lard.