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DD found a shopping list in Waitrose

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LemonDrizzle10 · 26/08/2023 19:29

No naice ham
Feet?

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Wilkolampshade · 27/08/2023 10:43

Meh. I've cooked for my family for nearly 30 years. Done all the menu planning, shopping.... Don't drive, so lugged kilos of shopping home multiple times a week. No one else has stepped in, not once. And that's fine. I've always cooked from scratch and am a damn good cook. If, now my kids have left home, I chose to go and buy crumble mix, or ready made cheese sauce I'd think anyone judging that could pretty much fuck off.

LadyEloise1 · 27/08/2023 10:45

I'd say she/ he is going for a pedicure or making an appointment for one. It is a to do list.

Or perhaps they sell crubeens in Waitrose.
Crubeens are a specialty dish in Ireland - pig's feet.
I saw them recently on sale at the English Market in Cork.
The late Queen Elizabeth visited it on her visit to Ireland to much fanfare.
I'm not sure she had crubeens though. Smile

fluffiphlox · 27/08/2023 10:57

NeverDropYourMooncup · 27/08/2023 10:10

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.

You may have a point. However I’m in my sixties and if butter needs rubbing in I use the Kenwood. I had no idea that there was even a thing called ’crumble mix’. But then I was amazed at ready-peeled potatoes and frozen roast spuds.

Merapi · 27/08/2023 11:14

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…

Well doh.

Every urban environment has waste ground with brambles on it. Every city has parks and playing fields surrounded by hedges. It is simply a case of looking. Seek and ye shall find. But people can't be bothered with putting in the time and effort, so they throw money at Waitrose instead.

MonumentalLentil · 27/08/2023 11:15

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 😂

You might not have been here, but a few years ago finding a shopping list and posting it on MN was 'a thing'.

MonumentalLentil · 27/08/2023 11:19

longestlurkerever · 26/08/2023 20:20

Obviously you get scratched to buggery which is why blackberries cost £££ to buy but rhubarb makes a good crumble too

Apricots... with an oaty topping. I think I found the recipe in one of the Cranks books about a million years ago. Served with yogurt.

MonumentalLentil · 27/08/2023 11:27

Fluffyowl00 · 26/08/2023 21:40

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

Assume the Bran Flakes and Loo rolls might be connected in some way.

MonumentalLentil · 27/08/2023 11:33

bunnywarren · 26/08/2023 22:45

PyongyangKipperbang We think the '2 craps' is actually '2 grapes'. Punnets of grapes.
Hope so, anyway!

Crepes.
Jews?? looking at the things next to them I was thinking bagels or maybe has to be Kosher.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 27/08/2023 11:36

fluffiphlox · 27/08/2023 10:57

You may have a point. However I’m in my sixties and if butter needs rubbing in I use the Kenwood. I had no idea that there was even a thing called ’crumble mix’. But then I was amazed at ready-peeled potatoes and frozen roast spuds.

They're not cheap, though - and need somewhere to store them on a counter if you can't manage lifting them up and down from a cupboard. My mother had a tiny bit of space beside her kettle and the Kenwood and food processor (which is what she'd use for pastry and grating cheese) stayed there permanently for that reason.

She stopped using them when the arthritis in her hands meant she couldn't change the attachments anymore.

But people can't be bothered with putting in the time and effort, so they throw money at Waitrose instead

It's not just time and effort (does this include the failure of being disabled and unable to go traipsing around wasteland and fields?). There's the possibility of insects and spiders, which bother a lot of people. Wild grown ones aren't necessarily fat and sweet and will often have larger seeds. There's dog urine, rats, broken glass, pollution, wasps, spiders, thorns and posh gits who have already absolutely rinsed the area of everything within reach.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 27/08/2023 11:37

MonumentalLentil · 27/08/2023 11:33

Crepes.
Jews?? looking at the things next to them I was thinking bagels or maybe has to be Kosher.

The spelling are phonetic, as per Lettuce. It's Juice.

MonumentalLentil · 27/08/2023 11:40

NeverDropYourMooncup · 27/08/2023 11:37

The spelling are phonetic, as per Lettuce. It's Juice.

I realised that after I posted. Had visions of someone grabbing customers from a Jewish deli at first.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 27/08/2023 11:41

Every urban environment has waste ground with brambles on it. Every city has parks and playing fields surrounded by hedges. It is simply a case of looking. Seek and ye shall find. But people can't be bothered with putting in the time and effort, so they throw money at Waitrose instead

Who knew. Even blackberries are subject to the MN moral yardstick now.

Firmly in the 'can't be bothered' camp, dreadful lazy person that I am. The birds need them more than I do, is my excuse.

BooksAndHooks · 27/08/2023 11:47

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?

Or they don’t have flour, sugar and butter. Easy to make but more expensive if you have to buy everything.

TheWayoftheLeaf · 27/08/2023 13:49

Probably just some foot cream or something.

Plus a blackberry crumble and a pasta dish

Mrsgreen100 · 27/08/2023 18:04

i always get my feet in Waitrose

Lilithlogic · 27/08/2023 18:06

It could be Delia, she rather liked a shortcut

guiltyfeethavegotnorythym · 27/08/2023 18:20

Lilithlogic · 27/08/2023 18:06

It could be Delia, she rather liked a shortcut

Yes! She was and I don't like the idea that women are berating other (presumably ) other women for taking a shortcut . Anyone who says they would never take culinary shortcut is a liar .

Itsnotrightbutitsok · 27/08/2023 18:21

I'd say she/ he is going for a pedicure or making an appointment for one. It is a to do list.

I agree.

I have a to-do list on my fridge.
The top half I write what I need to do and then I leave a gap and write my shopping list on the bottom half.

I used to have a pad where I’d rip off the bottom half and take it with me but now I have a whiteboard one and just take a photo of it.

Zeezee82 · 27/08/2023 18:22

We once took the trolley from a well known prem/England footballer. Their shopping list said “cheap gin”.
Always amused us.

mummydoris2006 · 27/08/2023 18:23

All the extremely judgemental comments about the crumble mix ffs. Get ready to clutch your pearls readers for I too use crumble mix sometimes and shock horror ready prepped veg 😮. My reason for this is being registered disabled but now I realise it's just my laziness 🤦‍♀️. Talk about entitled ableism!!

CantFindMyMarbles · 27/08/2023 18:25

Definitely a nice lesson for your daughter.
1 - don’t be judgemental
2 - if it’s not your business and obviously not important then put it in the bin.

CantFindMyMarbles · 27/08/2023 18:26

mummydoris2006 · 27/08/2023 18:23

All the extremely judgemental comments about the crumble mix ffs. Get ready to clutch your pearls readers for I too use crumble mix sometimes and shock horror ready prepped veg 😮. My reason for this is being registered disabled but now I realise it's just my laziness 🤦‍♀️. Talk about entitled ableism!!

Sometimes I am conserving my energy and use pre-made things….yes, it’s laziness! But, that’s ok as others shouldn’t choose how you spend your energy.

drawingmaps · 27/08/2023 18:30

BLOCK I reckon is one of those absorber blocks for a mini dehumidifier thingy. But it would have to be a large supermarket.

You judgy lot had better never find my shopping list. I can't stand and cook, can't chop much, so I buy almost no fresh veg. I have a tiny fridge for a bottle of milk and a bit of cheese, then a full size freezer which is almost always full (I live alone). It fits all of my -shock horror - pre chopped frozen veg and -worse! - oven chips and mashed potato!

And if you're judgy with the caveat of "well I wouldn't judge if they're disabled", well that's ridiculous because a) you can't often tell if someone is disabled, and b) if non-disabled people didn't buy these things, they wouldn't exist for us.

Hellodollydaydream · 27/08/2023 18:30

Jeez this all you got to waste your time on 🤦‍♂️

guiltyfeethavegotnorythym · 27/08/2023 18:35

I quite like a thread though which provokes discussion .