Fellow food lovers! Bored of all this talk of UPF, calorie deficits and death by bacon? Come and share the foods that bring you joy…

[CommeIlFaut]

I’m a bit sick of reading food threads about how a loaf of Kingsmill is a dangerous public health risk, and how Peppermint from Wimbledon would be the size of a bus if she ate more than seventy three grains of rice in a sitting. Oh, and how I’m frankly letting my kids down by having fruit yoghurts in my fridge.

So, for those of us who read Nigella in bed, lick the drips from their kids’ ice cream and understand the mental health benefits of cheese after dinner, here is a joyful, judgement free thread about the foods we love. Whole meals, exotic experiments, or low-grade confectionary scavenged from the secret treats drawer. If it brings you joy, it’s all good.

For me, I love seaside and mountain food. Fish and chips by the sea, massive seafood platters (with chips and garlic mayonnaise). Fondue round a table with wine and friends (and dangerous quantities of cured meat). Also, my husband’s beef Wellington, sausages in the garden stuffed into baguettes. And tea and a Crunchie bar on the sofa, in a house of sleeping children.

Please share….

Where do I begin??

A bacon or a decent ham sandwich on white bread with lots of butter. The bacon one needs to get the butter melted so it soaks into the bread.

Toast with butter, jam or marmite

Cheese on toast

Pizza
Pepperoni
Ham
Crisps
Packet pasta or supernoodles

I have no idea what is classed as an UPF, are smoked salmon and pate classed as them? Beef jerky? Cheese? I'm sure I read milk was classed as one too. Life is too short to never enjoy a bacon sandwich ever again or a tub of Ben and Jerry's when the mood takes.

Whole raspberries with golden syrup on

Scotch Eggs
Black Pudding
Steak and Kidney Pie
A good Beef Wellington
Poached Salmon.

I work on the theory that there is nothing that cannot be improved by using bread as a vessel I which to eat it

Granary bread, toasted and buttered. Filled with fried streaky bacon, thinly sliced very mature cheddar, red onion and a smidge of ketchup.

Fruits de mer with chips and ice cold Chablis by the sea on a summers day.

Fish fingers with lashings of tartare sauce and cornichons and leaves in a soft bap.

Fancy granary fresh bread from bakery with lashings of butter and homemade sharp marmalade.

Cheese and bean toasties
Cadbury fruit & nut
Bounties
Angel Delight
Baguette with tonnes of butter
Cheesecake of any form

I haven't had one for years on account of living in France, but I do love me a Fray Bentos pie with mash, and those lurid green marrow fat peas! Childhood favourite!

Death by bacon sounds pretty good to me.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Poetry is hard,
Bacon.

I've recently become addicted to cherry Madeira cake. They are the food of the gods. But there's not many things that can beat a really good bacon sandwich - grilled until the fat is a bit crispy, and the bread filled in the dripping in the grill pan.

Cottage pie and hotpot and crispy streaky bacon and toast woth lashings of melted spread (obviously not all together….maybe).

My personal preference is actually to cut the slices in half, then load some noodles up onto a piece and fold in half, allowing the juices and melted butter to drip back into the bowl

Pineapple upside down pudding
Baked rice with sultanas
Bread and butter pudding
Mince and potatoes with white bread and butter
Stovies
Macaroni cheese, chips and garlic bread
Lasagne, chips and garlic bread
Plain bread spread with lurpak and square sausage with potato scones and brown sauce
Cheese scones with lashings of butter and titles tea with full fat milk and sugar
Deep fried cheap pizza with chips
King rib supper with chips, a pickle, brown sauce and a buttered roll
Cheese on toast with Worcester sauce (must be white bread)
Home made chips and deep fried egg

Cheese and potato pie
saag paneer mopped up with good naan
risotto with a ton of Parmesan
granary toast and smoked salmon pate
thai fish cakes with sweet chilli dip
really good lasagne with stretchy cheese on it
nachos with everything!

Ooh forgot sausage bap with fried egg

Thanks for the tip!

My DS2 makes these too.

I have to agree with you about bread too. I like it when they hollow out a loaf to use as a soup bowl, I think it was in France we had that.

Omg I want to live at your house!!

I was very confused by this thread until I realised I had misread the title and it doesn't include "death by raccoon".

I love a full English with fried bread
bacon sandwiches
battered sausage with chips, mushy peas and curry sauce
a Chinese takeaway
a good fried chicken burger with beer battered onion rings

This has really tickled me!

Bacon is what has stopped me going veggie in the past (I say past because I've completely given up on the idea nowadays).

I don't live anywhere exotic enough to have a Asian supermarkets. I'm also vegan which limits things a bit, and MSG sends my heart a bit nuts, so I'm more a sainsburys 29p chicken noodles and a tin of sweetcorn kinda girl

Yum! I'm doing that tomorrow.

The fold is quite structurally integral to holding the noods in the sandwich

Love this😁

A perfectly crispy and salty on the outside, fluffy on the inside jacket potato, preferably as big as your head, stuffed with grated extra mature cheddar and an obscene amount of garlic mayo on the side. Some super ripe, not from the fridge tomatoes on the side for the health

Will remember 😊