Stuff thsts ridiculously cheap

[BigDahliaFan]

Porridge oats, bought a bag for a couple of quid and it's going to last me 3 weeks of breakfasts...and I really like it and it's good for you.

White goods. You can buy a washing machine for £250.
For the sake of the planet it should be cheaper to repair white goods than to buy new.

I agree, I would love to take the train to London by you've got to be a millionaire to afford it. I almost always drive.

I get the overnight megabus.

Cottage cheese bread for those asking - it's high in protein:

500g cottage cheese
300g porridge oats
3 eggs
1 TSP baking powder
1/2 TSP salt (=6g)
50g linseeds
50g sunflower seeds
50g pumpkin seeds

1. Put the ingredients in a bowl in the order above.
2. Mix by hand thoroughly.
3. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and form a loaf shape.
4. Bake at 180°c/360°f for 1 hour.

I don't have a bread machine, so can't comment on that. I like it cos you don't need a loaf tin, just form the shape you want by hand. Minimum washing up, too!

Once it's totally cooled, I store it wrapped in a tea towel in a cupboard.

Two slices with a bit of marmalade, or cream cheese, or quince jam (membrillo) and it's lunch - it's so filling!

Obviously you'll have lots of seeds leftover, so I'll either save them for future bread or mix them into cous cous dishes or salads. They last ages.

and our supermarkets are full of ready meal chicken. Go on a flight and if you are given a meal it's a flipping chicken. It's worthless "meat" which is why it's so cheap.

Poor birds.

I find it hard to throw out / recycle my glass jars as lots of them are quite beautiful.

In my mum's days she never threw out tubs or containers which had food in them so the freezer was full of ice cream tubs and margarine tubs etc. I don't suppose anyone keeps them now. I used to open my mum's cupboard and empty ones would fall out.

If I did that, it would require paying for 2 nights overnight childcare for my disabled child and that would cost far more than the train!

@elQuintoConyo could I have the recipe please

Do you taste the cottage cheese

I like cc but it is bland

That isn't true! for example : liver , not to everyone's taste but cooked nicely it's fine. Offal is cheap and very nutritious 👍

That’s true. I wasn’t meaning cheap cuts of meat but more meat like chicken, which should be expensive if reared properly.

Everyone talking about low quality chicken should look into egg farming 🥚🤢
Utterly rancid , the smell of literal shit, sick & dying birds but oooh 6 eggs for £1.25
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Eating seasonally

Agree totally with all those saying that cheap chicken -including that used in millions of ready meals and takeaways - is a scandal.

Knew a chap some time ago - big, strong, born and bred rural (so not squeamish) - who resigned after just a few days loading chickens from a very big and well-known producer/breeder on to lorries for slaughter. He could not bear to see the suffering.
Other have already said how the poor birds' lives before that are hellish.

I used to keep chickens.They are lively, affectionate, very individual creatures. If you look after them well, they provide delicious eggs for most of the year, and come to know you and rely on you. They are much easier to keep and care for than a dog, for example.

I am also old enough to remember how a carefully raised chicken, roasted, was a real, real treat. Just a few times per year. Other meat was also a luxury. We ate very well, however, and were healthy. My parents died recently; both around 90 years old. Eating some decent meat and a lot of veg, bread, pulses did them no harm.

Generations have been raised since then to think that we have some sort of right to cheap meat, no matter what suffering is entailed. That's an abomination.

Especially yellow ones (mung) in the ‘foreign’ foods aisle in Asda.

Massive 1.75 kg bag for IIRC £3.50.

Ooh love me some horse pancake. It's ben years since I had any. I didn't know they still existed!

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER pop to B&M they have really nice (& bargainous) lentils , rice noodles, pickles etc I was pleasantly surprised, when I went in this week to find some of their spices were 10p , so bought, for me, my mum and a friend my last lot of spices were a gift from my sister in law's mum from India. I love a foodie gift

Lidl pizza, £1.29 and we really like them.

We sometimes get the huge Asda ones with garlic bread and add whatever is in the fridge-salami, more cheese etc. Does dinner and lunch for two the next day.