If you generally don't like processed food, what exceptions do you make?

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Because I love those lamb kebab skewer things - you know the minced lamb squished onto a stick. Bbq With a Greek salad that I of course make myself

Lea & Perrins
Shop-bought wholemeal pitta breads
Chocolate nut cornettos for ds

@familyiconsi make my own bread but tend to slice then freeze it. Pull out a slice or two a few times a week for toast or a sandwich.
lots of easy no knead recipes online if you do fancy giving it a bash

STEP AWAY MOM 😃😃

• Waitrose lamb kebabs
• Waitrose watercress tsatsiki
• Waitrose Baba Ganoush
• Unearthed Spanish tortilla omelette
• Odysea taramasalata
• Odysea aubergine mezze
• Charlie Bigham
• Whitby gluten free scampi
• Haagen Dazs ice cream
• Pots & Co little pots chocolate ganache

I did not know about a tiramisu loaf cake! Sounds delicious and just added to my Saturday delivery 😋

I buy very little processed food, exceptions are minimally processed foods like cheese, Greek yogurt, dried pasta, canned tomatoes and coconut milk, and yes those lamb koftas (which are raw meat, spices and not much else) and burgers, the good ones though I do make my own of both sometimes.

I'm a bit particular about actual tiramisu but it it's blinking delicious 😀 enjoy!

Prawn cocktail crisps. I could eat only those for life. Luckily for my health I don’t live in the UK so have limited access.
Also the occasional Chinese takeaway again if I am back in the UK. I will say though that since eating much less UPF, a Chinese takeaway is like taking drugs. I have the most insane vivid dreams the night after eating one!!!

Slightly off topic but another thing that shocked me was the absolute sweetness of baked beans. If you eat zero or v little UPF for a long period of time, then try baked beans, honestly they taste as sweet as syrup sponge!!

Twix bars. I would like one now but I am 20 miles from the nearest shop.

Crisps

I could happily live the rest of my life without biscuits or cake or ice cream but life without crisps? Pointless 😂.

Omg yes

Packet brown rice
Vanilla ice creamer Mackies
linda McC red onion sausages

i don’t worry about it. 10-20% of processed usually can’t be helped.

Agree, but I prefer the Lincolnshire to the Cumberland.

M&S praline bars

What ????

Kraft macaroni cheese, bright orange, more e- numbers than you can shake a stick at but reminds me of being a kid in the 70s, could literally eat the whole potful even though it allegedly serves 2-3.

Vegan beyond burgers, alpro yogurts and oat milk.

I've got the yuka app.
I scanned a tub of the new m and s heather honey ice-cream which boasts only 5 ingredients or something.

From memory it said it had cream, milk and honey in it.
The yuka app said it had a higher level of salt in it.
Salt wasn't one of the ingredients, so it must have been the trace salt from dairy products which googled to get info on cos I found it so surprising.

Some products will always get a bad rating on yuka, eg butter as it's got too much fat in it so it depends what your goal is in using it and you have to apply your own logic for your own way of eating.

Just wondering why GF scampi, but then taramasalata, which is full of wheat?

(and if anybody knows of some sold that is a) GF, b) ever in stock and c) sold in quantities of less than a bucket, I'd be very grateful).

https://www.pinneysoforford.co.uk/product/taramasalata/

Probably cheaper to make it yourself though!

Can of coke a day!! Avoid anything else, read labels etc

I have an obsessive desire for a Maccys every once in a while. My local has relaunched with cheap voucher offers atm and every night I think “yes baby” . But it’s weirdly the one thing I can’t actually go and buy.
It’s very odd because I can definitely buy the family sized crisps, crap chocolate and wine when I fancy it.
No idea why I have a Maccys filter.

Richmond veggie sausages. Wine.

I love a hot dog. And supernoodles. Guilty pleasures!

Can’t resist an almond crossiant