To think not keeping sugar in the house

[Hullygully]

Is fine if no one in your family takes it and it's poison anyway?

Sugar is addictive and mainlining sugar is Not A Good Thing.

But . . . .

. . . . . . everything in moderation. A slice of cake, a bar of chocolate every so often. Life would be a grim old existence if we were to be forever denied these as treats.

I once read an interview wih Madonna where said as an extra special, super duper treat, once in a blue moon indulgence she allows herself . . . . . a slice of toast with jam.

Indeed. Parmesan and worcestershire or soy sauces are easy standbys depending on your cuisine. Personally I just use MSG powder from my local chinese supermarket. No different to using Sodium Chloride (Salt) or Pentahydroxyhexanal (Sugar). It's just the purified form of the thing you'd be eating anyway.

seasoning=salt and chilli

I do eat it in choccy and stuff btw. And drink about a bag of tate and lyle a day in wine form.

Well my doctor said that arsenic is poison and one say the truth will out and to think on. I told him that people already knew. He was devastated.

I wouldn't go to that dr again Orm.

Now if anything is "poison", it's sweeteners! And besides, they're disgusting.

Where has all this Stevia stuff suddenly come from? All at once there are about 5 stevia products on the market. Has it just been given the nod or something?

YABU - Cake! Tea!

But if you are injecting it, sqoosh, things have got out of hand.

I don't keep fizzy pop or crisps in the house - work of the devil.

Yes Stevia only got the nod in 2011 in the EU

You can buy umami paste in tubes at the supermarket.

And this is basically salt and petals and stuff, but is v.pretty and tastes lovely.

Selfridges food hall isn't my regular supermarket btw, in case you were wondering.

But what would you put that stuff in?

I need a cooking thread.

I got me a cooking thread now. I need helpsies.

You need to have sugar in the house if you have a child doing food tech (also plain and s/r flour). And you need sugar for workmen. You can ask friends to do without but you can't expect a workman to do without proper tea or coffee with one or two sugars (I've only ever come across one person who took three sugars. He was a mechanic ... a quantum mechanic.)

Caster sugar is the best if you just want one type - good for baking and perfectly fine for putting in tea. It dosn't go solid if you keep it in an airproof jar.

Hully - do you never make jam?!

(obv if there's diabetes and you need to buy special jam, then that question is irrelevant)

I was thinknig about this,as i hate tea and coffee and even though like sugary things i usually buy cakes etc so i dont have just sugar in the house,but it kind of annoys me that i should have these things in just in case someone comes round and wants tea.

how about: the smell of coffee makes me sick - physically, retching into the sink sick.
but i keep a jar in the cupboard for people who drink coffee when they visit.

I am a big baker (in more ways than one) but I have never made jam.

We had a decorator once who took five sugars in his tea. Five!

That umami paste savourifies things - makes savoury things taste more of themselves.

The cheap working class version of that is putting aromat on your steak and chips. Same stuff - MSG. Intensifies flavour.

I don't use it, but my dd was introduced to aromat by XP and she loves it.

BTW XP is a builder and he never takes sugar. Neither do his three brothers (mechanic, plumber and another builder).

MAKE JAM???

lord no.

Jam comes in glass pots. Orange and ginger. Yum.

There is a whole world of cooking activity that I cannot be bothered with.

Bread making, jams, meringues and cakes are some of it.

I can stand there for ages bashing spices in a pestle but I would never in a million years make anything that requires a sugar thermometer.

I have a pot of aromat in the cupboard from 1983.

I have never heard of aromat

dd likes making cakes, she makes a fab lemon drizzle. she has to go and buy sugar and then we have some for abit till it's all gone.