To think not keeping sugar in the house

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

Wet pumpkin STINKS.

I always think I should carve a swede at halloween, but then October comes round and I realise that of course I am not going to fucking well do that, so I buy a pumpkin again.

they(the "experts") reckon if it were suggested for use today it would be banned tomorrow(along with a lot of other stuff !)

I clean my face with ACID from LABORATORIES. None of this natural shit for me.

Just buy a jar of Dolmio ffs.

I squeeze sugar from my own beets to put in the cooking water for my freshly harvested peas and in my sugo crudo of heirloom tomatoes.

Dolmio makes my DH come out in a rash so Ragu for us

I have two large 5kg bags of sugar in the house. Surprising my DCs aren't dead from all the poison!

Don't you make crumbles? Have pancakes? Make cookies?

1. a small pinch of sugar in a tomato sauce, along with a bit of salt, is standard practice particularly when using the mainly tasteless tomatoes or tinned tomatoes we have in the UK. Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with Delia, Jamie, or Nigella surely knows this.

1. To label any basic foodstuff "poison" is very U and will inevitably leave your DCs with some weird ideas about food. They will probably rush to the sweet shop as soon as they are old enough and have money in their hands.

1. YABU!

Nooooo dont try a turnip (as I think you'll find its called). You need industrial strength tools and muscles like Popeye even to open it

I had a builder in recently who asked for herbal tea. I was most disconcerted.

I did go and buy a really natural oil based cleanser from somewhere and they asked me what else I used on my face. I said acid. The girl's face went . She tried to sell me a natural alternative with papaya. I felt like saying to her, 'You're about 17, OF COURSE it's fine on your skin. Come back to me when you hit 30.'

Its Ragu I use but I couldnt remember its name.

Aren't turnips different from swedes?

Dilys- surely builders only drink builder's tea? He must have been an imposter.

I hope your house doesn't fall down.

I always have trouble with swedes when I cook them (once a year). I hack at them and get teh knife stuck, and then have to yank the knife out with She Ra strength and feel like the kid in the Sword and the Stone.

I dont take sugar in tea but always have a bag. I have to hide it though, I think DD2 snorts it like cocaine.

I know, I think he must have been one of these bogus builders you hear about

I had a terribly sweet tooth when I was a kid, I used to eat sugar by the spoon and eat sugar sandwiches.

The thouyght turns my stomach now.

Dont know. Its called turnip over here, never swede. Ive taken to buying it ready chopped and I have arms on me like a navvy.

Yes turnips and swedes are different. However moving from oop North to South I have to swap their names around !!

Oh I didn't know it was called different names.

I don't have sugar in the house either. Or tea or coffee. Because none of us drink it, so why would we?! I have a whole host of other drinks I can offer you mainly, alcohol though

Well to me a swede is reddish skinned and large and yellow inside and a turnip is small and white. But now the opposite.

WTF is rumbletumble or domething like that? I saw it in Sainburys yesterday. First Id heard if it cabbagey stuff.