J'Accuse... I do not believe a sizeable minority on here when they say "I blah blah blah"

[Salmotrutta]

E.g. :-
"I cook from scratch" - I hate "from scratch". We used to say "everything was homemade".

And those of you who state "homemade potato wedges" ? ...yeah, I'm impressed. So that would be some potatoes shoved in the oven then?

Sometimes.

I made 'from scratch' a healthy casserole today.

2 bags of pre-chopped casserole veg from iceland. Sausages (air fried first, natch), random stuff from my ancient condiments and herbs shelf chucked in and forgotten about on the hob until I wanted a cup of tea and remembered it was cooking.

Nigella, me. :)

--wonders how many years out of date Lea and Perrins should be before you give up and throw it away>

Best are odds and ends meals! Almost anything is nice with eggs mixed in.

I may be a bit late here but I love my Actifry and the chips taste much better than frozen shit - though have been known to use frozen shit in actifry!!!

Ahbollocks - we call that "ifits", if it's there you can have it!!

Said husbands have also never set foot in a strip club and in fact when on a stag do will refuse to enter and instead go for a quiet pint.

I have been on a stag do and refused to enter a strip club when the best man let slip the price of beer in there. Me and a couple of mates spent a quiet evening getting ratarsed chatting in the pub.

expat no apology needed, I'm sorry my post wasn't clear at all! It certainly wasn't aimed at you.

A while back DS2's(10) friend stayed at ours for dinner and was amazed at the deliciousness of my offering. He had 3 helpings and I basked in the glow of somebody being so outspoken and eloquent in his praise of my cooking.
He then asked for the recipe so he could give it to his mother….

Reader, I had to own up that it was an Odds and Ends Meal that I had named "Mexican Hotchpotch" because it contained left-over sweetcorn. And chopped up sausages from the day before, potatoes, some red sauce, onions and garlic. I have managed to repeat the performance of that fabulous meal

I love my actifry and the actifry chips. I've just had a jacket potato (frozen one done in microwave) and Chinese chicken wings. The wings were done in the actifry and had wonderful crispy skin.

Dh once made sweet and sour in it, but I didn't like it 'cos I don't ever like the veg in sweet and sour. He liked it though

It's what bubble and squeak is about. Mmmm. Anything is better with melted cheese on it for most, eh (have truly very little lactose intolerance, and would love to love cheese)?

I doubt anyone on this thread lets their children mainline Ribena and snort Nesquick powder for breakfast every morning.

It's just a question of keeping a healthy perspective. If overall your child's diet is fairly well balanced and healthy then a McDonalds a couple of times per month is neither here nor there. Neither will it matter if they have a glass of squash once or twice a day.

But if your child's diet is generally good and yet you still get anxious and tense if they eat a bag of crisps once in a while, and the thought of them eating a Sherbet Fountain gives you palpitations then you have an issue that needs addressing because chances are you are an uptight, humourless control freak who no one likes very much

p.s. every time our DCs ever have friends over to play I serve pizza, cake and lemonade. The menu never changes.

Left overs used to be what people expected to eat. I read an article once where the pincer magazine writer said that using left overs revolutionized her life

Left overs is what I have for lunch every day.

Can. I come for tea monte cristo I really like cake pizza and lemonade

All our leftovers go in the dogs - they're very pampered!!

The one thing I really minimise is artificial sweetener of any sort. It sends DS, who has diagnosed autism and likely ADHD (long story, had to get him referred past community paed as she 'doesn't believe in drugging children' despite 2 ed psychs and three teachers including the head and the GP as well), into orbit.

It used to well fuck me off when DD1 was in hospital on chemo, severely underweight, that I had one place to go in that hospital to get her anything that wasn't full of fucking artificial sweeteners and if it were shut I had to leave her, usually in strict iso, to get her the bevs she craved without the artificial shit in them.

thecunt you have summed up very nicely a very long and enjoyable thread. Well said!

I read the tumble dryer thread for a bit earlier whilst I nursed the poorly DC by settling him on a couch with Cartoon Network and his Ipad. I learnt that I TSSDNCOP am accountable for the melting of the polar bears.
So feeding him a shop bought pizza is the very least of his worries.

And I own a loo brush, two in fact MWAHAHAHAH!

And I like an all inclusive holiday rather than a tent in a wet field in Aberystwyth.

I did some baking today. I said to DS1(20) "do you want to lick the bowl" the ungrateful shit said "no thanks mum, I don't need empty calories in my life!" He's bloody changed since he joined the army, but it didn't stop him taking a Victoria sandwich back with him when he left!

DS2(18) was like a greyhound out of traps to get to the kitchen to lick the bowl!

Do the calories become less empty once the mixture has gone cake shaped?

Ungrateful bloody brat you've raised there FC.

I like an All Inclusive holiday too. I am partial to a Self Catering one, as long as we eat out. I rarely leave the resort (as in town) and like to lie in the sun by the pool and on the beach. I cba with sight seeing, culture and city tours. I will not ever go camping.

We have loo brushes, we buy cheap ones and replace them every month or so. I am not shoving my hand down the bog for anyone.

I wondered how the calories aren't empty once they're cooked, TSS!

I saw the tumble drier thread and smiled and knowing smile. I knew what was happening without even seeing it.

If you pop on to a good housekeeping thread about not ironing it is all about the tumble drying.

I have a washer drier so am fucked on every angle

I paused for a nano second Pass then flew right on by secure in my fluffy dry towels. Knowing that a polar bear would eat me without a thought whether I use a tumble dryer or not.

Toothy bastards polar bears.

Sat here right now with tumble drier going, and will be on for some time tonight yet