Food snobbery

[Feckingfeck]

DM always buys "good eggs" I mean nearly £4 a box from Waitrose. I ate one. Wasn't really too impressed- I mean not sure what I could hope for from an egg really?!

What things do you insist on buying branded?

Are there things you simply wont skimp or get own brands of?

AIBU to think any free range egg is just the same as the next?

I think it's fine to be fussy over food if you can afford to be, but what's not OK is looking down at people who might not have an option of buying posh eggs or meat from the local farm. If you're feeding your family on a tight budget I doubt you give a shit whether a chicken had a lovely life. I personally would like to eat more local produce, but I don't have time to be going to 3 different places when I can go to one supermarket with a list and be out in 30 minutes.

@ChilledScandi Ooh yes, feta here is very good

I must be weird, since although I only buy free range, I don’t like very orange-y yolks.

Must take after my mother, who had a Thing about ‘eggy’ eggs.😂

@newnamethanks * if you can find it try Tiptree lemon curd, it's amazing, not at all greasy. I confess to being unashamedly a food snob🤷 their jams and marmalades are the best too!

Thank you @Mossstitch agree Tiptree products are excellent, I was just experimenting.

I keep meaning to try the Tiptree Little Scarlet jam. People say it's the best jam.

@TheGlitterati thanks for that info, explains a lot, I can't stand artificial sweetener in drinks due to the bitterness either side of my tongue at the back! I'm called a fussy eater but I don't agree I just know what I like and am quite happy with simple plain food, but definitely has to be good quality, which doesn't necessarily translate to expensive. I bake my own bread and pizza with fresh mozzarella which is cheap.

I definitely pay more for high welfare, better quality eggs. We eat a lot of them.y dad keeps chickens so when they are laying a lot we do get lots for free but in winter we buy them. You can tell the difference. Sainsbury's free range eggs for example are awful quality and I worry what that means about the hens.

I buy free range or I buy local farm eggs, would never knowingly buy battery eggs.

I shop in aldi.cant afford to shop in Waitrose and the like

How many eggs does your DM get for £4 OP?

I guess we are like our little treats and if there's just 1 or 2 people it's OK but for bigger families it will get quite expensive!

I like a good quality sausage that's a must for me. Eggs I buy cheaply because I season my eggs anyway.

To be honest people in the uk have a pretty unique relationship with food. It's not a criticism but an observation. The Uk as a nation does not prioritise food but it does promote other things that other " food prioritising nations" don't do as well.
Where we live, on much lower comparative salaries , parents spend almost 5€ per day for school lunch.
High quality food is normal food in a lot of the world, so there isn't really the opportunity to use food as a status symbol. Where we live the average family regularly buys fresh fish and grating truffle on your kids' eggs isn't anything out of the ordinary.
Societal changes have consequences, not necessarily bad ones, but consequences none the less. When a large proportion of a nation's children are being brought up on beige frozen food and ready meals, then it means that that country doesn't rate nutrition highly on its priority list.
In the Uk average household expenditure on food ( not alcohol) was close to 7% of income, in Italy between 14/15% of income.

Yes, very correct. Also, healthy nutritious food is more expensive in the UK compared to many other countries.

Right so I've made a chilli using these amazing mutti tinned tomatoes everyone is going on about, which I bought in Sainsburys earlier for £1.20 for one tin. I'll be interested to see if it's any nicer than the Aldi ones I usually have. Will report back. (Yes I'm a saddo)!

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Actually I buy them too as a treat when I make an omelette. DH thinks I'm ridiculous. But I have very low fat omelettes, rather than cheese which I would prefer & so I like the optics!

I'm a total food snob. I have to be gluten free, but after a lifetime of having to put up with any old shit just to have something to eat, I'm going to buy what I want or like best.

So I get

Blue eggs.
GF bread (not because it's good but because it's vaguely edible)
Expensive GF pasta (because the cheaper ones aren't close enough to normal pasta for me)
Expensive tinned tomatoes
Posh salt
The best quality meat I can afford. We don't eat much, but I'd rather have good once a week than crap, chewy, tasteless every day.
Goat and Ewe's milk cheeses. It's convenient that Pecorino is usually cheaper than Parmesan although not by much in the Deli I buy it from
Tinned sardines
Olives
Capers
Cured meats
Lemons
Shortgrain rice

The one I'm dreading the most is the olive oil cost, as we've just run out. But it can turn the simplest meal into something so much better (or make it Meh if it's low quality stuff). So I will have to grit my teeth and pay up for as much as possible before it gets even more expensive.

Im intrigued .... how was it?

Eggy eggs 😂

DH doesn't like eggy cakes 🤨🤨🤨

Vegan came for him then .....

I do like Burford browns, but only when MIL hasn't brought us any of her chickens' eggs, DS loves pottering around in the coop fetching the eggs , changing the water etc and the eggs are delicious.
I used to be a full on Heinz ketchup fan until I tried M&S , it's like old fashioned ketchup, thick tomatoey probably full of salt and sugar but tastes great and we only have it occasionally.

@RewildingAmbridge I have recently discovered M&S tomato ketchup too- it is my new favourite

What on Earth is Rola Cola?

Pepsi is horrible, I drink Coke if I ever have that, which is rare. But never heard of "rola cola"? If it is worse than Pepsi, it must be grim!

Agree. Food is so important, especially for children to try lots of food when young to expand their palate. The UK sucks in this regard, in what is fed to children in average. I feed mine mussels, fresh fish, all kinds of different vegetarian food, Lebaneses food, Greek food, Italian food, Indian food, Chinese food etc...

But really all they need is a balanced and healthy diet.

If OP is giving that then they are doing fine. Beige food for every meal and no nutrition and flavours, then no, it's not good.