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262 replies

Loadedforest · 20/06/2022 16:37

sheerluxe.com/life/food/my-week-plate-lara-hughes

Made my sandwich and crisps blush…

OP posts:
WalkerWalking · 20/06/2022 18:59

viques · 20/06/2022 18:52

I like the way she is lucky enough to “find” vegetables in supermarkets. Are they lying abandoned on the floor? Does she sneak them from other peoples trollies or does she do what the rest of us do and look on the shelves where the kind supermarket people have put the vegetables for us so we don’t have to bloody well play hide and seek for our shopping.

That's my excuse from now on. "I was not lucky enough to find any vegetables, but fortunately the chocolate aisle was well stocked and conveniently located near the till".

BeverForget · 20/06/2022 18:59

MadameFantabulosa · 20/06/2022 18:43

I bet she can shit.

I thought this too...x

SunflowerGardens · 20/06/2022 19:01

Anyway this thread has just reminded me I have a caramel twirl hidden in my laptop bag Brew

viques · 20/06/2022 19:03

I would like to challenge her willpower to a fair brunch fight. We will sit on opposite side of the table. I will have her chia pudding in front of me. She will have a KFC bucket and a side of fries.

let’s see who breaks first and dives into their brunch.

hint, it won’t be me.

mumwon · 20/06/2022 19:04

according to diabetes uk fruit juices (especially smoothies )are concentrated sugar & are you are advised to eat fruit not drink it

Baggyeye · 20/06/2022 19:05

SunflowerGardens · 20/06/2022 18:58

She eats a lot of salad doesn't she? Not the kind of salad my mum makes - bit of lettuce, a crinkle cut tomato, pickled onions, a boiled egg, a few slices of cheese, a slice of ham and a load of salad cream. I shall have to tell her to start simply adding citrus to increase its biodiversity.

Nowt wrong with a 70s salad. The addition of pickled onions is taking it towards ploughmans territory though.

Tsandjdarethrbest · 20/06/2022 19:09

I love a seventies style salad.
just had homemade spaghetti bolognese and a banana for my tea. I’m happy with my choices.

Crikeyalmighty · 20/06/2022 19:09

Kind of person who makes the rest of us feel bad. I'm sure it's incredibly healthy but try serving that to the average teen or grown man every day- there will be a few health obsessives who go for it - but the vast majority would be eating ginsters pasties or a greggs sausage roll on the sly

slashlover · 20/06/2022 19:10

The website is called Sheerluxe and advertises £110 night cream, it was never going to feature someone nipping out for a McDonalds was it?

SirGawain · 20/06/2022 19:12

As a previous poster said; pretentious twaddle. It's designed as cheap advertising.

IDidntKnowItWasAParty · 20/06/2022 19:15

I love pancakes - but that pancake plate was every kind of wrong

viques · 20/06/2022 19:17

WalkerWalking · 20/06/2022 18:59

That's my excuse from now on. "I was not lucky enough to find any vegetables, but fortunately the chocolate aisle was well stocked and conveniently located near the till".

The other day I found a box of malteasers which had been abandoned by a selfish shopper next to the cereal aisle. It looked at me and I had an overwhelming sense of what it is like to be a small box of sweeties feeling alone and desserted, I mean deserted. Sometimes you just have to do what is right in a quiet and modest manner.

summermornings · 20/06/2022 19:18

Baggyeye · 20/06/2022 19:05

Nowt wrong with a 70s salad. The addition of pickled onions is taking it towards ploughmans territory though.

We used have tinned peaches and salted crisps in our 70s salad too along with the iceberg, beetroot, egg, tomato, cucumber and salad cream.

Loved it as a kid!

Roseglen84 · 20/06/2022 19:18

Roseglen84 · 20/06/2022 17:37

It's not worse than this one from a few years ago, unfortunately the pictures are gone but you can still read the ridiculousness:

https://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/

Apparently bonkers eating is all the rage these days among celebs - lots of powders, smoothies and supplements. Not much chewing going on among the young and beautiful of LA I guess.

And lots of references to 'cleansing and toxins'. It all smacks of disordered eating masquerading as 'healthy'.

www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/

I don't know why the link didn't work in my original post, but if you paste it into the address bar it works.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 20/06/2022 19:25

SunflowerGardens · 20/06/2022 19:01

Anyway this thread has just reminded me I have a caramel twirl hidden in my laptop bag Brew

Sorry, caramel Twirl? Finally some awful advice on this thread..!

Tsandjdarethrbest · 20/06/2022 19:25

That’s hilarious 😂

jolietomate · 20/06/2022 19:26

I feel a little cheated, I was hoping it was as batshit crazy as Amanda Bacon’s.

Even so, I found this rather fascinating, so many of the food Lara eats are notorious triggers for IBS/high in FODMAPs. I know I would be in terrible trouble if I tried to eat any of this.

Shortpoet · 20/06/2022 19:28

viques · 20/06/2022 18:52

I like the way she is lucky enough to “find” vegetables in supermarkets. Are they lying abandoned on the floor? Does she sneak them from other peoples trollies or does she do what the rest of us do and look on the shelves where the kind supermarket people have put the vegetables for us so we don’t have to bloody well play hide and seek for our shopping.

I thought that too. In face I stopped reading at that paragraph.

I imagine her announcing at dinner, ”I practically foraged these mushrooms, darling.”

A lesser mortal would have said she made mushroom risotto for dinner and left it at that and not expected others to wonder at her ability of locating mushrooms in a supermarket as though they were a rare, exotic wonderment.

LaughingCat · 20/06/2022 19:28

Only made it to the end of page one of the comments (so maybe the tone changed but I’m too much of a lazy arse to read it all 😂) but the level of aggression aimed at this anodyne article seems a tad out of proportion. There’ll be people out there who’ll be interested enough in this rather boring stuff and she’s obviously enamoured with it so I say let her do her.

Oh, and Madagascan vanilla powder is a GREAT sugar substitute 😁

AliceAbsolum · 20/06/2022 19:30

Bullshit does she eat like that. Maybe once a day. Tops.

TheMarzipanDildo · 20/06/2022 19:32

I’ve watched so many ‘what I eat in a day’ videos on YouTube that I’m completely desensitised to this kind of stuff.

capricorn12 · 20/06/2022 19:32

I hope the 'late starts' were due to her getting a lot of good sex because that must be her only pleasure in life.

WiddlinDiddlin · 20/06/2022 19:33

Jesus H Christ.. By Tuesday my gallbladder was starting to cramp up at the idea. In reality if I ate that, by Wednesday id be experiencing a fucked off gallbladder, pancreas and gastropareisis and gulping Oromorph out the bottle.

Its all very nice if you have acres of time, a fridge rammed with fresh veggies and plenty of money to keep filling it - of course if you charge people 9billion quid an hour to wang some juice filled quinoa bedded bullshit at them, you probably do.

Back in the real world, I hauled my arse out of bed at 12, shoved a Belvita breakfast bollocks down my face with my usual starter of 20 Units of fast acting insulin plus the 8 medications I have of a morning to avoid death..

Fucked about sending invoices and working out what hours I have done this month (including semi guessing what ill do the rest of the month and making notes so I can sort it next month if necessary)..

Got a brief off boss 2 for some work. Read something yawn-tastic on doggy genetics.

Played Fallen London whilst shoving a Greggs sausage roll in my mouth fast enough to stop the lurcher stealing it because he is AN BASTARD when it comes to sausage rolls.

Drank 47 pints of tea whilst writing article that is definitely too long and too waffly.

Now contemplating a cheese toasty and a bowl of soup, whilst I read over the last few hours of writing and decide if its editable or if its total biscuits.

Will aim to get to the sofa by 9, will in reality be still editing and tweaking this at midnight.

Sure sure I could procrastinate less and do more. I won't though.

CheeseComa · 20/06/2022 19:33

www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a28600/amanda-chantal-bacon-moon-juice-food-diary/

I don't know why the link didn't work in my original post, but if you paste it into the address bar it works.

Wow, this one takes the wankery to a whole new level! Lara Hugh's food diary from the original post looks quite pedestrian compared to that.

CheeseComa · 20/06/2022 19:34

*Hughes' not Hugh's, obviously.