To think people eat one heck of a lot!

[AppleWhiskers]

See it all over, online, on here, in real life.
People have to have three pretty substantial meals per day or they think they'll starve or not get enough nutrients.
A good amount of people, men especially, think a cold meal or salad based meal is not a real meal, or anywhere near enough to pass as one.
If it isn't huge, or hot, people often think it isn't value for money.

It isn't uncommon to hear 'rabbit food' or such when people choose cold or salad based meals.

Myself, I love both, and eat a warm meal most evenings, so don't have much of a horse in the race, but I do think it's a thing.
Not sure how other cultures go about it, would be interesting to find out.

Is it a UK specific thing, to always need a large hot meal several times per day?
A typical example is:
Porridge and berries of full breakfast english style etc for breakfast.
Baked potato with tuna, or salad for lunch, or soup with whatever and copious amounts of pulses.
Then cottage pie or something equally large for dinner.
Then, often, a later meal, give or take.
And a lot of us are still hungry after this, or snack in between, so WTF is going on!?

Commas save lives.

DH (Irish heritage) always plants out his chitted spuds starting on Good Friday each year. Says it's traditional. Those would be earlies or second earlies, including Red Duke of York.
But I don't understand how that works, what with Easter falling between late March and late April, depending on when Lent starts. Which depends on when Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday fall in February...

No vampires. Probably terrible breath.

Onions are beautiful but they are so cheap to buy in the shops I can't justify them. I wish I had an asparagus bed.

We find red onions are well worth growing as the ones in the shops seem to have much less flavour. Ours are very pokey strong.

I bloody loooove red onions. 😻

Good point re taste

One year we bought some so-called trombone squash seeds thinking it would be fun to gift DD's brass teacher a suitably shaped squash. They do not look like trombones:

What would folk say is the best tomatoes to grow - which variety not too fussy, good cropper and tastes great? It always feels to me like you have to pick for one of those options, hope to get two out of three but never all three.

disclaimers - I have a south facing wall and bed but no greenhouse. And I’m a both a shoddy gardener and just clumsy.

Also I really need to up my gardening game - I feel like Percy Thrower if I prune my sad hydrangea and throw some Aldi seeds in a pot!

I have never had any success with them- tried loads of different types. I think it's just too cold here.

Ah, breakfast for dinner - a firm favourite in our house.

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Oh, dear!

But we are not getting too thin as a culture???

the western world is too fat ?

I might have to get some of those ‘trombone’ squash seeds. They are phe nom in al

Yes and v easy to grow. You need canes as they need space to,erm, hang.

I did a quick search:

www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/plants/fruits-vegetables-and-herbs/best-tomatoes-to-grow/

Thanks for that - looks like it will be good old gardener’s delight for me.

I like Gardeners' Delight for a small tomato. It's slightly larger than a cherry tomato but crops heavily with a good flavour.
Big tomatoes don't crop so well, the yield can be quite low but the flavour can be superb if we get a good summer.
For bigger tomatoes I like the 'black' varieties like Black Crim/Russian Black or Italian ones like Costoluto Fiorentino (ribbed) or Cuore di Bue (ox heart.) Marmande, spelled exactly like that, is a good French variety.

The Culture. Apparently.

I could stick a pizza in the oven if anyone's hungry? Crosta & Mollica Stromboli?

Oh god @RobertaFirmino dont say that. I’m in bed and already can’t sleep for thinking about garlic bread.

We grow tromboncino courgettes, which I really recommend, and they are that same long shape. Their flesh stays firm when cooked - not watery at all and they have a good flavour.

ETA a crucial comma!

I made pesto pizza with crab and rocket the other day.

Another weird post about people eating too much.

Actually, it's a gardening thread. 😁

This seems like you've watched an influencer "What I Eat In A Day" who is trying to be very relatable and "British" vs you actually observing the general public who have lives and jobs lol.