in thinking that if you cant afford to buy all your food in M&S you really should

[MrsMcCluskey]

have married a richer man?
It really is that simple.

Scoff all you like! The next time you bite into your battery hen, I want you to remember THIS

VT is right. Booths is wonderful. Has anyone got a spare Booths cave art eco bag? I really want one and I can only manage to get the hedgehog one from my nearest Booths.

What is this Booths of which you speak?

It is only in the North. You can google it. There isn't one near me, as I am in the wrong bit of the North. Perhaps I should move to a better shopping area.

Is Booths a chain?? I thought it was only in "too posh for Waitrose" Ilkley ..

Yeah, in fact I believe it started in my beloved Preston

Oh no, it's just occurred to me, I'm about to move to Newcastle...do Booths exist there???

No no no, you go about it all wrong.

If you are not able to grow your own cows and chicken you should not eat.

There are only 27 Booths. If you move to Newcastle you will have to drive to Keswick to shop.

I am 22 miles from my nearest Booths.

MillyR Oh no! I shall have to stock up on posh food when i come visiting in Preston then! They have a shit market in newcastle too, bloody geordies, they'd be happy eating coal spread on a bloody stottie cake!

I am from Geordieland originally and I love a stottie. When pregnant I also liked coal.

It is difficult to know which is better, stotties or Booths.

Either way, I am missing out.

M&S is crap. Too many ready meals.

M&S are not crap.They sell the food of the gods,Percy Pigs.

Stottie with ham 'n' pease pudding please.

@ 'bloody geordies, they'd be happy eating coal spread on a bloody stottie cake!'

stotties may be nice, but they hardly compare to Lancashire hotpot or butter pies do they? And Broon ale sends me insane! (plus I am pregnant so daren't even sniff a bottle in case my child comes out looking like a Viz character)

I love Newcastle really!

Lissy

It could be worse. Here on Teesside we have the Parmo. www.bbc.co.uk/tees/content/articles/2005/09/09/parmo_feature.shtml

As hideous as they look and sound

I can't believe you don't all have chefs at home who cook delicious nutricious meals from the produce of your garden. I know I do.

Seriously, though... Percy pigs!!! who could live without them!!!

HM - From Monkeyhanging land and loves a stottie!!

Grumpy, I see Teesside is getting quite cosmopoliton since I left.

Darling - one would only shop in Fenwicks Food Hall in Newcastle...

Actually, I love the quiches [hypocritical grin]

lol @ Teesside being 'quite cosmopolitan'

But QS my fussy children won't eat the cows or the sheep that I've had the estate manager rear raised with the finest breast milk. Will I be making a rod for my own back by raising guinea fowl for them?

bloody temps who can't follow instructions. She's sacked.

Karala, you can never go wrong with Quail. Most children love quail eggs. Having said that, wild boar or guinea fowl, are good options too....

Pff, pff. MY son eats nothing but organic vegetables and fruit -from our backyard gardens and orchards, which our dear gardener grows on mulch he's composted himself- and brown rice from our own paddy.

cheerfulyank - would the 'Paddy' be your Irish 'dear gardener'?