to think that people who buy ready-grated and ready-sliced cheese from the supermarket are nuts?

[GetOrfMoiLand]

I mean why would you bother. (Normal exceptions apply - people with disabilities etc who can't grate cheese).

How hard is it to grate cheese? Plus that ready grated stuff must be as dry as a bone.

Plus ready sliced cheese. Why would you now just slice your own cheese? What use are those slices anyway, they are thicker than a pound coin, you would choke on sandwiches made of that.

So expensive as well.

Plus dairylea strip cheese (emphatically not cheese string though, urgh). Actually all dairylea of every form (including dairylea dunkers). DD is banned from having any of this as i consider it crap, however I have been known to sneakily buy one from Sainburys and sneakily eat it in the car before driving home

Actually cannot believe I had the cheek to post a vaguely judgey OP about other people's convenience shopping laziness when I actually commit all crap food crimes myself.

Unlikely as it sounds, this just might be my favourite ever mn thread! Possibly because its making me feel much better about my own trashy buys. Def going to try the low carb lasagne and the micro rice recipes, too... thanks ladies!

Madmentalbint, may I suggest an alternative tuna-draining technique.

Use a tin-opener to cut the lid off but leave the lid in place. Then, tip the tin on its side and push the lid into the tin so squashing the tuna and squeezing out the water. (Do it gently at first to avoid a fish-flavoured fountain). It helps if you release the pressure, turn tin round a bit then squash again. Then squeeze the sides of the tin to push the lid out, et voila - dry tuna and minimal washing-up.

P.S. Important tip - do everything, from the first turn of the tin-opener to getting the lid out, in the sink. Rubber gloves are optional but recommended if you have an aversion to fishy fingers.

snorbs i thought that was the usual way to drain tuna, how else would you do it?

wolfnipplechips, I always thought the same, to be honest. But madmentalbint talked of sieves and tuna juice on worktops so I thought she might need a pointer to the One True Way Of Tuna Drainage.

ds2 was found grating cheese the other day.hes 3(id put cheese on work top and went to answer phone,he got out grater),he did quite well-no bleeding knuckles so better than me-maybe i should rent him out.

Snorbs - that is how I drain tuna. But when I do it I (a) manage to get fishy brine all over my fingers and it's all smelly and horrible and (b) then you have to prise the tin lid off and have managed to cut myself on the tin a couple of times. However this may be due to the fact I have an old fashioned butterfly can opener and it leaves sharp edges.

Anyway no drain tuna sounds like a goodun to me.

Plus I do the same for cans of sweetcorn, it looks as if you have got all the water out, but when you upend the supposed drained can out there is always manky sweetcorn water trapped at the bottom which comes out in a huge gush and ruins your day.

I suppose I could drain it in a colander but honestly that's just something else to wash.

Getorfmoiland......... thats the same problem i have with swede! I just used to pick it up and bang it up and down on the worktop with the knife in it! My late dh thought the kitchen was collapsing!!! My ds and I LURVE the marmite cheeses!!!

GetOrfMoiLand, yes you can end up with stinky fingers. It doesn't bother me as it washes off easily enough but my mum always wears rubber gloves when doing it. (Now there's a paragraph that could be taken distressingly out of context )

To get the lid out again, just push down on one edge of the lid so the other edge will then flip up, and squeeze the tin to lever it out.

As for your sweetcorn issues, use frozen

lol snorbs. Yes, you can cut and paste that sentence into a bumsex thread or whatever and cause a storm

Urgh to frozen sweetcorn. Actually don't like frozen veg at all apart from peas and rice (rice aint a veg I know but you know what I mean).

My tin opener does it the other way, around the cylinder edge - ie sharp tin edges, and the top completely covers the hole so no pressing down opportunity available. So I end up with stickylittlefingers...

My mum used to own a special device for putting in the tuna tin for such purposes.

Me, I bought the no-drain tuna...

i just bought a big bag of ready grated cheese for sandwiches and cheese scones- actually worked out cheaper than buyer cheese by the block! [lazy]

stickylittlefingers, my tin opener works in exactly the same way (ie, it slices the whole top off, below the rim). The lid still fits inside the tin with a little bit of persuasion

Mmmmmm Marmite cheeses. Mmmmmm Babybel, espesh the goat and emmental varieties. Mmmmmmm La Vache Qui Rit Fromage Bleu (found by me in Hyper U in France) - basically, a tub 'o' laffin cow flavoured like sweaty crappy Danish Blue so beloved of my childhood. I made a veg gratin with it.

I cannot abide tuna - the sight, the smell, the feel (I think it's like mashed-up spiders), so refuse to drain, I have a man who does for me

My kids like all plastic crappy cheeses (as well as proper cheese) - cheesetrings, babybels, dairylea.

YABU. I buy grated cheese because if im truthful, im to damn lazy to grate

I buy ready chopped onions and they're about a three times as much as an onion. Worth every cent.

I buy those bags of frozen prechopped herbs that Waitrose sell now. I do grow my own but they are sometimes not available, and it is fab to just reach into the freezer, they don't go stale or off either.

Always keep frozen corn, carrots and peas in the freezer.

I feel a bit weird now.
I buy EVERYTHING from scratch... make my own bread, have a rice cooker, the only frozen veg I ever have is peas... yet I have piles of pre-grated AND pre-sliced cheese in the fridge.

[odd]

Not odd, just different. I think it doesn't actually matter either way and people should do what suits.

Inspired by this thread I purchased a bag of grated cheese today in Sainsbury's for use in jacket pots and macaroni cheese for DS. I am looking forward to not ripping a nail or knuckle!

Hellhathnofury, what's the point of a rice cooker? What's wrong with an ordinary pan?

can't be bothered to read all this but in answer to OP - yes, they are nuts and lazy ones at that.

Next!

Sliced cheese is the best ever! (not the plastic individually wrapped stuff - although it too has it's place).

Sliced Gouda, Emmental, mild cheddar. Thin uniform slices, that even the pickiest of children cannot complain about, and they melt beautifully over burgers.

Mmmm