How Did You Notice Excessive Food Ponciness?

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This morning I found myself grating a cinnamon stick into a salad dressing.

Because we are out of normal ground cinnamon.

Because I have fallen madly in love with Waitrose brand ground cinnamon (wouldn't think it would be different, totally is), which Ocado doesn't stock (!!). And DH keeps failing to buy it for me.

How can I fix this? Do I need to (ugh) eat McDonalds or something?

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Oh, I buy Olive or whatever sometimes.

I honestly couldn't eat at McDonalds, I had a coffee there 10 years ago. (Ditto Burger King etc.)

But having a preference among brands of ground cinnamon just seems a step too far.

(oooh, one pleasant foodie improvement, Barts now do coconut cream in 50g sachets. So you no longer have to choose between a) no coconut cream b) too much coconut cream c) part of a block of coconut cream sitting in the fridge until you bin it)

At one point I had about 5 different types of cheese in the fridge, but not even a sliver of cheddar (needed it for the kids' sandwiches). That was my "step too far" moment...

I genuinely get cross if dh doesnt make my tea when the kettle has JUST boiled

also cannot eat own brand pasta, it HAS to be the nobby italian de cecco stuff

or normal tinned sardines, they have to be the Breton ones

And quails' eggs, Enid eats poncey stuff like that.

I confess to being a coffee snob.

I'm also one of those annoying farmer's market shoppers.

And meat. I'm poncey about that. Preferably Scottish, but must be British. Free range, too.

barf at cinammon in salad

i too ama nobbt y de cecco stuff
cost a fortune

also yes am nobby baotu coffee
dont drink instant
wodu ratehr die

oh god I am so guilty of this too

i can only eat cheese from dead poncey places

When I go to asda I have to surpress my gagging as I walk down the aisle with the tv dinners, the tinned slime, the meat, in fact nearly every aisle. I heave a sigh of relief when the bog roll comes into view (am not poncey about what I wipe my arse on only about what goes in the other end)

go on, embrace your ponciness!

we're not particularly poncey re food, but DH does actually throw away wine (usually gifts) that he deems not good enough for cooking with, let alone drinking.

I remember someone, possibly in a book rather than RL, distinguishing between butter and cooking butter, which made me snigger.

i'm even nobby about boullion. that crap w/MSG, NO WAY! i like to make my own stock and freeze it.

how's this for ponce? nigella had this tip about pouring unused wine into a glass and then freezing that, so you have a glass of wine ready for cooking.

the other thing i do w/it is pull my own vinegar. Pierre turned me on to vinegar makers so of course i had to go and order one from France. it was hard to get, so a friend in Germany bought it for me and shipped it.

snobby about artificial sweetners.

DH and DD1 very snobby about cheese. And porridge. Only the Mill of Alford stuff, soaked overnight.

I'm definitely of the school of "if I wouldn't drink it then I wouldn't cook with it" with wine cookery.

cooking butter - wtf is that then?! Just stick lurpak in everything, me... (perhaps I'm not poncey enough)

unused wine??? UNUSED WINE?!!

OMG you lot scare me!

Well, yes, when I was pregnant, I had to cut back on my wine consumption.

DH is an ale man.

He is to be forgiven for this b/c he is Scots.

I have to have a block of Parmesaen in the fridge for pasta.MIL introduced me to toasted pine nuts and now can't have a leaf salad without them!!!!!

oh, and we do make our own stock. A lot. And toast pine nuts. And sesame seeds.

Maybe we're poncier than I realised - have just thought 'I should get a vinegar maker for all that thrown-away wine'

well, make my own houmous and stock
and we have one of those parmesan grater thingies in the fridge , suppose that must make us poncy? Oh and brie and any decent french cheese etc can not come from a supermarket (they just don't know how to treat it right), always tasteless.
MIL despairs of her precious (not in that sense) DIL...She even brings her own coffee when she comes to stay as ours is OTT..

I find ordering a pizza once in a while helps to take the edge off

WAIT - oh no, I am doomed

Nah, really, I am not a food ponce. You are though, NQC, there is no denying it.

I'm not really trying to deny it. I was just alarmed to find myself having a preference between brands of bloody ground cinnamon!

Cinnamon goes very well in some sorts of salads - there's a lovely lebanese salad we love which takes cinnamon, and I made a quinoa salad today with cinnamon in the dressing. I don't think I'd put cinnamon in a leafy salad, but maybe that would work, too.

I can't really do prepared meals (except for pasta + pesto), or artificial sweeteners. Meat has to be proper meat, if we're doing meat at all.

It does make eating when out and about a bit tricky. Those dodgy microwave meals that some pubs do are just not worth considering.

I make my own pesto.

The store bought stuff tastes yucky now.

So does store bought humus. Eeewww.

As an aside, please could you suggest something I can use my opened box of Barts coconut cream in, before it goes off?

You can put it in rice pudding. Works very well, well, coconut milk does, anyway.

That's the problem isn't it - getting used to your own home made stuff - no-one told me when I was getting our diet healthier that there was no return

Was feeling lazy the other day so cooked store bought burgers instead of making my own for the first time in years - they were REVOLTING.

I want some convenience back every now and then!

seconding whoever went 'unused wine!'

and whoever mentioned quinoa should just go and sit in the corner for a moment and think about their life