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Down the supermarket this morning sticking a few supplies by for the October eye recovery. With this in mind I bought a couple of half kilo bags of spaghetti. 24p per pack. Checked tesco & Morrison online.... 85p per pack.

Guess what I'm doing tomorrow. Obviously Erdoğan grain shipment brokering worked.

I genuinely think you'll notice how much has gone up in price since you've been away!

It is moving that fast!

Are you taking orders, as I have a shopping list...

It will be loo roll next.............oh wait.........sorry that was last time, wasn't it ?

ahem i will get my coat!

Moxi

To be honest, I've already bought a load of pulses and will load up on spaghetti too. Empty cabin stowed trolley bags, why wouldn't u?
Have I mentioned before that I'm not normal?

some foods or all are too cheap , needs more appreciation while we consume those goods

billi wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 4:47 pm some foods or all are too cheap , needs more appreciation while we consume those goods

Very true, lots of stuff is much cheaper now than when we set up house 45 years ago. Not just self-build furniture but most foodstuffs. People in the UK don't appreciate it because it is so cheap... I reckon they would eat sawdust if it was flavoured and sweetened - and cheap enough!
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billi wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 4:47 pm some foods or all are too cheap , needs more appreciation while we consume those goods

I agree, growing what we can develops an appreciation and grounds oneself.

Joeboy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 4:33 pm To be honest, I've already bought a load of pulses and will load up on spaghetti too. Empty cabin stowed trolley bags, why wouldn't u?
Have I mentioned before that I'm not normal?

I dunno, we always stock up on pulses and some spices when coming back from Lanzarote.

I swear Spanish Chick Peas are the nicest you’ll try. Also bring back Lanzarote Sea Salt - harvested in sea fed salt pans. Less Sodium, lot more minerals.

Got to be good for you

And the other one - tinned Sardines. Stunning - get 6-8 per tin rather than 3. Being smaller they have a lighter, sweeter taste.

Definitely good for you

I agree that the price of food doesn’t represent its true cost - not just the monetary aspect. Looking at the increasing girth of our population (I’m not preaching, I’ve still got a few kilo still to lose) ready access to cheap (carp) food is too easy.

I realise that this winter, many households are going to struggle with food vs energy cost.

When I was at school in the 1960's, the girls were all taught Domestic Science, which focussed on the science of food and how to make nutritious meals from basic ingredients. I caused a bit of a stir as when I stayed on to do an accelerated 6th year (first time our secondary modern had done it) I didn't have enough A level subjects to fill the curriculum. I was asked (or rather my parents were asked, I think) what additional subjects I should take, so I chose to do O level Domestic Science and O level Needlework, as I thought that both might be pretty useful.

Ignoring all the gross gender bias that existed back then, which in my case meant being subjected to a lot of abuse, mostly from girls, the decision to spend a year studying for those two O levels was one of the best decisions I've ever made. As a student a year later it enabled me to eat for next to bugger all, as I knew how to make decent meals from cheap basic ingredients.

It's something I've been passionate about for my whole life, and after 40 odd years I've almost managed to convince SWMBO that making meals from basic, locally sourced, ingredients is fun, tasty and nutritious. The only thing that has been a really big change over the years was discovering sous vide, and the way that this technique can turn cheap ingredients into exceptionally tasty meals.

It's a great shame that kids don't seem to be taught these basics today. I strongly suspect that the initial problem was the politically correct crowd deciding that school subjects that were very gender-specific were no longer acceptable. I get that, but if I was able to study domestic science (which included basic home accounting as well) as the only 17 year old boy, in a class with about thirty 15/16 year old girls back in 1969, then I really cannot see why there was a problem in reality.