😮 ghastly 🎄 supermarket party food.

cc.- I do hope you aren't calling my exquisite Christmas pudding "claggy"

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I don't give a stuffing ball about nutrition at Christmas. It's been a tough year. I'm going to eat junk if I feel like it.

Take note MissAdventure of this unusual but thoroughly Christmassy way to up your vegetable intake (yet still keep with the fried and processed agenda)

Battered sprouts from our chip shop!
I realised - nearly too late - that my family would think it was a joke so took a photo.... Totally delicious by the way.

Think they are bao buns....not very nice

Oh I've not seen those before.
You've tried them, then?

I don’t think those of us who’ll buy the buffet style snacks over the festive season are in the habit of having them all year round. But over the festive season with family visitors coming and going they are a convenient stand by. Easy to pop in the oven and a tasty spread quickly available to serve up in an evening.

MissA I’ll answer your question about the alcohol 😆 I’ll be enjoying some of that as well to wash down my convenience snacks. Will I feel guilty? Not a bit!

That's the spirit. Ooops, pardon my pun.

Kate1949

I don't give a stuffing ball about nutrition at Christmas. It's been a tough year. I'm going to eat junk if I feel like it.

I'm with you on that one! Here's to stuffing (our faces with whatever we like)!

Kate1949

I don't give a stuffing ball about nutrition at Christmas. It's been a tough year. I'm going to eat junk if I feel like it.

Hear, hear!

Kate1949

I don't give a stuffing ball about nutrition at Christmas. It's been a tough year. I'm going to eat junk if I feel like it.

Agree 👍

There is a reason why the populous looks so unhealthy.
Make a point of watching the people next time you are out and about amongst the public, they look sick and yet we’ve had a health service free at the point of delivery for almost 80 years.
I enjoy cooking and cook from scratch every day, as a family we’ve never had a takeaway not even fish & chips consequently we are all slim and healthy.
I dislike government interference but the food industry needs regulating.

.next year they won the be allowed to advertise these. I assume they're make it a last hurrah this year. They also aren't aimed at us as we, we'll most of us, have the time to make ours, but if you have two people working full time and have children with things to do times isn't on their side.

MissAdventure

Oh I've not seen those before.
You've tried them, then?

Yes! They were extraordinarily tasty!
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I must admit I did buy some of the party food type stuff when it first came out. Maybe around the early 2000's? It was all from M&S and sounded quite exciting at the time. Bear in mind it was quite a novelty back then. But it really didn't deliver on taste and was very processed. I'm not one for convenience food anyway, so I never indulged again.

Whi is going to be washing down their scratch cooked christmas fayre with water?
Anybody, or shall we finally address the ultra processed alcohol?

Nobody seems that keen to discuss it.

I like wine MissA.
Red, white or pink. 🍷

“Wine is generally considered a processed drink, but not ultra-processed:
Classification
Wine is a fermented drink, which is considered processed. However, it's not considered ultra-processed because it's not distilled after fermentation. Distilled alcoholic drinks, like gin, rum, vodka, and whiskey, are considered ultra-processed”

Thank you.
I only drink one tea, one coffee, and 2 litres of water a day.

Actually, more water than that, now I think of it, because I constantly top up the bottle.

I love cooking and make most things from scratch but… at Christmas I always buy a selection of canapés from M&S and Waitrose.

It seems we're all about equal then, in the healthy food and drink stakes, and I'm all for equality.

AJKW

There is a reason why the populous looks so unhealthy.
Make a point of watching the people next time you are out and about amongst the public, they look sick and yet we’ve had a health service free at the point of delivery for almost 80 years.
I enjoy cooking and cook from scratch every day, as a family we’ve never had a takeaway not even fish & chips consequently we are all slim and healthy.
I dislike government interference but the food industry needs regulating.

I don't give a stuffing ball about nutrition at Christmas. It's been a tough year. I'm going to eat junk if I feel like it.

Hear hear.

You cook from scratch over Christmas if you like but each to their own.

AJKW

There is a reason why the populous looks so unhealthy.
Make a point of watching the people next time you are out and about amongst the public, they look sick and yet we’ve had a health service free at the point of delivery for almost 80 years.
I enjoy cooking and cook from scratch every day, as a family we’ve never had a takeaway not even fish & chips consequently we are all slim and healthy.
I dislike government interference but the food industry needs regulating.

Have you never eaten in a restaurant or café, never stayed in a hotel? Each to their own but fish and chips eaten at the seaside is one of lif'e pleasures for me, and no different nutritionally to fish and chips cooked at home.

Where did you go on dates?
Not out for a drink, or a meal, ever?

And in answer to MissAdventure I like wine, mostly white and a nice gin and tonic, or a good single malt whisky. Not all in the same glass at the same time Christmas means a good Chablis with the meal, and if I have to help finish the bottle after the meal, well sacrifices have to be made!

Cheers!
It sounds perfect.