😮 ghastly 🎄 supermarket party food.

My girl and me had a real hankering for cheese and pineapple one year.
We mentioned it in about September, and the yearning got stronger and stronger, so we had them at Christmas, and they were absolutely delicious.

Allira

I can always resort to these 😁 as retro is in.
People still seem to like them!

Yumm, still partial to cheese and pineapple, cocktail sausages and vol-au-vents😋

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Ultraprocessed foods in boxes with sell by dates weeks ahead. Weird desserts - Do we need, in fact, any of the mad options now available to us on supermarket shelves? Waitrose has spent a lot of money this year on an advert featuring Matthew Macfadyen and comedian Joe Wilkinson, starring a pudding called the No 1 Red Velvet Bauble Dessert, which looks a bit like a Viennetta. At Sainsbury’s, you can buy a “Christmas Carol-Mel and Brownie Cheesecake”, which is apparently a cheesecake with brownie cubes, salted caramel sauce, chocolate mousse and “bronze lustred” chocolate curls. Tesco has a “Showstopper Macaron Tower”.

Probably all a bit yuk?
I’m hoping for a ‘less UPF Christmas’. Food my grandmother would recognise.

What about you?

I totally agree with you. UPF is everywhere and is proven to be bad for us.
I shall not be buying any of it.
Everyone to their own preferences of course but it's not for me.

Me too.
I don't even like fancy mince pies.
Tee total, so a nice cup of instant coffee does me, with squirty cream on top if I'm feeling posh.

BlueBelle

I don’t need any of it, not even your canapés Sago 🤣

A mince pie and a glass of baileys is about as exotic as I need 🤣

Absolutely agree. Although a scoop of ice cream, Baileys and a warm mince pie,is my favourite indulgence once a year.

Whatever happened to vol au vents? You could fill with pretty much anything.
Out of the “picky bits” my favourite are M&S mini prawn toasts.
It is a costly way to cater but at Christmas we all push the boat out a bit.

Not keen on any of them myself, but then I enjoy making my own.
Most of the desserts have very little taste even though they look delicious.

Other nuts are available!

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Never roast your own nuts is good advice.

I have some "Picard" and "Cook" frozen deserts in my food delivery.
There are 26 of us so far for afternoon/evening celebrations on ChristmasEve - so as I'm doing real cooking for the "mains" I feel no shame!

It's not as though we are doing this every day!
And I'm not roasting my own nuts and frying my own crisps either (it's actually years since I made my own crisps).

MissAdventure

Simply ghastly!!
Honestly?
I don't care.

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Thank you escaped they look delicious. Living in France I do sometimes miss Waitrose & M & S for goodies like that.

Simply ghastly!!
Honestly?
I don't care.

The taste can be disappointing I find.
But some are ok. Much prefer home made nibbles though. But, it's Christmas, so who needs endless standing in the kitchen doing fiddly bits.

Actually, not with onions - pineapple!

I can always resort to these 😁 as retro is in.
People still seem to like them!

Kate1949

I love eating rubbishy processed food at Christmas. It's the only time I do really.

😂

I have to take a plate of nibbles with me when I go to U3A this week.

I was going to buy small readymade savoury snacks but daren't now 😯
Perhaps moked trout on a blini or brown bread ( salmon is now too heavily farmed) with a little cream cheese might ge ok? If I have time.

We also enjoy the rubbish stuff at Christmas. In the midst of everything else, I don't have the time or energy to make them.

No I don’t buy or eat picky bits including canapes or sickly weird puds either.
Give me a slice of cheese on toast any day.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I’ve just fried some slices of halloumi in olive oil 2 minutes each side and eaten them with a pink lady apple cut into wedges Babs03 for my lunch! Delicious.

Oh that sounds delicious!
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I looked in Aldi this morning for a packed of mixed items,
“ picky bits” seems to be the in phrase, but I could only find packs of all the same stuff, which would be too much, without the variety. I might try M&S food on Thursday.

I’ve just fried some slices of halloumi in olive oil 2 minutes each side and eaten them with a pink lady apple cut into wedges Babs03 for my lunch! Delicious.

Just for you sodapop, a plateful.

Oh and thank god for the cheeseboard with fruit and salad. Less cooking to do!!