😮 ghastly 🎄 supermarket party food.

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.

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

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

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

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

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”

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 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.

MissAdventure

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

Yes! They were extraordinarily tasty!
🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢

.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.

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.

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 👍

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

😯😯😯😯
🤣

So... drink.
Are we adressing that then?

Me too! 😁

It's not just food, it's Christmas food!!

Top up your sprout intake for nutrition.

Allira

glammagran

This made me howl with laughter when I read the article in The Times yesterday entitled “The supermarkets’ worst festive food offences”

www.thetimes.com/article/268750cb-fb81-41bf-8a74-4ec3bc01684a?shareToken=6b0feca45fa2715dd94d7ac3057d5401

That Tesco cheese with toffee etc:
"a dung-coloured insult to all the wonderful cheddar makers of Britain."

Aldi Specially Selected Millionaire’s Bauble:
"It looks more like an archeological dig under the M25 than a pudding.

😂😂😂

There's such a thing as trying too hard.

And selling it to us-as ‘Festive Fayre’. Put a few stars and twinkles on it and we might ignore the paucity of nutrition.