😮 ghastly 🎄 supermarket party food.

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petal53

Nobody in their right mind makes puff/flaky pastry these days. The bought version is so good, just why would you?

That's so true, I made a huge chicken pie the other evening for my daughter's birthday dinner and the bought puff pastry was absolutely delicious and looked perfect.

Even my early 70s GH cookery book says it’s not worth making puff pastry when what you can buy is just as good as anything you and your rolling pin can produce.
(Or in my case, considerably better - not that I’ve ever tried to make any,)

NotSpaghetti

^boiled jam roll and sticky toffee pudding, with real custard.^

This sounds heavier than a Christmas pudding to be honest.

None of us really like the claggy texture of a Christmas Pudding, a properly made roll or toffee pudding can be very light.

I generally start hankering after beans on toast by Boxing Day.
🙄

Good idea!

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 🤣

That sounds just right with maybe a slice of Christmas cake on Boxing Day, IF any Baileys is left!

Oh no, J52

Well, this was my mother's recipe but she never kept them that long.

MissAdventure

Or if the consumer has enough alcohol in them not to care.

A strong brandy sauce.
Catch the pudding alight with a good slug of brandy first - that shoul kill off any germs.

Allira

Well, DH keeps mentioning it.

Perhaps we'll save it for the New Year, just us, rather than risk anyone else getting ill at Christmas.

I saved a ‘homemade’ one made by a local celeb chef and sold for charity. We cooked it the following year - oh dear I smelt of green grass cuttings. I think it was moldy!
Fortunately we had the Waitrose bought desert as back up! ( true)

I'm not going to make my own chipolatos and wrap bacon round them, make my own stuffing from home-made bread, catch and smoke my own salmon, ditto turkey or even pick my own sprouts, parsnips and potatoes this year so thank you to the supermarkets for some help with all the preparation of good basics.

Or if the consumer has enough alcohol in them not to care.

Well, DH keeps mentioning it.

Perhaps we'll save it for the New Year, just us, rather than risk anyone else getting ill at Christmas.

Allira
Do you think the Christmas Pudding I made about six years ago will be ultra-processed by now?

No.
Besides Christmas puddings are like wine, they get better with age, especially if they have sufficient alcohol in to stop them being sold before 10 o’clock.

"a dung-coloured insult to all the wonderful cheddar makers of Britain."

Rosalyn69

Can’t cook. Won’t cook. That’s me.
It wrong to criticise people’s eating habits and moralise on how one batch cooks and does everything from scratch etc etc. It doesn’t make one special to do that stuff. It’s a choice.
I’m an intelligent educated woman. I make my lifestyle choices. I’m sure others do too. It doesn’t mean money are wrong.
It’s meat pie for dinner and I didn’t butcher the cow myself and hand dig the vegetables. 🙄

I do agree. It's strange isn't it how it seems to only be in the area of food that there's such virtue in doing it all yourself from scratch? I'm a mix. Hate cooking but do a fair bit from scratch but not at all adverse to taking easy ready prepared options either. I sew and knit some of my own clothes, make my own curtains but have never woven a carpet or done carpentry. Do those who consider it lazy/inferior to go the ready prepared route for meals consider themselves lazy or inferior for going the ready to wear route for clothes etc? As you say we all make our own lifestyle choices that fit with our needs, wants, and circumstances.

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.

paddyann54

Allira I buy them frozen and cut them in portions before they defrost Morrisons freezers always has them

Oh, so tempted, I could have one slice a month 😀

Allira I buy them frozen and cut them in portions before they defrost Morrisons freezers always has them

Mine not money

Can’t cook. Won’t cook. That’s me.
It wrong to criticise people’s eating habits and moralise on how one batch cooks and does everything from scratch etc etc. It doesn’t make one special to do that stuff. It’s a choice.
I’m an intelligent educated woman. I make my lifestyle choices. I’m sure others do too. It doesn’t mean money are wrong.
It’s meat pie for dinner and I didn’t butcher the cow myself and hand dig the vegetables. 🙄

J52

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

I like the look of the Lemoncello Stollen bites. Might have to get some.
Oh BTW unless you make your own I’d avoid a bought Christmas Pudding, it’s processed and brown! 😂

Do you think the Christmas Pudding I made about six years ago will be ultra-processed by now?

That’s hilarious Glammagran 🤣🤣 I’ve actually got the Aldi golden bauble in my freezer. I’ve saved the description to share on Christmas Day 🥳😂

That writer is spot on, they all sound horrible - the sticky toffee cheddar is particularly gruesome I think.

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

I like the look of the Lemoncello Stollen bites. Might have to get some.
Oh BTW unless you make your own I’d avoid a bought Christmas Pudding, it’s processed and brown! 😂

The prices of most of these 'special xmas treats' puts me off, plus so many are spicy asian type foods which we don't like anyway. Just traditional Christmas fare for this family suits us fine.