😮 ghastly 🎄 supermarket party food.

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

Yesterday I watched Jamie Oliver slow roast about 6 carrots in the oven for over one and a half hours, doused with orange juice. Time well spent. Yum.

MissAdventure

I'm surprised some people can bear to eat at all, frankly.

😂😂😂😂😂

We love picky bits, we call it English Tapa or British Tali! Love that you can have a little bit of lots of stuff!

Ooh, lots of outlets.
Lovely but I couldn't eat a whole one and no-one else likes hazelnuts.

paddyann54

My DIL loves a Daim bar cake regardless of how many home made puds are available we have to keep one in the freezer for her.
I don’t eat sweet stuff but her body her choice

Can you buy those anywhere now?
They used to be only in IKEA.

Off to investigate 😀

My DIL loves a Daim bar cake regardless of how many home made puds are available we have to keep one in the freezer for her.
I don’t eat sweet stuff but her body her choice

GrammaH

"They're all yuk" - is that right Sago? How many have you tried? As the saying goes, don't knock it til you've tried it! I'm not impressed with many of the superior attitudes expressed on this thread. 😤

Hahaha

Grunty

I wait all year for the frozen prawn party ring with the lurid pink dipping sauce!

Yay!

Asda ice-cream is delicious.
I think they do just vanilla flavour, too.

just done an online shop at Asda and for some reason all the deserts seem to be smothered or are salted caramel and all the savoury foods are very spicy my one pet hate

wibblywobblywobblebottom

Supermarket chains produce this sort of "food"at this time of year because they know their customers are morons, who will buy anything called party food.

How rude is that!
You have no idea what anyone else has going on in their lives and if eating something like that brings them a little joy, so what. It doesn't make them a moron.

Have you checked out your highly processed drink consumption, though, fgt??

I’m not a snob. Eat those supermarket desserts and enjoy them. Your choice and I’m no Grinch. Just don’t kid yourself these industrially produced festive boxes are food. Well “Not as we know it Jim”.

No idea, I've never had one.

What are these canapés or canaps as my husband calls them - and do they only come out at Christmas 🥳🫣

I don't buy it. Would rather make my own. As long as I can get hold of basic ingredients and fresh fruit and veg, I don't mind what else they sell. I assume those that buy it like it.

MissAdventure

Are you the pheasant pluckers mate, then?

Haha, I guess I am!

I cook/make everything myself, but despite that I think all the supermarkets make fabulous festive options. Not everyone can or wants to do all the cooking/preparation themselves - let people buy prepared items if they wish. Each to their own.

Are you the pheasant pluckers mate, then?

Having said that, I've currently got a pheasant hanging in the shed waiting to be plucked...
Luckily for me, I'm not the resident pheasant plucker in the family (try saying that in a hurry!)

MissAdventure I didn't read it as a criticism at all. No problem.

Ha ha! LadyGaGa
When we lived rurally and had 5 young children we did grind our own flour!

I think we all have different phases in our lives. For us that includes what we eat.

MissAdventure

Where does your food come from then?
Slaughter your own turkey, do you?

Raise and slaughter their own turkeys, make their pigs in blankets from their home-reared pigs, home-grown roast potatoes, carrots, Brussels sprouts etc etc etc...
As I say, these threads always bring out the food snobs.
Meanwhile, I'm away to weave my own tablecloth for the xmas table...

Where does your food come from then?
Slaughter your own turkey, do you?

Supermarket chains produce this sort of "food"at this time of year because they know their customers are morons, who will buy anything called party food.