can't live without!

Is Redbush tea addictive? Even though, when I first tasted it I thought I was drinking TCP, I now get all fidgety if I run out of it. We used to eat bread and lard [had to have salt with it] along with sugar sandwiches and pigs feet.

I could understand eating dripping, despite being a veggie, as it has flavour. but lard!!! Yuk.

Fish, redbush tea, salad

Mayonnaise
Fish
Yoghurt

Used to ask my Granny for 'sugar butties', still remember the crunch; must have been a thing just after the war when stuff was still rationed.

Just did. It's allright. Rather tasteless if anything. Lard doesn't have a strong taste so it was really just a way of getting sugar to stick to bread, I suppose. I can see why kids would like it. I think I can live without any more of it though.

I will try it on a very tiny piece of bread.

Well, yes, it's the taste aspect which puts me off - no problem with fat as we get through rather a lot of butter. I can understand bread and dripping, as it would be meat-flavoured.

I'm going to try that sometime. No worse than butter and jam really, except perhaps on the flavour front. I eat butter every day but there usually isn't any jam in the house.

I can't think of anything I couldn't live without. Most things I have lived without for longish periods of my life so I guess I could again.

At the moment tea would probably be what I'd miss the most along with date slices to eat with it.

You'd be surprised what they fed me when I was a kid. And I yearn for it now ! Tried bread and sunflower spread with sugar on it. Did n't do the job.

Still feeling sick at the thought of a lard and sugar sandwich....[Yuk! emoticon]

I've tried the 'only a couple of squares a day, but I could hear the rest of the bar calling to me, even when it was in the freezer. So, it had to go. It's all or nothing. DBH buys me a small bar no more than once a week, and hands it over as if

A he fears I may bite his hand off

B he is my pusher, but not proud of it.

Tea. Marmite on brown toast and cheese.

Oh nonononono! What did our parents do to us! My grandmother waxed lyrical about sugar sandwiches. My mother about condensed milk sandwiches, and my grandfather about lashings of condensed milk in his tea.

Crunch is good in bread and lard with sugar on it.

(No! I haven't had in years!)

Oh! Not the crunch!!! #teethonedge

You are both wrong about the lettuce sandwich. It needs a drizzle of wine vinegar and a light sprinkle of sugar (granulated for the crunch)

With a small smear of salad cream, not mayonnaise.

All that chocolate, Cari?

It 'only' took me two years to train myself off eating a small bar every night! Now down to one a week, but heavens it was tough at the beginning. Otherwise it would definitely have been on the list.

Oh yes ! Lettuce sandwiches! With salt.

Apples
Lettuce sandwiches on good wholemeal bread
Well - if I must - dark chocolate

CariGransnet technically that's either too many or too few?If I am being a pedant, then chocolate [in it's many forms] is really only one thing, so you have 2 choices left, choose wisely!

Oooooh - hot buttered toast with marmite (rarely have but a real treat). And cherries. Straight from the fridge.

(Btw grew up on marmite and lettuce sandwiches (no butter, always iceberg, highly recommend)

Marmite
Wholemeal bread
Wine