Fat, sugar and salt - do you agree?

Thank you also for yours janeainsworth - good to know of the OK ready meals.
After reading the article written by Aseem Malhotra in the Observer yesterday I thought I would Google him. I was very pleased to see that a vigorous campaign is already up and running, it's main aim being to improve manufactured foods. It seems well on it's way with many notable supporters and there have already been representations to 'the powers that be'
I enjoyed your contribution SuzanneL60 - very well balanced and interesting and no it wasn't a rant.
It's nice that we don't get bitchy on here. I also posted this on Mumsnet and had quite an earful!!!

I've just heard on the radio hat Clarissa Dickson-Wright (one of the Two Fat Ladies) has died aged 66.
She was known for being politically incorrect but I thought I had heard it all when they played a recording of her on Desert Island Discs, saying that the only way you could manufacture serotonin in the body was by eating animal fats, and the rise in use of antidepressants was due to everyone stopping eating them

That's sad news, she was a real character.

She was legally qualified wasn't she?

She used to be a barrister.

Oh crikey janeainsworth. What if she was right?

Sunshine definitely does it for me, but perhaps animal fats might do it too.

It's a good job my guinness chocolate cake which I am going to make this afternoon uses unsalted butter. I will be very happy.

Vitamin D is probably best obtained from sunshine and fish oils, nuts and seeds, jings, although animal fats do contain Vitamin D as well.

My mother used to say 'A little of what you fancy does you good', the emphasis being on the little. That is why I don't bake cakes any more because I can't stop at a little.

I'm not going to put icing on mine. That should help with the old piggery temptation.

Unsalted butter does not have any calories.
Nor does unrefined sugar.

This will probably get removed for lying on GN.

According to this page of Gransnet, my soon-to-be-baked cake is "a good way to finish yourself off"!!!

I don't think it will be that bad, will it?

And what are 'stewed hordes'?

I may make the colcannon. I was going to do bubble and squeak, but I'll just make it an Irish version!

The cake sounds very 'nigella' - pour it into the brown, buttery, beery pan' mmmmm