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Posted by Trish Brown on April 27, 2009, 4:54 am
Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:
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> When we see young (and not-so-young) mothers with a couple of children
> in tow who fill their supermarket trolley with ready-prepared food
> (burgers etc) and tinned produce Maureen often comments that with what
> they spent they could buy a couple of joints of meat and some fresh
> vegetables and, for the cost of an hour or two in preparation, give
> their family several decent, much healthier and tastier meals.
YES! My two favourite soapboxes are macaroni cheese and pikelets
('pikelets' is Oz for small, single-bite pancakes).
My nieces will pay $$$ for vile, disgusting frozen macaroni cheese
and/or preservative-laden boxed pikelet mix. They say 'I don't have the
time to cook like you do, Aunt!'
Pppppbbbblllffftttt!
It takes twenty five minutes to heat the frozen gloop they call macca
and cheese, while I can whip up a scrumptious batch from scratch in
exactly ten! (NB. I cook my pasta in the microwave while the cheese
sauce bubbles on the stovetop) Bit o' flour, butter, milk, cheese and
bob'syeruncle!
Rather than pay three or four dollars for packaged pikelet gloop, it's
just as simple to chuck a cup of flour, an egg, some sugar and some milk
in a jug and mix! What's so hard about that???
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Trish Brown
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Posted by Bruce Fletcher (remove denture on April 27, 2009, 6:32 am
Trish Brown wrote:
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> My nieces will pay $$$ for vile, disgusting frozen macaroni cheese
> and/or preservative-laden boxed pikelet mix. They say 'I don't have the
> time to cook like you do, Aunt!'
The latest "Oh no!" item in the freezer of our local shop is - I kid you
not - "Aunt Bessie's frozen mashed potato". I must admit that "Aunt
Bessie's frozen oven chips" are quite nice for an occasional treat but
frozen mash, I ask you!
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Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
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Posted by Cheryl Isaak on April 27, 2009, 7:26 am
On 4/27/09 6:32 AM, in article Xs6dndgT7ZItFGjUnZ2dnUVZ8vli4p2d@bt.com,
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> Trish Brown wrote:
>> My nieces will pay $$$ for vile, disgusting frozen macaroni cheese
>> and/or preservative-laden boxed pikelet mix. They say 'I don't have the
>> time to cook like you do, Aunt!'
>
> The latest "Oh no!" item in the freezer of our local shop is - I kid you
> not - "Aunt Bessie's frozen mashed potato". I must admit that "Aunt
> Bessie's frozen oven chips" are quite nice for an occasional treat but
> frozen mash, I ask you!
Thinking he was helping, my husband once bought frozen mashed - ick, yuck,
disgusting.
And do you know there is frozen cooked rice out there? Or steamer bowls of
it in the health food section? Takes what - 15 minutes to cook white rice.
Ok the brown stuff does take longer, but still folks...it will take 15
minutes to nuke the rice
That's even less of a value than the pre-made potato salad.
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Posted by on April 27, 2009, 12:07 pm
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:32:18 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures
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>Trish Brown wrote:
>> My nieces will pay $$$ for vile, disgusting frozen macaroni cheese
>> and/or preservative-laden boxed pikelet mix. They say 'I don't have the
>> time to cook like you do, Aunt!'
>The latest "Oh no!" item in the freezer of our local shop is - I kid you
>not - "Aunt Bessie's frozen mashed potato". I must admit that "Aunt
>Bessie's frozen oven chips" are quite nice for an occasional treat but
>frozen mash, I ask you!
I just asked someone I know in the industry to buy some Aunt Bessies
roast spuds when he is next in the UK and then get his company to
duplicate them. At least in the UK you have some very nice
convenience foods.
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Posted by Bruce Fletcher (remove denture on April 28, 2009, 5:54 am
lucretiaborgia@florence.it wrote:
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> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:32:18 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures
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>> Trish Brown wrote:
>>> My nieces will pay $$$ for vile, disgusting frozen macaroni cheese
>>> and/or preservative-laden boxed pikelet mix. They say 'I don't have the
>>> time to cook like you do, Aunt!'
>> The latest "Oh no!" item in the freezer of our local shop is - I kid you
>> not - "Aunt Bessie's frozen mashed potato". I must admit that "Aunt
>> Bessie's frozen oven chips" are quite nice for an occasional treat but
>> frozen mash, I ask you!
>
> I just asked someone I know in the industry to buy some Aunt Bessies
> roast spuds when he is next in the UK and then get his company to
> duplicate them. At least in the UK you have some very nice
> convenience foods.
Yes, her roast spuds are quite acceptable as are her Yorkshire puddings.
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Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
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> in tow who fill their supermarket trolley with ready-prepared food
> (burgers etc) and tinned produce Maureen often comments that with what
> they spent they could buy a couple of joints of meat and some fresh
> vegetables and, for the cost of an hour or two in preparation, give
> their family several decent, much healthier and tastier meals.