General Chat

We were lucky, when we bought our 2 bed bungalow in 1961 the kitchen had a bult in fridge, a huge one taller than me.

Ann I did enjoy cooking and baking when I was able but learning to stretch the pennies in the early days of marriage has stayed with me I suppose. Anyway a fridge was a luxury then freezers unheard of in shops or anywhere else.

I don't think we should criticize actually. Not all of us want to spend all our time cooking, life is too short. OK if you enjoy it but some don't. I don't actually cook more than we need for meals, it is not my thing although I am a reasonable cook. I would rather be reading, writing, making cards, chatting on here etc etc.

Mon Dieu, Sacre Blue, to buy ready made Bubble and Squeek, is a crime. Surely. LOL


Jul;ia in Derbyshire

or bottled water Ann! LOL, I remember my parents and their friends saying of a charmer "he could bottle water and sell it" never dreaming it would become reality.

Thinking about the young woman with the canned custard.....there is always the chance that she doesn't have a cooker. I think some modern houses are built without or with very small kitchens because 'people don't cook'. Must google that one.

or......she might be camping for Christmas! :-D

I have to admit when in lazy mood I have used tinned custard. (OH actually likes it) But always make my own (Bisto) gravy. I have also used the bubble and squeak frozen packs. It isn't always that you have left over potato and cabbage etc when you want a fry up!

well I for one never ever thought commercially made sandwiches would catch on - how wrong was ?I?

Island I know I could not believe it many years ago when I saw bubble and squeak frozen. Even OH who has had cooking thrust upon him 3 years ago admits he enjoys it and at the weekend made an apple pie and mincepies.

Ah but that would involve 'cooking' Chris LOL

I had some young thing say to me "Ooo, do you cook from scratch"?
I just said yes. I didn't like to say 'well that's what cooking is, putting something in the microwave isn't cooking' LOL

In checkout today at Wxxxrose a lady in her thirties was in front and she had two large cartons of vanilla custard and two of turkey gravy and two of soup.

A tin of Birds and a tin of Bisto is all you need to make gallons.