Peggy's Mundane Thread

Are bananas classed as 'seasonal produce'?

That may explain why most of them are crap at this time of year.

And grapes. Surely we can have nice grapes shipped in from a part of the world where their grapes are 'in season'.

But no. It's 2012 and we can't have nice grapes in January.

Or strawberries, for that matter.

Getting very nice grapes from South Africa, Chile and Peru.

One doctor and one medical student.

Bag says it contains a minimum of eight fruits*; actual contents were ten. Nine now.

*which is where they're wrong, since bananas are herbs. Not Herb's, but mine

Had to eat my cereal with a serving spoon again today.

Beginning to think everybody in the whole wide world has got interesting things to do. Except me

Define interesting.

I would find sitting by the fire away from phones and people, with just a packet of digestives, a pot of tea and my Kindle very interesting at the moment!!

Does drinking cider count towards my five a day?

I reckon so. If you do five, you're sorted!

One of each of the following should do.

Cider
Wine
Tomato juice (with vodka*)
Orange juice (with vodka*)
Blackcurrant (with rum*)

* or a suitable alternative

Alternatively, for those not partaking of alcoholic beverages, you could have:

One small bar of fruit and nut
One slice of toast with jam (apricot or gooseberry, perhaps)
One large glass of lemonade
Two jammy dodgers
One strawberry milkshake

Right, that's breakfast covered.

No. Breakfast is this massive big box of chocolate covered cornflakes I bought for the four year old (but only just) because she 'loves' them. Having put the first spoonful in her mouth, she announced 'I DON'T LIKE IT!' and demanded her usual peanut butter on toast. Can't abide (or afford) to waste food, so I'm ploughing through them myself. With milk and (sometimes) a serving spoon).

It's a tough life.

pepsipete wrote:

Getting very nice grapes from South Africa, Chile and Peru.

We get ours from Morrisons. Quite nice they are too.

Eating grapes just seems like wasting a potential bottle of wine to me. Needless to say I also don't eat many apples.

Strawberry, kiwi, pineapple, mango, blueberry.

Co-worker's birthday do, make your own fruit salad kinda thing.

Scampi and frozen chips for tea!

Carbicide with added saturated fat.

Do I feel guilty? Do I hell!

I can now count to a million in Spanish.

And know most of the relatives.

Have you only just met them, then?

(Well done on the million thing, though. I don't think I've ever needed to count to a million.)

Off to cook pasta, roast tomatoes, olives, capers and spicy sausage.

Cerbera wrote:

Scampi and frozen chips for tea!

Carbicide with added saturated fat.

Do I feel guilty? Do I hell!

Freezer tea for me too.

Chilli burgers, chilli flavoured battered onion rings (both Morrisons own brand - very nice too) Branston baked beans, an (apparently) free range egg, and Aunt Bessie's Chips.

Greedy.

Sounds bloody lovely mate!

My tea was tempered somewhat by running out of tartare sauce.

Why does anybody bother to grow tomatos with absolutely no flavour whatsoever? I mean, what is the bleddy point?

Roll on spring, when I can get my own started. (Got a windowbox, innit.)

Thursday (I think). 7am (definitely - I looked at the clock). Somebody was singing outside. Loudly, drunkenly and incoherently.

Lovely.

There is such awful blight around here that I gave up on growing potatoes (when I had an allotment) or tomatoes on the patio. Pity! But there are so many sold on roadside stalls around here that it doesn't matter too much.

Is there some sort of parallel universe into which TV remote control devices disappear?

I've just found one. Does that help ?