My
freezer is full. It is full of lasagne and fish pie and chicken
curry and pork steaks and Cottage pie and Beef stew. I probably have
enough food in my freezer to last me for two months. But the only
veg I have in there are frozen peas and some carrots/cauliflower that
I shoved in there a week ago because I bought it when I was in a
'healthy I need to eat vegetables mode' and then didn't eat it.
…..........Oh and I do have oven chips. They're a vegetable?
Right?
I'm
going mad! On my list of jobs to do; I want to defrost the freezer.
But I can't because it's full of stuff. So I don't actually want to
defrost the freezer because I've invested a lot of time, effort &
money in doing all this 'batch cooking' because I have somehow
morphed into a 'domestic goddess'. And to take everything out of the
freezer and let it defrost would probably not be a good plan.
Soooooo...................
I buy more and more stuff at the local shops (which are way more
expensive than going to a big supermarket once a week). I had a very
yummy prawn Biryani curry from M&S the other day. Haven't a clue
why? I have three portions of an equally yummy home-made chicken
curry which is currently residing in my freezer.
BUT.....................
I keep cooking more and more stuff and trying to cram more and more
stuff into the freezer. The freezer is now FULL!!!.
Oh
and while I'm having a bit of a RANT about
cookery.......................... Did anyone else watch the 'Jamie
Oliver' programme on Channel 4 at 5.30pm? It's not on any more. Now
we've got 'Crafting Kirstie Allsop' which is equally annoying.
To
be honest I haven't actually got anything else to do at that time of
day and watching cookery programmes isn't my thing; but
seriously.................. Jamie was the one who campaigned to get
rid of 'chicken nuggets'. And now he's recording cookery programmes
from his house with his perfect kids who are always chopping up
stuff. The other day he made a stir fry which actually included more
than 20 ingredients. How on earth can anyone in lock-down have more
than 20 fresh ingredients in their fridge? What normal person even
has a fridge big enough to house all those ingredients? Middle class
people with that number of ingredients in their massive fridges are
not watching TV at 5.30pm in the evening. They're too busy cooking
healthy nutritious meals from scratch for their families.
Jamie
needs to get back to basics and help the low income families who can
only afford chicken nuggets. Times are hard and as usual, it's the
families on the very lowest of incomes that are suffering. So come
on Jamie................. Why don't you stop all this 'middle class'
faffing around and actually show a low income family how they can
feed their family healthily and nutritionally for less than a bag of
chicken nuggets and oven chips at Iceland cost????????????????
Oh
dear........................ I really must stop RANTING but seriously
programmes like this really annoy me.
I
CHALLENGE you Jamie Oliver to produce a nutritious meal for 4 for £5
or under. And none of this; 'from your store cupboard you can just
use olive oil or this herb or that herb'. Families on the lowest
income don't actually have anything in their store cupboard. That's
why they go to shops like Iceland & Farmfoods to buy stuff like
chicken nuggets and oven chips.
I
personally just feel that for low income families life is really hard
just now. And not just for the main meal of the day. Everyone is at
home so that kids who normally will be entitled to free school meals
are now eating all their meals at home. How is that working? And
how can parents actually afford to feed their kids, especially if
they've been working on a zero hour contracts and now have no work?
Just
saying.
See
you tomorrow.
Toodles
xxxx
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