What people eat!

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According to the usual so called experts, no one but no one eats bread or potatoes nowadays!

Every one eats, pizzas, pasta,takeaways or curries, not boring old food.

Well! according to my next door neighbour on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after the snow had started here, there was no bread sliced or from their bakery in our large supermarket!

Better still, there was no potatoes either, when there are always two full row of different varieties!

I offered him some of my home grown ones, but he declined saying he had enough to do him.

He said he had wandered around the supermarket to see what was left after seeing all the bread had gone. he did not say what he had gone there for!

Then my wife heard on the radio, in a place called Allendale, she thinks, that the local grocer said they had run out of bread and potatoes, but they had already got a deliverly of bread and the lorry delivering potatoes had just arrived,so it was all right with the world!

I called in this morning to get my paper and milk, not much milk but plenty of bread and potatoes!

And people were still going out with full trollies, but then it is near the weekend!

Cheers!

 

Hi Makka Bakka, I have heard the same thing here too. I was told some of the supermarket shelves have been emptied of bread!
I think we can live out of the freezer here for a while without panic. It makes you wonder how our parents coped. We lived in a small village in the country with the nearest shop miles away!! I can remember the drifts right across the roads at waist high.

 

Everyone knows you can freeze bread (and milk if necessary) so why panic buy?

Supermarkets are bigger, they are open longer, why panic?

In the big freeze of '63 we didn't panic and we had no freezers or supermarkets.

We never used to be a nation that panicked, what has changed?

 

I agree Strongy. We do (well some of us] the same at Christmas time even though most supermarkets are only closed for a couple of days.
People don't cook now, they rely on buying prepared stuff I think.

 

SALT!!!! try and get the stuff. Cheap salt, Lo salt, Sea salt any salt....no chance.:flag:

Its all been used on the snow and ice. Mmmmmm reminds me of a fairytale I was told as a kid.

About a prince who said the princess was more valuable than salt.

Does anyone remember it. It was a long time ago!! 02

 

I think the "experts" are talking rubbish. Everyone I know eats bread and potatoes.
And I know a fair few folk who grow their own potatoes and make their own bread - and even cook their own food :gnthb:

 

When all the family was at home,we always bought potatoes by the sack and kept bread flour and yeast. plenty of preserves in the pantry.Supermarts have spoiled folk,time to look again at old ideas

 

Potatoes store very well, so we always buy a large sack. But, every day? Don't think so! I think that it USED to be a staple everyday - but nowadays there are other starches that are readily available - rice, pasta etc. Britain has always had the reputation as being a 'two vege and meat and potatoe' eating population - but I think that has changed over the years. Bread? Yep - we can freeze it no problem, but I think alot of people would go without if they actually had to find the ingredients in their cupboards - I don't think you would find many 'baking' ingredients in the average 20-50 yr olds' cupboards these days.
A recent neighbour of ours knew how to heat something up from the freezer, or deep fry frozen stuff - and THAT was literally it. Her kids eat, or ate, out of cans and freezer packs each and every day.

 

My parents survived the great depression, so hoarding food was in their nature and second to me. I could be snowed in for a week and be very well fed. Yes, potatoes store easy, set out in the unheated garage, and a few extra gallons of milk outside on the cold snowy deck is all you need.
And canned goods of all types will keep us very happy. We rarely eat bread, but at least weekly some mashed are made and enough for left overs. I have a skinny husband.

 

Well I don't know about anyone else but we eat Bread and Potatoes every day in our house,because we grow our own spuds{potatoes}and we make all our own bread so have that as well every day.We also eat meat every day plus lots of veggies that we have grown on our thirty pole allotment and eat them either fresh or frozen.

Neither of us like Pasta and Mr Kandy likes rice as a main course which he has sometimes in the week but I prefere it as a sweet course:D

The problem nowadays is that with a lot of mums working all day they don't have the time especially with a large brood to come in from work and start cooking a complete meal from scratch so convineance meals are the norm and also with the mums working what time do they have to show their kids how to cook meals from scratch anyway:(

My friends two daughters are both in their forties and even though they only work part time she still cooks them meals and takes them round to them wrapped up in tin foil on the plates,crackers or what.{My friend is 71 and has heart problems}Talk about spoiling them:p

You only have to drive past these fast food outlets to see they are all full of young families who would rather eat on the hoof so to speak.

My sister was saying the other day when I rang her that their local shops are depleted of a lot of food and salt is dissapearing off of the shelves in the supermarkets because people are using it on their paths and drives,but I don't knowe why because as soon as we have the next lot of snow the salt gets covered so we are using our shovels and scraping it off of the drive and paths:D.

 

It is hard these days to do right by your kids in the home cooking department. I don't know how those Mums who work full time manage, I really don't and my hat goes off to them. Financial concerns are forcing me to look for full-time work but as soon as things get a bit better I am dropping to part-time, maybe even leaving work again-because I just can't do it on a long term basis, I would miss my kids too much.

My Mum worked full time but my Nanna watched us so I learned cooking from her, flour butter and eggs stuff, Irish food, crumpets, potato cakes, the lot so we have been fine without shop bought bread. All my home grown spuds are gone now though and I can't get at my parsnips lol. There's been a lot of stew and dumplings at my house lately.

 

I think we could live for a month on what we have in the store cupboard and the freezer. Thats the way we organise it rather than 'popping out ' to the shops every day.
Still got plenty of veg on the plot - dug out leeks and celeriac yesterday and the soil wasn't even frozen under the snow.
Actually it would suit me if the shops ran out of supplies for a while so we could use up some old stock and have a bit of a clear out!

 

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Hello all!

When I started this tread, it was not about what people actually eat, it is what the so called progressive ones and know alls think.

They would have everyone believe that no one eats boring old bread or potatoes, but eat a so called Mediterranean diet, which once the snows arrive is lies!

My wifes grandfather was stationed in the North of Scotland during the war, he used to say you could "NOT" survive on a lettuce leaf and half a tomato up there!

Although there is lots of bread now in our supermarket, there still not the same mass of potatoes and milk appears to be limited to green top with 6 pint bottles of blue top!

There was always lot of pizzas and packet pastas etc, no shortage there.

On our allotments everyone grows potatoes, cabbages, beans, leeks ,carrots and parsnips etc in the main, and what you grow is usually what you eat!

My two boys say they don't like potatoes, though they like mash, which according to them is not potatoes, so mash it is for them!

Cheers!

 

At least four of us on our small lane do work full time, have kids, and do cook I've always worked full time, have five kids, and if I had to rely on 'ready foods', I honestly think I would start to not look forward to a meal! During the week we always have a full meal in the evening - often if one of the kids goes to a friends after school and has dinner there, they will come home hungry having had for the most part, fish fingers and baked beans or frozen chicken nuggets and chips.
On the weekend, we always find the time to cook as a family - whether it's treats on a Saturday, or the Sunday family dinner. I think my seven year old knows how to cook more things than some of his friends mums. Served my eldest well - went to university and has had the nicest girlfriend for the past couple of years - the first thing that attracted her to him was that his meals always looked so good - needless to say, he ended up being the main cook in his student digs

 

I think that people who do their own cooking, as opposed to buying processed food, do in general eat a different diet than our parent's generation. Foreign meals are more likely to appear because of travel and more knowledge of other cultures. A diet that is more like a Mediterranean diet might not be a bad thing. The traditional British diet is far too high in fat. As someone who has heart diease and has heart bypass surgery I am staggered as to how much fat some people consume....and salt. When you know that the food you eat can kill you you look very carefully at your diet.
So I think people are eating less boiled or mashed potatoes than they used to.... but chips and crisps. If its convenience food then the British will stuff it down.
Bread... a lot of people I know are making their own bread, largely due to disatisfaction with shop bought bread. After i had my heart op i started making bread ( well I couldn't watch daytime telly could I ?). However because it took so long we bought a bread maker and loads of people we know now have bread makers. They are so convenient. You just bung the ingredients in, set the timer and that is it. You get lovely bread and the house smells lovely. I stopped eating bread cause supermarket bread was awful but I am now a daily bread eater.... and I know what goes in it.