A Stupid Question What Do People Eat?

[Frank-the-Wool]

This time of the year there is nothing better than new potatoes and mint out of the garden.

Pasta is so boring!

 

[Boysground]

Marmalade sandwiches.

My homemade marmalade is entered in the local school summer fair competition on Saturday. It’s the best I’ve made so hopefully it will do ok.


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[Netherfield]

Beef, Lamb, Pork,Chicken, Eggs, Haddock, with Potatoes,Carrots, Cauliflower,Leeks. Breakfast alternates Bacon, Porridge,scrambled eggs.

 

[TheTallGuy]

You guys say it's good.
What is it
IL start 80 over 100 BP . Cholesterol. 3.2 pulse 40 to 45

115/90, cholesterol 5, resting pulse 70-80, BMI 28.5.
I've always had a high pulse & even when I was fitter it was that high. Likewise bp has always been mid-high, cholesterol crept up a few years ago, but it halted at 5.

Discussing it with the doctor a while ago I suggested that I could either enjoy my life & run the risk of dying before the indignity of having someone wipe me clean in a care home, or I waste my life not enjoying myself so that I can extend the not enjoying myself by a few years. The doctor agreed on a philosophical level, but on a practical level has to go with the standard NHS mantra... eat less red/processed meat, eat more greens and stuff like quinoa/houmus on top of loosing over a stone...

 

[snarling bee]

You guys say it's good.
What is it
IL start 80 over 100 BP . Cholesterol. 3.2 pulse 40 to 45

BP 90/140
HR 60
Colesterol 5 ish
1 mile front crawl, 34 minutes
6'3" 16 stone
Need to reduce all of that (except height)

PS I do like stewed rhubarb on my cornflakes.

 

[wrenbird]

Anything and everything except desiccated coconut and ginger biscuits. Some of the meat,some of the fruit, and most of the vegetables we eat are home-grown. Most meals are home-made from scratch,rarely have a take-away or the like,have only eaten in MacDonalds once in my life.
Love spuds,ate the first new potatoes out of the garden this year yesterday,lots of butter,yum!,but just as likely to have pasta,rice,lentils etc. Also probably eat more bread than I should,not the ready sliced cotton wool stuff,much rather pay a little more for some proper bread, but it's not always easy to find good stuff.

 

[farmerm]

I drink real beer, Shropshire Gold, but like fish and cheese very much. ( not together though

That's a good beer.

 

[yellowbelly]

I'm trying to base my diet around food and drink named in my honour .....

...................and...................


Cote Hill Yellow
Named after the nickname for a person from Lincolnshire. The Cote Hill Yellow belly is matured in its yellow wax which retains the moisture developing a luscious, buttery texture and subtle tang.

Milk : Cows Unpastuerised
Rennet : Vegetarian
Style : Soft, Buttery, Mellow
Weight : 1.4kg

............so, in the words of Jesse from The Fast Show, this week I have been mostly eating cheese and drinking beer

 

[farmerm]

Since the kids came along we eat a lot more pasta and rice than potatoes... Child A refuses Chips, Child B refuses mash, Child C refuses anything green and all three are a battle when it comes to almost any meat that is not in sausage or burger form I should probably question if they are really mine

 

[Bill the Bass]

Consumption of salmon must have increased massively in this country, when my parents were young it was a treat, perhaps even a delicacy now its so intensively farmed it’s getting like chicken. It’s deemed sustainable and healthy but many of the salmon farms are anything but environmentally friendly, they are just aquatic feedlots.

 

[Douglasmn]

Lots of tatties, minced beef, eggs, cheese, various fruit and veg, oats and some fish and chicken too

 

[vantage]

I’ll eat almost anything, most memorable recently was leg of Welsh lamb and Cornish new potatoes and veg on Father’s Day ,cooked by yours truly and my sons as Mrs vantage was away. If there is food in heaven then lamb and new potatoes will be first choice!
If I go to Hell then unfortunately it may be scallops.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Seems sugar and processed grains are choice these days, along with chicken. I would say the removal of animal proteins and fats has left a void filled with junk.

For myself, I keep it simple. Cull dairy heifers

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

a few years ago in one of the popular farming magazines it said that the consumpsion of potatoes was falling, then you read that dairy products, i.e. milk was also declining, now the latest in last weeks farmers weekly it stated that beef consumption had dropped by 5 percent ? so i ask a simple question what does the growing population of this country eat, because i bet if you look at the statistics for say the national beef herd in say 2000 to now its gone down alot? the area of agrcultural land declines by over 15 - to maybe 30000 acres a year, this is lost to development , answers please ?

Have a wander around your local supermarket. It won’t be there for long if it doesn’t sell.

 

[2YardOfLard]

a few years ago in one of the popular farming magazines it said that the consumpsion of potatoes was falling, then you read that dairy products, i.e. milk was also declining, now the latest in last weeks farmers weekly it stated that beef consumption had dropped by 5 percent ? so i ask a simple question what does the growing population of this country eat, because i bet if you look at the statistics for say the national beef herd in say 2000 to now its gone down alot? the area of agrcultural land declines by over 15 - to maybe 30000 acres a year, this is lost to development , answers please ?

Amazes me how many people don't / won't cook & think of cooking as not just difficult but impossibly time-consuming & therefore for the fortunate or rich. An old school friend of Mrs Lard's came to stay a few days & told us "you eat well" meant as a sneer, as in "you're more fortunate than us". We were just giving her very ordinary food your granny would recognize.
There's not much choice what to eat here.
I love it when newly arrived people ask me where McDonald's is...!

 

[JCMaloney]

Lots of people seem to buy/live on/eat processed ready meal type if you peek in folks trolleys.

I prefer decent grub that is seasonal & hasn`t traveled halfway round the planet wrapped in plastic.

Taste`s better, easy to cook and good for the planet.

I despise avocados and would ban the import of them tomorrow.

 

[2YardOfLard]

Lots of people seem to buy/live on/eat processed ready meal type if you peek in folks trolleys.

I prefer decent grub that is seasonal & hasn`t traveled halfway round the planet wrapped in plastic.

Taste`s better, easy to cook and good for the planet.

I despise avocados and would ban the import of them tomorrow.

I do a bit of fishing, just off the local rocks with a line.
My favourite dinner is to fillet a freshly caught fish while Mrs Lard walks up the back & picks whatever veg is growing. I have a pan of water boiling by the time she gets back. No air miles & takes as long to cook as unpacking a ready meal.

 

[thesilentone]

We rarely eat fast-food, however there is no doubt our potato consumption has decreased in favour of rice and pasta. We regularly eat meat most days.

In order of amounts: chicken, pork, beef, lamb ( we rear lamb

 

[primmiemoo]

Consumption of salmon must have increased massively in this country, when my parents were young it was a treat, perhaps even a delicacy now its so intensively farmed it’s getting like chicken. It’s deemed sustainable and healthy but many of the salmon farms are anything but environmentally friendly, they are just aquatic feedlots.

I'm becoming pickier about my fish. A sufficiency of the wild sort that are caught prop'ly is definitely the aim. There's something a bit suspect in finding white fat in a piece of farmed salmon.

I'm dropping my rice consumption - it's a treat to have rice pudding or a risotto - and rarely serve pasta now.

The mantra of eat less red meat makes me wince, because the statistics that it's based on come from analysing meat from highly intensive feedlot systems abroad. There's no need for that when there's healthy meat from grass available in the UK.

I've heard too many conversations between parents and their small children where the options for the child's main meal of the day are either pasta with sauce, or baked beans. Real heartsink situations, because the subsequent purchase is invariably just that - processed gloop - and it's across the board of social types. Despite it being difficult in some circumstances, it's part and parcel of parenting to educate the child's palate, and be sure they're having healthy and varied diets.

 

[Chasingmytail]

Great question as I cant fathom it sometimes. When I was selling eggs direct a few people (say family of 4) would skip a delivery as they still had 12 eggs left after 2 weeks??? How? It it would be a great experiment for a university to take some random family menus for a month. But watching these grim programmes of eating for less some of the utter shite people put in kids meals is quite disturbing.

Then in a conversation a friend will say we dont eat much meat these days. Muffin for breakfast, tufo bean salad for lunch, packet of crisps and piece of cake followed by huge bowl of pasta for tea. Or a ready made which they dont class as meat particularly chicken. Also its not unreasonable to have 2 takeaways a week for many of my friends so a really fatty carby pizza and a chinese takeaway if classed as not eating much meat.

Id rather eat potatoes over pasta. Pasta I find very sweet. Its also another grain and a carb so when people say its healthier I am confused. Overall I dont get it I assume for many parents its deep frozen to oven (chips, breaded fish, premade lasagne etc)