"meal treats" in short supply?

How hard is it to wrap a bit of bacon around a sausage?
A lot of these things are simply a money making excuse. I am thinking of chilled jacket potatoes ( just put a potato in the oven or microwave) for example.

Pancake mix. !

Burgers already in a bun, think someone bought one on Eat Well For Less recently.

I don't think the issue is that people are unable to wrap a bit of bacon round a sausage. It's that many busy families where everyone works outside the home tend to buy pigs in blankets rather than make their own.
It's the lack of people prepared to do this as a job. I won't mention the B word of course.

sheer idleness, how long does it take to do that?

I don't get it, everyone bangs on about how busy families are today and that's why they can't do this that or the other. It's crap, I went back to work full time when my eldest was 10 weeks old and still managed to cook all our meals from scratch on a daily basis. I'm not and never was super woman so if I could do it why can't everyone else?

And we're talking about Christmas time, when people are on holiday. Are they really going to be sitting in their kitchens looking at a pack of chiplolatas and a pile of streaky bacon, saying, "How on earth do we do this?"

I am quite prepared to believe that a shortage of EU workers may mean a reduction in the availability of certain prepared foods, but pigs in blankets are not a great example to give us. If we can't obtain either the pigs or the blankets, I would be more concerned.

I once saw scrambled egg mix. Just add milk and some butter. Put in a pan and stir. I couldn't see the convenience. In the time it took to open the box and pour out the powder I could have broken eggs into the pan - and the rest is common to both.

Well, yes, milk yes or no, do you add butter but basically the same.

Pigs in blankets is a great job for the kids. I would be more worried if the sprouts weren't picked or the potatoes dug up however.

I understand mixed salad bags - all those lovely different leaves but I’ve also seen bags of iceberg lettuce - why?

One of my GS's had an appraisal from his boss at work for his pigs in blankets which he does for M&S---he's a dab-hand.

If some of them got off their iPhones they could make pigs in blankets! Or don’t bother with the bacon wrapping and just bake some cocktail sausages or warm up pre cooked.

First world problem.

I've never had a pig in a blanket. Since when are they a (Christmas?) thing.

Urmstongran, I agree about the phones.

I have recently seen cereal advertised, in a one-helping sized box, into which the milk can be poured for eating from the carton. Who is too 'busy' to use a bowl, or are they used on public transport or at the work desk? I bet they are not recyclable.

JackyB, they were certainly a thing even when I was a child back in the very olden days.
Only they weren't called pigs in blankets then - they were just bacon-wrapped sausages.
They are mentioned in a GH cookery book published in 1970 - I have a 'new' 2nd hand version of this, found online after the original was falling to bits from so much use.

I worked full time with 3 young children. I cooked from scratch and made all of our clothes. They have it too easy theses days

Let’s be honest here, if it’s actually true that pigs in blankets were to be in short supply at Christmas, none of us will starve over the Christmas period.
It’s true that it’s easy to make your own pigs in blankets, however I assume that if they are in short supply, it would be because the necessary ingredients to make them were also in short supply. Or is because the workers to make them are in short supply?

My MiL was a cook who worked in a private school and I got roped in to help out when there was a social function at the school so I must have done several hundred pigs in blankets as well as angels on horseback (bacon wrapped prunes).
The prepared pigs in blankets were really only available over the last few years - it was only a few weeks ago that Iceland were selling packs of them for 50p!
If a supermarket sells it, it becomes a must have to some people and until every senior school provides students with cookery and budgeting classes, people will be sucked in to buying whatever the supermarkets sell!

I forgot - what annoys me is when you go out for a Christmas meal or a carvery and get charged extra for 1 pig in blanket, where they used to be included with the meal - current going rate about £2 per sausage !!!!

Maddyone
due to Brexit??

I’m with LullyDully the main thing is to have the sprouts, carrots , onions and spuds picked. We won’t starve without a few of the ‘twiddly bits’ going forward!

And as for the firms who make them, I imagine they will either drop the range (and the commensurate cost involved before any sales) or put the price up for what is available for buyers who ‘must have them’ pre prepped.

??? * Urmstongran* twiddly bits going forward. Reminded me I need a new bra.

Of course manufacturers should hire "us oldies" to do the job but then most employers seem to have a 'brick wall' mentality when faced with job applicants over 50.....and the youngsters, having been enthusiastically encouraged to aspire to university education no doubt consider wrapping bacon round bangers rather too lowly and demeaning.

Ice cubes! My husband buys them because he thinks they're handier than popping a cube out of an ice cube tray.