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Aveline Sat 09-May-26 13:10:18

I'm just back from shopping at an unfamiliar supermarket. I've had a whale of a time buying all sorts of things I fancied. Now I'm home I'm thinking. Realistically, I can buy anything I actually want (but I don't usually). There are no real treats left. What do people think? Is it just me or are there treats I haven't thought of?

Cossy Mon 11-May-26 09:37:20

FriedGreenTomatoes2

My treat today is a deep full body massage. A luxury at £55 for 50 minutes. I’d go every month if I could justify the expense. No ‘visible’ sign to show for it but a very welcome relaxed feeling for me, much needed.

Oh enjoy! Now that really is a treat!

Margiknot Mon 11-May-26 09:19:51

I’m looking forward to the first tiny peas - eaten raw of course! Shouldn’t be long now!

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Mon 11-May-26 09:05:09

My treat today is a deep full body massage. A luxury at £55 for 50 minutes. I’d go every month if I could justify the expense. No ‘visible’ sign to show for it but a very welcome relaxed feeling for me, much needed.

Cossy Mon 11-May-26 09:02:04

I still think treats exist, a luxury ice cream bar, buttered toasted hot cross buns, cream teas.

Cossy Mon 11-May-26 08:57:37

M0nica

Asparagus picked and eaten on the day of purchase straight from the farm that grew it. Only available late April - late June.

Jersey Royals, cooked with mint and serveed with butter

The first bunch of daffodils

The first snowdrops and primroses in the garden or wild.

Oh I agree with all of these! flowers

Aveline Mon 11-May-26 07:14:33

M0nica that's exactly it. Treats really were rare in those days. Now I can just have anything I want so they aren't really treats any more.sad

teabagwoman Mon 11-May-26 06:55:29

A bacon roll or a toasted tea cake at our local cafe.

MissAdventure Sun 10-May-26 23:09:45

Hummus and rice cakes.
One of my favourite treats.

Fallingstar Sun 10-May-26 22:14:23

A bag of chips with salt and vinegar on served in newspaper and eaten as you walk along. Can’t happen now I know.
And chips have never seemed the same.

M0nica Sun 10-May-26 22:02:52

When I was a child life was full of small treats, because there were so many things we didn't have.

Sweets were a treat, as they were on ration. A glass of suash with lunch instead of water, the bottle lived on the top shelf in the pantry and came down for birthdays and other celebrations. Soft fruit. The strawberry season was short and the fruit were expensive, we might have them 2 or 3 times over a summer, likewise ice cream, perhaps one or two over a weeks holiday, ata home, occasionally for Sunday lunch in the summer only.

The thing was, there were so many of these small treats, that with luck one would get one every week on average. Now we have most things all the time, so we have to create our own treats.

I love hummous, if it is in the house it lasts only a few hours, so to stop me bingeing on it, I only eat it when I visit DS and family and they always get it in for my visits. It is a real treat.

Casdon Sun 10-May-26 19:49:50

I got a little treat today, a tiny 2ox pack of butter made in Caerphilly, with garlic and herbs, and some 1912 Golden Blue cheese. I like to try a different treat every week.

Galaxy Sun 10-May-26 19:44:24

You think you know people and then they start describing a bounty as a treat. I am always happy to agree to disagree but that is just a step too far oreosmile

Jaxjacky Sun 10-May-26 19:38:20

A decent piece of fish, preferably fresh, Dover sole, halibut, cod loin or hake. Or even better, order it in a restaurant, which I’ve done occasionally, apart from the sole.

NoodleNut Sun 10-May-26 19:22:25

I do think the 'all year round treats' has taken some of the sparkle out of Christmas for me now.

Sago Sun 10-May-26 19:05:31

Fortnum's ginger and chilli biscuits.

JaneJudge Sun 10-May-26 18:29:46

Even the alcohol free beer on tap is a treat now, there are some really nice ones

I have started filling up at the BP garage so I can use the M&S shop...blush the bank wont even know half of it is not just fuel

Beechnut Sun 10-May-26 18:25:35

MissAdventure

Oh that sounds like a lovely treat!
Chips as well..
I do love a nice beer garden.

It was MissAdventure. 🍺🍟

Oreo Sun 10-May-26 17:31:10

B9exchange

A treat for me is DH making me a cup of tea or coffee one handed from his wheelchair, but Oreo you can make the dark chocolate ones yourself, www.flavoursonplate.com/bounty-recipe/

Thanks 🙏

MissAdventure Sun 10-May-26 16:42:12

Oh that sounds like a lovely treat!
Chips as well..
I do love a nice beer garden.

Beechnut Sat 09-May-26 18:42:55

A treat for me today was to go to a pub, sit in their sunny quite garden with half a pint of beer and said to my daughter “I don’t care what we have to eat as long as it has chips with it”.

valdali Sat 09-May-26 18:24:20

MissAdventure

Oh, and a tiny bit salty, too.

I'll try one - gloopy works for me every time.

Whingey Sat 09-May-26 18:21:54

Oo yes jersey royals.in the supermarket every day till I got them for mum and I

M0nica Sat 09-May-26 18:09:20

Asparagus picked and eaten on the day of purchase straight from the farm that grew it. Only available late April - late June.

Jersey Royals, cooked with mint and serveed with butter

The first bunch of daffodils

The first snowdrops and primroses in the garden or wild.

Aveline Sat 09-May-26 17:02:16

I suppose ortolans or larks tongues in aspic would count as a treat as though I could even think of eating them (which I couldn't)

MissAdventure Sat 09-May-26 16:40:08

Oh, and a tiny bit salty, too.