AIBU a generation that can’t be bothered.

I've stopped going to supermarkets. I do my shopping on line and they bring me the ready meals and the mashed potato and red wine if that's what I want. Why waste time shopping? And only the delivery person knows what I've bought!

No change there then.
I'd probably give it up as a bad job half way through all that work.

GillT57

Farzanah

I’m more amazed by the alcohol I see older people putting in their trolleys.

you were obviously the lady looking incredulously at my trolley full of beer and gin on Saturday........

Pensioner squanders fuel allowance on gin

Gin, beer, crisps, and two lemons.

You forgot the tonics!

As for knit-your-own, I did once read somewhere about knitting your own orgasm…

Actually, I've just come in from the supermarket. In front of me, at the checkout, was an elderly couple. Mid 60s probably.

No basic meal ingredients. Ready meals. Ready prepared meat and veg packs. A frozen chicken / stuffing oven-ready thing. The only unprepped stuff was a pack of tomatoes and some grapes.

So not really a generational thing at all.

MayBeMaw

A while ago there was a thread about the meal of a lifetime.
Is going out and spending three figures for a meal, which could equally have been cooked at home from scratch, more or less irresponsible than buying shortcut ingredients or ready meals?

Just so.
Exactly right.

Farzanah

I’m more amazed by the alcohol I see older people putting in their trolleys.

you were obviously the lady looking incredulously at my trolley full of beer and gin on Saturday........

Pensioner squanders fuel allowance on gin

Gin, beer, crisps, and two lemons.

A while ago there was a thread about the meal of a lifetime.
Is going out and spending three figures for a meal, which could equally have been cooked at home from scratch, more or less irresponsible than buying shortcut ingredients or ready meals?

YABU

Can newer generations do anything right, I wonder

Have a crispy pancake and chips instead?

What if you’ve run out of scratch?

Lucca

I knit my own muesli.

I knit my own soup.
Knit one, pearl barley one...

MayBeMaw

MissAdventure

I weave my own yogurt out of recycled hessian.
When we've eaten up our lentils and tofu there's nothing we like more.

I like your style!

No, entitled westerner. I continue to support our Slakian peasant sisters by only sourcing my yoghurt from their lactose mines.

I knit my own muesli.

MissAdventure

I weave my own yogurt out of recycled hessian.
When we've eaten up our lentils and tofu there's nothing we like more.

??
I weave my own knickers out of the hair left on the kitchen floor after attacking dh’s hair (what’s left of it) with the trimmer. A mite scratchy but very serviceable, as a GM used to say.

Poverty porn, that’s all it is. Got people reading though, didn’t it.

It should be included in wedding vows.
"Will you cook from scratch and forsake crispy pancakes, as long as you both shall live?"
I will.

Cooking from scratch isn’t a moral virtue.

Kamiso Mon 07-Feb-22 10:41:08
One of DD2’s friends came on holiday with us and asked if we always cooked proper meals as her family never did.

I remember one of DD's friends, some years ago, opening our fridge and exclaiming "there's no food in here, only ingredients!"

MissAdventure

I weave my own yogurt out of recycled hessian.
When we've eaten up our lentils and tofu there's nothing we like more.

I like your style!

I don't worry in the slightest if I want to buy something to make life easier. (Not alcohol!)
If anyone can manage better than me they're welcome to show me how it's done for a few months.

Have you been behind me in the queue Farzanah? ?

All my children cook from scratch but I have been much lazier lately and have the odd ready meal.

When DH was alive I used to buy microwave rice for us. We wouldn't have it more than once a week and with just the two of us it was quick and easy. I wouldn't use it to feed a family. I did get into the habit of using antibacterial wipes because I had to be so careful of DH's compromised immune system.

I’m more amazed by the alcohol I see older people putting in their trolleys.

I agree about the food but what gets me going is the wipes. I can’t believe how many people use them, and probably lots then flush them down the lav. Anti-bacterial is apparently not a good idea, either.