AIBU a generation that can’t be bothered.

Arghh apostrophe in the wrong place. Apologies for setting millions of teeth on edge.

Although knowing our local paper, if that was the headline then the apostrophe would probably be where I put it.

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 bet some of you in the 70s/ 80s ate Findus crispy pancakes, Vesta curries, Birds Eye pies, Angel Delight etc It wasn’t all cooking from scratch in the past

I wonder who raised this generation who can't be bothered?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!"

Cooking from scratch isn’t a moral virtue.

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.

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

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.

I knit my own muesli.

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.

Lucca

I knit my own muesli.

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

What if you’ve run out of scratch?

Have a crispy pancake and chips instead?

YABU

Can newer generations do anything right, I wonder

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?

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.

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.