This month, I'm using jacket potatoes rather than pasta or rice with my chilli/bolognaise
This means I can have smaller portions each day, meaning that it goes further. I've still got another 2 packs of mince to use, so I might do that tonight.

Alt Alt: Would be bolognaise with a jacket potato, but I'm feeling shit, so not eating it.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:43, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

As you live in a shared house,
just "borrow" your housemate's food from the fridge. This saves money, and also answers the lunch thread.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:48, Reply)

No, because that's a twattish thing to do.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:48, Reply)

Agreed.
I was actually trying for some net irony, but I don't think it's working.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:54, Reply)

i used to hate quorn
but actually quorn chilli is really tasty, and v healthy compared to actual mince. this surprised me a LOT.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:48, Reply)

I'm sure I could make it edible if I tried hard enough
But it just seems a waste to put that much effort into a meal that doesn't contain meat.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:50, Reply)

Quorn is excellent stuff,
but vegis don't approve of it, because it is coated with eggsies.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:55, Reply)

eggs are fine for veggies
just not for vegans.

I'm veggie, I eat loads of quorn
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:56, Reply)

Vegans, sorry.
I'd have thought fruitarians and breatharians don't approve either.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:57, Reply)

Quorn is shit. End of.
It's an atrificially manufactured mycoprotein from fungus. It's about as natural a food for humans as gravel is. Still, just as long as no fwuffy animals die, that's OK.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:04, Reply)

Did you read that guardian article about grown meat?
Sounded pretty interesting, especially the possibility of said food being kosher and halal even if it's nominally derived from pork.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:16, Reply)

nope, don't think I saw that.
I'll google it. It's been doing the rounds as a concept for a while but cost is the issue. That, and flavour might be a problem I think.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:22, Reply)

Worth a read
They're doing a publicity stunt, getting Heston blumenthal to cook it in October and a vegetarian to eat it. The writer tried a bit and said he couldn't tell the difference.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:26, Reply)

Here you go
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/22/fake-meat-scientific-breakthroughs-research?INTCMP=SRCH
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:30, Reply)

yeah ..
the Meerkan is a bit of a nutter. It was the Dutch method I was thinking of, and the cost is outstandingly prohibitive. One of my research teams looks at making red blood cells in this way and that's theoretically easier than meat, and our process looks like about £5000 per unit of blood right now. Expensive steak, then. But interesting future direction.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:45, Reply)

It's not healthy
it has less fat. That doesn't in any way make it healthy, or healthier than beef mince. It simply has less fat.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:54, Reply)

Beef mince tends to be pretty lean anyway
That why lardons are needed to up the fat content and add flavour
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:57, Reply)

surely less fat has to be healthier than moar fat?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:01, Reply)

one would think so, Rachel

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:02, Reply)

What other stuff is in it though?
I bet it is horse
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:02, Reply)

Not always
i learnt recently that lard actually continas less staurated fat than butter
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:04, Reply)

Mrs Cow used too much lard in the Yorkshire pudding trays yesterday
Not good
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:05, Reply)

Erm, why?
we need fat in our diets. We'd die without it. Less of it is only healtier if you're already eating too much of it. It is, if anything, less healthy to have less fat if you're considering it in isolation.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:05, Reply)

i thought it was 70g per day for a bird
or 50g if you are trying to lose weight, and 100g for a bloke or 70g if he is trying to shift some excess.

but 70g a day sounds like a LOT to me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:06, Reply)

70g of food a day sounds a lot to you though

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:08, Reply)

it's something around that.
In so far as those numbers have any meaning for individuals.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:08, Reply)

I went to college in Quorn and it's almost as shit as the fake mince
My wife tried it in chilli once without telling me and I knew straight off the bat that there was something shady going on.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 13:59, Reply)

She would be a patio-in-waiting were that to happen in our house

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:01, Reply)

If Brookside gave us nothing else it gave us patio jokes and Anna Friel (like I just got home)

( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:06, Reply)

I have no idea why I find her attractive

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:08, Reply)

Because she is attractive?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:11, Reply)

THAT@S IT!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 14:12, Reply)