Theria
Silver Member
Chilli is one of my favourite foods. When I had a half-hearted attempt at SW a good few years ago (before EE) I hated that I had to make my chilli with Quorn or soya substitute OR leave out/syn the kidney beans and sweetcorn that I always put in. Quorn chilli just isn't the same to me. And I have issues with Quorn of all types to be honest, it upsets my stomach (especially the sausages, my word they make me gassy, bloated and give me cramps!). So finding EE and making "real" chilli again but without all the fat has been a revelation. I have just replaced the fat with spices.
I've been out to buy my Mother's Day flowers - in fact I have bought a smaller bunch of flowers and a plant that she can keep after the flowers have died. Just have to try to keep the plant alive until tomorrow. I'm not joking. I can kill spider plants and apparently that's not easy...all the plants in my house are fake, they're the only ones that survive
Just had a delivery of a frozen parcel of food to trial as well. I'm on one of those opinion panels and food manufacturers often send out products for tasting before they produce them commercially. I'm not supposed to reveal anything about the product - but having opened the packaging (always grey, anonymous bags, very hush hush!) it's not looking good for this one. I think I can safely say it's fish based and they want me to microwave it for a very long time in my view. With the miniscule portion of fish they've supplied that is going to make it tough as old boots! Oh well, I shall test it out and then probably spit it out :sign0137:. To be honest, of the last five or six things I've tasted I would only buy one of them. But being on the panel gets me free Amazon vouchers so I can feed my ever growing Kindle habit.
Just scoffed a quarter of a honeydew melon and in a rare occurrence, it was actually properly ripe! You know what it's like - you buy the thing rock hard, keep it on a sunny windowsill, keep it with the bananas (supposed to ripen other fruits with the gas they give off), keep it in the bloody airing cupboard and nothing - it does not ripen one iota. So you eventually cut it open to discover it's on the point of going runny....well not with this one! An Aldi special - I think it was £1.29 yesterday and it's gloriously sweet and so juicy I am now wearing most of it. Ahem. I can't see that surviving long, either :drool:
I've been out to buy my Mother's Day flowers - in fact I have bought a smaller bunch of flowers and a plant that she can keep after the flowers have died. Just have to try to keep the plant alive until tomorrow. I'm not joking. I can kill spider plants and apparently that's not easy...all the plants in my house are fake, they're the only ones that survive
Just had a delivery of a frozen parcel of food to trial as well. I'm on one of those opinion panels and food manufacturers often send out products for tasting before they produce them commercially. I'm not supposed to reveal anything about the product - but having opened the packaging (always grey, anonymous bags, very hush hush!) it's not looking good for this one. I think I can safely say it's fish based and they want me to microwave it for a very long time in my view. With the miniscule portion of fish they've supplied that is going to make it tough as old boots! Oh well, I shall test it out and then probably spit it out :sign0137:. To be honest, of the last five or six things I've tasted I would only buy one of them. But being on the panel gets me free Amazon vouchers so I can feed my ever growing Kindle habit.
Just scoffed a quarter of a honeydew melon and in a rare occurrence, it was actually properly ripe! You know what it's like - you buy the thing rock hard, keep it on a sunny windowsill, keep it with the bananas (supposed to ripen other fruits with the gas they give off), keep it in the bloody airing cupboard and nothing - it does not ripen one iota. So you eventually cut it open to discover it's on the point of going runny....well not with this one! An Aldi special - I think it was £1.29 yesterday and it's gloriously sweet and so juicy I am now wearing most of it. Ahem. I can't see that surviving long, either :drool:
@ Theria!
