I didn't think much of this. It had that kind of powdery taste you get when spices are added too late in the cooking process and they skimped on the split peas.

I took a gamble on this this peri peri sauce from my local laplander shop, expecting it to taste as cheap as those sauces you find in run-down kebab shops, but it's a lot more flavourful than any of the Nandos and Encona sauces you find in regular supermarkets, while being a lot hotter to boot. My inital reaction was "there's no way this was made by white people", and sure enough, it says "product of India" on the bottle. My tastebuds are impressed but my aging digestive system is already starting to complain.

Sarah Millican's Squelchy Fanny Custard in the cherry and raspberry flavour tastes ace. I bought a multipack as a replacement for a cheap energy drink for those nights where I've not been bothered to do any of my work and my chickens have come home to roost.

I'm not sure if 100mg is enough but hopefully it won't give me cancer and all the nutrients will counteract my tiredness.

The name is a complete and utter lie. These are not the ultimate crumpets, far from it. No matter how much butter you slather on them it doesn't seep through the crumpets well, leaving the bottom dry and disappointing.

Adding roasted sesame seeds to the noodles in my stir-fry is a complete game changer.

>>16099

Usually roasted are significantly more expensive than un-roasted, and you can 'roast' them just by putting them (before the oil) in the frying pan as it heats.

>Nessie Nectar
Internet says it's peach ring sweets flavour. Does taste a lot like peach rings, very sweet and tasty. Maybe a bit too sweet. The fizzy peach flavour goes well with the Irn Bru flavour. 8/10

>Unicorn Tears
Internet says it's rhubarb and custard sweets flavour. Less sickly than Nessie Nectar, perhaps due to a bit of tartness from the rhubarb, but still sicklier than normal Irn Bru. I don't think rhubarb and Irn Bru flavours go well together, as they're both kind of medicinal compared to a lot of other fizzy drink flavours. 6/10

I went shopping for staples and all I bought was sugar. Kellogs fruit and fiber specifically. I can't eat like this anymore.
Where can I buy flakes of bran at economical prices? I won't pay for specialist packaged chaffe.

Should we have a more general thread for online shopping recommendations?

I'm not sure why but toyseek seems to offer the cheapest weights deal online and gives you free shipping. I was sceptical at first but yeah for basic hexagonal weights they arrived fine and without issue which is a weirdly speciality for a children's toy store.

>>16103
Supermarkets usually have their own brand offering for bran flakes? But I will say that you can definately taste the difference® when it comes to cereal.

Also dried fruit isn't bad at all in moderation. It provides natural sugars and usually gives you a good hit of fibre, nutrients and so on with a slower spike in blood sugar due to how it's digested. Get some scales and aim for 30g, which is too much if anything for a bowl of cereal.

>I went shopping for staples and all I bought was sugar

I'm experimenting with online ordering at the minute and it seems to be working. The only catch is that £60 worth of shopping is actually a lot if you're a single bloke.

>>16106
>I will say that you can definately taste the difference® when it comes to cereal.

M&S cornflakes work out as at least half the price of Kellogg's, but they're very similar in quality.

>>16106
>aim for 30g, which is too much if anything for a bowl of cereal.
Out of curiosity, how much do you weigh? I, your rotund mortal enemy, eat cereal out of a very large bowl and consequently have servings close to 100g. Even the recommended serving size on the box, that they make up to scam people into thinking their food is healthy, recommends 40g. To be fair, my cereal of choice is Shreddies rather than anything airy and ethereal like Ricicles, so maybe 30g of Coco Pops or something would be as much volume as 100g of Shreddies, but I really doubt it. You must be such a scrawny waif.

>>16108
I'm talking about the dried fruit, 30g of chopped dates or raisins/cranberries is more than enough to overpower the 81-91g of my average bowl of branflakes. If you go over 30g of dried fruit then the sugar intake becomes a problem.

I got a Solero out of the freezer at Sainsbury's today and I swear there were little cock shaped ice creams in there as well. I'd already started walking to the till by the time I fully reigstered what I thought I saw.

This tastes like ingesting soap.

Jesus these things are like crack. It's like if the French had invented the Twinkie.

These aren't very nice. They're too sickly sweet, whereas the originals have a nice contrast between the biscuit and the jam.

Vegemite isn't that great. It tastes different to marmite, but I'm not exactly sure how - a bit sweeter? Less depth of taste? Whatever it is it's not worth the reduced cost.

>>16135
Looks to me like a batch of jam fell into the biscuit mix.

>>16136
It tasted a bit like smokey bacon pate to me.

>>16136
It's all brewery leftovers, which is fine. Yeast is amazing. Maybe try Bovril, though.

Far superior to Old El Paso kits.

'The Daily Bakery' cookies from Iceland, £1.25 impulse buy at the tills. Don't bother, they're absolute shit. The dough is more like a crumbly sponge cake in taste and texture, like an overcooked Mrs Molly's birthday cake, and there're barely any chocolate chips.

The best cookies I know of are Sainsbury's, particularly raspberry & white chocolate, but even they have a strange oily residue that lingers on your mouth.

>>16140
>The best cookies I know of are Sainsbury's, particularly raspberry & white chocolate

Are they still causing cunt-offs (>>/job/9779)?

These taste like microchips.

Devil's Kitchen is a spin-off from Forest Green Rovers football club. Their mushroom burgers are alright, especially with a a few toppings, but aren't anything to write home about by themselves.

>>16084
Update: There's no way this hits with the equivalent of a cup of coffee. When I drink it I get the twitches, become very alert and have trouble sleeping even hours later - this feels quite a bit stronger than any energy drink I've had. You'll also want to sit down on the loo the next evening because they're clearly loading this with indigestible sweetener. I'd wondered why I looked bloated today.

Good stuff for emergencies I guess.

I finally used the meat mincer I bought. It's awful, but I think that was to be expected. I think this image-search result from Temu is probably the same as the one I have.

Firstly, the clamp on the bottom doesn't extend far enough to actually clamp onto my counter. So you have to just hold it with both hands, then find a third hand somewhere to crank the handle, plus a fourth hand to push the meat in. Even with all that, it still barely works.

The meat I used was a "small beef roasting joint" from Asda, so maybe I used inferior meat. But if you have top-of-the-range meat with literally zero fat or gristle in it, surely it would be a waste to try to grind it into mince? So the machine should take into account that you might be grinding only okay meat.

Various reviews I've seen said this machine doesn't work at all. Those people are just cowardly pussies. With a couple of hours of effort and a willingness to make an enormous mess, plus a begrudging willingness to throw out some of the gristle and pull the rest apart with your hands because the mincer can't grind it, you really will get some mince out of this, exactly as planned. Except: mincing the meat also squeezes all the blood out of it and all over your counter, and hands, and clothes. This might seem fine, but once I finally had my burger that I wanted to make, it was the driest thing I have ever eaten. So I would only recommend a meat mincer to someone like me who is a terrible cook anyway, and doesn't mind eating manky shit.

Nevertheless, my overall plan came off relatively successfully: I really did buy a slab of meat, grind it into mince, make the mince into a burger with chillies and garlic in it, then also bake my own burger bun from scratch, and even make homemade chips too. I am motherfucking MasterChef here. My buns were fantastic, although they were enormous and nothing like the same size or shape as the burgers that went in them. This was another error on my part that I bet no recipe would have warned me about, had I been enough of a bitch to read one instead of just solo-ing the whole experience.

Furthermore, the chips went a bit weird. This is probably another of those things that everyone knows about cooking except me, but if you cook the potatoes the night before and put them in water in the fridge overnight, don't put salt in the water or your chips will inexplicably turn black and bruised and look horrible. And the salty water doesn't really improve the flavour all that much.

I could have gone out with my friends on Friday night, but I refused because I was staying home grinding 500g of meat into two burgers. God knows what fun I missed. But at least I managed to have a fairly mediocre adventure with an exceptionally mediocre burger, two days in a row. So that was something I can point to if anyone asks what I did with my weekend.

Oh, and lastly: good luck cleaning once of these mincers if you decide to buy one for yourself. You have no chance. It's just not feasible.

>>16158
>top-of-the-range meat with literally zero fat or gristle in it
Top of the range meat has lots of fat. Burger meat should be at least 15% else it'll fall apart and be horrible and dry. Well done for trying though.

>>16158
Great laugh reading, 9/10. Only improvement would be a photograph of the aftermath.

>>16158

You're supposed to put your meat, and the grinder, in the freezer first for a few hours, it makes everything work a lot better.

>>16160
Flattery will get you everywhere. Or did you want a photo of my guro-adjacent kitchen? I'm afraid I didn't take one of that.

These are very nice. If you have a vegetarian coming over for Christmas dinner I'd recommend getting these in.

>>16162
I'll be honest mate that burger meat looks like paste. Didn't realise you'd replied.
Did you eat deeply bruised potato chips?

There's a global marketing campaign for these at the moment and it led me to buying a pack as an impulse purchase.

They're absolutely rank.

>>16165
The shape reminded me of when you used to go to the Morrisons deli counter or get your feet measured in Clarks and had to wait your turn.

They tasted absolutely shite.

>>16165
I bought some from Budgen's on saturday. I found them most tolerable. I'd assumed they were just some shite corner shop brand.

Telemea is a Romanian cheese that's similar to feta but made with cow's milk instead. I think I prefer it.

I had it with Isle of Wight tomatoes. Fuck me, I didn't realise tomatoes could taste that good.

>>16168
Really good tomatoes are really good. The first time you have one you realise how short-changed you've been the rest of your life.

I don't really see the point of these. It's nowhere near as good as cooking pasta yourself and it doesn't provide that delightful feeling of living in squalor that you'd get with, say, a Pot Noodle or Mug Shot pasta. Who the fuck wants watery pesto?

Tasteless.

I'm reviewing my own chow mein: very good!

>>16171
I wouldn't usually be judgemental about food like this, but who needs their katsu curry to be reassuredly mild? It's not exactly vindaloo.

Anyone go into those Polish shops? I want to start buying dry sausage but the foreign language can be intimidating.
Anything in particular I should look for?
Do you suppose it'd be very expensive what with import costs?

All I can find at Tesco are soft sausages and pepperami.

>>16173
Mysliwska. And any of the dozen flavours of kabanosy.
But the best thing they have in these shops - besides the beer - are the pastries. I like the ones with custard and biscuit. Oh and go on a morning, they might have fresh kaiser rolls.

I wouldn't expect it to be too expensive.

>>16174
The thin kabanosi are good, I steer clear from the fatter ones because I once bit into one and the pockets of fat exploded in my mouth and it was a sensory nightmare.

These Hungry Head microwave meals are 2 for £1 in Heron Foods. They're normally £2.50 - £3.50 each at Tesco. The Singapore Laksa ramen was horrible, the Singapore noodles are okay, the Mee Goreng noodles were good, and this mac and cheese is good in the same way Mexican food from Chiquito or Taco Bell is good ie low quality spicy cheesy sludge. I wouldn't pay much more than 50p a pack though.

>>16175
Forgot pic. It has kind of cunty branding with the descriptions, very Innocent smoothie.

These are very nice to drink in cold water during the heat. One bag will lightly flavour a litre of water, without the usual bite of cordials and squashes.
You can even drop a teabag in if you need that hit.

I feel like Higiddy pies are getting worse.

They have discovered my weakness. I am utterly done for.

Tonight I had Papa John's for the first time in 5 years and I now remember why nobody goes there. It's just not very good and while I know it's hardly health food the calorie to tasty/portion is absurd.

I'd say it's like if I made a pizza but farted into the dough.

>>16183
You can also get them by the block now.

>>16184

I think Papa John's in general is actually good, but they are franchised and seem to have poorer control over the franchisee's standards than most similar businesses. That is to say if a PJ's owner wants to cut corners they'll get away with it and your pizza will be shit, but if they actually do what they're supposed to it'll be probably better than most american style takeaway pizza.

Growers Harvest Trail Mix - it's the only available trail mix in my local tesco, but it's good. I'm gonna eat a lot of this and in 6 months they'll trial premium brands, which I'll check out too. There's about 5 different items, including those soft orange cube things I think are papaya. About £1.15 for 300g, goes in any cerial or just a mouth to munch - infact you could drop it in baked goods; bread, cake.
The nuts and berries might go okay with a tomato sauce. Even the coconut if you're going curry.
I did try them with seseme noodles though and it's shit.