A couple of years ago, I started noticing advertisements for a ‘meal substitute’, appealingly named Huel. At first I didn’t think much of it; plenty of people get offended by advertisements popping up on their social media feeds, apparently unaware that this is par for the course with any product or service purporting to be…
Tag: food
Cheap and cheerful… but unchilled – the highs and lows of Bringing Your Own Booze
I arrive at Victoria sweating like a Good Morning Britain producer after Richard Madeley’s done a 6am swear and then gone full Partridge while conducting an interview with a woman’s breasts. After half an hour on the underground I’m hot enough to sauté scallops under my armpits, and at this point it occurs to me…
Don’t fall for the “new season” food fad
With March and April nearly behind us, we’ve survived the “hungry gap”, that hiatus between winter and spring when UK-grown produce is most limited and least interesting. Yet we’ve done the winter food thing and we’re looking forward impatiently to full-throated spring and summer. As in mainland Europe, where the arrival of spring is celebrated…
Stockpiling food for a no-deal Brexit: sensible or silly?
No one really knows what’s happening with dare-I-mention-it Brexit, but I think it’s safe to assume at this point that there’s a very real possibility we will leave with no-deal. In anticipation of no deal, some UK citizens have been prepping by stockpiling food and other items because there might be interference in supplies from…
Why you should only tip for good service
You’re out for dinner with your partner’s friends and as you finish off your chocolate bomb with the remainder of three bottles of Malbec, your waiter leans in. “Can I get you anything else,” he asks. “Just the bill please,” you reply. Suddenly you start to sweat. Did you bring any cash? You reach for…
Think “small plates” equal small prices? Think again!
As part of the revolt against three-course meals, lots of restaurants have miniaturised their menus in the form of “small plates”. Unlike the French and the Italians, who still make time for languorous, multi-course eating occasions, fewer Brits believe that they have time for the relative formality of more conventional meals. That’s why small plates,…
“I admit it, those annoying bulk buyers were right all along”
I never used to understand people who bought groceries in bulk, those “savvy shoppers” whose spare room or garage – yes, they all live in roomy homes – was stacked high with tinned tomatoes, tuna and toilet roll. They all owned cars, naturally, so the prospect of lugging back heavy shopping on the bus didn’t…
In defence of veganism – give me a processed carrot over antibiotic meat any day
One thing I’ve learnt over the course of my relationship and subsequent marriage to a chemist is that ‘chemicals’ in themselves are not a bad thing. You and I are made of chemicals, so is literally everything else on the planet, whether we consume it or not. In her recent post for Mouthy Money, Joanna…
Weird things people have eaten completely by accident
I’m sitting in bed reading my Kindle, minding my own business. There’s an annoying fly that has been buzzing around for the last half an hour, threatening to land on me every three seconds. My husband eyes me as though I have a nervous twitch because I keep trying to swat it away from my…
Mercenary, confusing and damaging: here come the “Wellness Warriors”
Food and money are sticky, sensitive subjects – especially in combination – for so many good reasons. What we buy to feed ourselves says so much about us – not only how much money we have but the relative value we place on food and what we want that food to do for us. That…