No need - I mostly eat kale these days.
And Gelato, just to remind myself of the importance of healthy eating.
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Kale isn’t very nice, by the way. It gets boring very quickly.
I may have to move on to to another horrible green thing instead.
As a counter of sorts, I’d strongly recommend listening to the recent Maintenance Phase podcast on ultraprocessed foods. It’s quite illuminating:
A really central part is that there’s zero coherent definition of what actually constitutes an ultra-processed food, and all the working definitions have holes you can drive a bus through.
They also make the very valid point that doing scientifically rigorous work on this sort of subject is fucking hard, if not borderline impossible, because humans are gonna human!
yes there is no firm, agreed definition, but for very simple people like me, ingredients you wouldn’t expect to find in your average kitchen is a good base line and working guide, which I’m trying to follow - without becoming a militant twat. I still eat shit - just not when I’m at home.
I dare say the numerous chemicals found in processed foods are not overly problematic in isolation, their combined effect can create to food that’s designed to be uniform, smooth, soft and therefore quicker to eat, so you buy more, - which leads to over consumption…
(I’d shovel the entire pack of those tarts into my chevy chase because they are designed to be morish - which is why I don’t buy stuff like that anymore.)
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Oh yeah, fully on board with a lot of that - and I agree that I think a lot of the way things are used in large scale ready-made commercial food operations is entirely driven by finance, and not what’s good for the end consumer (it might be fine, it might not be, but they don’t give a shit). And I’m sure a facet of that is about making things as moorish as possible.
There’s an interesting comment they make at the beginning of that podcast episode. They liken it to whenever politicians try and write legislation about pornography, and discover that actually defining what pornography is proves remarkably difficult. But there’s that background sentiment of “I might not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it” which definitely resonates.
One of the other interesting elements they point out is that even when you draw up a set of categories with definitions for the different levels of “processing” that occur (regardless of their validity as categories), lots of things still prove hard to categorise. Under the current schema that seems to be used for example, which has about 4 stages, people have at varying times categorised honey as being in all four different categories!
Peach quite nice too. Salted caramel bobbins - avoid that.
But yeah, strawberry.
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Off to my Dad’s in a couple of weeks, will definitely try the strawberry ones!
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Can confirm. The wife mainlines these things when we’re in NI.
That probably sounds odd but it’s the nearest supermarket to MiL’s house, whereas the nearest Lidl here is miles away.
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My nearest is in Bergen! 
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OT, but that was the same answer given by the Shetlands MP when (after the whole expenses thing) they needed to say where their nearest train station was.
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I could jog to my Lidl in under a minute.
2 minutes to Aldi - never go there 
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Please look at the list of ingredients.
Trades description should ban it.
Here is the list of ingredients for gelato.
Ingredients
Original recipe (1X) yields 4 servings
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 egg yolks
- ½ cup sugar
You’ll be on a hiding to nothing on that front.
Do we need an ice cream faff thread?
Gelato is lovely stuff❤️
That ain’t gelato!!!
BTW, what the fuck is Sodium Alginate?
Frozen concoction.
Think he read Classics in my year at Uni.
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