Am I getting unfair stick for using Boil in a bag vegetables?

I hope he's joking. Who would pay more money, for less cheese? Just get a damn grater and spend 20 seconds doing it yourself :p
 
*depressed look*

some people really need a kick for wasting the universe of boil in the bag rice and pre grated cheese!!! some of the people i lived with in halls came back with this most weekends after their parents got it for them, needless to say i cryed and then laughed for being able to cook like a real person/cheapskate student
 
pingwing said:
*depressed look*

some people really need a kick for wasting the universe of boil in the bag rice
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In all fairness, the boil in a bag rice is very nice, yet sadly way overpriced. Its easier to mess up boiling rice than grating cheese. Not that I buy boil in a bag rice mind!
 
Absolutely nothing wrong with boil in the bag. Saves time, saves washing up, and as far as I know won't kill you any quicker than boiling them in a pot.
 
I bought some grated cheese that was cheaper for the same amount than normal cheese. Have you checked the prices per gram or just assumed it's more expensive?
 
oli collett said:
It depends entirely on the vegetable - boiling carrots is awful, I've never understood how anyone eats them. Some veg's flavour molecules are water soluble (carrots and asparagus for example) and others are oil soluble (e.g. broccoli).
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Roasted carrots are pretty good.
 
Royality said:
I bought some grated cheese that was cheaper for the same amount than normal cheese. Have you checked the prices per gram or just assumed it's more expensive?
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Grated cheese is actually cheaper in Sainsburys too, I think people just assume it isn't. However, it doesn't taste as good, as they add potato starch to prevent it clumping, so it's kind of "floury" tasting. Does save a bit of grating though!
 
Steamed (microwaved) veg is ace, microwaved Pilau and Veg. rice is also ace, pre-grated cheese is even better, that's 2 less pans and one less grater to wash up.
 
jamief said:
Microwaving vegetables destroys a lot of the vitamins and almost all the antioxidants in them.
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Yet its still better than raw veg, or no veg if the easyness and time saving makes you more likely to eat some rather than none.

Also, for instance that new scientist link, simple says it destroys more nutrients, it could be that microwaving kills 7% while steaming kills 5%, its still more, but not really a noticable of significant amount. It could be much worse, or not, and it lists the cause as largely down to the higher temp it hits. Does cooking on lower power for longer solve the problem, then what happens if you overcook the veg in a pan by a minute, same problem?

I've had a few of them before because, when you're trying to eat 6 times a day I was simply spending so much time cooking, cutting veg and so on that it became a pain and buying so much fresh veg I was running out of fridge space, and a missed day of eating much veg and I end up with some veg thats not very edible so frozen premade bags were fairly useful and certainly better than just not eating veg.

However, the bags normally don't have great veg in, aren't cut equally so don't cook very even so wouldn't taste great. oh well, I tend to try and just cook a massive batch of veg in a massive pan, nice stirfry then keep a huge tub of it in the fridge, and reheat a bit a few times a day with whatever food I have. Seems most convinient, cost effective, tasty and healthy way to cook veg.
 
Cuchulain said:
that's 2 less pans and one less grater to wash up.
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Is it really that hard to wash up 2 pans and a grater?

And they even invented labour saving devices known as 'Dishwashers' recently. And as is the nature of things they've gotten to the point where most people can afford them. Even the lazy can wash up!
 
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