Stop buying ready meals.
Which supermarket do you use for your weekly food shop (online delivery)?
- Thread starter Cromulent
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Stop buying ready meals.
Soldato
Oh i hadn't actually realised it was free after 4pm. I might consider changing the delivery time. I don't care about the paper, i even try and say no paper in the comments, but it comes anyway.
Out of interest, do you ever get vouchers from them? I always ask what the point is in the MyWaitrose card other than a free food magazine, and the people in the shop suggests i should get free coupons, but i never seem to receive anything, despite spending ~£80 a week.
Soldato
We can't all cook everything from scratch. I'm not just referring to full ready meals, I'm also referring to things that are prepared, like a couple of peppery steaks that you put with fresh vegetables and some carbs. The really good ones like some of the Charlie Bigham's ones (Thai Green Curry) are a special treat instead of ordering takeaways. I think the ready meals are less bad for you than a takeaway where you don't know how much salt or ghee they've used.
Soldato
The newspaper thing is a bit bizarre since the terms for a free one are different instore to the delivery service.
We've had a few coupons recently for £10 off an order over £100 I think it was. This weeks order was the last one we had to use. Nothing as yet for next week, they may be busy enough without needing to give them out for that. I'm not sure if we're receiving the coupons because they realise we've gone elsewhere, to Ocado mostly. I've also noticed them sending emails to remind you that they've got delivery slots free which for a long time was unheard of.
The newspaper thing is almost always wrong on the delivery as they normally add another one on even though usually there is only one delivered so the driver has to sort out a refund as the voucher they apply only cancels out one of them.
I agree, I contacted the Asda CEO about paper bags, the response was along the lines its too expensive so tough luck. Ultimately I think bags got canned for ££, and the environment gave them the perfect excuse to get it done. I said the cost argument is weak as customers who want the bags would pay for it, if its a £1 a bag so be it, but they wasnt interested.
This is why I contacted my MP as they clearly wont do it unless the law obliges them to.
Soldato
Ah sorry, i was talking about the Waitrose newspaper thing rather than a regular newspaper.
Soldato
Yes it's laughable that the big boys can't get it right when Morrison's and Aldi manage to do it and not charge the earth for a paper bag.
Soldato
Oh yeah we get that too and their magazine. They probably make money on them as they're full of adverts so can't imagine anyone paying for them.
Caporegime
Awesome, thanks
Soldato
Tesco, generally.....for my bigger grocery orders using click n collect. Small Cooperative around the corner for last minute things. Finding Tesco's Clubcard holder offer prices are very good at the moment.
I'm on medication that said to avoid processed foods such as almost everything I would normally eat.... the medication greatly increases diabetes risk apparently and can cause me to store fat
I was on google trying to find out what I can eat... it seems just because something sounds healthy doesn't mean it actually is.
brown rice is great, oh but not if it's ready made uncle bens with preservatives etc.... makes me suspect every ready made food that attempts to sound healthy in reality is far from it.
some sites were even saying to avoid dheli counter chicken breast etc....
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This is something I have talked about before as well, not sure on here but have done in meetings and such.
We have a drive in this country to do things like reduce sugar content, but there is nothing been done on making actual healthy food that doesnt need to be manually prepared, there seems to be an attitude if you want to eat healthy then you need to become a home chef. For people who are not very mobile this is a problem.
As I understand it lots of ready meal type stuff has preservatives and might also have ingredient's designed to add flavouring, improve appearance, increase profit etc.
I think a drive needs to be done where one can buy raw food, designed to be eaten by one person, that doesnt need to be manually prepared. You just stick it in a cooking device. It has to be possible, but I expect capitalism is getting in the way, if you have no preservatives, then there is for sure a hit on profit as food cannot be stored in the same way and for the same length of time. Likewise get rid of flavour enhancers which are probably been used to substitute as is low cost ingredient's.
There is also a medication that the NHS has that prevents you body storing as much fat, but they really really dont want to use it, I have been told its literally a last resort. I dont know if its due to side effects, or NHS saving money, or ideology (just eat less and move more) , I hope its not the latter.
I'm only opn medication for a week so it's not a big deal, the GP didn't actually mention it just what I saw from my own research of what the drugs do and what the side effects are.
one of them says it increases the risk of catching viruses like the flu etc, he never mentioned that even though we have the covid scourge right now either though so IDK.
I was just suprised that healthy premade food appears to be a total con/scam
Basically 4 drug types iirc that people use for weight loss.
Dinitrophenol type drugs can increase metabolism by about 50% causing large amounts of fat to be burnt, however bad side effect profile including cataracts and potential overdose risk causing a horrible death from hyperthermia. Obviously not used medically today.
Stimulants like amphetamine/methylphenidate strongly suppress appetite, but are highly addictive and tolerance to their effect develops so not really used anymore in the western world for weight loss.
Orlistat stops the body absorbing as much fat from food, fairly benign but can cause gastrointestinal upset, is available on the NHS for weight loss but not massively effective.
Diabetic drugs that cause glucose to be excreted in the urine instead of being stored as fat or glycogen, relatively new so no idea whether it's available for weight loss on the NHS.
The third one sounds like what the doctors told me off, I am only eligible after my surgery is done, they literally doing it as a last resort, after dietician plan, after exercise plan and after surgery. The fourth sounds interesting but I guess only for diabetics?
Caporegime
Sainsbury’s have got a range of meals called My Goodness. I’ve had the Katsu curry one. I thought it was nice.
Yeah I do use the healthy range from Asda and they taste nice also, but I think the point was they are "healthier" but not necessarily "healthy". I also only eat them once 2-3 days a week at most as my dietician told me to not eat them at all.
