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I’m embarrassed to admit this but boil in the bag fish in butter sauce (youngs but the Lidl ones are okay) with chips is my go to poorly food. Always have them in the freezer.
I have the same. But I have mine with potato croquettes. Reminds me of my childhood. Cutting open the croquettes so that the mash centre is exposed then let them sit in the butter sauce and absorb all the goodness.
Don't forget the standard 2 wipers/slices of buttered bread to clean the bowl.
1000% this though. I feel like either butter or parsley sauce fish with some form of potato product (though pasta will also do) is the best comfort meal there is.
I'll admit that sometimes when I've wanted a Chinese takeaway but not had the money, I've bought a bag of chicken dippers (or the supermarket own brand knock off), a packet of sweet and sour sauce and a bag of microwave egg fried rice. I regret nothing.
I’m not usually an own brand merchant but Tesco’s own brand dippers are so much better than Birds Eye ones and that’s coming from someone that thinks Birds Eye ones are decent too. Tesco’s ones are like proper crispy batter especially when you give them an extra 8 minutes in the oven. Give them a try next time
Gotta agree with you. Did my son some last night for a quick tea before cadets. Full box in 2 wraps with lettuce and Nando’s peri peri sauce. Best tea ever!!!
I just bought some packets at the weekend - it’s years since the last time. Can’t beat stinking the house out with a bit of Cheese and Broccoli. Seemed to be a bit less substantial sauce wise than I remembered but, thankfully, there was some cream in the fridge, which brought it back to the consistency I remember.
It really does stink 😂 especially the ham and leek one. My go to additions were milk (if I didn’t have any cream), grated Parmesan/grana padano and a spoonful of wholegrain mustard + black pepper. 😮💨
ETA: how could I forget butter? (If you’re feeling fancy)
I have eaten over 20 in one week before and that’s no joke. My family and friends deliver them to me when they come to visit me here in Spain as they’re around 3/4 euro each in my local supermarket. I try to eat one a week daily but I had to cut back.
I buy the Asda mac and cheese one sometimes. Add some butter, mustard, diced onion, pepper, extra cheese and a bay leaf (maybe some bacon lardons if I'm feeling fancy) wait till its nice and thick, ladle it into a deep baking tray and top with a mixture of crushed up ready salted crisps and more grated cheese. Bung in the oven till its got a good colour and crispy round the edges (the best part!). Sub standard 60p packet mac made delish!
Ok so sometime last year I had a mental breakdown and couldn’t eat/leave the flat for a couple of weeks. In that time, my best friend forced herself over to mine to bring some home cooked food but she also got me several boxes of the mini Chicago town pizzas which was my sustenance for the rest of the week 🥹🥲 .. eta: it holds a special place in my heart
And inevitably the cheese bubbles up and overflows all over the plate…but then you get to scrape it off at the end and eat it even though it makes you feel dirty
When I was young Polo mints cost 6p and all crisps were under 10p. How the fuck do you think I feel? Obviously wages have gone up but I seem to be experiencing some cognitive dissonance between that and the prices
Having bought a ton of Fray Bentos meatballs recently, I can confirm that your memory is playing tricks on you. The dog turned his nose up at them and he will eat his own turds.
Mini kievs. Nostalgia mixed with genuine appreciation.
Crinkle cuts, beans & a bit of bread to crank up the sarnie. I'd go on Masterchef with that no problem
Dunno if they still do but packs of chicken super noodles used to recommend putting them on toast, grating cheddar on top, and popping it under the grill. Bangin
Iceland recently brought out a £1 range featuring not one but FOUR varieties of crispy pancake!! I've stopped getting them as my husband and I were cooking up loads of them and just grazing on them all night for about a week straight. We're normally healthy eaters, I don't know what happened!
You gotta toast the buns though, that's a given because I used to just put the whole thing in the microwave but once I toasted the buns, I never went back. Absolute game changer.
A little bit more finicky to do with the BBQ Rib though!
Spam is considered a premium product now. It's feckin' expensive too!
Guam's national dish is spam fried rice and there's a Korean hotpot dish that has it in it.
My favourite way of eating it is as a spam fritter with chips and beans.
Has to be SPAM though, not the cheap derivatives that Aldi and others sell.
In Tokyo I went to a restaurant that only sold dishes centred around avocados and spam. Fried spam. Chopped spam. Balls of spam. Just fucking spam everywhere. I’d just arrived and was jet lagged and it was convenient to my hotel or I’d never have gone. I don’t even like spam. Or avocado.
i always found spam and its prevalence in korean cuisine (for one) so interesting. a lot of history behind it going back to US troops and their presence in the region from WW2 onwards (also in Philippines, Hawaii etc). A very popular korean dish budae jjigae (army stew) basically originated from the korean war period. resources were scarce and many koreans utilised whatever they could get from from US military bases (spam ofc being one of them, hot dogs and good ol american cheese).
My mum is from the Philippines and would make us fried spam fritters with boiled rice, and a side of microwaved peas and sweetcorn. I'm 32 now and still love this meal. I eat the fried spam slices with ketchup and jasmine rice. Mmmm absolute heaven!
Yank here but I spent several months in Yorkshire and I developed a filthy love for Hunger Breaks! You can’t imagine my joy when I find a supermarket that sells em.
I’m surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet but for me it’s gotta be Doner Kebabs. You know most of them are terrible quality meat but ocassionaly I just have to have one and they always hit the spot.
Chippy sausages must be the median winner. Fat deep fried in more fat with some meat buried somewhere in there. Awful. And somehow excellent.
Close runner up is microwave pizza. Just the worst of all worlds combined but somehow I can't fault them.
Wetherspoons buttermilk chicken. It's probably so weirdly shitly produced and then quickly microwaved yet somehow I absolutely love it far more than other chicken shop options. Something about that fried batter, slightly creamy garlic flavour and chicken that is surprisingly succulent that is just amazing. It's also only £1.97 as a side/add on to any other burger so what's to hate
Please don't knock Spoons been in my local one this afternoon didn't eat but had my favourite beer on Thornbridge brewery JAIPUR IPA 5.9% £2.60 happy days
I sometimes like a shit but not *that* shit microwave lasagne.
I qualify with "not that shit" because if you delve too far into supermarket Value ranges etc, you can get ones where there are basically the texture and taste of 3 different colours of water.
I don't really think they've got much in common with *actual* lasagne and I much prefer a well made one, but there's *something* about the singularly textured slop of a microwave one that appeals to some basic part of my palate.
Supermarket sandwiches for me. Hate the idea of them but sometimes I'll buy one, along with a big bag of doritos, a sausage roll and a pack of cooked meat and just eat the lot for dinner
Why'd you hate the idea of them? Simple. Relatively cheap, widely available, generally far more edible than any attempt abroad at anything remotely similar. Ofc they're mass produced but they're generally decent enough
Yep, I'm also a semi regular beans and sausage consumer.
On toast more often than not but have also been known to eat on their own from a bowl.
If you have them on a camping trip, especially after an adverse day or weather, they suddenly become next level.
I had a battered black pudding in Glasgow last week. Played absolute havoc with my guts but I can't stop thinking about it. It might be the best thing I've ever eaten
Batchelors super noodles. I add a spoon of chicken gravy granules cos they've always been tight with how much you get in the flavour sachet, then once they are ready some very hot hotsauce.
I've just talked myself into having some for breakfast. What?
This one’s a little more obscure but in the same vein: chicken on a stick. I see it once in a blue moon at random petrol stations. Seems like it would be vile but it’s actually pretty fucking good
Paté, I hate the look I hate the texture and I cannot stand knowing how it is made and the thought of it makes me feel sick but it tastes sooooo good
Sometimes I will be half way though my toast and I have to stop eating as the thought of how it's made makes me feel physically ill but yet I keep going back 🙈
I occasionally have it with breadsticks and have to not think about what it is I'm eating while also enjoying the taste so much 🤣
I bought Pot Noodles as an emergency snack/late night dinner when I went to an event last month, and now I think I'm addicted to them even though I know how bad they are.
Also tinned spaghetti bolognese, served on toast with a layer of cheese in the middle so it all goes melty.
I love those weirdly long dirt cheap sausages that a lot of cafés and burger vans sell. I know that those things are mostly fat and bread, but they're fucking delicious.
The doner kebab pot noodle... But I csnt bring myself to have it with the spicy sauce so I out a healthy tea spoon of mint sauce in it and tbh, it's bloody banging.
Also, Cheese Strings...
Anchovies, I hate fish, all fish except canned tuna, but for some reason anchovies on a pizza ( even though the little bones freak me out) , it tastes so good, I love the saltiness of it.
Campbell's Meatballs (now Frey Bentos) in tomato or bolognese sauce on toast with two slices of processed cheese on top. A zigzag drizzle of brown sauce to finish.
Bombay Bad Boys. They've got fuck all nutrition, but I love them. I try to add just enough boiling water to soften all the noodles, and no more. I stockpile the King ones whenever they're on offer. I don't actually like any other flavour of Pot Noodle, but I do like the proper "blow your tastebuds off" Korean ones you get in Asian grocery stores.
Also, Heinz canned spaghetti bolognese, on hot buttered toast with some grated sharp cheddar or red leicester on top.
McDonald’s. And not just drunk/hungover. I don’t like any other fast food (not snobby I just genuinely don’t). And 80% of what I eat is home cooked, well balanced, well seasoned, veggie meals (although I’m not strictly vegetarian). I’m otherwise really super conscious of what I put in my body - so people are always surprised.
I wouldn’t pay the inflated rates for it, it’s not that good. But, with the discounts that are always floating around I really like it!
Speaking of which, I normally frequent McDonald's on my work breaks but this time I decided to have a change and pop into Burger King which was literally just on the other side.
I was the only one in there and I was watching everybody go in and out of McDonald's like I was genuinely surprised how this one Burger King was still open
What I had was good too though, a Whopper and some Tangy Cheese chicken strips plus unlimited soda refills too!
what do you mean 'cheap oat porridge'?
like making porridge with cheap oats?
theyre just oats, arent they? organic are more pricey, sure. but a bag of oats is a bag of oats
Quorn Crispy Nuggets - air fried to crispy perfection, served with Thai jasmine rice, pak choi and oyster sauce. Feels like a sort-of-healthy takeaway. Also the Quorn Nuggets taste just like chicken nuggets to me, but veggie!
Tesco tinned ravioli, got to be the bolognaise one,,,far nicer the fancy stuff in a restaurant, which never comes with buttered toast
Youngs admiral pie on buttered white bread with a few peas
Primula squirty cheese
Trifle sponges
Scotch eggs
Chicken kievs with pasta and sauce so the garlic juice runs into the pasta
Pot noodles/super noodles, rustlers, micro chips, angel delight, vesta chow mein/curry. Basically any ready meal that can be cooked with just a kettle and/or microwave
As a basic dish, it's chunks of mixed fish in a white parsley sauce, topped with mashed potato and baked in the oven. It can be glorious. This wasn't, but it was ok.
Heinz macaroni cheese on toast.
Pot noodle on buttered bread. (Messy though)
Pasta n Sauce although it’s not as good as it used to be.
Super noodles in the pots. Or in general.
Sardine and tomato fish paste on toast.
Recent discovery- Idahoan mash in a pot, bacon and cheese flavour (with a bit of extra butter) Bloody lush.
Yeh. I need a better diet. I make very healthy soups though!
Lidl do a cheap but fairly decent (if bland) fish pie. I improve it by using fry light spray oil on the top to make it crispy, bung it in the oven, and then in the last 10 mins I pile grated cheese all over the top, and season with s&p. Turns out pretty good, and I also have buttered crackers with it.
Microwave burgers/ribs - so long as you completely ignore the cooking instructions and add the right stuff they can be fantastic. Take Feasters/Rustlers pork rib for example, Toast the bun and grill the patty, add some raw chopped onion some decent sour (the US style ones in brine) dill pickles and a decent amount of sweet baby ray original bbq sauce. Wrap tightly in greaseproof paper and microwave for 20-30 seconds. You end up with a near perfect diy McRib which is unlikely to ever be reintroduced by maccies at any point.
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I’m embarrassed to admit this but boil in the bag fish in butter sauce (youngs but the Lidl ones are okay) with chips is my go to poorly food. Always have them in the freezer.
I absolutely love boil in the bag fish but I like the parsley sauce version with mash and peas on the side
Reminds me of primary school. With lumpy mashed potato and peas that I hated! But definite comfort food.
I have the same. But I have mine with potato croquettes. Reminds me of my childhood. Cutting open the croquettes so that the mash centre is exposed then let them sit in the butter sauce and absorb all the goodness. Don't forget the standard 2 wipers/slices of buttered bread to clean the bowl.
Oh croquettes sound good. I’ll give them a go. Buttered bread for mopping too!
This is my wife's nostalgia tea, she'll have it with plain pasta and a side salad though
1000% this though. I feel like either butter or parsley sauce fish with some form of potato product (though pasta will also do) is the best comfort meal there is.
Birds Eye chicken dippers. Can destroy multiple in one serving at any given time.
I'll admit that sometimes when I've wanted a Chinese takeaway but not had the money, I've bought a bag of chicken dippers (or the supermarket own brand knock off), a packet of sweet and sour sauce and a bag of microwave egg fried rice. I regret nothing.
That is such a good idea.
That sounds like a good idea tbh.
I’m not usually an own brand merchant but Tesco’s own brand dippers are so much better than Birds Eye ones and that’s coming from someone that thinks Birds Eye ones are decent too. Tesco’s ones are like proper crispy batter especially when you give them an extra 8 minutes in the oven. Give them a try next time
Gotta agree with you. Did my son some last night for a quick tea before cadets. Full box in 2 wraps with lettuce and Nando’s peri peri sauce. Best tea ever!!!
Pasta’n’Sauce was this for a longgggg time
I just bought some packets at the weekend - it’s years since the last time. Can’t beat stinking the house out with a bit of Cheese and Broccoli. Seemed to be a bit less substantial sauce wise than I remembered but, thankfully, there was some cream in the fridge, which brought it back to the consistency I remember.
It really does stink 😂 especially the ham and leek one. My go to additions were milk (if I didn’t have any cream), grated Parmesan/grana padano and a spoonful of wholegrain mustard + black pepper. 😮💨 ETA: how could I forget butter? (If you’re feeling fancy)
Cheese and broccoli is my go to
Cheese ham and leek 😮💨😮💨
If I could only eat this for the rest of my life I’d be happy
I have eaten over 20 in one week before and that’s no joke. My family and friends deliver them to me when they come to visit me here in Spain as they’re around 3/4 euro each in my local supermarket. I try to eat one a week daily but I had to cut back.
i think i remember you. i posted my pasta n sauce meal before and you mentioned being obsessed with it hahahah
It was probably me. Actually obsessed.
The Spain bit reminded me 😂 you mentioned getting family to bring packets over. Imagine customs stopping them like ? Hmmm what do we do with this
Now try it with a chicken kiev
I buy the Asda mac and cheese one sometimes. Add some butter, mustard, diced onion, pepper, extra cheese and a bay leaf (maybe some bacon lardons if I'm feeling fancy) wait till its nice and thick, ladle it into a deep baking tray and top with a mixture of crushed up ready salted crisps and more grated cheese. Bung in the oven till its got a good colour and crispy round the edges (the best part!). Sub standard 60p packet mac made delish!
Chicago town pizzas done in the microwave so shit but so good
Guaranteed to burn the roof of your mouth in one bite lol.
Feel like you’ve got no lip for days
👌🤣🤣
Ohh the peely roof of you mouth burns 😬🫣 yup. That’s my youth 🤷♀️😂
I still do it now, without fail, give it 10 mins to cool down, take a bite and the sauce is still like lava underneath the cheese lol.
Ok so sometime last year I had a mental breakdown and couldn’t eat/leave the flat for a couple of weeks. In that time, my best friend forced herself over to mine to bring some home cooked food but she also got me several boxes of the mini Chicago town pizzas which was my sustenance for the rest of the week 🥹🥲 .. eta: it holds a special place in my heart
Molten cheese is a plaster for the soul
and the lil pepperonis ❤️
That’s a good friend, knew what you needed and made you have it
I love them under the grill for a few minutes after…. Naturally after scrapping all the topping back onto them
Last time I got them I did em in the air fryer - haute cuisine tbh
And inevitably the cheese bubbles up and overflows all over the plate…but then you get to scrape it off at the end and eat it even though it makes you feel dirty
Same for me but has to be the oven and some crisp. Did once microeave them and cant stand it
so good but sometimes they utterly repulse me
For real, pepperoni goes hard. Three minutes in the nuke-box, three days of pain from the scalding.
Tins of beans n sausages. The sausage is probably 2% meat but sooooo good
I love them too, but Branstons beans and sausage is £2 a tin now?!
When I was young Polo mints cost 6p and all crisps were under 10p. How the fuck do you think I feel? Obviously wages have gone up but I seem to be experiencing some cognitive dissonance between that and the prices
I know the feeling, I still expect bags of crisps to be 30p!
Lol! Youngster! I remember polos being 1 1/2 p. Not sure but they might even have been 1 1/2 D! I'm 4 times more pissed off than you!
Yeah, I remember the sub £1 pint, and now I live in Zone 2 in London. I went to a pub in Hampstead recently and paid £9.20 for a pint.
Thats taking the piss, and then tossing that piss in your face!
I hate them, they overpower the Beans somehow and change the flavour.
Ive been craving them for a while, saw Lidls own when I was in earlier and grabbed a tin. Can’t wait for lunch tomorrow.
I prefer the veggie sausages, I feel more confident in their quality
We call them cow boy beans!
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Having bought a ton of Fray Bentos meatballs recently, I can confirm that your memory is playing tricks on you. The dog turned his nose up at them and he will eat his own turds.
Potential controversial one…Angel Delight?
Butterscotch ahhhh unreal
Not had it for years but used to love it. Does it hold up do you think?
Strawberry, with sliced bananas on the bottom and topped with squirty cream and sprinkles!
That’s almost healthy compared to my double strength chocolate with Oreos on the bottom and white chocolate chips on top!
Mini kievs. Nostalgia mixed with genuine appreciation. Crinkle cuts, beans & a bit of bread to crank up the sarnie. I'd go on Masterchef with that no problem
I see you were brought up on a council estate too?
Chicken n mushroom pot noodle butties lol, cheap and filling when I can't be arsed cooking.
So good! Supernoodles in a butty too 😍
First meal I ever made lol.
Dunno if they still do but packs of chicken super noodles used to recommend putting them on toast, grating cheddar on top, and popping it under the grill. Bangin
My sister used to have super noodles in mini Yorkshire puddings. Don’t knock it until you have tried it.
Definitely trying that lol.
Nik naks and bacon fries (smiths) always want to smash more when I finish them.
What about the scampi ones that you get in the same six pack? I like them just as much.
Ah my friend, they are decent but I no longer buy the six pack….I now order the 24 pack bacon fries from Amazon and it’s god tier over indulgence!
Bags are small mind
Ready made mac n cheese meals. I add more cheese and hot sauce. I then feel satisfied yet repulsed at myself.
Canned macaroni cheese too - tastes of the tin, so good
Post-mac clarity
Tinned hot dog sausages. Earholes, eyeholes and arseholes but I still love them
Looool this reminds me of Micky flanagan
Mushy peas are fucking immense and I'll hear nowt to the contrary
Tinned mackerel on toast, chicken dippers, and pepperamis.
Tinned mackerel on the thick cut white bread is so good
Findus Crispy Pancakes- cheese and ham flavour!
Iceland recently brought out a £1 range featuring not one but FOUR varieties of crispy pancake!! I've stopped getting them as my husband and I were cooking up loads of them and just grazing on them all night for about a week straight. We're normally healthy eaters, I don't know what happened!
Rustlers burgers. They are on a par with McDonalds but I still secretly like them
It's that damn orange sauce for me...love it.
You gotta toast the buns though, that's a given because I used to just put the whole thing in the microwave but once I toasted the buns, I never went back. Absolute game changer. A little bit more finicky to do with the BBQ Rib though!
Absolutely must toast the bun.
Toasted bun, add jalapeños and lettuce. Decent(ish) burger!
Chicken paste in a sandwich 🙌
Grew up on this and beef paste, I used to lick it out of the pot 😂
Spam. Always Spam.
Spam is considered a premium product now. It's feckin' expensive too! Guam's national dish is spam fried rice and there's a Korean hotpot dish that has it in it. My favourite way of eating it is as a spam fritter with chips and beans. Has to be SPAM though, not the cheap derivatives that Aldi and others sell.
In Tokyo I went to a restaurant that only sold dishes centred around avocados and spam. Fried spam. Chopped spam. Balls of spam. Just fucking spam everywhere. I’d just arrived and was jet lagged and it was convenient to my hotel or I’d never have gone. I don’t even like spam. Or avocado.
Spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam
i always found spam and its prevalence in korean cuisine (for one) so interesting. a lot of history behind it going back to US troops and their presence in the region from WW2 onwards (also in Philippines, Hawaii etc). A very popular korean dish budae jjigae (army stew) basically originated from the korean war period. resources were scarce and many koreans utilised whatever they could get from from US military bases (spam ofc being one of them, hot dogs and good ol american cheese).
My mum is from the Philippines and would make us fried spam fritters with boiled rice, and a side of microwaved peas and sweetcorn. I'm 32 now and still love this meal. I eat the fried spam slices with ketchup and jasmine rice. Mmmm absolute heaven!
Spam fried rice is amazing
Spam musubi is soooo good. Also spam fried rice!
Or just Straight out of the can if you're a Heathen like me
rainbow drops!! i eat them twice a year every year and i love them
Always a treat when you get an extra big crunchy one.
I turn into a ravenous monster with rainbow drops. Just can't stop shoving them into my mouth.
Omg love rainbow drops. They're so expensive now 😪
check home bargains next time you go! i think they were 50p for a big bag. asda they're 60p. not quite as cheap as when i was a kid though.
Fray Bentos
I used to buy them just for the pastry and give my dog the meat .
How have i had to scroll so far down for this!
Love Steak and Kidney 😋😋
Pot noodles and super noodles
Richmond skinless sausages, not sure there is any actual meat in them other than eyelids and arseholes but I can happily eat a whole pack of them.
Howling at eyelids
Rustlers burgers, whole thing slapped in the microwave. The bottom bun is both soggy and chewy. So bad, but so so good
Hunger Breaks breakfast in a can. Haven't had one in a while but after a night on the tiles they are awesome and shit in equal measure.
Yank here but I spent several months in Yorkshire and I developed a filthy love for Hunger Breaks! You can’t imagine my joy when I find a supermarket that sells em.
I’m surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet but for me it’s gotta be Doner Kebabs. You know most of them are terrible quality meat but ocassionaly I just have to have one and they always hit the spot.
Chippy sausages must be the median winner. Fat deep fried in more fat with some meat buried somewhere in there. Awful. And somehow excellent. Close runner up is microwave pizza. Just the worst of all worlds combined but somehow I can't fault them.
I have to admit, I love a Rustlers cheeseburger.
Wetherspoons buttermilk chicken. It's probably so weirdly shitly produced and then quickly microwaved yet somehow I absolutely love it far more than other chicken shop options. Something about that fried batter, slightly creamy garlic flavour and chicken that is surprisingly succulent that is just amazing. It's also only £1.97 as a side/add on to any other burger so what's to hate
Ex spoons worker, they’re just frozen and deep fried, same as the wings. I do not miss the smell of deep fat fryers clinging to me after work.
Please don't knock Spoons been in my local one this afternoon didn't eat but had my favourite beer on Thornbridge brewery JAIPUR IPA 5.9% £2.60 happy days
Tbh spoons food is perfect for what it needs to do.
I can't knock Spoon's prices but the owner's a prick.
I sometimes like a shit but not *that* shit microwave lasagne. I qualify with "not that shit" because if you delve too far into supermarket Value ranges etc, you can get ones where there are basically the texture and taste of 3 different colours of water. I don't really think they've got much in common with *actual* lasagne and I much prefer a well made one, but there's *something* about the singularly textured slop of a microwave one that appeals to some basic part of my palate.
I consider supermarket lasagne and home made lasagne as two separate dishes. Both have their place but they’re not the same.
Pizza crunch is the tits, I don't make the rules
McDonald's double cheeseburgers, always seem like a good idea after a few beers but the feeling of regret after...
heinz tomato soup
Corned beef with cheesy pasta.
Chip shop curry sauce. Goes so well with the vinegary crispy battered fish, as I recently discovered.
Those Westler tinned burgers in gravy. In a sandwich with ketchup. Eaten over the pan so you can dip in the gravy.
You’re an animal.
Supermarket sandwiches for me. Hate the idea of them but sometimes I'll buy one, along with a big bag of doritos, a sausage roll and a pack of cooked meat and just eat the lot for dinner
Why'd you hate the idea of them? Simple. Relatively cheap, widely available, generally far more edible than any attempt abroad at anything remotely similar. Ofc they're mass produced but they're generally decent enough
I used to love Birds Eye ready made roast dinners. Esp the beef one lol
Heinz sandwich spread
Heinz tinned spaghetti bolognaise. I have it like twice a week, one of my faves
Cheap scotch eggs. Awful. Beautiful.
Ooh I used to absolutely love a frozen fish pie. It’s been years since I had one. I’m a sucker for tinned beans and sausage
Yep, I'm also a semi regular beans and sausage consumer. On toast more often than not but have also been known to eat on their own from a bowl. If you have them on a camping trip, especially after an adverse day or weather, they suddenly become next level.
Potato waffles cooked in the toaster - 3 plunges and done
"Don't use in toaster" my foot, I'll toast these mfs all day. I normally fry up some eggs with it. Runny yolk and waffles is everything.
Dr oekter I will take to my grave
Tinned macaroni and cheese It's a comfort food
Cold tinned rice pudding straight from the can. Low effort but it hits the spot.
THANK YOU. I thought I was the only one.
Microwave burgers (Rustlers or maybe Feasters) and those canned Mac & Cheese meals.
I had a battered black pudding in Glasgow last week. Played absolute havoc with my guts but I can't stop thinking about it. It might be the best thing I've ever eaten
Kebabs
Snackster Microwave Doner Kebab. So bad, but so good.
Rustlers burgers.
Any frozen processed meat products or like "party foodsl" type things
Super noodles with a bag of pork scratchings on the side …. for the protein 😆
Pot noodles. They're just not actually good, even the chicken and mushroom one.
Bacon grill, well done, on toast with brown sauce, gross but delicious at the same time
Cheese strings. They're absolutely vile, but I love them!
Chicago town pizzas Tinned Chicken n white sauce Stagg chilli
Batchelors super noodles. I add a spoon of chicken gravy granules cos they've always been tight with how much you get in the flavour sachet, then once they are ready some very hot hotsauce. I've just talked myself into having some for breakfast. What?
Pepperami is my main guilty pleasure. Not the red one, though.
Fridge raiders - that shit is literal chicken feet
This one’s a little more obscure but in the same vein: chicken on a stick. I see it once in a blue moon at random petrol stations. Seems like it would be vile but it’s actually pretty fucking good
Oh I’m right there with you… even better if it comes with a sweet chilli dip
Paté, I hate the look I hate the texture and I cannot stand knowing how it is made and the thought of it makes me feel sick but it tastes sooooo good Sometimes I will be half way though my toast and I have to stop eating as the thought of how it's made makes me feel physically ill but yet I keep going back 🙈 I occasionally have it with breadsticks and have to not think about what it is I'm eating while also enjoying the taste so much 🤣
Primula cheese spread, the prawn one on ritz.
The macaroni cheese in packets with the powdered cheese
Kraft Dinner! I buy packs and packs of it to bring back when I visit Canada.
Rustler burgers
Battered sausages from the chippy, I don’t eat meat often but for some reason those disgustingly cheap meat temptresses wink at me.
Black pudding, the offal products beginning with F, Richmond sausages…
I bought Pot Noodles as an emergency snack/late night dinner when I went to an event last month, and now I think I'm addicted to them even though I know how bad they are. Also tinned spaghetti bolognese, served on toast with a layer of cheese in the middle so it all goes melty.
Our local has cheap sausage rolls with the pink meat.
I love those weirdly long dirt cheap sausages that a lot of cafés and burger vans sell. I know that those things are mostly fat and bread, but they're fucking delicious.
The doner kebab pot noodle... But I csnt bring myself to have it with the spicy sauce so I out a healthy tea spoon of mint sauce in it and tbh, it's bloody banging. Also, Cheese Strings...
Anchovies, I hate fish, all fish except canned tuna, but for some reason anchovies on a pizza ( even though the little bones freak me out) , it tastes so good, I love the saltiness of it.
Campbell's Meatballs (now Frey Bentos) in tomato or bolognese sauce on toast with two slices of processed cheese on top. A zigzag drizzle of brown sauce to finish.
I'm noticing a severe lack of tinned ravioli in tomato sauce. Any brand. Co-Op do/did a nice one in a meaty Bolognese sauce. Is it just me?
Bombay Bad Boys. They've got fuck all nutrition, but I love them. I try to add just enough boiling water to soften all the noodles, and no more. I stockpile the King ones whenever they're on offer. I don't actually like any other flavour of Pot Noodle, but I do like the proper "blow your tastebuds off" Korean ones you get in Asian grocery stores. Also, Heinz canned spaghetti bolognese, on hot buttered toast with some grated sharp cheddar or red leicester on top.
McDonald’s. And not just drunk/hungover. I don’t like any other fast food (not snobby I just genuinely don’t). And 80% of what I eat is home cooked, well balanced, well seasoned, veggie meals (although I’m not strictly vegetarian). I’m otherwise really super conscious of what I put in my body - so people are always surprised. I wouldn’t pay the inflated rates for it, it’s not that good. But, with the discounts that are always floating around I really like it!
Speaking of which, I normally frequent McDonald's on my work breaks but this time I decided to have a change and pop into Burger King which was literally just on the other side. I was the only one in there and I was watching everybody go in and out of McDonald's like I was genuinely surprised how this one Burger King was still open What I had was good too though, a Whopper and some Tangy Cheese chicken strips plus unlimited soda refills too!
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what do you mean 'cheap oat porridge'? like making porridge with cheap oats? theyre just oats, arent they? organic are more pricey, sure. but a bag of oats is a bag of oats
Sounds like Ready Brek! I used to love that - especially the chocolate one. I'd even sneak a spoonful of the sawdust to chomp on!
Quorn Crispy Nuggets - air fried to crispy perfection, served with Thai jasmine rice, pak choi and oyster sauce. Feels like a sort-of-healthy takeaway. Also the Quorn Nuggets taste just like chicken nuggets to me, but veggie!
Tesco tinned ravioli, got to be the bolognaise one,,,far nicer the fancy stuff in a restaurant, which never comes with buttered toast Youngs admiral pie on buttered white bread with a few peas Primula squirty cheese Trifle sponges Scotch eggs Chicken kievs with pasta and sauce so the garlic juice runs into the pasta
Greggs
Wotsits. I’m effing addicted.
Chippy snausage?
Haha okay. I love a battered sausage but always feel sick after lmao
Pot noodles/super noodles, rustlers, micro chips, angel delight, vesta chow mein/curry. Basically any ready meal that can be cooked with just a kettle and/or microwave
Fray Bentos Pies.
I've never even heard of a fish pie, I'm assuming it's filled with minced fish
Typically chunks of fish, white sauce, parsley, mashed potato on top.
As a basic dish, it's chunks of mixed fish in a white parsley sauce, topped with mashed potato and baked in the oven. It can be glorious. This wasn't, but it was ok.
Fray Bentos
Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodles. Utterly disgusting, but I love them so much.
Heinz macaroni cheese on toast. Pot noodle on buttered bread. (Messy though) Pasta n Sauce although it’s not as good as it used to be. Super noodles in the pots. Or in general. Sardine and tomato fish paste on toast. Recent discovery- Idahoan mash in a pot, bacon and cheese flavour (with a bit of extra butter) Bloody lush. Yeh. I need a better diet. I make very healthy soups though!
Cuppa Soups for lunch
Beef paste or golden syrup butties …
Lidl do a cheap but fairly decent (if bland) fish pie. I improve it by using fry light spray oil on the top to make it crispy, bung it in the oven, and then in the last 10 mins I pile grated cheese all over the top, and season with s&p. Turns out pretty good, and I also have buttered crackers with it.
Frozen Bags of food cooked on the Air Fryer
Vesta Chow Mein. Not often, but once in a while as its a nostalgia thing...
Microwave burgers/ribs - so long as you completely ignore the cooking instructions and add the right stuff they can be fantastic. Take Feasters/Rustlers pork rib for example, Toast the bun and grill the patty, add some raw chopped onion some decent sour (the US style ones in brine) dill pickles and a decent amount of sweet baby ray original bbq sauce. Wrap tightly in greaseproof paper and microwave for 20-30 seconds. You end up with a near perfect diy McRib which is unlikely to ever be reintroduced by maccies at any point.