Food

I haven't used them but they seem like a good thing. The only issue I can really see with them would be making sure you ate most/all of them each week

Yeah, that's why I like the sound of Piper's which does frozen meat, all pre portioned. I was iffy about frozen stuff but actually probably quite practical.

Someone had to explain ... waves at the Golf Club thread ... on our local community forum that the local butchers in fact still have plenty of stock Mon-Thur, its just frozen because otherwise it would mostly go to waste. Frozen meat is fine assuming you defrost it properly.

And definitely better than the other options that you've mentioned up thread

We have an Oddbox subscription.

It's given us some interesting things and made us be a bit more creative. It's also given us a lot of stuff that's sat around in the fridge getting wrinklier till it finally gets put in a soup.

Some of the "ordinary" stuff in it - potatoes, onions, garlic- has been noticeably tasty.

Would recommend then? How much is it?

https://www.oddbox.co.uk/home-box

Thanks, I realized after posting here, it was a case of just googling it, apologies.
Any referral code?

Another vote here for Oddbox.

I also do a weekly shop with Farmdrop bc I actually want specific stuff and can be bothered to select it but really hate the supermarket

I'd recommend it to you, because from your posts on here I think you'd made really good use of it.

To someone who is really time-poor and not very creative I'd be a bit reserved just because you end up with quite a lot of food, volume-wise, but not all of it is something you can instantly look at and think "easy, I'll make..."

It's made me look up recipes for pumpkin, chard, and Jerusalem artichokes, all of which I've enjoyed, and also last week we got sprouts which I was really happy to see. I've seen enough purple carrots to last me a lifetime though.

Another vote for Riverford. Ditched Abel & Cole when they got bought by a frozen food company and have been with Riverford ever since.

I really like the company, and the produce. Got to admire the founder for turning his business into a worker's cooperative. That's living your values.

Fish supper tonight

Pan fried gurnard fillets

On top of new potatoes crushed with roasted fennel and shredded raw fennel

Steamed samphire

With a dulse butter, capers and lemon juice sauce

Dulse butter?

might look into that oddbox shizz. it's the completely unnecessary plastic packaging that does my nut at the supramarchet. they're happy to provide biodegradable bags for mushrooms, why not everything else?

plastic bags are optional at lewisham market

Literally bonkers good
I assume DJ means this:
http://www.lebeurrebordier.com/en/collection/beurres/le-beurre-aux-algues/

My other half bought back some hand churned butters from a trip to Ireland, black garlic, smoked and dulse which turns out to be a sort of seaweed. #golfclubrestaurant

A week later I was doing a day of baking with a local chef and he was saying the next thing he is adding to his menu is an air-dried-seaweed butter which he is going to use with fish. So tonight I finally had a use for the dulse butter.

What eyebrows said

Does something like dulse butter ferment over time. Because that sounds like it could be pretty special.

Even more so than seaweed butter itself. Which is pretty special.

Thanks all. I feel educated.

I just feel this gnawing in my guts. That's not hunger, it's jealousy.

I’d been saving these to eat, alongside some NongShim Shin Cups, for when I get a new kitchen installed and we don’t have an oven. Who the fuck knows when that will now happen, so I gave into temptation and tried it. Wowie. Such spice, much taste.

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They’re the ones! I always recommend the noodles with the fire breathing chicken on them to shin cup fans. The curry flavour one is alright too

Nice. I’ll try and get some of those as well. I think I got these in Morrisons - probably have to wait a while before expecting to see them again.

They do 5 packs of the non-cup, packet versions. I discovered them in an on-campus Co-op at Bath uni which has a large Asian student population but have subsequently spotted them in some Asian supermarkets around Bristol

So I'm going to be mostly eating Dhal for the foreseeable future...

Timely! I’ve been trying (and pimping) loads of different pot noodle/ramen cup things lately