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Came across the ready made - warm up egg omelette the other day on a supermarket shelf...

I think I'd find it more effort to remove the packaging than whisk up the eggs and add the fines herbes! (whilst chilling out with a glass of wine in one hand... and fending off a wild cat... )

But - guess Wildy is a wise housewife - she's always kept a shelf of tinned and dried food and the "means" to bake bread in case of a "bad winter" - Apparently - she learned "the importance of keeping a month's supply of tins after being cut off for a month following a bad storm when she was a child."

But yes - I do recall some panic buying in supermarkets from last time. Also a bit like Christmas - these stores close for one or two days and people buy in a couple of months' supplies " for fear of running out" and end up throwing most of the perishable products away.

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You not seen the bags of pre-grated cheddar yet? I kid you not.


Tins of... cat food? Cheap I grant you, but I'd prefer the omelette kit.

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Find it quite an eye opener in supermarkets these days. Even ready made pancakes for the microwave. Half the fun was trying to get them off the ceiling when I was a lad...


Heaven help us if such supplies run out - the chavs will starve!


Worse - checked out her emergency shelf ... Go Cat... IAMS and those little pouches of Whiskas prime cuts...

Asked her about these - and get the full "Liebchen" purring and some miaowing about having to keep her strength up ....

I expected to find tinned peas, beans, alpha spaghetti and tinned hot dogs
(phew - just come across some of these...right - well we won't starve then. when we return to the 1940s style shopping - )

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The one that always makes me chuckle is packets of White Sauce mix. "Simply add milk" it says on the back. So I guess the packet contains, err, cornflour then? I can only conclude that they sell it in a packet at 40 times it's normal cost especially for people who don't own a teaspoon to measure it out, though this inevitably begs the questions (a) how do the same folk manage to measure half a pint of milk, and (b) do they have a spoon to stir it with?

A similar one is sachets of "ready mixed" porridge, again presumably for those incapable of measuring the required quantity of oats!

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