Easy lunch ideas?

[Over The Hill]

Mr Kipling is a butter producer? What on earth makes you think I would have anything to do with Mr Kipling in the first place? If I'm going to eat cakes, I will get them from Kristie's of Sketty, where their sensational pineapple cream carts are made with all-butter pastry and the custard slices are arguably the best in the country. Believe it or not, I was ribbing you in a friendly fashion, but you've gone all shirty and Linfy on me and spoiled it. I eat very little refined sugar, I don't eat fish fingers, and I don't eat farmed salmon. I occasionally eat crisps in the pub, but certainly not in place of fresh bread (which is usually stoneground wholemeal or sourdough). But there's a serious point to all this, which is that butter is "good quality basic food". Indeed it's one of the simplest good things one can buy. If you want to cut down fat by not eating butter then that's your call, but don't attempt to make a nutritional principle or a virtue out of it.

Sorry, did not mean it to come over shirty. Must use more little faces
Yes you can go down a bit of a full fat but quality route I agree.
I did lump butter and Kipling together. It was a generalisation perhaps purposely (wrongly) linking fat to junk food as low fat is often (wrongly) linked to blandness and accused of being boring.

Yes butter has infinately more quality than say margarine, but we generally eat much to much dairy product and foods high in animal fat are generally not good for us. However there is noting better to make a croissant out of.

Actually looking at your avatar, I could murder a bacon sandwich.

 

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I'm having a "bored with butties" period and have rediscovered tins of mackerel with couscous (especially since divvying up a kg bag and assaulting the spice rack works out at less than 15p a go).
But, is 5 tins of mackerel a week too much?
It'll only be for a month or two until I get bored of it but think I've seen recommendations to only eat 2 portions of oily fish per week.

When NT had his attack of gout, he did some research and one of the dietary triggers mentioned was oily fish - it promotes the presence of purines in the blood, and it's an excess of purines that leads to Uric acid build up in joints - gout. Fructose in fruit juice was another potential trigger. Having lots of oily fish won't necessarily cause gout, but if other factors (some medications) are present, it might contribute to the risk...

On the subject of leaving the workplace at lunchtime - I spend all morning out of the workplace, doing a physical job, so all I want to do at lunchtime is slump and shove carbs into my mouth. I exist on Sainsburys Basic Instant Noodles, and pickle snadwiches.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

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Chucked it in a few things now, Mort - did a scrummy chilli with it the other day, pepped the breakfast baked beans. It's rather good!

 

[longers]

Thanks for the information. Looks like I've got a bout of gout to look forward to at some point then.

I thought Mort was giving a pie recipe initially.