I like Pot Noodles

[Fab Foodie]

You can't possibly live on them!

Of course he can .... He's a teenager FFS!

 

[keithmac]

I've seen people survive on Pot Noodle lunches and kebab tea's for 3 years or more with no obvious ill effects (maybe alcohol acts as a blood thinner/ degreaser?).

 

[Crackle]

Of course he can .... He's a teenager FFS!

I sent my son to Uni with all my recipes but really I know he'll be living off bacon flavour super noodles and cereal.

 

[srw]

In the time it takes to "prepare" a Pot Noodle you could slice and boil up garlic, stock powder, mushroom, onion and cabbage with some egg noodles and you'd have something far more pleasant to eat. It would also be much cheaper. Add an egg and it's a complete, well-balanced, satisfying meal.

 

[potsy]

In the time it takes to "prepare" a Pot Noodle you could slice and boil up garlic, stock powder, mushroom, onion and cabbage with some egg noodles and you'd have something far more pleasant to eat. It would also be much cheaper. Add an egg and it's a complete, well-balanced, satisfying meal.

And what if you are somewhere without a hob, all you have is access to a kettle?

They are what they are, good, quick, easy snacks for certain situations.

 

[keithmac]

And what if you are somewhere without a hob, all you have is access to a kettle?

They are what they are, good, quick, easy snacks for certain situations.

Exactly!, for a work lunch they are perfectly acceptable.

 

[srw]

And what if you are somewhere without a hob, all you have is access to a kettle?

Basic recipe: couscous and bouillon powder (Marigold make some good versions). Add your choice of:

• mixed dried herbs, sun-dried tomatoes, pine nuts
• cumin powder, raisins, pine nuts
• curry powder, dried mushrooms, a tin of chick-peas

Just pour on boiling water, and serve as is or with cold meat and salad or quiche. If you have to have noodles, fine egg noodles cook just as quickly and easily as couscous.

A staple for cycle touring when you have to book accommodation miles away from a shop or restaurant.

 

[theclaud]

Anyway, like on every food thread on CC, I'm waiting for @theclaud to come along and tell me off for eating crap. And that I should be making my own artisanal noodles

I once gifted a box of 72 chicken and mushroom flavour Pot Noodles to my pal Dr Evil (he likes free stuff). Our company was based at a university, and they'd filled our storage space up with leftover shite from Freshers' Week. I was on a bike, so I asked a colleague with a motor to drop the box off. I got a text from Dr Evil saying 'Brilliant - thanks. No food worries for a month.' 'Don't eat only Pot Noodles,' I replied. I saw him at about 7pm the same day - he was already down to 68 and hadn't had 'dinner' yet.

 

[raleighnut]

I once gifted a box of 72 chicken and mushroom flavour Pot Noodles to my pal Dr Evil (he likes free stuff). Our company was based at a university, and they'd filled our storage space up with leftover shite from Freshers' Week. I was on a bike, so I asked a colleague with a motor to drop the box off. I got a text from Dr Evil saying 'Brilliant - thanks. No food worries for a month.' 'Don't eat only Pot Noodles,' I replied. I saw him at about 7pm the same day - he was already down to 68 and hadn't had 'dinner' yet.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yes, and someone's uncle smoked 40 a day and lived till he was 80 ...

My great grandma smoked 40 Park Drive a day and lived to 91.

 

[nickyboy]

Excuse me, but I said almost exactly that on p.1, and I got horrible personal abuse for it.

His recipe sounded a lot nicer than yours. It was the cabbage that swayed me

 

[Colin_P]

Yehbutt....

All the poncy proper and probably nicer recipes are not the slag of all snacks.

Sometimes you just want something a bit filthy.

 

[Colin_P]

Talking of filthy...

Snot Poodle foreplay involves scoffing the sauce satchet and picking the dried peas off the top scoffing them too whilst waiting for the kettle to boil.

 

[Crackle]

I once gifted a box of 72 chicken and mushroom flavour Pot Noodles to my pal Dr Evil (he likes free stuff). Our company was based at a university, and they'd filled our storage space up with leftover shite from Freshers' Week. I was on a bike, so I asked a colleague with a motor to drop the box off. I got a text from Dr Evil saying 'Brilliant - thanks. No food worries for a month.' 'Don't eat only Pot Noodles,' I replied. I saw him at about 7pm the same day - he was already down to 68 and hadn't had 'dinner' yet.

You can't 'gift' someone Pot Noodles

 

[stephec]

I can honestly say I've never been tempted by one.

I am surprised though, if anyone starts a thread off about KFC or McDonalds it ends up full of people looking down their noses at fast food.