We already do use fresh ingredients for at least one main meal a day using good quality (by supermarket standards anyway) meat, fresh fish, eggs, rice and basic (not always value) fruit and veg as funds allow by being canny with offers and bulk buying, and the savings from reducing other items (like booze) and value stuff.
Even so, I don't see how it's your place to tell us what we should or should not eat. It's not as if we overeat or subsist solely on fatty, sugary crap. The foods previously listed are ones that represent real value compared to expensive alternatives and are not supposed to represent the sole entirety of someone's diet.
Is it bad that I have an omelette made with free range eggs, freshly ground black pepper and organic olive oil, then follow it with a bag of smartprice ready salted crisps? Or the following day have some value noodles and a value banana that seems just as good as ones three times as expensive? Everything in moderation.
Don't forget that Value brands also extend to fruit, vegetables both fresh and frozen, salad, nuts, and household items such as detergents, brushes, rugs, shampoo etc, nearly all of which we also take advantage of when it's actually worth doing so. Tea this weekend will be home made cottage pie made with mince on special offer, value potatoes, value frozen peas, carrots from a value bag of root veg, and the remaining parsnips and swede will be roasted with some of the remaining value pots. Dessert will probably be value bananas. If I omitted to mention the word 'value' would that sound like a load of convenience crap?
My meals are already good, thanks (at least up to the standards of the gf and my parents), and we eat crisps and chocolate and other 'convenience' foods cos a) they're convenient and b) we like them!
Frink
-- Doctor J. Frink : 'Rampant Ribald Ringtail' Annoy his mind here : pjf at cmp dot liv dot ack dot ook "No sir, I didn't like it!" - Mr Horse
