renth

It's a shame they don't teach kids to cook at school anymore, you can create good food for half the price and with twice the nutrition as those crappy ready meals you get in the UK.

Tonight for me & the Mrs, couple of chicken breasts diped in sesame oil then cajun seasoning. Fry for 10 minutes serve with lettuce and tomato salad.

Just as easy as unwrapping a couple of ready meals and putting them in the microwave and for 1/2 the price.

woodyinoz

I home cook most the time and always have done. There are the days though when swimming finishes at 6pm you dash home and haven't defrosted any meat! Plus you can't have boiled egg every day
And cooking was often taught at home before both parents needed to work. One good thing lost due to the pressure's of the modern world.

Foster Clan

I don't EXPECT it to be any other way but it doesn't mean that I prefer the Australian way. I much prefer the UK supermarkets and the facilities they offer.
Get used to it - obviously some people prefer UK supermarkets.

ozzieeagle

Tell you what I really liked about the English supermarkets, whilst the wife was of buying and hunting around the warehouse sized places, filling the relies cupboards with goodies and necessities as payment for their hospitality. After about 20 mins or so of wandering around the miriad of aisles and getting bored of people watching and shelf perusing. I would invariably wander down to the massive booze aisles and just ponder and dream at all the different beers, and single malts, in a state of semi ecstacy. As I was on Holiday, I also had a damn good excuse to buy all sorts of different beers and spirits on each visit, without fear of spouse reprucussion, and boy did I take advantage of that situation. European beer at 33 to 50 pct cheaper than you can buy it here, sheer bloody heaven mate. Single malts, that I'd never even heard of, in a "supermarket". From Duvel to Chimay and stopping via Czech beer inbetween, bloody hell, I'm getting misty eyed now.


How can you knock that. I guess the novelty would wear off after about 5 years


I want to start up a petition, I want this system here.

Come on down Tesco's

Linda Lushardi

In that case why not pop down to the many and varied Asian restaurants that not only give you quick nutritious food (stir fried with plenty of veg) but cook it for you for less that a ready meal costs frozen in the shop!!

Bhoywonder

I couldn't have said it better if I tried.

Just move on and make it work for you.

woodyinoz

Because I chose to live in the middle of no mans land...

Anyway the scenarios were just that, nothing personal... I for one don't work and I stay at home cooking everyday for my family. I am lucky in the fact that I can.

Linda Lushardi

Good on you.. i havent the patience or inclination!! As theres only two of us it is so often far cheaper to eat out here we rarely cook much at all... i am also very spoilt

Mercedes

Must admit most of my 12 years of living in Oz I ate out, and liked the variety and found it was cheaper. I also liked having the buzz of people around me when I ate and didn't like staying in and watching tv anyway, mostly because I did a range of sports and liked being outdoors. I still tend to eat out where ever I am, after a hard days work, I can't be bothered to cook and wash up dishes. Nice to leave that to someone else. Knew quite a few Aussie friends used to do that. If I buy food and shove it in the fridge it become a pharmaceutical paradise for penacillin, lol

Vash the Stampede

Not entirely true; there are plenty around if you know where to find them. Even the Woolies in Legana (Tasmania) has one!

But the rest of your post was 100% spot on, mate.

OzTennis

Many of the flats in Melbourne's Docklands don't have a kitchen at all! They do have power points if you want to plug in a microwave though. i.e. many of these inner city urban dwellers eat out most of the time.

OzTennis

Vash the Stampede

One thing that really irritates me about UK supermarkets is that everything is sold in such tiny portions. You have to buy millions of one item just to make up a reasonable amount - and then, of course, you're left with mountains of plastic packaging to dispose of.

Consequently, I have found that my rubbish output over here is astronomical; many times higher than when I lived back home in Australia.

You can't get Cadbury's chocolate in the good old 250g slabs (it's either 200g, 300g or nothing) and it doesn't come in all the usual flavours (Snack, Rum & Raisin, Top Deck, Turkish Delight under license from Fry's, etc. etc.); you can't get Peter's icecream (let alone Paul's or Streets); I assume you can get Cadbury's icecream around here somewhere, but haven't found it yet.

And so on, and so forth.

woodyinoz

Now you know how the expats feel......

Things are different. You are in England mate

Oh and of course things come in smaller sizes. Have you not noticed that people are in general a lot smaller on the waist there

herrchook

For those of you still in the UK, and with access to Tesco - did you know they sell Tim Tams? A bit pricey but fab.

wmoore

Penguin biscuits are much cheaper though