Mrs Frugal Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 What on earth are Krispy Kremes ? On second thoughts, I don't think I really need to know !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Iced doughnuts All flavours - and they're not Krispy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 Ewwwww ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 No I dont think you do!! (want to know about Krispy Kremes - we were all posting at the same time! Lesley) I have spent a life time of sticking revolting pre-packed horrible chemically food down my throat and and am now SERIOUSLY regretting it. I am trying much harder - free range meat (sorry any vegetarians out there, I do like my bacon butties) eggs from happy chickens and trying to buy more veggies from the farmers markets. It is difficult, especially when you do the sorts of hours I do but I think its worth it. As I have got older (as you know I am FAR too old at 36 to be considered young or stylish by the DM ) I have finally realised that! You wont get me off wine or chocolate though (although I have to say that Green and Blacks white is probably the BEST chocolate in the UNIVERSE (I'm rather keen,..,,,, ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 They can keep their junk food - we don't do it in our house and the boys are VERY happy about that!! They like their food homemade and healthy and the house green cleaned !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 We've got Krispy Kremes near us (in Bluewater shopping centre) and I can tell you they're not nice. On the day they opened they were giving out freebies, and son never says no to food. Even he took a bite and did the ewwww face. Very sickly, filled with fat (& goodness only knows how many calories) as well as, no doubt all those lovely E numbers & preservatives. They are also hugely expensive, 8 pounds or thereabouts for 12 , apparently in the US they are ultra cheap. Back to the original thread. I'm not a gardener, done a few tomatoes in grow bags in the past, but not much more than that, but like many other omletters I've been making some changes this year, and I've got a bit carried away this year. My pumpkins were a disaster- a hungry mouse and his mates ate all my newly planted seeds the same night as they were planted, and my chillies all got slugged. But I've got tomatoes ripening, (beef and cherry plum varieties), peas, beans (dwarf french & 2 different climbers), 2 varieties of peppers which are flowering, but no fruit yet, beautiful purple flowers on my aube's, loads of courgettes (I think I got a bit carried away there ), a few broad beans left, but really we're coming to the end of those now, baby leeks, fennel, artichokes (not quite ready yet, but looking promising) onions, perpetual spinach, rocket, red salad leaves (I had cos too, but it seems that the slugs are partial to that), finished the potatoes now (but I only had a few to start with), cucumber & butternut squash. I think that's it Loads of fruit too, we have a wide range of fruit bushes/ trees and it looks like those will probably harvest well this- except the pear which is bear. More rhubarb and redcurrants than I know what to do with (recipe ideas gratefully recieved ). I'm really quite pleased with myself I'm also getting organic fruit & veg boxes weekly from a nearby farm, who also supply organic beef & chicken, and I have a very nice butcher locally who does lovely organic pork. So my family and I are really eating well these days, which is brilliant. Healthy, and it all tastes so much better. I,m working on the green housekeeping too, using some recipes, making some changes, but that one's still a work in progress as yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 Wow, well done Kate! Sounds terrific. Keep up the good work with the green cleaning. I felt so much better in myself to be rid of chemicals. I used to get so run down and tired that they thought I'd got thyroid problems but it disappeared when I started using my green recipes - coincidence probably but I'm not going back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Yes, well done Kate A. It's great to be able to grow so much of your own food isn't it? Any photos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna 1 Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Hurrah for green cleaning and households free of Krispy Kremes! You guys all renew my faith in human nature. I'm not alone!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 What can I say that hasn't already those donuts sound revolting. A couple of years ago I had to go to Washington for a couple of weeks (for work I wouldn't do America by choice) me and the chap I was with spent 2 weeks trying to eat properly it wasn't easy the best we could do for lunch was subway and have everything dressing free. One day someone took us out for lunch to Burger King I was horrified as I had to eat something I often left more than half of my food at evening meals in resteraunts not because it wasn't nice but because I couldn't eat that much and they always looked so offended when they took it away after checking it was okay Fortunately the only night out we had with others we were taken to a Japanese resteraunt where they cooked everything to taste at the table and I was the star who caught the mushroom the chef threw with my mouth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 We've got Krispy Kremes near us What's a Krispy Kremes? Sounds as bad a McDonalds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I was the star who caught the mushroom the chef threw with my mouth Good party trick Louise, but could you do it again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I doubt it luck not judgement but it got a cheer and I was spoiled by the chef for the rest of the meal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Ha ha - did you see it coming, or did the mushroom land inside your mouth mid conversational flow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 He chucked one at each of us in turn and apart from the guy who was hosting the meal who was a regular at the place I was the only one to catch. You sort of chomp it out of the air. No one was more suprised than me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna 1 Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I love those restaurants. Was it the one where you all sit round a big hotplate and get your 'own' chef to come and cook for you? They're great. I'm really keen on Japanese food - very little fat and loads of veg and fish. Don't like the whole whaling thing though. They get the thumbs down there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna 1 Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 PS: love the image of you 'chomping' from the air, Louise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Yes it was that type of resteraunt and I had chicken as far as I kknow there was no whale available. Glad you liked the chomping description. Can anyone remind me what this thread was about I can feel a moderating wand heading my way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Oh gosh...don't we go off on a tangent! Before we get magic wanded, can someone tell me what a Krispy Kremes is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted July 20, 2005 Author Share Posted July 20, 2005 You don't want to know, Gina - garbage by the sounds of things!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Yes, you're right Kate, I probably can work it out actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Krispy Kremes are American style doughnuts (or should that be donuts ) which are usually filled with gungy creamy stuff and covered with icing Not recommended That said everytime I walk past the shop, and it's close to the cinema so I do pass there reasonably often, there's always a queue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Kids stand no chance do they? We were saying only last night, as we were on our walk, the number of chubby children is on the increase. They should be shut down due to health reasons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna 1 Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I actually wonder how products like that can actually claim to be 'food'. There's so many additives and chenicals in them that they've surely mutated beyond the point of classification as sustenance. Same goes for MacDonalds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 McDonalds - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
