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About 3 days ahead based on using up fresh produce in the order it will still be good. I hate food wastage!

Turnip. The orange stuff is turnip- what the non Cornish call swede. [/quote] You're a bit aggressive but I'll bite. Neither turnips nor swedes, which are entirely different vegetables, are orange. Maybe you should have that lie down.

Haha yes, very good! I have learned a huge amount, so have the OP too I hope!

Yes I do! :smile:

Yes the socialising is hard. I switch to vodka, soda and fresh lime when I travel and just try and exercise portion control and good menu choices.

You might also want to travel with a sandwich press/jaffle maker and make pizza pockets, grilled cheese/tuna/tomato, baked beans and have those with soup.

Hi there, I travel a lot for work both domestically and internationally. I understand your plight! It took me a few years to wrap my head around how to do it. I find it varies depending on where you go, eg when I'm in Southeast Asia it's really easy to eat grilled seafood and vegetables, whereas in the Middle East when I…

My bill (2 adults) stays reasonable through buy a little meat and fish which is ethical, eating a lot of great vegetarian food, buying the nuts, grains and flours from the local co-op where you measure your portions into containers and pay by the gram, and buying our veg from the big market in our city, where prices are…

WHAT????? Are you eating gold leaf corn flakes?

No, your costs are the true costs. Their costs are destroying the planet, farmers globally, exploit animal welfare and fish stocks, and contribute to greenhouse gases. People who underpay are unhealthy and obese. People who pay the right price and paying fair prices for the costs of ethical production.

Can you post a copy of a shopping receipt? Are you buy lots of expensive health food items like quinoa, 'ancient grains', alternative milks and flours, bee pollen, protein powder, date syrup, coconut sugar, chia seeds, that sort of expensive and very trendy blogger-friendly stuff?

People don't buy organic food for the nutritional difference. It's about the pesticides, chemicals, antibiotics and genetic modification.

We DO do cream teas! But we call them Devonshire teas and whilst we don't have clotted cream (God help us) we usually do them with whipped double cream, not squirty whipped cream, that's tacky! Which state are you in? I find around Victoria and southern NSW in the quaint towns you find them, but they're a bit rarer in the…

That's so funny that you say that, because I was talking the other day about how almost every Aussie and Kiwi is a Lavazza-trained barista, no matter whether you're a lawyer, accountant, tradie or banker. We've all either worked in cafés or they come in and do corporate team building days. I understand you miss the coffee,…

Looks delish

Yes it's really weird seeing the word pasties and thinking about nipples! It still gets me every time.

Flat white is a white coffee in Australia and NZ. It's a shot of espresso (we don't do brewed here really at all) with steamed milk making up the rest of it. It's a really basic coffee but it seems to have taken the world by storm (or so we have been led to believe), since British cafés started adopting the name and…

Haha that tall cup of black coffee in Australia is called a long black. Not to be confused with a short black, which is a shot of espresso. And you all know the flat white, yes?

Brits often use the word proper to describe things that are both proper and 'proper', and there is a difference!! Roast beef (or lamb, pork or chicken), with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, real gravy and boiled/roasted veg including usually carrots and brussel sprouts. Usually eaten on a Sunday afternoon/evening in…

This is hurting me! I'm meant to be losing weight!!

This is the delightful vanilla slice, it's a thin puff pastry base and lid (like mille feuille) with a huge heft of vanilla custard in the middle and either white icing or icing sugar on top. It's bloody unreal.

Oh PS as you know we're quite crude down here and we often refer to vanilla slices as snot blocks. Don't you call them custard slices over there?

Haha probably not seeing as I guess they're French in origin. I lived in the UK for two years (outside London) and I found British meat pies quite hard to find, usually in pubs as a sit down, knife and fork thing and the beef is usually quite (and I loathe this word) chunky, whereas ours is more mince with gravy (and found…

Have you ever had a proper roast with all the trimmings?

Yes we often encounter a few problems in the UK - peppers, courgettes, aubergines, pants and especially THONGS!!

Hello dearest British cousin, Australian here!! Thank you for inventing meat in a pastry case, but we certainly have perfected the meat pie. The meat pie is our national dish and is heavenly, simply heavenly. Especially washed down with a strawberry milk. Followed by a vanilla slice.

Yes a scone is slightly sour, just very very slightly, due to the presence of baking soda or bicarb and the self-raising flour. So they're sweet (the sweet ones, that is) but with a sort of sour neutral cakey taste. The savoury ones (cheese and chives eg) are savoury of course and you wouldn't add cream and jam to those!!

A Cornish pastie is a thick pastry encasing diced meat (usually lamb), potatoes, carrots, swede and sometimes celery. Lots of pepper. You eat it hot out of the oven with tomato sauce (ketchup). They're extremely common!!

As an Aussie I find we're stuck right between the UK and the USA in terms of culture and heritage. We get the best of both! Comedians, television, music (UK produces the best of all of those), politics, movies, pop culture .... our language is a mash up of both. I can shout you a drink (British) I can queue for a movie…

Hahaha oh Carlos, for most of us, bread isn't sweet. 'Murica.