Weird combinations.

[Time-to-be-ME]

We all have different likes and dislikes when it comes to food and drink, but it’s recently dawned on me that I am probably a bit weird in some of my food combos. I say dawned on me, what I really mean is, directly said to me by many ‘ you’re weird’ 😂. I shall give an example of my normal for me, but thought totally weird by others. I love a bacon barmcake ( roll, bap, whatever it’s called in your part of the country)….well that’s not weird I hear you all say, but how many of you have crispy sautéed kale on the barmcake with the bacon? Yes, apparently this puts me into the ‘wacky weirdo’ bracket…I also don’t have ketchup, brown sauce, or any other sauce on my bacon barm.

So, just so I know I’m not the only food combos weirdo, what strange food couplings do you all eat that are surprisingly tasty?

[Dippyeggs 2 stone 2024 August]

I used to have mayo and Thai sweet chilli sauce with a full English breakfast, or salad. However that's changed [since I realised about UPFs, and indeed became vegetarian 😂] to Greek yogurt, flavoured with chilli oil and fresh lime juice 😋

[Garden4me 7lbs 2024 August in reply to Dippyeggs]

Oh thats sounds a nice and better alternative 😊

[Time-to-be-ME 7lbs Restart Jan 2025 2024 August in reply to Dippyeggs]

I get those combos, my son loves that type of dressing/dip sort of thing. Unfortunately I don’t. I love berries with yoghurt, but at the side, as I like my yoghurt smoothie without ‘bits’ lol

[springersrule Moderator 76kg]

I can't think of any weird combinations except for putting fruit in my veg tray bakes. However, i'm often classed as weird as I don't like tomato ketchup, vinegar or baked beans xx

[Time-to-be-ME 7lbs Restart Jan 2025 2024 August in reply to springersrule]

I think we may be in the minority with baked beans, I dislike them immensely, and I truly can’t stand ketchup, brown sauce, mayo, salad cream etc…it’s that sweet and sour taste, just not for me.

[springersrule Moderator 76kg in reply to Time-to-be-ME]

I love it when I find another baked beans hater, there's not many of us around lol Out of the sauces I only like mayo. Another think I dislike strongly is gravy! xx

[Time-to-be-ME 7lbs Restart Jan 2025 2024 August in reply to springersrule]

That’s another reason I’m weird lol, I have my roast dinner without gravy 😊

[springersrule Moderator 76kg in reply to Time-to-be-ME]

We are kindred spirits xx

[Dippyeggs 2 stone 2024 August in reply to springersrule]

My mum hates baked beans and gravy too! 😁

[springersrule Moderator 76kg in reply to Dippyeggs]

Woohoo that's 3 weirdos lol xx

[Garden4me 7lbs 2024 August]

Sounds ok to me, only a slight variation on the conventional bacon barm.😀

[focused1 Maintainer 13kg]

I cook with all my scraps from the fridge . I waste nothing . I put those chutney bottles that folk seem to buy me at Xmas in a stir fry , rinse out sauce bottles so get bits of flavour from those . Last night we fancied something fishy but my husband wanted mushy peas . There was a sad sprig of broccoli, an old carrot so that was grated and some mushrooms so all that went on the same plate with parsley sauce too . We are inventive as I can’t stand food waste . My food

bills are lower than most as I boil a chicken carcass up for soup . Can’t pretend we are super poor but I am crazy frugal.

[Time-to-be-ME 7lbs Restart Jan 2025 2024 August in reply to focused1]

I’m also a very frugal and thrifty cook, hate waste. I also always put a few tablespoons of things like bolognese, chilli, baked beans ( son loves them, I dislike), cotrage pie filling, etc…in a tub in the fridge to use as a sandwich toastie filling for lunch the next day or day after. It’s almost a free meal as it’s already been accounted for, and I make most of my own bread, so that’s pennies. 😊

[focused1 Maintainer 13kg in reply to Time-to-be-ME]

What a good idea . It would be a lazy tasty filling for a jacket potato tea too . We don’t eat a lot of bread but when my 5 sons were growing up I bought a cheap loaf - then about 20p for toast before bedtime . They used to eat the whole loaf between them but cheaper and more filling than crisps .

[Frenchfields Restart Jan 2025]

I don’t eat it now but a friend once recommended marmite and banana on well-buttered toast;I had to try it once she’d mentioned it and my goodness its very yummy. (I have to be careful with marmite now as it gives me a skin reaction and I think I ate so many bananas when I was doing weightwatchers that I couldn’t face them anymore, though I occasionally fancy one when mrff buys them if its ’just right’.)

[springersrule Moderator 76kg in reply to Frenchfields]

Actually I can imagine that tasting rather nice xx

[Time-to-be-ME 7lbs Restart Jan 2025 2024 August in reply to Frenchfields]

Love Marmite …especially the extra old version, not overly keen on bananas though. I can eat a small slightly under-ripe one, but don’t like them with anything else. 😊