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The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 10:38 am
by V8Granite
After Penguin were no longer allowed to be called a chocolate bar and the Halal stupidity it's been all change at home.
The rule is essentially if you cannot buy all the original ingredients, it's not eaten. Now when out it can't be followed but when at home it's proving surprisingly easy. The biggest issue being variety.
Home made oat cookies, real chocolate, egg wraps, home made curry, home made bread, homemade crisps, lasagne, spaghetti bolognaise, beef tacos, steaks, omelettes etc etc
It's surprisingly easy to do but you do have to batch cook everything so you have a couple of meals for them with each cook.
A cereal alternative will be good to find as my youngest misses that but otherwise it's all going well. An air fryer makes it much much easier.
It won't be hemp jumpers and bin bag shoes but knowing what's in their food, as much as is possible, is quite a big thing for us and hopefully we should see some benefits.
Dave!
Re: The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:34 pm
by Mito Man
It's a piss take, especially all the chocolate based stuff being replaced with god knows what horrible substitutes. The price of wholesale cocoa has fallen for over a year
Re: The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:44 pm
by V8Granite
Yeah, a chocolate biscuit no longer being technically chocolate was the trigger, it's ridiculous.
It should be easier
Dave!
Re: The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 2:10 pm
by DeskJockey
What happened to your carnivore diet?
For cereal can you mix your own muesli? Or is it something else he's missing?
Re: The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 2:33 pm
by V8Granite
I'm still on it and so is the wife.
It's a general being pissed off with the way food is now. I'm fine with the kids wanting chocolate, biscuits etc but it's rarely what you think should be in them.
Dave!
Re: The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 3:45 pm
by DeskJockey
We're much the same. Tend to end up buying more expensive quality brands, but less often (which isn't a bad thing when it comes to sweets and the like). However, the frustration of not being able to trust quality is annoying. It could be worse though, we could be in the US trying to eat what they call food.
Re: The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 6:37 pm
by Gavster
Mito Man wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:34 pm
It's a piss take, especially all the chocolate based stuff being replaced with god knows what horrible substitutes. The price of wholesale cocoa has fallen for over a year
I’m doing a vid about Easter shrinkflation and asked a bunch of big manufacturers why they have increased the price of products when cocoa dropped something like 40% last year. They all came back with varying length replies saying approximately “we do everything we can to maintain high standards of flavour and taste, and ultimately pricing is up to the retailer”
Talk about passing the buck
Re: The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 6:45 pm
by Gavster
V8Granite wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 10:38 am
After Penguin were no longer allowed to be called a chocolate bar and the Halal stupidity it's been all change at home.
The rule is essentially if you cannot buy all the original ingredients, it's not eaten. Now when out it can't be followed but when at home it's proving surprisingly easy. The biggest issue being variety.
Home made oat cookies, real chocolate, egg wraps, home made curry, home made bread, homemade crisps, lasagne, spaghetti bolognaise, beef tacos, steaks, omelettes etc etc
It's surprisingly easy to do but you do have to batch cook everything so you have a couple of meals for them with each cook.
A cereal alternative will be good to find as my youngest misses that but otherwise it's all going well. An air fryer makes it much much easier.
It won't be hemp jumpers and bin bag shoes but knowing what's in their food, as much as is possible, is quite a big thing for us and hopefully we should see some benefits.
Dave!
What about something like this for cereal? There will be loads of online stores who sell very simple, single ingredient versions of cereals. Add some honey, cocoa powder, dried fruit etc might appeal to kids?
https://ebay.us/m/aWKBQM
https://ebay.us/m/aB7muB
I’ve always felt that whenever I stick to a completely home-prepared, wholefoods diet I feel really good. It is more work for sure though.
Re: The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 8:22 pm
by jamcg
https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/ ... a-60063102
Wife swears by this, it has two sweetners, stevia plant extract and erythritol which is made via a natural extract
Re: The Food reset, sadly no Felicity Kendall.
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 9:15 pm
by V8Granite
It's the sweetener that will be a no no on that last one, just getting away from all that stuff at home.
I'll give that cereal a go Gav
As an example the wife made oat biscuits tonight, a cottage pie, a banana bread and potato crisp things. All simple
Ingredients and nothing added.
Even some M+S bacon had sweeteners.
Dave!
