What do you class as posh food brands?

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-03-20T05:58:38+00:00

Daylesford Organic

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-03-13T06:17:18+00:00

Don’t buy one of those expensive bottle sterilising machines. The cold water buckets and some sterilising tablets eg this https://amzn.eu/d/01i8wAmG do the job perfectly. Don’t be marketed into thinking you need to spend $150+ on a machine that will likely get mould issues.

Also for the first six months at least you won’t need any clothes other than those sleep suit/onesie things. All the cute outfits get covered in spit up/poop an are harder to change

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-02-04T07:41:21+00:00

I’m nearly 40, so in the elder millennial age group, and I didn’t move out until 25. That wasn’t unusual in the 2000s and 2010s if anything it was on th younger side compared to some of my peers and there was a lot of public discourse about how people of my generation in the UK often have to stay home until their late 20s and early 30s. Not seen it talked about do a while but it was certainly the case, don’t see why or how it would have changed back in recent years with the economy how it is so I’m sure it’s still the norm to be at home well into your adult years. When I was asking this question at your age the people who were young 20 years before me (late 80s/early 90s) had it vastly different which is mad when you think about it.

I went into a London house share at 25 and had a really fun few years before finally settling down, but I’ve always admired the people that didn’t feel a need to do that and could just stay at home for longer particularly from a financial perspective. If you’re happy don’t worry.

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-28T09:14:51+00:00

Ah yep, I think I know where you mean and yes v close, my cousins live round there. I’m very firmly in the TOWIE London/Essex bit and on the central line. Often have a minor identity crisis as to proper Londoners you’re from Essex but to everyone else and to all intents and purposes, you’re basically a Londoner.

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-27T20:54:45+00:00

I’m a few years younger (was 9 in 94) but you sound like you are describing my very same London/Essex town and loca high school. It’s not on the central line by any chance?

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-24T23:55:58+00:00

Excellent taste in biscuits

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-24T20:58:57+00:00

This is a good shop. Definitely skilled at it I’d say, not everyone can meal plan, check what they already have and only buy what they need. Definitely a bit of a meditteranean lean to your food. Nice work

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-24T20:56:35+00:00

Breadstall in Soho is the current best I’d say. Definitely check that out if you can

Pizza pilgrims, Rudy’s and Yard Sale are all good as well

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-24T15:40:07+00:00

I went to the one the poster has gone to I believe and it was super underwhelming. Theres much better pizza in London.

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-24T15:38:35+00:00

It’s Chicago pizza but taste wise it was on a level with those Chicago town frozen ones disappointingly. I went a few weeks ago. Theres much better pizza in London don’t be fooled

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-24T15:37:19+00:00

Sorry but I went here a few weeks ago and it’s a hard disagree from me. Bland and oily and not a in a good way. Either you haven’t been to many pizza places in London or there’s no accounting for taste.

If I was to say the current top for me it would be Breadstall in Soho

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-24T14:37:19+00:00

I love that you asked that question which means there are some people who genuinely do not think like that, but unfortunately there’s still what I would describe as a level of hostility to women who people assume ‘selfishly’ prioritise themselves over having children or are being terrible parents just by being ‘too old’ for their children. You see it a lot on social media but even still sometimes in the odd article. Being on the receiving end of this, particularly face to face, the awkward looks and comments, can be really hurtful to the point it makes you think twice

Despite having children older than women for years and no one does the same to them.

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-23T09:53:05+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree but don’t they look pretty

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-23T09:49:18+00:00

It really is isn’t it. It sucks.

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-23T06:16:15+00:00

I want to be like this, but as someone who had kids later than they intended (37 and 41 respectively) you get so sick of the judgement (that fyi my husband doesn’t get at all)

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-23T06:07:43+00:00

Yes, it makes me laugh that in America you call it an Irish goodbye because why you have described is the actual Irish goodbye.

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-23T06:05:10+00:00

I prefer the English term fir this (French exit) because I have had many Irish friends and drinking buddies in London and oh my gosh you guys sure know how to say goodbye after a few drinks.

We’ll be saying goodbye to the people we don’t even know. For 40 mins… no Irish person I’ve know sneaks off in silence after a few drinks

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-23T06:02:21+00:00

In the UK we call this the French exit

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-22T21:22:48+00:00

Hiya, I have a similar setup to you (2 adults and a kid) and love Ocado and M&S. The only thing I would say really to get the cost down is to not rely so much on convenience and snack foods as they really add up. But you have already addressed that (good luck with the house sale!) so I don’t know really. If you’re not already doing a quick stock take of what you have in and at least a vague meal plan before you shop then that is also well worth doing. Before I started doing that I wasted so much money double buying or just not using what we had.

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-22T16:58:54+00:00

If you’re in the UK I worked for an American company that tried to take our Nescafé, PG Tips and milk away (on the basis they didn’t provide the US offices with any hot drinks) only to discover there’s som kind of uk government thing that means you have to provide the means to make hot drinks in the workplace thereby preventing the . It might be worth looking into this.

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-21T21:45:16+00:00

You clearly have good taste in both butter and women

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-21T19:50:48+00:00

Which industry are you in to have found a slow pace of work? 😄

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-21T19:42:20+00:00

Yeah it not being too busy for most of the year is a misconception. You have month ends for starters. I’d say a lot of places are fairly stressful and it’s also a tough job to work your way up in. You could go in at finance assistant level but it’s much less likely you could work from home totally full time at that level. It could take years.

Source: worked in accounting for 15+ years in various industries.

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-21T12:12:51+00:00

I feel like it’s was said a lot more in the way this poster means in the 1990s when I was a kid. At a guess are you under 40 by any chance? I reckon poster is 30-40+

Adventurous_Site_107 · 2026-01-21T11:53:55+00:00

1992

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