reduced hamburgers on sale tonight

london

900mg 85%beef74p reduced from £3

93%beef 340mg50p reduced fr £3.29

Lots of hamburgers on sale at sainsburys tonight.  i saw a guy bought lots last night and bought it all. But tonight there were even more. so many that there was enough for everyone and even more left over.

I bought 3 of the 74p packs, 900mg. and one of the more expensive taste the difference pack. 50p.i shall freeze most of it and save it for the naked bike ride evening supper for john and i and anyone else we invite back.

Pure mince beef is better buy of course, but nowadays it is difficult to get them reduced. These got preservatives in them. but i think once in a while it is ok to have them. 
i am of the school which says moderation in everything and that u can eat anything as long as u dont eat too much of them. 
Added 2/6/12. dont feel too bad that u are not getting this bargain. as is usual with these processed foods, it has a lot of fat in it. no mention of the fat content in the list of ingredients(of course) but this morning when i cooked it, lots of fat came out. 
at the price i bought it it is just ok. but i would hate to have bought it at its full price of £3,(reduced from £6 imagine!!) these experiences constantly remind me that processed foods are the devil. 
that guy last night who bought so much of it, i hope he has a restaurant that he can offload it too.haha. 
which is again should make us wary of eating hamburgers in a restaurant or takeaway or cafe. they are likely to use these very fatty processed hamburgers. 
once in a while it is ok to eat them, as fat will always make food tastes nicer. just restrain yourself not to eat too much of it. what is too much?


a good question quite impossible to answer. maybe once a month?.. is a good guide. anything over is too much. haha. 
for me , this is the first time i bought these processed hamburgers. and i think it wont come up reduced price like this again till next summer, and even then it has to be a rainy one like now... to produce such a glut of them.after this experience i shall be wary of them. 


i read new york is banning or going to ban, bigger portions of soft drinks, (not diet nor milkshakes, which is strange as it is just as bad). 
they are trying to address the obesity problem. it wont really work, because of course anyone wanting to can buy two portions of the smaller cups on sale and the ban does not extend to supermarkets. but i think trying to force people to conform to what u think is causing their obesity may not work generally. 
just drinking huge portions of soft drinks may not be the cause of the obesity. eating too much processed foods is the cause, but will they ban processed foods? not likely, as they make lots of money. they can double if not triple the price, or increase it by 10... whilst the raw meat cannot command such a big price increase. 
Added. 8.18pm 2.6.12 Simon cooked more of the hamburgers, and i noticed his cooked hamburgers are browned all over and even rounder unlike mine. and tastes v nice, i asked him how he did it, and he said he cooked it under high heat, and turning it often. whilst i cooked it under low heat and that caused the oil to run out. he did not have much oil even though he cooked double the number. 8 instead of my 4. hmm, so there is an art to cooking hamburgers after all. it means i have to sacrifice taste for healthy eating. makes me wonder whether that kind of defeat the purpose. On the other hand, i eat these so seldom it does not matter, really. it be better that i cook it the way simon does so i get the taste. 
Added.5.6.12 simon seemed to have eaten quite a lot of the 12 hamburgers i could not fit in my freezer. just as well, as i dont really fancy eating so many of them. he fries them, and have them with boiled potatoes, or mash and peas, with gravy and takes them to work to eat. 


all it does by banning bigger cups of soft drinks is that those who are sensible and share their drinks with others in the family or friends will lose out. 


But i guess if u are thrifty to start with u wont buy those soft drinks anyway, and just bring water from home and drink that. haha. 

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beef eating indians

london
this article about beef eating bans in india is linking it to the braminical upper class trying to put down the lower castes and propagating the caste system. 
the lower caste, muslims, dalits eat beef and claim the banning of cow slaughter is keeping them in their place.


This month a group of Dalit  (or Untouchables, as they were formerly labelled) students organised a Beef Festival in Osmania University of Hyderabad. It was the festival to assert their culinary rights in public and make a political statement of dietary habits of Dalits and Muslims by cooking and eating beef Biryani on campus.


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I do think all this forbidding of eating some foods , or forbidding meat entirely, or dictating what u can wear , like religious authorities imposing the wearing of the hijab or not wearing this or that, or forbidding cross dressing, and so on, are all forms of control and discrimination against one group by another. 


So it is not really surprising to hear of this accusation. but what is surprising is that i have not connected this particular aspect of vegetarism which is so well known and connected with india, that it has become symbolic of india; to oppression by a braminical upper class to the lower castes. 


I think everywhere in our society we can see one class oppressing another and imposing rules of dress, or behaviour, or food, or whatever as a outward sign of that oppression. 


so whenever u hear someone imposing something pertaining to behaviour or dress, or food,  u can bet there is an hidden agenda of control and oppression. 


Wanting to control others is so human, it is a sine qua non of the human condition. And those who rebel, are simply those who want to impose another control in opposition. 


I am thinking of the democratic nations (so called) trying to impose their system on other countries that they think are despotic. I am sure there are so many underlying forces at work here, it may be difficult to separate them and find out what is the overriding force if any. My suspicion is that it is our desire to control that is driving all this. 


though maybe control exists in other animal species too and we are not aware of it. For eg, ants, seem to be under the control of something... is it the queen ant? 


Added. i am not too concerned about this desire to control others as a human trait. I think that it provides the impetus to human interaction. I think if not for this desire to control others we wont interact with our fellow humans as much. 


the whole history of human interactions is driven by the desire to interfere with other people's affairs. If we all live and let live, nothing much will happen in the world. people will go their own way and do nothing. 

using satnav or using your own navigating skills

london
I was walking along the buckingham palace road, between the victoria station and the coach station and there was  a stretch of road with police tapes across it and police blocking the road. i found a coach bus blocking the road. it must have broken down. it is one of those coaches that carry people regularly to other towns from london. 
there was a pile of cars and coaches and buses staking back to the coach station and i was thinking maybe the police should block the road near the coach station, rather than funnel them all to the junction just before the obstruction, where there was only one route out for all the lanes of traffic converging there. 


ah well, i was thinking, if those fxxking souls wants it so be it. i think anyone in their right mind would avoid the area like the plague, as u know that it will be always busy. 


There were not many private cars there, so it was only commercial traffic so i suppose their routes are fixed and they cannot go elsewhere. 


now what has that got to do with satnav and navigating by map?
Well, i was thinking people's soul do dictate how they go about it. 
people who use satnav gets directed to the main roads and into one traffic jam after another. this was what happened when i was doing the sunday charity food run last sunday.


My driver, who was a mixed race woman, chinese-malaysian father and french mother set the sat nav, and we were following it and the route was what i would have chosen until we reached a busy junction when i know the route it chosed will lead us to a busy high street and huge delays. 


so i told her to override it and i shall direct. 
and we avoided it and took a short cut and no traffic. 


then further along the journey we again hit a jam, and i was able to direct her away... 
and we hit another further on.
finally we finished the run, and were on the way back and i let her follow the sat nav. 
well we were caught in a traffic jam. 
it was a route that i had thought of going, but never tried it, because the other route i know have always been traffic free. 


so this experience at least made me realise that that route is not worth going next time. 


but i was left thinking well, isn't it rather like what some people's life is like. They blindly follow and end up in all kinds of situations that make their life difficult, whilst others avoid it all. 


Navigate your own way , using the information that is available, and chart your own route. dont follow others , nor their advise. 


This applies to health advise too, i would say take it all with a large dose of scepticism. 


recently i read that red meat is bad for you. shortens your life, it seems. but today i read that women who dont eat red meat are prone to depression. 


I bought a brisket of beef, from tesco,a few days ago, reduced from £7 to £3.50 and i made a curry out of it using my slo cooker. it is really very lean. John, who was visiting me from usa said he could not resist and ate some. though he cut out the fat, (it really was not that much fat) and was about to throw it away, but i asked is he going to eat it, and when he said no, i said i shall have it.


That is the best tasting of the meat, but trust the westerner to throw that away.  meat with a mix of fat and lean is way more delicious than all lean.


 he had given up on red meat, he said because it made him ill, but he was fine with my curry. 


there is real pleasure in eating meat and i think it foolish to deprive yourself of this pleasure. the thing to remember of course is not to be a glutton about it. if u eat it all the time and glut yourself with it, without eating it slowly and tasting it, u will lose all pleasure in it and just shovel the food in, without tasting even. 


He said in usa beef is cheap, but mutton or lamb is really expensive. today i saw shoulder of lamb800mg reduced from about £7 to £3.80. hmm, i was quite tempted to buy it for john, but decided not to as he is going off to brighton for 2days tomorrow. 






and aspirin a day protects against cancer ... and this is the funny thing, it also says if u do have cancer it stops it spreading. 


so what is it to be, if it protects against cancer, how come u get it? or is it one of those drugs that if it cannot stop u from getting cancer, it will have a second line of defence in stopping it spreading. 
ha, i dont believe it. Though i bet you others will be rushing off to buy aspirin and eating it religously. 


i dont believe drug studies that say it can prevent disease. it is a study where the results can be interpreted in favourable or unfavourable ways. 


anyway, we all have to die of something, so just enjoy whatever it is , and let the soul decide how it will go.