My 12 B!asic ingredients

[Rudi]

Some of us drink whisky in moderation, Rudi, and can still remember what we were trying to do when we get past that point on the list.

Sorry, I was not referring to quantity consumed but rather the significance of the item.
Sobriety is one way to dismiss the rest of the list, but when it comes to the preeminence and grandiosity of whisky, all other items just fade to nothing!

[StuartR]

Ah, now I understand. Does that make whisky the great diet substance? Drink a few glasses of whisky and the desire for food fades into insignificance.

[HansV]

Tommy Cooper: "I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already!"

[StuartR]

Tommy Cooper: "I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already!"

[ChrisGreaves]

My vasic 12 would be as follows:

1. Wholewheat bread
11. Chocolates
12. Chips/Crisps (in the packet for snacks)

Hi Rudi. If I've read this right, we differ in the items shown above - I'd buy flour so that I can make crepes/pancakes/cookies/potato cakes as well as bread.
And the choc/chip would just have to wait until week two.

FWIW I was thinking in terms of "What basic ingredients might I take to the cottage".

[ChrisGreaves]

Breakfast: protein powder, Silk, water, 1/4 avocado and banana blended into a smoothie

Lunch: Spinach and mushrooms are steam cooked together. Combine with the eggs into a small crock and microwave to create a delicious sandwich-sized "burger". Serve on an English muffin, perhaps with a small amount of Hot Pepper Peach Preserves to add a tangy sweetness.

Dinner: Large salad of romaine, kale, spinach, cheeses, mushrooms and using yellow or brown mustard as dressing (0 cal, 0 fat)

Hi PJ, and yes, it could be argued that my list is relatively unhealthy to yours, but there again, mine is way healthier that the contents of the aplay-wheeled shopping carts in my local supermarkets.
I was trying to assemble a variety of ingredients that would give me a variety of meal choices over, say, a week.
As mentioned to Rudi, it might be a week in a cottage (or on a baot), but it might equally be a set of basic ingredients for someone starting to learn to cook their own meals.

I've never been a big fan of this powder-just-add-water stuff.

[ChrisGreaves]

My list would be something like

Hi Stuart.
I'm with Rudi on this one " (That list has zero sugar in it!! From whence doth your energy cometh from?)"

[ChrisGreaves]

Lets redefine the list:
Wherever whisky appears on the list, any items after it become irrelevant!

"irevelant", surely?

[StuartR]

Hi Stuart.
I'm with Rudi on this one " (That list has zero sugar in it!! From whence doth your energy cometh from?)"

Most of my energy comes from burning off the many years of accumulated body fat Chris! Olive oil has quite a bit of energy. Carrots have quite a bit of sugar, there's plenty of carbohydrate in the bread, and the oil in the hummous provides a fair bit of energy too.

[DaveA]

week in a cottage (or on a baot),

What is a "baot'?

[HansV]

As in "Row, row, row yuor baot"...

[Rudi]

As in "Row, row, row yuor baot"...

That's a B!asic spelt error. Or is that spelled?

[HansV]

Spelt isn't on Chris's list of b!asic ingredients.

[Rudi]

I guess its irevelant.

[ChrisGreaves]

[Most of my energy comes from burning off the many years of accumulated body fat ...

Well, OK.
I wasn't thinking of a weight-reducing diet as much as what I could get by on to provide a variety of meals from 12 basic ingredients.

It is a similar exercise to one I pursued about 40 years ago, back in the day when I designed languages and wrote in assembly language.
One day i announced to a colleague that I had managed to define a machine with only 8 ("Count'em EIGHT!!) machine instructions, and he patiently replied "Why not aim for one?".
Sigh!

P.S. I see that we can now buy used Van der Poel machines. Cheap!

[ChrisGreaves]

week in a cottage (or on a baot),

What is a "baot'?

It is vasically similar to a canoe!

[ChrisGreaves]

I guess its irevelant.

because I can't find the :scoldall: smilie.
P.S. why isn't in the frownies?

[BobH]

Thank you again, Hans!!!!!

Your mention of Tommy Cooper got me on YouTube watching his bits. What a marvelous act he had. As a bit of a provincial American, I had only seen his act once on the Ed Sullivan Show. Now after seeing the bits on YT, I see the comic genius who's main body of work I had missed.

[HansV]

Have you seen Tommy with Parky?

[BobH]

Have you seen Tommy with Parky?

Yes, that was the very first one I watched.