Have we discussed how Guest was single handedly responsible for the demise of Wilkos?
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Have we discussed how Guest was single handedly responsible for the demise of Wilkos?
We all know guest is a closet Tory. She thinks the povs are poor because they are lazy and stupid, not clever and a shameless grifter entrepreneurial like she is. If they were smart like her, she wouldn't have to explain things like how to save money on can openers. She's only helping them better themselves so they can bootstrap themselves out of their shameful situation.
Catching up so probably already been said but that quarterhack....
"People ask me how I keep my shopping bill down to 20 pounds a week....."
By having literally hundreds of pounds worth of food already in????
I honestly can't believe she became so famous for doing a top up shop.
"People ask me how I keep my shopping bill down to 20 pounds a week....."
By having literally hundreds of pounds worth of food already in????
I honestly can't believe she became so famous for doing a top up shop.
She'll be along any minute to tell everyone that Norma Jean Mortensen was better known as Marilyn Monroe - no wait, <checks notes> the idiot has already gone there
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Have we discussed how Guest was single handedly responsible for the demise of Wilkos?
What business? The cleaning products, light bulbs and mismatched stationery business? Or did she deal in pick n mix on the side?
That will teach me to post without fully grunking
Still, it's confirmation that guest actually is that stupid and I wasn't in a fugue state
That “quarterhack” makes zero sense. Not a single person on the planet walks around a supermarket thinking, “now, where is the carbohydrates aisle?” People shop according to what they will make to eat, not what food groups to buy and then try and conjure up something edible from them. As has been pointed out many times before, what would have been genuinely useful would have been suggested meal permutations from shops spread out over a month to build up a store cupboard of lasting basics such as spices and flavourings, honey, mustard, flour, pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes, beans, tinned tuna and frozen chicken portions, and topped up when needed with milk, eggs, cheese, fresh (not tinned) veg such as carrots, onions and potatoes and cheaper meats such as sausages, bacon and mince: y’know, how people actually shop. “Buy this, and each week, you could make: spaghetti bolognese/chili con carne and rice/spicy beef burgers/bacon or tuna potato skins/sausage casserole/honey mustard chicken with sautéed potatoes/roast chicken dinner/toad in the hole with veg/veg and bacon frittata/Spanish omelette/quiche/mac and cheese with bacon/sticky chicken drumsticks and spicy wedges etc. etc. Teach basic sauces, pastry and batter, and how these can be modified for different dishes, and the methods of cooking potatoes and eggs to produce entirely different meals. But after all, a thousand economy and student cookbooks have already done that over the years, and much, much better. I just don’t get how knowing you have cod loin, snapper and monkfish (££££) already in the freezer saves any money? These aren’t staples. Surely you’ve bought these with a specific meal purpose in mind?
Do you have a tip jar I can sen my last £10 to, dearheart?
I think she watches them but can't just say "I really liked/hated it" like most of us would. Because guest sees herself as an influential media person
she thinks she has to dissect everything like a critic and that people will go and see something based on her opinion 
.She is deluded.
I spelt it wrong too, but I may have been in a fugue stateHer name was Norma Jeane. Can't even get that right. Fastidious, my a. Superpower of being medically incapable of making mistakes. CONFIRMED.
I used my Nectar card for someone like this once and all my offers turned into tit stuff I'd never buy for a while. That person must really like profiteroles.
Don't worry, she doesn't have to wait until he's gone to bed...
He's living at his dad's.
Jack says that it would somehow be "wilfully disingenuous" to cost things out properly:
But, Jack, what if you didn't have all that stuff already in stock, how much would your weekly shop cost then?
But she can bench-press the Queen (RIP) so carrying 10 cans shouldn’t be a problemIt’s always been about not tiring out her little legs on the way back from the shops. View attachment 3338663Also, tinned potatoes are cheapest because they don’t need to be stored in a fridge or freezer
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But, but I thought there was a pineapple filled with tampons?! Is she rinsing them out and pegging them on the washing line before re-inserting them?! I'm not sure that's ideal.
For someone so edgy and who has 'LIVED' you know. She has and still does live a very sheltered life. Normal everyday things seem so alien to her and something as simple as an actor/tress having a normal name under their stage name brings her out in hives. I mean nothing that shocks or surprises her is actually that radical. The fact thag tattoos on her woman or being a lesbian makes her quirky, edgy etc also screams this.
She has to be one of the most plainest, boring, sheltered person on the planet that likes to play dress up.
She has to be one of the most plainest, boring, sheltered person on the planet that likes to play dress up.
This is a lie.
She has never, to my knowledge, done even a rough meal plan from one of her crappy flat lay photos. Anyone can do a £20 shop. You could just buy 40 tins of value beans and it will come to less than £20, for duck’s sake. It’s what you can do with it in a given week that counts. I’ve not once seen one of her so called weekly shops and worked out how to make 63, 42 or even 21 meals from it, depending on how many people she claims are living in the crappy bungalow, and even with other store cupboard ingredients being available.
She has never, to my knowledge, done even a rough meal plan from one of her crappy flat lay photos. Anyone can do a £20 shop. You could just buy 40 tins of value beans and it will come to less than £20, for duck’s sake. It’s what you can do with it in a given week that counts. I’ve not once seen one of her so called weekly shops and worked out how to make 63, 42 or even 21 meals from it, depending on how many people she claims are living in the crappy bungalow, and even with other store cupboard ingredients being available.
Did she ever do a forensically costed weekly meal plan though? We’re thinking similar @RandomFishOils
I think she was repeatedly asked for one and actually posted a sketchy scribbled plan which provided insufficient calories for her and her son.
I think she was repeatedly asked for one and actually posted a sketchy scribbled plan which provided insufficient calories for her and her son.
The closest she's ever got to doing something like this was the time she turned up (albeit an hour late, and very obviously hungover) on Radio Scotland to talk about cooking for one. Her advice was to cook lots of extra burgers, which could then be blended up the next day to turn into soup. And with whatever was left, add herbs to make bolognese, spices to make goulash, and chocolate for chilli.
She promised to 'write something later and pop it up on her website'. Needless to say, we're still waiting for that - a scant 885 days later.
I'm curious about whether her shop extends to school lunches and snacks for SB, who absolutely does live with her all the time. Paying for school lunches must take a chunk out of that weekly food budget, so if she doesnt pay for that then it's packed lunches? But nothing she buys looks like enough food for herself, the imaginary lodger/labourer and a teenage boy- a breed with legendary appetites who will lay waste to a loaf of bread in a matter of minutes.
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