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Why this obsession with spicy food?

It's just everywhere, and I'm sure it muscles out plain food items on the shelves. Sainsbury's used to do sweet and sour chicken in a can. No more. It's mostly curried stuff.

Want ordinary tomato flavoured food? No chance...it has to have basil added.

In ready meals, I am forever fishing out red, green or yellow peppers. Stop it, please!

I want everyone to know, that I hate curried, hot, or spicy food!!! We do exist, you know...

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Oh dear Jazzi, i guess the only answer is to cook everything fresh with only the ingredients you like. Now if your talking potatoes i would be inclined to agree with you, why is this bland insipid product added to everything. Variety is the Spice of life, im partial to curry and peppers BTW.

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Jazzi it is a pain at times. I do like spices, but prefer it in an actual curry! I like plain old lentil soup. Not with spices. I agree, there does seem to be more additions in ready food these days. Not to everyone's taste.

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I completely agree with you ! And so would the indian gentleman I work with - even he says too much spicy food in this country. The region he originated in has a very subtle spiciness to their dishes and he hates all the overly spiced foods we have in this country.
I don't find it too difficult to find unspiced food though as I cook from scratch so just do my own plain English based cooking.

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For me there is no substitute for freshly made food

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Agree with you Jazzi and Len Goodman - far too much choice on the shelves today !

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Yes Patsy, agree with the last bit. When I was in Windermere, going around their large supermarket (the chain of Booths), I pondered...have any of you ever been to a Tesco Extra, or a large Sainsburys or Morrisons, and really had a vast choice? They maybe do have the large ones there, but of course I never had the chance to see.

Perhaps this is why I can easily spend an hour in a supermarket when doing my weekly shop! And then I go down the road and do it again in the next one.

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Len was discussing that fact Jazzi - drives him and me round the bend - takes so long to find what you want because of the amount of choice that we're not interested in. They should have a separate area for us

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Yes, there is too much choice when it comes to ready meals, pre-mix sauces etc... but it's a devil of a job to buy decent quantities and varieties of herbs and spices in most supermarkets. What really "gets me" is seeing packs of ready mashed potato and chopped onions!!

I usually go to an Asian supermarket two or three times a year and stock up on spices. I also cook meals from scratch and never buy ready meals or use any of these jars of sauce.

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The best way to do things - the supermarkets cannot compete with that !