your kids are a treasure and adventurers and amazingly original because you and jason just seemed to take everything in your stride and just "let it be"...
the throwaway price for the foie gras made me sad thinking of the terror the poor geese endure throughout their sad lives in order to tickle a particular humans' palate.
I love this Katy and without wanting to sound weird, which I inevitably will, I love that your kids are wild and free, which is such a testament to you. I often describe the journey I’m on as like being on a rollercoaster blindfolded and told to let go of the bar. I hate rollercoasters. The foie gras, gin and CBD Oil strangely took me to the Louis Theroux interview with Pete Doherty as the kind of party he would have been at. I highly recommend it, the interview not the party. It is a bit sad as he seems so vulnerable but you kinda keep watching.
I'm going to go and watch the Doherty interview now. I'm always interested in people who have weathered addiction, and may still be in it. Thanks for the recommendation. x
I was already loving this post and then the last line made me yelp with laughter.
When I was alone in London last Christmas, I got a few TGTG bags. A fantastic one from St John Bakery with a mince pie, a pork pie and a full loaf of bread. I asked if there was maybe an alternative to the loaf since I was staying in a Premier Inn with no access to bread knife nor butter, but no.
And then my Christmas Eve dinner was a box of mystery meat (that looked like roadkill) decorated with garlic sauce (that looked like… never mind) and I was grateful for the loaf.
The Too Good To Go experience, and the food industry overall, is psycho-social behavioral economics gold. All this food we don't want to go to waste, that we offer up in ways that only the more "privileged" can access. It's a discounted gamble. If it's your last 4 $/£ do you take a chance? If it is something you don't like would you consume it any way cuz you're starving?
Please know I'm not criticizing your choices. I'm afraid to look at the app because I know I'll get sucked into it too! It's sounds fun, like scoring a deal at an estate sale on something I probably didn't need but *found*. I'm just dumbfounded by our food systems, so much supply on one side, hungry folks on the other. I wonder if food banks or pantries leverage a platform like that. It's probably too complicated but it'd be cool if they did.
I'm looking forward to that stage of parenting. Those kinds of conversations are starting but are less frequent than the requests for me to come play Barbies. 😏
It is interesting, what you have to say about it. I get it. We have a thing called Olio which is a different kind of app, which allows for a much less privileged way of sharing food. You can also use it as an individual so that if, for example, you were going on holiday, you could put all the food that would otherwise be wasted up for collection. You can also use it with non food items. Tallulah has been using the Too Good To Go app at uni and finding it helpful some of the time, but as a super picky eater who has sensory issues around food it isn't always great for the way she eats. My son sometimes uses it if he is staying over at a mate's house for the weekend. There is a local carvery that gives away whole roast dinners for £3 and he is a big fan of that. It's not all good, but it's not all terrible either and it's definitely better than throwing it away. x
Oh absolutely better than throwing it away! And I love the idea of giving food before going on holiday.
I'm just fascinated by the range of how we consume food, how we handle "expiration" dates, non wrapped food, the whole gamut. My husband and used to do food pickups for a local shelter. The big chain stores like Costco and pizzerias like Domino's would donate days-old bakery items or pizzas that were ordered but not picked up. Costco gave us so many baked goods it filled up our entire car. And I admit, of the 2 dozen pans of sweet rolls donated, one or two may have found our kitchen rather than the shelter...🤫 Anyway, all this excess prepared food on one side, because God forbid store shelves look barren, sent over to folks whose shelves are bare on the other. A mind bend.
Thanks for sharing this. I will check out those apps and get sucked in lol. Love that your kids take advantage of it, and that it inspired all this great conversation, very cool!
Food waste is conspicuous consumerism at its worst, for sure. When I first lived in London, hundreds of years ago, Pret A Manger was a new, exciting concept store. Run as an independent business by philanthropic owners, every evening, when the stores closed, they had vans who would come and get all the days overstock and take it to soup kitchens and homeless shelters to feed people who really needed it. I loved that, and would always grab lunch from there if I could. I think it's owned by McDonald's now. God alone knows what happens to it all.
Oh wow, that sounds lovely. If I still have any semblance of a "dream job" that might be it. I've always been curious why monetizing the less wasteful model is not as attractive. Perhaps the cost of processing of the vans and distribution ate too much into revenue. Or maybe it was working by the buyout just abandoned it. Regardless it's sad there's not more of that.
I used to work for a professional services firm, at their ridiculous training facility/banquet hotel. All meal included for participants, in a ginormous buffet type kitchen loaded with several stations, main courses, endless sides, salads, desserts...feeding well over 1000 guests three meals a day....and the stations could never appear to be "empty". So even a minute before closing, it had to have as much food ready for plating as it did when it opened. We were told there were legal "safe food handling" restrictions that kept them from taking the excess food to local shelters. Some ended up in the downstairs cafeteria for lower tier hotel staff. But most went in the trash. 😪
your kids are a treasure and adventurers and amazingly original because you and jason just seemed to take everything in your stride and just "let it be"...
Too Go To Go? Never heard of it... or the James mascara guy 🤣
Ha! I have my children to thank for all these revelations and more.
the throwaway price for the foie gras made me sad thinking of the terror the poor geese endure throughout their sad lives in order to tickle a particular humans' palate.
It is really sad. I used to love foie gras, but it's such an awful price to pay, I can't eat it anymore.
I love this Katy and without wanting to sound weird, which I inevitably will, I love that your kids are wild and free, which is such a testament to you. I often describe the journey I’m on as like being on a rollercoaster blindfolded and told to let go of the bar. I hate rollercoasters. The foie gras, gin and CBD Oil strangely took me to the Louis Theroux interview with Pete Doherty as the kind of party he would have been at. I highly recommend it, the interview not the party. It is a bit sad as he seems so vulnerable but you kinda keep watching.
I'm going to go and watch the Doherty interview now. I'm always interested in people who have weathered addiction, and may still be in it. Thanks for the recommendation. x
I was already loving this post and then the last line made me yelp with laughter.
When I was alone in London last Christmas, I got a few TGTG bags. A fantastic one from St John Bakery with a mince pie, a pork pie and a full loaf of bread. I asked if there was maybe an alternative to the loaf since I was staying in a Premier Inn with no access to bread knife nor butter, but no.
And then my Christmas Eve dinner was a box of mystery meat (that looked like roadkill) decorated with garlic sauce (that looked like… never mind) and I was grateful for the loaf.
ha ha. I had some mystery meat in an Ole and Steen sandwich recently. I relate hard to that description!
Scrub daddies and scrub mommies are great!
The Too Good To Go experience, and the food industry overall, is psycho-social behavioral economics gold. All this food we don't want to go to waste, that we offer up in ways that only the more "privileged" can access. It's a discounted gamble. If it's your last 4 $/£ do you take a chance? If it is something you don't like would you consume it any way cuz you're starving?
Please know I'm not criticizing your choices. I'm afraid to look at the app because I know I'll get sucked into it too! It's sounds fun, like scoring a deal at an estate sale on something I probably didn't need but *found*. I'm just dumbfounded by our food systems, so much supply on one side, hungry folks on the other. I wonder if food banks or pantries leverage a platform like that. It's probably too complicated but it'd be cool if they did.
I'm looking forward to that stage of parenting. Those kinds of conversations are starting but are less frequent than the requests for me to come play Barbies. 😏
It is interesting, what you have to say about it. I get it. We have a thing called Olio which is a different kind of app, which allows for a much less privileged way of sharing food. You can also use it as an individual so that if, for example, you were going on holiday, you could put all the food that would otherwise be wasted up for collection. You can also use it with non food items. Tallulah has been using the Too Good To Go app at uni and finding it helpful some of the time, but as a super picky eater who has sensory issues around food it isn't always great for the way she eats. My son sometimes uses it if he is staying over at a mate's house for the weekend. There is a local carvery that gives away whole roast dinners for £3 and he is a big fan of that. It's not all good, but it's not all terrible either and it's definitely better than throwing it away. x
Oh absolutely better than throwing it away! And I love the idea of giving food before going on holiday.
I'm just fascinated by the range of how we consume food, how we handle "expiration" dates, non wrapped food, the whole gamut. My husband and used to do food pickups for a local shelter. The big chain stores like Costco and pizzerias like Domino's would donate days-old bakery items or pizzas that were ordered but not picked up. Costco gave us so many baked goods it filled up our entire car. And I admit, of the 2 dozen pans of sweet rolls donated, one or two may have found our kitchen rather than the shelter...🤫 Anyway, all this excess prepared food on one side, because God forbid store shelves look barren, sent over to folks whose shelves are bare on the other. A mind bend.
Thanks for sharing this. I will check out those apps and get sucked in lol. Love that your kids take advantage of it, and that it inspired all this great conversation, very cool!
Food waste is conspicuous consumerism at its worst, for sure. When I first lived in London, hundreds of years ago, Pret A Manger was a new, exciting concept store. Run as an independent business by philanthropic owners, every evening, when the stores closed, they had vans who would come and get all the days overstock and take it to soup kitchens and homeless shelters to feed people who really needed it. I loved that, and would always grab lunch from there if I could. I think it's owned by McDonald's now. God alone knows what happens to it all.
Oh wow, that sounds lovely. If I still have any semblance of a "dream job" that might be it. I've always been curious why monetizing the less wasteful model is not as attractive. Perhaps the cost of processing of the vans and distribution ate too much into revenue. Or maybe it was working by the buyout just abandoned it. Regardless it's sad there's not more of that.
I used to work for a professional services firm, at their ridiculous training facility/banquet hotel. All meal included for participants, in a ginormous buffet type kitchen loaded with several stations, main courses, endless sides, salads, desserts...feeding well over 1000 guests three meals a day....and the stations could never appear to be "empty". So even a minute before closing, it had to have as much food ready for plating as it did when it opened. We were told there were legal "safe food handling" restrictions that kept them from taking the excess food to local shelters. Some ended up in the downstairs cafeteria for lower tier hotel staff. But most went in the trash. 😪
It's heartbreaking.