Relish - lovely stuff
- raspberries, lychees, mangos, bananas, lemons, limes, pears...... apple crumble, fruit tarts. Plus dollops of extra thick cream
- fine plain chocolate
- home-baked bread, croissants, real bagels
- unsalted butter
- lobster, langoustine, scallops, mega prawns, salmon (smoked, raw, grilled), tuna, squid, octopus, haddock (why is it so difficult to get this stuff where I live?)
- Free range poultry
- lettuces: butterhead, lambs tongue, salad bowl, romaine, webbs chinese leaves, iceberg
- brussels sprouts - I can't be alone in this! Cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus,french beans, peas, mange touts, swiss chard, red cabbage. And roasted: parsnips, red peppers, beetroot, carrots
- baked beans
- duck eggs
- lamb, pork, beef, - home reared or know the owner!
- anything you could proudly call cheese from the cow, goat, ewe or buffalo
- pasta - fresh, dried or spaghetti hoops
- apricot jam
- cashews, almonds, pine nuts, walnuts, pistachios
- grapefruit, oranges, sharon fruit. Eccles cakes, mince pies and garibaldi biscuits. Single cream - what's the point?
- Cadbury's Bourneville
- do you remember Dinkum white sliced? Was it just a childhood nightmare? Was it really called Dinkum? And where have all the great bagels gone?
- that Anchor stuff
- fish and chips - in fact, most (all?) takeaways, kippers, herrings, roll mops
- the other stuff (battery hens....)
- spinach, curly kale, winter greens, green peppers, excess onions (wonderful french onion soup is now in the regret list), garlic
- bakewell tart
- goose eggs
- too much lamb, pork or beef, whatever the source
- fruit sauce topped cheese-cake
- Heinz macaroni cheese
- marmalade, mincemeat
- dry roasted anything
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