1 October 2009

Holiday Guilty Pleasures


Recently when we were on holidays it struck me that every time we go away and rent a cottage, we have a tiny fridge. And this fridge is never very full, in fact last week it looked like this:






Given that we were 3 adults and one toddler (who really eats just like an adult), it amazed me that our holiday fridges always seems so empty. At home our fridge is gigantic, you could literally fill it with food for a small army. So I started questioning my shopping habits at home, wondering if maybe we just bought too much of unnecessary stuff. But we're quite good and hardly throw anything away. And then I realised that

a) we don't have a little corner shop within one minute where we can quickly stock up on a pint of milk or a box of eggs when needed. No we are in driving distance of event the smallest of shops.

But most importantly in dawned on me that our holiday diet consisted of a whole lot of these





and those





and occasionally even this (mind you this was a kids portion ...)





If you ever pass within 5 miles of Padstow you MUST stop at the Chough Bakery * - but be warned, those are truly the best sausage rolls and raisin buns in the world. I promise you will not be able to eat a different sausage roll ever again ... now come to think about it that might not actually be such a bad thing. 
 
 
* And if you follow that link you will see that they even do NEXT DAY DELIVERY, although I have chosen to ignore this for the time being.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Now, I thought that too, until I realised that I had no money to spend on all this food. Thus the home fridge is like the holiday fridge. Its amazing what youc an cook up from nothing when you have to.
Definitely fancy going off to Padstow area for my holidays now, its like a food heaven!

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Ju said...

Hi, I just found this cute blog and just want to congratulate on lovely range of baby clothes.
Very sweet.

Millennium Housewife said...

Right, that's it, I'm off to live in Padstow - pasties and butiies? Ahhhhh