Ration Week part 4

Ok, just a little update about the dinner + SPAM situation.

I thought I'd have to get drunk in order to work up the guts to go buy SPAM, which of course I didn't do. When I got to the store (sober!) I ended up just buying imitation SPAM--believe it or not, it does exist. And, unsurprisingly, it's cheaper.


So for dinner I had some mixed cooked vegetables (cabbage, potato, carrot, cauliflower) and a lovely little salad (mostly radish with some cabbage, parsley and a spring onion). The salad dressing in that little egg cup is just vinegar, a touch of oil, some sage and parsley.






For protein I made up some baked beans and thew in some of the imitation SPAM. The key that opens the tin came off so I had to use a tin opener. Here's what I found lurking inside...


Lovely. Made me wonder why I'm not still a vegetarian, or at least why on earth I would use the macro function when taking pictures of SPAM.

Anyway, the baked beans masked the SPAM-ish taste pretty well, but in the end it was the texture that was most alarming. Notice how the SPAM knock-off glows in the pan...

All in all, it was a pretty fine meal!

I'd forgotten how much I really like baked beans. Well, in this case I guess they're fried beans, but whatever. The only thing is that I have almost an entire tin of SPAM left. I realize this is a self-imposed regiment so I have no real right to complain it, but I'm just wondering how I can use the rest of it and hide the taste at the same time? It seems a little self-evident in sandwiches and salads, but I expect I'll have to use it in one or the other at some point... waste not, want not!

I've just realized that my tablecloth is getting a lot of attention in these pictures...

YouTube has corrected itself, so the sliding SPAM out of tin video is up now. Pardon the gagging in the background!