Mint Cracknells.
I suddenly remembered these in a rush of longing. Chocolate bar with a sort of mint filling that broke into bright green glassy shards when you bit into it and made your fillings ache. Mmmmmmm...
Probably those that have gone towards making me the woman I am today.
Maple Brazils.
I found some of these to buy online the other day and ordered them from TheSugar Boy - not cheap but worth it for a post-Xmas treat, I thought.
At the same time, to justify the postage cost, I ordered some Milk Choc Truffles as a treat to entice a reluctant Jay back to the O-place next week. Total cost of order, £6.90. Five minutes after I placed the order, a very nice lady from the shop called me to say they were all out of the Truffles, and hadn't anythng similar to substitute with. My, she was so nice we were soon chatting away like old friends! It was only after I put the phone down I realised not a word had been said about a refund for the non-existent truffles and when the Maple Brazils came there were about 8 - total cost of order £6.90.
It seems nostalgia comes at a price 
1. The Millenium Cupboard
2. Fog and conductors on buses
Vesta Paella
Apparently you can get this for £1 at Poundland!
I bet it's not as good as I remember it.
I remember beef curry and rice and vesta was my first taste of chiil con carne. We had only ever had curry and chips before vesta.
Haven't seen vesta for years. It was exciting in its day as people today don't realise how restricted our english diets used to be. And allegedly according to my ex pat grandad in scotland all they ever ate was porridge so they were worse.
Vesta meals were a mainstay of my student days. When I lived in an attic I had a hotplate and an oven to cook with.
So the pan with water in it went on the hotplate, the contents of the Vesta dried food packet went into it, and not so long afterwards I was eating something that kept me going, even though the packet probably was more nutritious than the contents.
My favourite was Vesta risotto. That seemed to produce more to eat than the other Vesta packets.
And at the beginning of each term I weighed 10 1/2 stone. At the end of term I usually had lost a stone, which I put back on during the holidays.
Those were the days..................
I remember those meals too. Looking back I have to wonder how good they could possibly be, but I did enjoy them at the time.
Vesta packet beef curries were on sale at Lidl a few months back. A complete dried meal in a packet for £1 so I bought one, only one, just to see what I was missing. Just as well I stuck to a single packet as it was pretty bad. The reconstituted dried beef was ... strange.
I remember that reconstituted dried beef. Sort of... spongy little cubes.
As a meat-hungry child I gobbled it up 
The prawns were also... not quite like prawns.
I liked the fact that it was not at all like beef. All meat in curry is bad news. But perhaps I am bitter living in an area where restaurants have been fined for putting cats in the curry.
I will have to have a look around for vestas now I am reminded of them. My shopping is pretty much confined to Morrisons and the occasional Tescos these days. Perhaps they do have them and hide them shamefully on the bottom shelves my eyes are not what they once were so I may have missed them.
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