I have three varieties of triple-creme cheese in my fridge as well as two varieties of cheddar, two large packs of Parmesan, a gorgeous Somerset Camembert and two mozzarella maxis. I have people coming so I have five packs of thin-sliced ham and several packs of sticky BBQ pork ribs. I've just stacked up on my butcher's pork sausages (it's barbecue season). I have eight packs of unsalted butter at the ready, two pots of creme fraiche, one pot of double cream and two large pots of clotted cream (it's strawberry season). I use lashings of extra virgin olive oil in my cooking though I prefer groundnut oil for my home-made oven chips. I love crumpets and eat hundreds of eggs per year. About four or five hundred I suspect. There has been not a scrap of margarine in this house for over twenty years and there is never anything labelled half-fat or low-fat or "spread." If I haven't got enough fat from the roast to do my roast spuds I have a pot of goose fat to hand in the fridge. No-one is going to check my cholesterol unless they use subterfuge. I will not become a member of the Worried Well.
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