Make your own sausage meat, buy puff pastry on Taobao, and bingo.....!

I make my own mincemeat for Christmas mince pies, (easy).

Butter is expensive, milk is not, and margarine is only one molecule away from being plastic - so avoid it.

My father was a margarine freak for many years. He would never hear a bad word said about it. One day I set him a challenge. Buy a tub of margarine, remove the lid, and then go and put the tub of marge in the garden shed for 30 days.

I told him that even after 30 days there would be no mould, no flies, no insects....nothing! It would not deteriorate one iota.

He accepted my challenge and has never touched margarine since then.

By the way, you said fried eggs on toast are tasty....well, poached eggs on home-made toasted bread.....ooh....

I should open a cooking school, lol