I think what my dear mother always told us as children is pretty good advice when it comes to what to eat. Everything in moderation and a balanced diet.
Very specific choice of jelly baby Wonder what they do to Apple that’s different? EDIT - Oops. I see it’s just a chart the same vegetables used different ways. Be interesting to see a similar one for meat and meat products
Interestingly (well that might be stretching it tbf) there’s nothing in the right hand column that I could eat without checking the label. Most of them normally have animal products (like gelatine in the jelly babies) or dairy in them (obviously the ice cream but normally milk in the Doritos etc) Fries would be ok if you weren’t bothered about eating stuff cooked with animals, which I’m not. Although they are also **** so it would be rare if eat them
I wanted to show the sillyness of the description processed. It looks like some American thing but shows an apple and a carrot which become processed when turned to juice, and carrot cake is highly processed. As John said a mixed well balanced diet with everything in moderation is the way to go. A bit of common sense is the only thing to add to that.
Having a chat with my chemist (the legal one) and he was saying Boots have shut quite a few branches in hull just recently and Lloyds has gone putting more pressure on him and other chemists. how can a chemist go bust? Seems weird to me Is it going to lead to an Amazon stylee delivery system? anyone on here know what’s going on?
No money in the Chemisting game these days. They’ve just become dispensers of prescriptions for which they receive around 90p per script; an amount that hasn’t changed since the turn of the century. Supermarkets have taken their non-prescription trade such as painkillers, cold remedies and antihistamines. The other ****e chemists regularly stocked such as hot water bottles, flannels, coal tar soap and other vaguely medically linked items have generally fallen out of fashion. Other products you could once only really get at a chemist like condoms and dubious, dangerous chemicals can now either be bought anywhere or not bought at all. Hard time to be a retail chemist. Just like post offices are been driven out by the opening up of restricted markets and competition Chemists are likewise . But still the Government expect them to replace large areas of the NHS for nowt (or at least next to nowt).
Knew someone on here would help cheers Ernie chemist also said to call gp a week before I run out of meds to allow time instead of on the day like I have done
Like I imagine a fair few of us on here who are not in the first flush of youth I’m on daily medication, 2 permanent and 1 long term prescriptions so I pay for an annual prescription that should cover everything. The first 2 (which I would be in trouble without taking regularly) sometimes take up to a couple of weeks from the prescription being issued to actually coming in stock at the pharmacy, and the long term one they haven’t been able to get at all since September. ‘Luckily’ for me that’s the only one I can also buy without a prescription, so I have to buy it myself at a mere £30 a pop. The entire system’s ****ed frankly.
Hope you're managing... My Mum and Dad live in Brough, both needing meds... Mums 90 tomorrow!!! Lloyds Pharmacy closed in Brough and the new incumbents are ALWAYS out of stock of what they need so now they order all their necessaries direct from the surgery...
Have they tried an online chemist - should at least have a better inventory and automatic ordering system. With 50% of European women being on some kind of mental illness treatment, the other 50% going around untreated, there's going to be a lot of us going without dinner and clean clothes if there's widespread, large scale supply issues of pharmaceutical items.
I am genuinely OK, thank you, and not looking for sympathy, but one of the prescription-only meds is one where you build up a level of it within your system and suddenly stopping it can have fatal consequences. I’d say maybe 1 in every 3 or 4 months my wife (who kindly collects them on her day off) has to get the regular pharmacy to release the prescription so she can traipse around others to get my meds. So far we’ve never really had to go past 2 other pharmacies, and like everyone else I know in a similar position I’ve surreptitiously built up a buffer stock, but at the risk of being melodramatic the knowledge that my life literally depends on the system in its current state is terrifying. And as you say that will only get worse as I get older and less able to chase around pharmacies, and sadly be given less respect by the staff when I get there. Happy Birthday to your mum! Mine will be 93 in April.
Just set up your prescriptions online and they’ll automatically arrive when they should and nobody will have to traipse anywhere.
I do mine online and the service is generally great but there are delays sometimes on 2 items (which is not too bad as I am on 12 different tablets, 3 sprays and an injection). Always the same ones as they have cut production back. Like Help! one of them is one where complications arise if you stop taking them.
That’s great in principle, but my wife has been on her own long term prescription since long before I was and when her online prescription service (Lloyds Echo?) went wrong it went really wrong, leaving her with no medication at all and being one of many cases that resulted in our GP practice withdrawing the option of them issuing the prescription to that service. If you know of a better one I’m all ears, though I imagine I’d also need to move Doctors.
I have to take 13 a day so I order them a week before running out from Doctors. The prescription is sent electronically to Boots at St Stephens and they text me when they're ready. Edit. Also have two inhalers and a GT spray.
Always order mine via the NHS App to Boots in Cottingham a couple of weeks before I need them. Also saving around £180 a year since tuning 60 last year. You can never have enough Anusol and Viagra. I also get a text when they’re ready to collect.
Yeah, I order a couple of weeks in advance via the NHS app to whatever Lloyds in Cott is now called. The prescription still comes via the surgery though.
