Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Thanks Caron

Candy girl Enjoy!

Well in true CFO style I have decided to have the chilli for lunch with homemade wedges instead of rice Soup will be for tea now or not as the mood takes me. Wedges will be ready soon.

Errrm....no lunch yet today...think that might end up going missing on me for the day. The morning activity finished late and then I phoned a friend and then....

The friend mentioned a cookbook I'd not heard of and so....one visit to Amazon later...ahem...and I've got a copy coming through of "Never too late to go vegan". Then I dallied round the site a bit - and there's also a copy of "5:2 Veggie and vegan" heading in my direction.

Think the first book looks like it was probably written with a mindset I'm resonating with - ie not being "told what to do" and still being able to do something with some sort of sense of purpose at my age. The mere thought of there being a point at which "All one has to do is Enjoy Yourself" (and "get told what to do") is agh! in my book.

Is it my age or am I having people trying to "tell me what to do" these days - when the only contexts in which that has happened before are:
- my parents whilst I was a child (errrm...and some attempts to do so subsequently:rotfl:)
- employers

because of getting older?

At my age logic dictates no-one will ever try and "tell me what to do" ever again :T - but there have been some attempts at it recently:shocked::think::huh::huh::huh:

Thought for the day being = is this down to starting to get visibly older? Is it a downside of getting older? I wonder what other late middle age to elderly peoples experiences are of the "people trying to tell you what to do" phenomenon?

Thinks - I wonder what Kittie's thoughts on this are for instance? Wonder what LessonLearned has found on this too?

:rotfl::rotfl:My mother tells me that bringing me up consisted of an obstacle course of me saying "Why?" and questioning everything and, according to her, my brother was so much easier:cool:

I think I must have pleased the children that were chatting to me this morning then:) - as I'm not a "child" person - but they were all exactly the sort of child I can relate to (ie those very "adult" type children that will have a conversation with you where you can see it's a child you're talking to - but they're talking to you/asking you questions in exactly the same way an adult would). Now that I know how to deal with - and talk back with them in exactly the same way I would with an adult:rotfl:

With my own (by now very elderly) mother I've learnt that she will listen to me sometimes and then she :cool: "has had a good idea" - but I will soon get a flea in my ear if she doesnt want to listen or thinks it all sounds like too much hassle.:rotfl:

I think there might be an element of once one reaches a certain age that some younger people (or even same age people.....grrr) think your brain is no longer capable of thinking through new ideas and maybe adopting them?? I've got news for them personally - I'm watching the youngest generation right now and thinking "Hmm...they have got a point in some of what they are now pushing....time to update my language I use and some of the ways I think". Some of us do try and "keep up" ....

I've not really eaten today .... time's flown/I didn't feel settled all day ... and .. blimey, look at the time, I should've been researching something today that I kept putting off!

I've had 40g of nut cornflakes and 6 grapes.

I've go cheese overload (the last two L1dl weekend offers: 3 packs of cheddar still and 3 packs of Emmental) ... and I've spuds.

So I bet I'll do some cheesy mash later - especially as I opened baked beans yesterday that need eating.

When I had freezer that needed manual defrosting - I just took out the baskets and put them in coolest place I could think of (maybe a shower cubicle floor might be most suitable place for them?).

Followed by endless kettles of hot water boiled up and poured into bowls to put in freezer/ replaced frequently to hurry the process up. Also gently "bashing" at ice on freezer walls to hurry it up dropping off them.

Not forgetting, of course, putting something on the floor by the freezer door to catch water running out of the freezer as it defrosts. Trays? Newspaper?