Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Meals do tend to be "just one item" though still. It's just the way meals are in odd-land.

What about a stew / casserole / hotpot? Or a baked potato with stuff inside?

PasturesNew

The ill one isn't interested in food not chosen by themselves. The other one does their own thing and I just make sure the fridge has always got a good selection of bits/bobs they can use .... and I go through what's in the fridge helping them with ideas (they often go with what I suggest instead of the same meal they were headed for). I also keep an eye out for meals for one and tinned meat meals when I'm out.

The biggest issue here is "getting round to eating it". The fridge can be full of rotting things they just won't part with - and I have to be hard and ruthless about that (even though I'm ridiculed if something's just a week out of date).... I'd like to make or buy fresh soups, but they have a shelf life of 2-3 days and so it might quite simply not be "got round to"... whereas chilled meals can be tossed in the freezer and tins can be opened in a month.

Everybody makes their own. There are no meal times, people don't eat at the same times. Just one long constant grazing fest

PasturesNew

There's been a tsunami in Cornwall, Devon, Hampshire.

Video of the surge here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-13955321

It's a rare event, in that it's caused by an underwater landslip rather than an earthquake.

neverdespairgirl

Breakfast was always like that in my family - we never had it all together, but just helped ourselves as and when.

Lunch and dinner was always a joint thing though, for everyone there. And notice was expected of absence.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

but they have a shelf life of 2-3 days and so it might quite simply not be "got round to"... whereas chilled meals can be tossed in the freezer and tins can be opened in a month.

fwiw most soups freeze fine. ( not my pumpkin soup though. )

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Breakfast was always like that in my family - we never had it all together, but just helped ourselves as and when.

Lunch and dinner was always a joint thing though, for everyone there. And notice was expected of absence.

what do you do now in your family unit? Its interesting to see if its changed.

In our house when I'm very lucky I get coffee in bed at the weekends while dh lets animals out/feeds them.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

fwiw most soups freeze fine.

Our freezer's tiny, couple of baskets. So I'd get told off for filling it with stuff so the chips wouldn't fit in

And then nobody'd eat the darned stuff as they'd forget about it/it'd need defrosting. And I'd be told I had to eat it all/get it out of their freezer. So, all in all, it's just not going to happy in Household Random.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Our freezer's tiny, couple of baskets. So I'd get told off for filling it with stuff so the chips wouldn't fit in

And then nobody'd eat the darned stuff as they'd forget about it/it'd need defrosting. And I'd be told I had to eat it all/get it out of their freezer. So, all in all, it's just not going to happy in Household Random.

for ylour own furture, if not now, I freeze mine into bags then they sort of squeze in around other things (or can me made to freeze to fit available funky shapes.) I reheat from frozen. The hardest part of batch cooking ahead for me is remembering to take things out in the morning. Things that cook/reheat from frozen work well for me!

lostinrates

Today my farm buildings got some post. In fact, we got the same letter 7 times over. One addressed to our own house, telling us we had applied for planning permission and if we wanted to look at the plans on line I could, and also how to object. That's handy. Thoughtfully the council have asked some of the outbuildings individually if they too would like to object. The Dutch Barn inparticular I think was excited to receive post. Another example of remarkable efficiency from my council?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Today my farm buildings got some post. In fact, we got the same letter 7 times over. One addressed to our own house, telling us we had applied for planning permission and if we wanted to look at the plans on line I could, and also how to object. That's handy. Thoughtfully the council have asked some of the outbuildings individually if they too would like to object. The Dutch Barn inparticular I think was excited to receive post. Another example of remarkable efficiency from my council?

LOL. On the other hand, it won't be quite so funny when you receive 7 council tax bills