When life sends you Lemons, just bake a cake

EssexHebridean

Batch cooking helps with the getting home late thing - if you've cooked up, for example, a bath of bolognese, you just have to remember (ha ha!) to pull a pot out the freezer before you leave in the morning, it's defrosted by the time you get home, you can then add a tin of kidney beans and some chilli or tabasco and serve with rice, or cook up a pot of pasta as a normal bolognese. You could also pull out TWO pots of it, and while you're cooking the pasta or rice etc, and heating the sauce through for the first night, boil some potatoes for mashing to make an italian shepherds pie with the other, that then gives you a meal for the following night. I sympathise on the not wanting to eat at 8.30pm as well - it would be too late for me as well. Maybe compromise by agreeing to eat together a couple of days a week, but separately on the others? Re the remembering to get things out to defrost, how about trying to "mentally tie it together" with getting your lunch sorted out to take with you? If that's the night before, then just leave your pot of whatever to defrost overnight in the fridge.

You mentioned somewhere (Pippi's maybe?) about your cough suddenly getting bad for an hour or so when you go to bed - I've come to the conclusion it's the change of angle of your body when you lie down. Try sucking a chewable vitamin C tablet when you get into bed, I find that helps. Alternatively a throat or cough sweet seems to work as well. Try if you possibly can to resist the urge to get up again as then you have to re-start the whole cycle when you lay back down!

Lemon_Tree

EH you're just too organised! and right! I do try and batch cook things, I'm quite happy eating left overs for lunch and such stuff but i think in OH's house leftovers were just thrown out (madness i know) so he can be funny about them. The only twist to you suggestions i shall put into practice is the removal of the evil mash stuff. but i shall certainly try to take the rest on board and get my backside into gear.

Lemon_Tree

i feel this evening sums up my life. It's a Saturday evening not long before christmas and what are OH and myself doing? We've had an Asda build your own pizza, we're watching a film so lame you just have to keep watching and we have just chopped up and bagged a BIG plastic box of mushrooms and put them in the freezer. (well the box only cost £1 direct from a grower so who could turn that down?)
we are on the hard stuff though - diet coke!
hope people are having a much more interesting evening than we are.

beanielou

Was actually thinking much the same here actually.
At least you have an OH

Lemon_Tree

ah BeanieLou, yes i'm lucky to have an OH but i didn't always, i spent a very long time single so know what you're feeling. If you want to chat and are on facebook or MSM or something give me a PM. I'm online most evenings.

Herewego

Just finished ironing and wrapping xmas presents I also live in the edge on a Saturday night LOL

Lemon_Tree

ironing AND wrapping pressies now that's living on the edge!
and reminds me that i need to wrap my pressies.

the depths we're now resorting to is "Meet the Spartans" which is actually 'funny' in a sad, dreadful sort of way.

Herewego

Snap DH has just come in and put it on, cant cope with the excitement off for a bubbly bath.

ZTD

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

ironing AND wrapping pressies now that's living on the edge!
and reminds me that i need to wrap my pressies.

the depths we're now resorting to is "Meet the Spartans" which is actually 'funny' in a sad, dreadful sort of way.

As "so bad it's good" kind of film?

Lemon_Tree

not sure i'd say it's good but...... we're still watching.