'supporting each other through really tough times'

katieowl_2

Our fish curry was very tasty, we had it over noodles. I made some sweet potato pakora which may be my new favourite food :cool: oh my they are super nommy. nom nom nommmy.

I always buy DS the cheapest noodles. They are fine. I save the sachets for chicken stock too

Kate

Popperwell

Advice gratefully appreciated mcculloch29. Looks like I can just about throw anything into the mix

I have some Sherwood's fine egg noodles(Big packet on promotion £1)in Mr T's. But I have a variety of Noodles of all flavours and makes from a variety of places that have been sat doing nothing for ages.

I have a variety of sauces(That I can add)but the election I bought were on offer(they say that they serve two)they are normally 65p each, I got three for £1(again on offer)

I keep forgetting that I can add prawns and do one without chicken, pork or beef.

I will have to do a couple of meals with the Stir Fry once opened so I may make another for Shrove Tuesday and later have some pancakes. Finishing with a night at our music club:)

Thinking of doing something special on Valentie's Day too...haven't decided what as yet!

Cheapskate

katieowl wrote: »

It's SERIOUSLY disgusting here. Really cold wet and blowy. I just had to evict one of the dogs for a wee. I knew she needed to go out, but when I opened the door to the garden she legged it. I had to chase her round the conservatory and bodily heft her out of the door, three attempts before I got her in the garden...walkies out of the question then Mattie?

My neighbour has been clearing out, and gave me a demi john of HM blackberry wine she thinks is too strong - DS and I have played around with one we have here that has no 'body' we think mixed togther they may be drinkable, but possibly headache juice. Hic.
She also gave me a whole load of crisps (someone gives them to her OH when he goes home and he doesn't like the flavours) and three bags of wood shavings for chicken bedding, as they don't keep chooks any more. She's having a massive clear out before building work starts on their place. She also gave me a white plastic bath panel that they were trying to offer me at Xmas, OH hasn't finished our bathroom, and it's a bit of a sore point. See what he makes of that. DS will fit it for me! All donations gratefully recieved.

Dinner tonight is a fish curry. I went and did supermarket shopping, and stuck to the list drawn up by DS mainly! there is now some stuff to mix with freezer things to make food. There was a ton of food in the house, but nothing instantly convertible to a meal IYSWIM.

Haven't seen OH all day...he's been in his workshop. Sunday!

Kate

Katie, that's the stage we're at, too. I did a stocktake last week, tons of meat/fish in the freezers and pantry, but not a lot of meal options, so the last week or so I have shopped just enough to turn them into real meals. Tonight we had a duck crown that's been lurking for months, YS from £6 to less than £4, with veg we already had, some meat leftover for DS lunch tomorrow.

After I'm paid for the last time next week, we'll have a LOT less money coming in, so am concentrating on spending as little as possible, and saving as much as I can so we have a bit of a buffer. Not expecting TC to be as generous this year, so we'll manage the way we've always done. MrsLW, I may be asking for a loan of some of your books if I can''t borrow them or buy cheaply round here - our CS are pants for decent books! :rotfl:

A xo

Charis

Angel_Jenny wrote: »

There are no prospects in the job I have now - would just stick at this level. I generally get along with everyone and talk to pretty much anyone. Just this one woman ..... good thing is that everyone has issues with her so I know it isn't just me.

Do you have a line manager you can have a discreet word with? If everyone has issues with her it's not good for the company. Maybe others would support you with your grievance.

I had seen a course in health and social care that sounded interesting but takes 6 years and is ...... £15000!!

I guess I always thought I would have had it all figured out by now and everyone else always seems so together!

That figure is ludicrous :eek:. It would make a nice deposit on a house. A full time degree would 'only' cost a max of £27,000 for fees and you'd qualify for a student loan.

Have you considered the Open University for a Social Care qualification? They start with an introductory certificate to give you a taster. Part time tuition fees loans are now a possibility, I believe.

I don't work for the OU but I did study with them. You can do their Social Care degree part time and fit it around your job if you wish.

Confidence is just something that most of us learn to pretend. It gets easier and once you get to 'a certain age' it comes naturally. Or at least you are an expert in pretending not to care.

katieowl_2

Pops if I was cooking for one, stir fries would be the way I would go. You get to eat lots of great fresh vegetable, and you only need a tiny bit of meat/fish to make it tasty. When you get your hand in, you could dispense with the sauces, and make your own, they are usually pretty basic ingredients, and if you started off with soy sauce, and sweet chilli sauce that would be good. You can also make them veggie with tofu or egg. I make the egg into omelette in a separate pan, then roll it and cut into ribbons.

Kate

katieowl_2

Cheapskate wrote: »

Tonight we had a duck crown that's been lurking for months, YS from £6 to less than £4, with veg we already had, some meat leftover for DS lunch tomorrow.

I have some duck in the freezer...I'm planning on tea smoking it. I can get DS's help and attention in the kitchen if I do something 'exotic' LOL!!! Plus I happen to know it's my friends no 1 choice when she eats out somewhere posh, and I'd like to surprise her with it sometime when they come for dinner!

I also cracked out my book about making tofu, as DS is interested in that too.

Kate

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Lo ANGELJENNY I'm 65 and I'm hoping NEVER ever to grow of up, grown ups really don't have any FUN, of course you have to be my kind of loopy to understand that, but I love the life we have with the Lurcher and the gardens at the heart of it and it doesn't require grown up at all, aren't we lucky? Cheers Lyn xxx.

GreyQueen

Angel_Jenny, nobody deserves to be picked at, it's the sign that the other person is a weak, poor character who finds something about you threatening; your competance, your intelligence, your youth, your commitment to both work and caring roles.

It says a lot about them, in an entirely negative way, but nothing about you. Try not to let it drag you down.

I'm old enough to be your Mum and have encountered precisely two people like this in my whole life, both women, unfortunately. One was a supervisor on a job I held for three months as a student. She hated students, the fulltimers in the factory told me. Because we'd be going on to do other things than production-packing, and she was jealous.

Another was a beyatch I met on a course which was only a week long. I never did figure her motivation, as method actors would have it, but I'll never have to see her again, and that sits just fine with me.

2tonsils

You can break up noodles and put them in soups to give them a bit of a boost. I make my own chicken noodle soup chinese style but have to have rice noodles because of the gluten. Soup with noodles freezes in portions as well.

Shoulder is a lot easier today but have had an easy day anyway. Just seen our weather forecast and its for another week of storms...I have never know so many storms in one year, and as for the water....we will never have a shortage again! It's been freezing today, sun out but no warmth in it at all. At this rate we will need another ton of wood and we will have used twice the amount we normally do.

The poached salmon for tea was lovely and I made extra mash so it will save me cooking that tomorrow. At the moment I am finding it hard to lift and carry anything with my sore arm....even a cup feels heavy! I also realised that I can't light the gas hob unless I use both hands as you have to hold the lighter/ignition with one hand and hold the gas control knob with your other hand till it lights...I had to get my OH to help me.

Planning to make some slow cooker beef stifado tomorrow, as I got the beef cheap on offer and it will be easy for me to make. Its a sort of sauce with cinnamon and tiny onions that is slightly sweet and savoury at the same time. I don't put wine in mine as I hate the taste of it in food. It always tastes like the meat might have gone off if its got wine in the sauce.

I sent some chicken fillet back to the chef on holiday as he had drenched it in wine before cooking it. Chicken fillet is lovely here just grilled and I couldn't think of any reason to pour wine on it besides it tasting dodgy .....

I am getting reports of the snow starting to fall in the UK on my facebook, stay warm folks and break out the emergency chocolate rations.

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Oh 2T poor you, I do so hope your poor old shoulder feels better soon, isn't it frustrating to not be able to do all the things you take for granted, I hate having to ask for help at the best of times, but needs must, yes? Hugs Lyn xxx.