The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

pinkypig

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

pinkypig - now, this info comes with the proviso that it works for me, but I can only speak from personal experience and can't vouch for them working for others. I have nowt to do with the company, and I ain't on commission (dang!). But I have Dr Stu art's Valer1an plus herbal tea (no gap bet. u and a in brand name in real life) . I got them from H0lland&barrett (other places must stock them, surely?) and I paid (a rather eye-watering £2.35 for a box of 15 tea bags). But I'm taking the view that they work for me, and a fiver a month for reasonable sleep is not to be sniffed at. To be fair, they were the first 'valerie' tea bags I stumbled across, following gien's post, but I did see on a review thread (so can't vouch for the accuracy of the statement) that these teabags have the highest proportion of valerian in them. Don't know if that is true?


Greying X

Thanks Greying, I'll give anything a try at the moment, I get so tired sometimes.
I thought of you today, we had an odds and ends Indian freezer use up - yummy and no cooking

PP xx

Greying_Pilgrim

pinkypig wrote: »

Thanks Greying, I'll give anything a try at the moment, I get so tired sometimes.

Ha ha, I'm no advocate of the tea at the minute - 4am and here I am! :rotfl: To be fair, I think that I left it too long between drinking the tea and getting myself into bed last night. Then when I was at a point of wakefulness in my sleep pattern, I heard BG cry out on the baby monitor. Now for virtually every night last week, that initial cry was then followed by and all out bawl, and hours long baby soothing sessions, so of course, my mumma radar was on a full-state of alert. As it happens, no crying came, so I got up to check, and BG was asleep......... But then I was awake. And my brain cell kicked in thinking about all sorts of rubbish, that is mostly of no import, and definitely not at 2am! :doh::wall:

I think Greying and her blessed hormones are to blame in this scenario, not the tea

So here we are. Monday morn.

Getting out and about in the fresh air will be today's priority. I will make sure sufficient money is in the right places to pay our bills. And I need to pay the cc bill.

Lunch will be l/o soup for me. And tea tonight is slated to be lentil bolognese with a baked potato and veg. The veg will most likely be green beans and the last carrots. I must get some muddy tatties out of the bag and make sure that they are mudless before we attempt to eat them!

Right, can't think of owt else :money: at the present mo. So I'll push orf.

Ta for reading.

Greying X

WannabeFree

Ouch you joined the 4am club

Hope you have a lovely day x

mcculloch29

Something I tried on Friday that I would do again, and it made me think of you, Greying, was Jack Monroe's Pearl Barley Risotto.

Except that I did it in my microwave pressure cooker, and it worked fine. The recipe is very sparse, and I didn't have feta, or indeed any cheese, so I added sundried tomatoes and capers.

The pearl barley risotto is apparently called orzotto. I can't think where my pearl barley came from, it was either HB or 5pices of India.
I really, really enjoyed it, I know it's much simpler than the complex flavours you do so well, but some may appreciate and I wanted to share.

Greying_Pilgrim

WannabeFree wrote: »

Ouch you joined the 4am club

WannabeFree - there are some clubs that I just dunna want to be a member of, irrespective of whether they'd have me :rotfl: XX

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I really, really enjoyed it, I know it's much simpler than the complex flavours you do so well, but some may appreciate and I wanted to share.

Simple is good mcculloch - I like Jack's beetroot orzotto - the recipe was in the Royal Marsden Cancer cookbook and was one of the ones worth copying out. Pearl barley is good isn't it? 49p - 55p for 500g is a good staple for us frugalistas


Well, BG's appetite has returned :j They are currently trying to eat me out of house and home :eek:

I have bought some nar-nars today, and some eggs. Unfortunatley HB was out of apples The eggs are a different brand, (from HB) and I thought that they had dispensed with their normal brand - which can be awful sometimes, how cracked and broken they are. But unfortunately this was the last box of the 'new' brand, the others were the normal brand. Probably all packed in an anonymouse factory on an anonymouse industrial estate somewhere........ But these new eggs do actually all seem to be large, and there were no obvious cracks......

Right, washing up to do. Best get on.

Greying X

redofromstart

rtandon27 wrote: »

...his suggestion is cloud bread! it was weirdly nice! - I picture a burger/falafel patty between two pieces - not sure how it would do toasted though!

Thank you! I wouldn't have thought to try these if you hadn't said. I made them with eggs, value soft cheese, smoked paprika and onion flakes yesterday (great british chefs inspired). After a night in the fridge they taste like the crust end of a danish loaf. So pleased as all grains are a fibro trigger for me :A I don't know if they set me off as I accidentally also ate several test cookies - which certainly will

GP, hope you had the chance for a rest today.

beanielou

Oh I love the 4 oclock club~~not.

pinkypig

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Ha ha, I'm no advocate of the tea at the minute - 4am and here I am! :rotfl: To be fair, I think that I left it too long between drinking the tea and getting myself into bed last night. Then when I was at a point of wakefulness in my sleep pattern, I heard BG cry out on the baby monitor. Now for virtually every night last week, that initial cry was then followed by and all out bawl, and hours long baby soothing sessions, so of course, my mumma radar was on a full-state of alert. As it happens, no crying came, so I got up to check, and BG was asleep......... But then I was awake. And my brain cell kicked in thinking about all sorts of rubbish, that is mostly of no import, and definitely not at 2am! :doh::wall:

I think Greying and her blessed hormones are to blame

Greying X

Awww Greying, you could have helped with my marking, I was up at 4am too:rotfl: . Hope you managed to stay awake today. Xx

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Mmmm, slept right through the night once I'd got off to sleep.......Rightly or wrongly, it took 2 cups of tea Perhaps the value in diaries is often not always what is written, but what remains unsaid, about the struggles we as individuals face on a daily basis.
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No up and at 'em this morning. But we're here, with 2 arms and 2 legs, so best crack on. BG has already had an inexplicable melt down this morn. I suppose we shall have to get used to it, as they are a 'baby of a certain age'

We will need bread today, and I shall opt to get the TV mag.

Tuesday, so it is soup for tea. I was going to make Greek Lentil Soup . But we had lentil bolognese for tea last night, and there is a portion left for my lunch, so it might be lentil overload. I need to put my thinking cap on, and see what I could conjour up without the need to buy anything new. If all else fails, it will be carrot and coriander, as at least a 39p kilo of carrots would keep expenditure low.

Can't really gussy-up an more up beat post.

Greying X

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You sound rather down Greying. Tiredness with a toddler is a recipe for that! You do so well with you cooking and budgets and seem to be a wonderful mother. BG is very lucky to have been born to your family!
The sun is shining here and I hope it is where you are. Have a lovely day.
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