Cooking for one

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

It used to be one of my "beefs" (slide in the food reference).... I used to say that "the trouble with married women is...." they never lived. Ask them ANY question and they never answered it, they didn't exist.

"Do you like pie?"
"My husband loves pie - and when the kids come home from school I make their favourite pie"

NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION ... I DON'T CARE!!

LOL Oh Dear PN I think you have either been unfortunate in the married women you have met or maybe have not met many .

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

The problem is its the first meeting and guess who started the group in the first place.....:o:o best get speed reading :cool:

OK ... time to be a bit shifty then:

"Hi guys, thanks for coming along - now, I started this group, but I really want you to see it as YOUR group, so in an effort to not dominate it I will stay absolutely quiet and hear how you guys found it ... don't worry, you won't be able to shut me up after today, so make the most of it .... I just didn't want to be over-bearing"

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

OK ... time to be a bit shifty then:

"Hi guys, thanks for coming along - now, I started this group, but I really want you to see it as YOUR group, so in an effort to not dominate it I will stay absolutely quiet and hear how you guys found it ... don't worry, you won't be able to shut me up after today, so make the most of it .... I just didn't want to be over-bearing"

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Brilliant ...can you come with me Ill stand dinner :D

PasturesNew

meg72 wrote: »

LOL Oh Dear PN I think you have either been unfortunate in the married women you have met or maybe have not met many .

About 25 years ago I'd moved to a new area and saw a group that met weekly at a pub called "Single & Professional Group", so I went. It turned out that all the men were retired and all the women hadn't worked and were simply "finding somewhere to go now their kids were aged 16-20" .... and they had nothing to say except when referring back to their kids - and if you tried to arrange to meet anybody outside of the group it was "I can't, got my son/daughter coming round and we're going out as a family to ABC ....."

They use groups to "get away for 'me time' for a couple of hours" rather than using groups as a springboard to find other things to do with people from the group. They've no intention of "making friends" there.... they just want to "get out of the house", so they can tell others about what's in their house, before returning to it quickly.

The fellas were organising things to do together outside of the group, but not the women. The women only saw it as "Ah, I'll do that for 2 hours on a Wednesday night then". Whereas I was there to "see what's going on and who is going out/where and see if there's something going on a group of us could go to."

LameWolf

PasturesNew wrote: »

"Oh, I love pie ... but I can't eat it as my husband won't eat it".
Er .... if people can't make/eat food for one I'd die. Try it!

I take your point, PN - the thing is, by the time you've made a meal the man of the house will eat, you really do not want to make something different for yourself because that's what you'd prefer - too much more hard work, so you just either have the same as he's having or go without.

Thankfully, Mr LW eats pretty much what's put in front of him; he's happy to eat veggie at home, and the vegetables he doesn't like (green leafy stuff) I don't care for either, so I can make whatever I feel like (or feel well enough to make) and he gets on and eats it.

It's as well I do have him here, if I was truly on my own, I reckon I'd be living on scrambled egg (like I did when he was in the horse-piddle for four days).

karcher

Nelski wrote: »

The problem is its the first meeting and guess who started the group in the first place.....:o:o best get speed reading :cool:

:T :rotfl: :rotfl:

How's the reading going?

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got stuff I'm fed up with seeing - and stuff that needs to be used up before it's a drag that HAS to be undertaken.

I've had a 16p tin of spaghetti hoops in the cupboard for about 9 months, bought four at the time (price driven) ... .

Bit of a lightweight there PN

I have a tinned haggis lurking at the back of my pantry, bought as gift from Scotland when DD & Hubby had touring holiday up there, since then they have had 3 kids, oldest is 14 now.

Doubt I will ever eat it, which is why it is skulking at back of the pantry

Tonight diiner is not tinned haggis, it is probably LO posh Lidl flan from yesterday, it was jolly tasty, perhaps with baked beans and grilled tom, and as I had cheese salad bap for lunch I think the 5 a day is there

If not perhaps some dried fruit in the YS small Christmas I plucked from Iceland last month will add to the total, as well as my waistline

Nelski

karcher wrote: »

:T :rotfl: :rotfl:

How's the reading going?

Oh my god I panicked and ......bought the audio book :rotfl::rotfl: its been playing for the last 4 hours and 2 still to go

Note to self when you have a month a read a book do not leave it to the day of the group:cool:

karcher

Nelski wrote: »

Oh my god I panicked and ......bought the audio book :rotfl::rotfl: its been playing for the last 4 hours and 2 still to go

Note to self when you have a month a read a book do not leave it to the day of the group:cool:

It gets better :rotfl:

Not very MSE though Nelski

Nelski

karcher wrote: »

It gets better :rotfl:

Not very MSE though Nelski

I know I will complete 20 hail Martins :D