Cooking for one

meg72

caronc wrote: »

Lasagne .....:rotfl: gets coat sorry

LOL, that's naughty.

katkin

PasturesNew wrote: »

I tend to have the mindset "I am here for something to eat, not for something they lure me in with". I'll avoid all meal deals and will seek out the cheapest sandwich/es they have. Most will have two at about £1, egg/cress and cheese/onion usually. A1d1's sandwiches are about 85p and there might be a sausage/egg at that price (can't remember).

So I'll never pay/spend more than that. I am not lured in by the food that I'd "love" to eat because that's how they get you .... and you walk out having spent oodles. Even the meal deals don't compare well - and often include a packet of crisps you never intended to buy/eat.

If I wanted a drink/sandwich I'd get the £1 sandwich, then head off to the drinks aisle to buy a whole pack of cans for about £2... so 6-8 cans and a sandwich for about £3.

I'm reasonably un-lurable

PasturesNew I'd noticed you weren't posting much in the "dinner thread" and had missed your wit and humour, plus interesting meals So this is where you are hanging out!

I loathe shop bought sandwiches, even markies ones. They never satisfy me and I always think I could make that better at a fraction of the cost. I much prefer my picnic on the go box of anything else but sandwiches. Hubby has them every day in his packed lunch too, I make them but won't eat them.

Gosh I missed the lasagne chat here, what is wrong with people that they cancel a homemade lasagne :eek:

caronc

katkin wrote: »

Gosh I missed the lasagne chat here, what is wrong with people that they cancel a homemade lasagne :eek:

I know hard to get your head round ......:D

mcculloch29

A mention of Farmfoods earlier. We don't have one locally, but my son has one and swears by it.
We (in the North East) have Heron Foods as well, which I prefer, although tbh, it's a few years since I've been in a Farmfoods, as the one near my old workplace wasn't inspiring.

Heron Foods is just great, lots of short date coded brand names, I buy their 'cooking' bacon packs often . 2 x 907g for £1.49. This week it was virtually pure gammon. It can be anything from blocks of streaky to hunks of gammon.
They do blocks of lambs liver that is very bitty, but brilliant for casseroles, pates etc at £1 for 450g

PasturesNew

I've just looked up Farmfoods to find the one closest to me. It's 20 miles - in a direction I never go in. So that's £5 to drive there/back, making nothing a bargain any more. I could do it as part of a "big round Robin" trip out, say "what to do on a Sunday" - but then one's going out, to go into lots of shops, to spend £10-30 on an assortment of things one never needed to start with. I've no money to spend, so I'm not going to take up the hobby of "shopping for the sake of it".

I've never seen/been in a Heron, or a Costco (which is members only).

I always wanted to have an Asda within 1 mile, but it didn't happen. It's a 16 mile round trip for that, which is why I rarely go - I tend to do it once/year, twice max. Asda make the food look exciting

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've just looked up Farmfoods to find the one closest to me. It's 20 miles - in a direction I never go in. So that's £5 to drive there/back, making nothing a bargain any more. I could do it as part of a "big round Robin" trip out, say "what to do on a Sunday" - but then one's going out, to go into lots of shops, to spend £10-30 on an assortment of things one never needed to start with. I've no money to spend, so I'm not going to take up the hobby of "shopping for the sake of it".

I've never seen/been in a Heron, or a Costco (which is members only).

I always wanted to have an Asda within 1 mile, but it didn't happen. It's a 16 mile round trip for that, which is why I rarely go - I tend to do it once/year, twice max. Asda make the food look exciting

I love Heron but my nearest is a 40 minute bus ride away so I usually make a day of it visiting the market and charity shops, but if I didn't have a bus pass it wouldn't be worth it as the fare is 3.90.

I am lucky that Asda is only a 5min walk. What are your nearest shops?

Nelski

Morning :wave:

Had never heard of Heron till I just googled then and there is one in my town. Unfortunately its on the high street and I never go into town when I can park for free in numerous places out of town. Might go and have a look next time I need to the bank though.

Guess what I am having for Saturday dinner:rotfl:

caronc

Good morning :wave:

No Heron round here not sure if there are any in Scotland. I get the tesco cooking bacon it's 60p for 500g and tends to be a mix of rashers and chunks. I might actually look a portion out of the freezer and make a pot of lentil and bacon later as it's perishing here.

Souvlaki plans on hold for tonight as son is on his way home with toothache having broken a filling so emergency dentist this afternoon for him:( I imagine we'll be having something soft tonight and anyway I only defrosted enough pork for one:) Still it will be fine in it's marinade until tomorrow

PasturesNew

During my aborted pie buying yesterday, at the end of hours of driving and I then couldn't see a pie, but grabbed "random food so I at least had bread to make toast with and possibly something else", I uncharacteristically grabbed a pack of the A1d1 special buys chicken kievs they've got this week. Bizarre, no idea why I did that.

So there they were when I opened the fridge up - barely remembered buying them .... but I knew I had to do something with them even though it was a mad purchase.

So, I popped one into the tiny oven ... and served it with 1/3rd of the pack of chanteray carrots I also picked up yesterday (59p/300g so not entirely sure they're any sort of an actual bargain, but I was "grabbing" stuff just because it was food) - I also got some peas from the freezer.

Kiev + carrots + peas = food today. Already eaten it to be honest - having decided what to eat, I thought I'd better get on with it before I changed my mind.

I found the kievs a bit small, the coating a bit hard, the garlic/butter a bit sparse. They score a "good enough" in the ratings table, but not a "MUST buy those every time they're on special offer". I might alter the cooking method a little with the second one, see if I get a better result.

125grams each, there's not really a lot on the plate when you serve it up, it looked a bit lonely.

Would've been better if additionally accompanied by some tiny/new potatoes topped with a garlic butter .... but you can't have all food available at all times in case you think that'd go well ... and then there's the overhead of "more bl00dy work and washing up."

PasturesNew

katkin wrote: »

PasturesNew I'd noticed you weren't posting much in the "dinner thread" and had missed your wit and humour, plus interesting meals So this is where you are hanging out!

Wow! Fans. Actual, real fans.

Q: When does a fan become a stalker?