Cooking for one

LameWolf

Judi wrote: »

i hate cooking at the best of times but cooking for myself is just a form of torture in my eyes. I cook for my men to keep them healthy, not because i want to.

I'm glad it's not just me! I loathe cooking, and when only catering for myself, I tend to live on scrambled egg (cooked in the micro and eaten straight out of the bowl it was cooked in) or a lump of cheese, just cut off the block and eaten as it is, without even the benefit of a plate.:D I cba to even make sandwiches just for myself!

Catwhisker

caronc wrote: »

***MAY DAY, MAY DAY*** I've opened my last multi pack of loo roll :eek: As earlier posters on this thread know this is a major area of concern for many of us onesksis!!! Must urgently add more to next grocery order LOL

You think you're in trouble! I replaced the roll tonight to find out it was the last one! It would appear I forgot to buy any on my last online shop. Now I am going to have to buy some on the way home tomorrow. :eek:

karcher

caronc wrote: »

Hope you're not thinking of leaving us onesksis we're a good bunch really calorie intake not withstanding LOL Perhaps it just means you've got your food mojo back and a wee trim here or there will curb the excess intake. :cool:

Never :eek:, perish the thought...I feel quite at home here and from looking at the stats I have posted quite a lot

Just need to learn a bit of self constraint...constantly talking about food has resulted in me eating more...

...there is always a happy medium to be had

Catwhisker

karcher wrote: »

I ate too much mash last night....wanted it gone not wallowing in a bowl in the fridge. I don't often eat potatoes because they don't really agree with me and I only bought them to make chips with..but then decided I wanted Mash?

Now I've none for when I do want chips...but they can wait till next month now as I'm all potatoed out!

I rarely buy potatoes. As a singly I find I never use them up in time. I always have a bag of oven chips in the freezer and although it may seem like an extravagance I buy fresh ready made mash if I fancy it. I usually get 3 to 4 portions of out of it and I find it freezes well, for me that makes better sense.

Catwhisker

During the week I have to be reasonably organised as I take my lunch to work (invariably it's sandwiches), today's food has been as follows:
Yogurt
1 x cranberry, orange and pumpkin seed hot cross bun (ys 4 for 20p found in M+S on Friday)
1 x satsuma
turkey + mayo sandwich ( turkey l/o from Friday's tea)
2 x Maltezer mini bunnies ( I love these)
jambalaya (left over from yesterday's tea)
wine
I now have not quite a full portion of jambalaya left with no idea what to do with it.

moneyistooshorttomention

Today's lunch and dinner - well I had to visit elsewhere (ie bigger place than here) for dentist. So lunch was Spanish salad with suitable bread - errrm....and a glass of wine might have just sneaked in there. Gotta take the chance when I can get it here for foreign food - as pretty much all there is roundabouts in the "foreign" eateries line is yer standard old-fashioned style Chinese (nope) and Indian (nope).

Dinner was some more of the cream of cauliflower soup I made yesterday and some more of the fruit bread. Lunch tomorrow will be yet another singles repeat meal - the last of that cauliflower soup and some Spanish torta (savoury?) biscuit things I bought whilst at lunch today. More experimentation:)

One of tomorrow's meals is down to the fact that I duly took the chance in bigger place of heading for their tiny Marks & Spencers foodhall - and (whoops- ready meal alert) emerged with a Thai meal and Thai beer to accompany it (more of me taking my chance of "foreign" when I can manage to get my hands on it here:rotfl:).

Deep joy - Aberystwyth over here is soon going to have a Marks & Spencers - and it looks like it might be a decent size one. Decent size Foodhall:D (if quite a trip to get there once in a while:().

Anyone that's ever got any plans on opening Arabic/Thai/Scandinavian/Peruvian (I gather that's the latest national cuisine to come to the fore)/etc/etc cafes or restaurants over in West Wales - do make my day and send me a PM to tell me the opening day:rotfl:

Meanwhile - back to that soup tomorrow for the 3rd day in a row...:rotfl:and finally finishing off that fruit bread and I shall try and summon up interest for the rest of the week to think of ways to deal with courgettes, aubergine and cucumber I've had in my fridge for some days now....:cool:. Does it sound too odd to have roasted vegetables (a perennial easy/don't have to think about it meal as far as I'm concerned) and a side dish of yogurt with cucumber in?

System

Well i made a chilli for tea tonight. I was expecting a visitor for tea... Prepared it dished it out when hubby told me he had forgotten to tell me, our visitor wasnt coming.

So, ive put the portion in a sealed container in the fridge.

Each time i open the fridge i look at it. Cold chilli doesnt look very appetizing.

I hate waste but i think i'll end up slinging it.:(

Catwhisker

karcher wrote: »

Just to add I am rather perturbed by my recent weight gain

I can no longer fit in many of my clothes and I certainly can't afford to buy new clothes so this CFO is going to have to stop and I need to revert back to beans on toast or more likely, just toast...I really can't afford to get any fatter

Sad but true because I like my food and have rather enjoyed experimenting with more exciting stuff than just toast...seemingly my body doesn't agree

I'll !!!!!! now..sorry to witter on :A

Sometimes being able to eat whatever you fancy whenever you fancy is not a good thing. I find there are CBA days when I tend to graze constantly rather than eat regular meals.
When I first became single again I had a really stressful year and the weight just fell off. I had little interest in food but as things settled down and my appetite returned the weight crept back on again.

Willowx

PasturesNew wrote: »

Sounds like my life. One day you'll learn: Just leave it .... it'll only turn out to be something you wish you'd never started.

As there's "just me" I usually don't put things in that mythical place of "away" - I've not enough cupboards/drawers/whatnot for places to have a home, so it seems pointless to keep tidying things "away" when all I'm doing is moving them - because it's more effort to go and get them again when I want them.

Some things are just left "around" because it's handy to always have them around. The vacuum's permanently plugged in and on the living room floor - I vacuum 30 seconds every morning, around where I've sat!

Very little has an official home here and similarly the vacuum is always plugged in, however, I've been four years with only a cheap folding chair so I've decided to see if I can fit something a bit more comfortable in. The problem is my entire flat is less than 14 by 18 foot, so naturally they decided to include a full bathroom with dust trap so space is at a premium.

caronc wrote: »

***MAY DAY, MAY DAY*** I've opened my last multi pack of loo roll :eek: As earlier posters on this thread know this is a major area of concern for many of us onesksis!!! Must urgently add more to next grocery order LOL

Must say I've never been a toilet roll holder I buy whatevers cheapest per sheet then buy another when on the last roll.

Catwhisker wrote: »

I rarely buy potatoes. As a singly I find I never use them up in time. I always have a bag of oven chips in the freezer and although it may seem like an extravagance I buy fresh ready made mash if I fancy it. I usually get 3 to 4 portions of out of it and I find it freezes well, for me that makes better sense.

Potatoes are one thing I always have in and happily eat. My favourite is mashed but normally I have nuked with beans and cheese or beans, carrots and onion.

mcculloch29

As posted elsewhere:
I did Jack Monroe's Creamy Salmon Pasta with a Chilli Lemon Kick
This super -economical recipe is one of my favourites. The chilli and lemon give it a lovely zing.

With some of the left-over yogurt I made flatbreads, 2 to eat as they are and two to use as pizza bases. I tried it with water and yogurt to bind, rather than milk and yogurt as usual, just to make it a fraction more economical . No difference in the taste so a few pennies saved.

I had some paleo protein bars sent to review , so that's a few breakfasts sorted. I will probably take some others with me on my cycled shopping trips. Shopping trips take a while as I am disabled, cycling is no problem but walking is.
The bars will save me eating something unhealthy whilst out or having to eat a banana in public, which is one food I feel self-conscious about re public eating. The only one, really...

Toilet rolls: Never buy less than 4 and usually 6-9. They can last me ages. depends who visits!