Cooking for one

PasturesNew

Willowx wrote: »

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

That's too risky for me. I work on the basis, for all things, of "what if you're ill for a week or more ....there's nobody that will bring you stuff" so you have to have in enough stuff to get through that

That's why I always try to keep plenty of instant custard and tins of fruit in ...just in case.

I'm never ill/never have been ...but it'll happen one day and I'll be grateful I had everything I needed

PasturesNew

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Creamy Salmon Pasta with a Chilli Lemon Kick
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paleo protein bars

I've never been of the "salmon eating classes". I tasted a spoon of salmon once about 2 years ago (in Ikea, somebody I was with knew I'd never tasted it and said to try it so I'd know); it was nice, but not something I've ever thought to buy. It's pricier than beans on toast I'm guessing.

The word yoghurt makes me shudder... I keep trying, but I still can't ever get over that phrase "live culture" - sounds so gross.

No idea what paleo is .... I've got it categorised as "more middle class nonsense" but CBA to even look into it.

moneyistooshorttomention

Paleo as in paleolithic - as per the foods our ancestors of a few thousand years ago ate. So obviously convenience foods are totally out. I seem to recall bread is out too. It's basically hunter/gatherer type food I think - meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds from what I recall.

Someone may come along and prove me wrong and/or give details of it.

I think the idea is that it's just giving our bodies the type of foods to eat that our ancestors ate and our bodies have spent thousands of years evolving to cope with.

Never gone into it that much - the second I see the word "meat" (as I don't eat that) I think "Not for me then as a way of eating". These days I'm wary of fish too (with the added side helping of plastic it's likely to have ingested from our polluted seas - microbeads and those bigger chunks of plastic I can't recall the name of).

Me - having duly had a reminder on here of Jack Monroe cooking - I guess that equals I'd better haul out my cookbooks by her and my 1960s/70s cookbooks and look out some economy recipes. My dentist yesterday told me I'd need some unexpected treatment - and I've taken a look at the estimate this morning and it's around £300 or so I'd not bargained on. I think that's the single biggest thing I bedgrudge spending money on (ie healthcare costs) - as we're supposed to have an NHS. Yep...I know that's the theory and not the practice in some respects....:(

Could have done without that - at a time when I'm pushing to the limit for money for my new kitchen...:cool:

karcher

MITSTM I've got the dentist today for 2 fillings and a big bill to pay too

Breakfast:
1 cup of tea and milk 0/10
1 cup of coffee and milk 0/10

My diets going well so far isn't it? :rotfl:

Tiddlywinks

Willowx wrote: »

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

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's too risky for me. I work on the basis, for all things, of "what if you're ill for a week or more ....there's nobody that will bring you stuff" so you have to have in enough stuff to get through that

There are some things I just never want to live without and loo rolls are one of those things. I keep a very healthy stash just in case of a 'zombie apocalypse' .

(Ive spent the last year reading Kindle freebies which have mostly been about post-apocalyptic survival - I'm turning into a bit of a 'prepper' now )

PasturesNew

Early lunch - and a winner.

Cauli cheese (1/10). 200 grams of cauli in that, which could've been changed to be 50g cauli, 50g broccoli, 50g butter beans, 50g something else - but that's the way things are .... used hot/chilli cheese so it was a bit of a burner ...

I'll probably make that again soon ... with some additional/different veg in it. It could work out to be an easy way to pack in 5 easy ones

springdreams

PasturesNew wrote: »

Early lunch - and a winner.

Cauli cheese (1/10). 200 grams of cauli in that, which could've been changed to be 50g cauli, 50g broccoli, 50g butter beans, 50g something else - but that's the way things are .... used hot/chilli cheese so it was a bit of a burner ...

I'll probably make that again soon ... with some additional/different veg in it. It could work out to be an easy way to pack in 5 easy ones

A portion of veg needs to be at least 80g to count towards the one a day:

http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/five-a-day-portion-sizes.aspx

moneyistooshorttomention

karcher wrote: »

MITSTM I've got the dentist today for 2 fillings and a big bill to pay too

Breakfast:
1 cup of tea and milk 0/10
1 cup of coffee and milk 0/10

My diets going well so far isn't it? :rotfl:

Sympathies on that - ie the bill.

I just can't get over the casual way they calmly tossed in "You'll need x" and I had to ask for the cost and have now estimated it out as somewhere between £250 and £350 that I hadnt expected in the slightest. I only didnt say very much because it's a pretty obvious assumption to make that at my age and general impression anyone would likely have - then I guess they wouldnt realise that would count as "Bad News" to me and I wouldnt think it was peanuts. Errrm...it does count as Bad News...One day they'll be right that I won't be that bothered (except on principle) - but that day hasnt come yet...darn it.

So - I've had the Thai beer I bought yesterday to console myself and finished up the last of the fruit bread and am currently waiting for my Thai ready meal to finish cooking and that will be lunch had.

Last of that cauliflower soup tonight and some other leftovers...

PasturesNew

springdreams wrote: »

A portion of veg needs to be at least 80g to count towards the one a day:

http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/five-a-day-portion-sizes.aspx

It's all based on averages and size.... "they" say a woman needs 2000 calories/day and as I try to aim for more like 1000 and usually hit 1500 probably I figure than maybe 40-50 grams/day of each would be my figure.

And, they say, more variety is better ... so I figure that 4x20g would be "better" than 1x80 grams if you looked at it like that.

Anyway - what do "they" know ... eh!

Ames

Can I join in?

My eating habits are often shocking, a mixture of not being very good at cooking, mental health problems that lead to emotional binge eating, and physical health problems. 'Eat less beige' needs to be my new motto I think.

I'm trying to do better, and things have improved a lot over the last few weeks. Largely because I got a new fridge freezer, which actually stops food from going off! Although I now have the problem that every day I'm going and prodding varous bits of veg and marvelling that it's still fine. Eventually it won't be fine, so I need to stop prodding and start eating.

So far today's been good. Breakfast was two boiled eggs, an avocado and a banana, prior to having a physio gym session. Lunch was a toasted sandwich, coffee and sparkling water at the supermarket cafe, and I've just had a (small) punnet of raspberries which I bought from the fruit stall in the hospital. I've got a tub of M&S crab soup which went out of date yesterday so I'll have that for tea.

On the advice of my GP I've just tried to make a veg smoothie thing, but I don't think my cheap blender was up to the task, not with frozen spinach anyway. I've left it to thaw and I'll try blitzing it again in a bit.

Usually by now I'd only have eaten two bowls of cereal, so I'm doing well!