Cooking for one

Farway

Sorry to hear of the dentist problems and costings

I believe in NHS 100% and use NHS dentist, available around here after huge hoo ha years ago with people queuing to sign on a with new one

I was there only last week, check up and have a scrape & polish to be done towards end of month, plus a telling off from hygienist no doubt for not flossing every minute of the day, all NHS as I refuse to go private, but luckily my gnashers are generally OK, possibly due to wartime rationing and no sweets / sugar until the 1950s?

Today was banana breakfast, bourbon bikkie dunked in coffee for mid morning, BLT buttie for lunch, marmalade sarnie with cup of coffee just now

And tonight is another quarter of the Morrison's £2 steak pie, plus I think the last of my old new spuds LO from before Christmas, artisan cut & Actifried, perhaps with some baked beans, not sure on that bit yet, could go all Northern and put gravy on. Jury out on that one

As an aside I nearly died when I first went ooop North and they poured gravy on chips, shock horror, something I never got used to, just seems unnatural somehow, possibly OK between consenting adults

Ames

I agree with the dentist stuff, some of the costs are eye watering. I go to the NHS community one but it takes ages to get an appointment and they only do one thing at a time. It took nearly a year to do four fillings (I hadn't been to the dentist for years when I was referred due to a bad experience).

If you think gravy on chips is bad, my grandparents used to put chip shop chips in soup. Which now that I've mentioned it is something I'd quite like again sometime.

LameWolf

Sympathies re the dentist treatments and associated bills.:(
I had the whole damn lot removed 30 years ago; I now just pay out for a complete new set every seven or eight years or so; and no painful treatments in between.:D

Pretty please, could someone explain "eating beige" to me? I've seen the phrase several times, and I don't have a scooby what it means. :think:

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway wrote: »

As an aside I nearly died when I first went ooop North and they poured gravy on chips, shock horror, something I never got used to, just seems unnatural somehow, possibly OK between consenting adults

Well - I guess it might be possible.

I did try the Dutch idea of mayonnaise with chips whilst there some years back - and decided I like it.:)

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To me - I read the phrase "eating beige" as meaning basically eating beige-coloured food. Which I would interpret as meaning bread/chips/rice pudding maybe?/etc - basically food with no colour in it.

I know one of the things we're told is about trying to "eat a rainbow" these days - summat to do with getting the full range of nutrients. For instance that might be: carrot (orange), red cabbage (purple), green salad (green) and so on....

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Re the dentist and I shall be sussing out other nearby dentists. I've never had more than one or two teeth "sorted" at a time before and hence surprised to be told I needed so many "sorted". Add that they seem to be of the school of thought of "They tell the patient what to do" and I'm not used to that. I'm used to the "Discuss it all as 2 equals - and then I decide how to proceed" school of thought. So I'm rather lining them up as "to be binned and replaced by another practice once this is all sorted" or I might make a trip to the dentist one of the things lined-up to do when I go back for home visits and go to my previous dentist whilst there (I guess I'm still "on their books" ?).

Doom_and_Gloom

LameWolf wrote: »

Pretty please, could someone explain "eating beige" to me? I've seen the phrase several times, and I don't have a scooby what it means. :think:

To my knowledge it's ready meal/takeout/easy foods. Things like white pasta, white bread/toast, white rice, potatoes, chicken nuggets, pizza, burgers, ice cream, pastries etc.
Things that aren't very dense in nutrients but is dense in calories for what it is. They are foods with high GI so spike blood sugar levels.
In all it is a diet lacking in colour and so therefore also lacking in nutrients.

PasturesNew

LameWolf wrote: »

Pretty please, could someone explain "eating beige" to me? I've seen the phrase several times, and I don't have a scooby what it means.

Beige food is what I eat a lot of the time.

It's when food you eat is colourless.

When I look at photos of my food it's colourless: chips, cheese/potato pie, dumplings, pastry, cheese sandwiches, cheese quiche, even margherita pizza....

The idea is that you're supposed to have colourful things on the plate... I guess tomato/basil quiche rather than cheese quiche, with a jaunty bright salad on the side with orange/yellow peppers, beetroot ... etc

I like beige food though

caronc

Willowx wrote: »

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



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Just the thought makes me really anxious :eek:

mcculloch29 wrote: »

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.

Sounds delicious:D

Farway wrote: »

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As an aside I nearly died when I first went ooop North and they poured gravy on chips, shock horror, something I never got used to, just seems unnatural somehow, possibly OK between consenting adults

Chips and gravy or chips, cheese and gravy or chips and curry sauce - many a good night out has ended with one of those on the way home

Welcome Ames sounds as though you've made a good start on not eating "beige":D

After Sunday's shennangins and yesterday's exertions I've been absolutely shattered today so it's been a bit of duvet day though had to be up early as phone engineer due between 8 & noon. Of course it was late morning when they arrived but didn't wanted to becaught in my pjs:eek: As up early have had breakfast and lunch, toast and pate and a bagel and cream cheese and a massive pear respectively:D

Out of curiousity I weighed the pear and it was a whopping 262 grams:eek: the stalk and seeds came to 28 grams so nearly three portions of edible fruit. Now this is where all this 5/10 conflicting advice bugs me, had I split it in 3 and had a bit each day said pear would count as 3 portions but apparently since I scoffed it all all it is only 1. Try as I might I fail to agree with this - on paper if I ate 10 different recommended portions of F&V and ate exactly the same ones every day I'd be getting a gold star but in reality I'd not be eating a really wide range of stuff. Where as me who over the course of of week of so will eat 4 or 5 different types of fruit (so far over the last week banana, apple, pear, grapes and plums) and 10-12 different types of veg and all decent portions ( so far over the last week onions, mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, tinned tomatoes, sweet potatoes, leeks, beetroot, carrots, peas, corn and parsnips) according to the gurus fall in to the "could do better" box. Me well I just enjoyed my pear and fully intend to just keep going as I am and stuff the so-called experts (Rant over honest.......)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

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Yes, it's flawed.
Fruit/veg don't know which day it is.
If I eat half a pear at 5 to midnight and half a pear at 5 past midnight it counts as a portion for two days ... but if I ate the whole pear at quarter to midnight it's one.

"They" .. who tell us this stuff ... aren't terribly clever.

karcher

caron I was just about to post about weighing fruit/veg etc.

My newly bought food scales arrived today so I weighed the banana I was about to eat...200 grams then similar for an apple!!!

I think they plucked the 80g out of thin air..pah to it all is all I can say...no more counting going on here. I'll eat as much or as little fruit and veg as I think right for me, as and when I want it...stick that in your pipe and smoke you supposed 'people who know best'!!

Bloody ridiculous if you ask me.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, it's flawed.
Fruit/veg don't know which day it is.
If I eat half a pear at 5 to midnight and half a pear at 5 past midnight it counts as a portion for two days ... but if I ate the whole pear at quarter to midnight it's one.

"They" .. who tell us this stuff ... aren't terribly clever.

And I'm sure my body doesn't process nutrients in neat 24 cycles either:cool: