Cooking for one

Willowx

Just had cold left over lamb with mint sauce and a nuked potato sliced with butter, rather lacking in veg but the frozen summer veg mix didn't appeal. Had two crusts toasted for lunch with peanut butter, an orange, apple and banana. Contemplating prunes and custard for afters but as odd as it may seem might actually just have another small potato with butter.

Tomorrow night is a works quiz night with unspecified curry, which is odd on a few counts, twice a year for the almost five years I've been here we've had quiz night but always been fish and chips. Secondly any other event they've done in the past involving curry has involved a form a week or so before saying meat, veg or chicken, pick sauce from list of about five, pick rice or naan (which normally means pairing up with someone so you can have some of each.

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Its been a busy but satisfying day and I don`t feel sleepy, so I have been sewing. Just supping a small chamomile tea with fingers crossed that I don`t toss and turn all night again but I am taking a travel mug of a herb mix of mallow/chamomile tea up just in case my tummy awakes me

Blimey, just jumped out of my skin. Left the blind up in this room and heard something scraping past my window. It was a large empty compost bag, maybe some creature was inside. Blind is down now and just checked that the door is locked. I don`t want the collywobbles of jumping at every noise tonight :eek:

PasturesNew

I fell asleep, hungry ... and am now wide awake and hungry.

Hunger does not generate enough motivation to head towards the kitchen though .... you only get motivation if you've the slightest clue what you'd do when you got there and I've no idea what I could eat that I CBA to reheat. There's one slice of bread in the freezer and a pack of 6 crumpets .... or there's a bowl of weetabix/milk/sugar.

None of those are exciting enough to contemplate gaining motivation.

Oh ... or those plums ...as I said, not exciting enough ....

moneyistooshorttomention

Pastures - Have you thought of growing any food in that "wind tunnel" garden of yours?

I know it's got that defect and is just a small one - but I reckon there'd be some stuff you could have there. Which, at least for part of the year, would equal there'd be something you could just grab from the garden and put towards meals.

I'm currently eating my way through some honeyberries?/chuckleberries? from my garden via my freezer. There's some kale, sorrel and carrots out there I could pick currently and that wintercress?/bittercress? growing as a weed - but it's edible and substitutes for watercress. Hence I've picked some of it sometimes for part of a salad garnish type purposes.

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Meanwhile - all is chaos here. As ever = more chaos than anticipated (as per blimmin' usual when work is done on the house). Have got distinct feeling I might weaken and have my main meal at lunchtime - out somewhere in town.

If anyone has got a magic wind to wave for it all just to be finished and absolutely perfect of course - please wave it. If you've got a super-strength magic wand - I'll just hand over my exact list of specifications about what my ideal house would be like and I'll just move to it instead...

caronc

Morning everyone
moneyistooshorttomention - eating out sounds like a good plan:)
PN - hope you've done something about those hunger pangs

Yesterday was what can only be decscribed as a difficult day I'll not moulder on about it but I'm going to lose my job shortly. However, I woke up this morning feeling more on top of things and rarely for me really hungry so 2 slices of toast and cottage cheese were consumed - thought I'd get some protein in so I don't end up in total munch mode. I've a bagel out of the freezer for lunch to have with some smoked salmon and as it's still bleeding baltic I'll probably have some soup instead of salad:) I've a chicken in the fridge so will joint that later and have a portion though quite how I'm yet to decide.

I'm hoping a local gardener is going to pop by today to give me a quote for getting the "allotment" part of my back garden sorted out - getting that done will be a real boost:D

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A bit of forward prep today with a kilo of parsnips. Cut and part roasted to freeze. Lunch was piece of frozen nut roast, parsnips and a veg medley in one pan, purple sprouting, shitaki remains, tomato and a smidgen of water. Was very nice

Money I bought ready meals when my kitchen was being done. I bought a very cheap microwave to cope as my kitchen took 3 weeks. I would eat out if I didn`t have the mw but was too far to travel to the nearest restaurant supermarket

caronc you have a great attitude

I slept on higher pillows last night, wind kept waking me up, have a really bad crick in my neck today. Grhhh, I cannot get my pillows right

caronc

kittie wrote: »

caronc you have a great attitude

Thank you kittie

moneyistooshorttomention

Hope things work out well for you caronc re jobs. I've been there/done that (more than once....) - so can imagine what you're going through.

Will keep fingers crossed for you on that.

Kittie - I've got a hotplate thing I bought specially for this - so I do have some options re food. I have duly had my main meal out today (and a glass of wine might just have figured in it:beer:). Turned out I was only really hungry for about half of it - so duly asked for (and got) the rest put in a doggybag type takeaway container to bring home with me. So it's going to be tomorrow's main meal as well - ie waste not want not.

Doing the washing-up was "fun" - not - this morning. On my knees in the bathroom using my washing-up bowl to do it....:cool:. I can see that many people up in their 80s and beyond wouldnt want to go through this and/or might not be healthy enough to go through this. However, if I were up in my 80s I wouldnt consider it worth my while to do it anyway personally....what would be the point for only a (presumed) couple of years worth of use personally?

Farway

Yesterday left me with tum ache and a bit of the runs this morning. I think it was the half small pineapple + banana + LO 1/8 tin of custard that did it for me. I fancied it around 8 ish last night, and think it was really too late to eat before bed time. Lesson learned, and at least the pineapple has now gone

Thus it was nil by mouth for breakfast on safety grounds, and decided, and made, potato & celery soup for this evening, I have made it before & like this one, only 3 main ingredients, the title gives clue for two of them, other is an onion

Should be fine with a couple of my getting more stale daily baps, at least they will be fine for dunking in the soup

Lunch was cheese & tomato / cucumber sandwich an easy option

With cups of tea along the way it is turning out to be the silver lining of a tum ache cloud, and now the sun is out and it is spring again, from my window I can see the ornamental cherry tree a cloud of pink against the blue sky

Sorry to be a bit cheerful

karcher

Afternoon all.

The usual tea and coffee with milk, a banana and a tin of tuna.

Learning a lesson from caronc by eating protein in an attempt to stop me grazing on carbs, toast and butter in the main..... It might work for a few minutes :cool: