Cooking for one

Farway

Afternoon folks

Like many I am not an ice cream type, never buy it in or out and if given choice when round the "kids" houses I opt for fresh cream. Noticed the ice cream van has started ding donging here on the weekend, not many kids about here so guess that will soon stop

Breakfast was a sticky red stuff doughnut, and I had one more after lunch
3 down, 2 to go

Lunch I had fancied trying PN baguette pizza, but opted for easy old cheese, tom & cuc sandwich instead

Now turning into a cheesy day, 'cos dinner will be based on the LO 1/2 Smart Price bacon bits & cheese [STRIKE]flan[/STRIKE] quiche, no real thought of what to have with it, in an ideal world it would be a healthy salad as sun is out & feels summery

In this real world I do not have any salad makings except cuc & toms, so I guess it will be same old same old frozen oven chips, and no doubt another doughnut at same stage during the evening. No prizes for guessing what Tuesday breakfast is

I hope Lidl turns up with some inspiration tomorrow, there is plenty of stuff there but I prefer the "oooh, that is RFQS bargain" bin which save me having to think too hard about choices, especially if it involves Chinese / Indian / Thai ready meal for one

pS caronc, thanks for herring recipe, may just try that but I will cut down on the amount, at least first time round

caronc

Afternoon everyone,

It's beautifully sunny here so I opted for egg salad a lunchtime. I accidently under boiled the eggs a bit but it was still tasty. There's a spare one in the fridge so I'll have it tomorrow.

I spent most of the morning turning my mattress and putting on a lighter duvet so just hoping the sub-zero night temperatures don't return:eek: There was a scary amount of hair and stoor under the bed -(I'm surprised I'm not bald) which I've popped outside and the wee birds have been back and forth so nice cosy nests for them....

Farway - yes it should scale down just fine and also works well with mackeral

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

I do not have any salad makings except cuc & toms

It's very very rare any salad crosses my threshold. I'll buy the occasional punnet of cherry/plum tomatoes if they're on special, but it's tough getting through them all.... I do like plain tomato sandwiches, but even so the reality is that once I've had two that's enough for a few months.

As for the rest - I see it as an expensive waste of space on a plate, that's got very limited lifespan and certainly doesn't fill the belly like a good bag of oven chips does

Farway wrote: »

I hope Lidl turns up with some inspiration tomorrow, there is plenty of stuff there but I prefer the "oooh, that is RFQS bargain" bin which save me having to think too hard about choices, especially if it involves Chinese / Indian / Thai ready meal for one

To this day I've only ONCE seen a ready meal in the reduced section - which tends to be 4-6 bizarre/furren style items and other stuff I never eat.... so, usually nothing reduced, if it is it's not my sort of thing ...so I don't rush in to check.

They have recently changed the brand name of their chilli "meal for ones" - and I did buy one as that was THE reduced item once.... and I'd thoroughly recommend it. The ones that are usually £1.39 or £1.49 or similar. Definitely worthwhile buying if stickered, but I don't pay that much for food so it'd have to be an extra special treat to buy one full price for me.

caronc

I'm opposite I go through lots of salad bits and eat cherry toms like sweeties which is why I like to grow stuff so no problems getting through it. I don't buy bags of prepped salad as I find it does go slimy well before I can chomp my way through it. I keep my cherry toms on the counter so frequently grab a few on the way past they're gone before they can go off Rarely in the winter a cucumber might go over but only once so far this year and it was only a wee end bit.:o

At the risk of sounding smug I think I might eat 10 portions of F&V today (don't worry it won't last lol :rotfl:) :eek: Apricots and raisins with my muesli (2), 6 cherry toms, big wodge of cucumber, 2 stalks of celery, 3 large baby beetroot and 2 plums at lunch time (5) and I'm having bubble & squeak tonight (3). No doubt usual consumption will return tomorrow as the weather is due to break :rotfl::rotfl:

karcher

Ucking bar steward neighbours :mad:

I really do hate them

Apologies, not CFO related at all.. Just utterly fed up with it. Sorry.

Ames

I'm not a fan of salad, mainly because growing up it was two iceberg lettuce leaves, a few slices of 'normal' tomato and some cucumber and I don't like any of those. I've sometimes bought 'fancy' ready made salad which I've liked.

Cherry tomatoes, or yellow or orange ones, I can sit and munch as it if it were a bag of sweets. M&S do nice packs, but they're not cheap.

Today's been carb heavy. Toast and a banana for breakfast, then I had the declutterer and cleaner here for four hours, I sipped a beetroot/celery/nectarine smoothie throughout. When they'd gone I had a chicken and mushroom Pukka pie, I have to say I'm not sure what all the fuss about them is. It definitely didn't live up to the flowery description on the box! I followed that with jelly with mixed berries in it. And I've just had a couple of slices of cheese on toast and a glass of milk.

PN - when you freeze sliced bread how do you do it, just lob the loaf in or do you split into slices first?

caronc

karcher wrote: »

Ucking bar steward neighbours :mad:

I really do hate them

Apologies, not CFO related at all.. Just utterly fed up with it. Sorry.

Aw karcher so sorry you are having such a hard time be strong:) Think it might be time to contact CAB or Environmental Health

Ames wrote: »

I'm not a fan of salad, mainly because growing up it was two iceberg lettuce leaves, a few slices of 'normal' tomato and some cucumber and I don't like any of those. I've sometimes bought 'fancy' ready made salad which I've liked.

Cherry tomatoes, or yellow or orange ones, I can sit and munch as it if it were a bag of sweets. M&S do nice packs, but they're not cheap.

Today's been carb heavy. Toast and a banana for breakfast, then I had the declutterer and cleaner here for four hours, I sipped a beetroot/celery/nectarine smoothie throughout. When they'd gone I had a chicken and mushroom Pukka pie, I have to say I'm not sure what all the fuss about them is. It definitely didn't live up to the flowery description on the box! I followed that with jelly with mixed berries in it. And I've just had a couple of slices of cheese on toast and a glass of milk.

PN - when you freeze sliced bread how do you do it, just lob the loaf in or do you split into slices first?

I bunged a loaf in the freezer yesterday and am hoping for the best

Willowx

Jumping on the band wagon once again (I do like you all doing the deciding for me!) I've had a burger in a bun tonight with ketchup, mustard and gherkin. Annoyingly typing this out I've just realised the cheese is still sitting on the spice rack where I put it when getting things out the fridge. Had a tin of cream of chicken soup with a few slices of bread and an orange for lunch.

karcher

Ames wrote: »

PN - when you freeze sliced bread how do you do it, just lob the loaf in or do you split into slices first?

I freeze bread all the time. Just bung the whole loaf in then take out as many slices as I want at any one time...leave to defrost or more often than not, toast.

HTH

PasturesNew

Ames wrote: »

PN - when you freeze sliced bread how do you do it, just lob the loaf in or do you split into slices first?

It's best done when the bread is newest - so I freeze it the day I buy it, not the day I realise I won't get through it all.

I open the bag and guesstimate how many slices I can eat (say 8-10) and remove those into plastic lidded boxes on the worktop (I have some that are square and fit four slices a treat). The remaining half is then put in as it is.

As I'll be eating the bread in the following two weeks it doesn't have time to get welded together..... just a simple fingernail pressed into the outside of the bag separates the slices when I want them.

If the bread were to be in there for longer I'd probably freeze it in 4s because I bet it would weld together after, say, a month.