Cooking for one

Farway

Afternoon all

After me singing the praises of M & S burgers for the last couple of days, may I take it all back please? Yesterday's last one had lump of gristle in, eeew :eek: so no more of them for me, back to burger drawing board

Today is lovely and sunny, so an early start so I could get cracking in the garden, well sort of back & legs allowing. Now I think I may have "caught the sun" on my baldy bonce, normally I wear baseball cap in sunshine, but foolishly did not this time

The early start meant I was on time at Morrison's, clutching my money off coupons for things I actually needed, well maybe not the biscuits

Not bad, saved £1.30 so it was sort of free bread and biscuits

Found doughnuts fallen into my basket again, butas no breakfast, can I count one as part brunch?

Lunch was the overdue tin of Smart Price sardines on toast, I like them because only two in a tin which handily makes two slices. Added fresh sliced tomato as they went under the grill, and no flames today

Dinner, not sure, think it will be one of the M & S salmon fillets and a baked spud, they can both go in the same oven. Nothing to have with them, well nothing I fancy to have with them, perhaps baked fresh tomatoes?

Another doughnut will also die this evening

caronc

Afternoon everyone,

Welcome Beluga:)

Well done Nelski on braving the freezer:cool:

I had a very unhealthy but really tasty brunch of round slice, black pudding, fried egg and crumpets topped with a good squirt of HP sauce, not something for every day but my word was it good.....:D

Farway

caronc wrote: »

I had a very unhealthy but really tasty brunch of round slice, black pudding, fried egg and crumpets topped with a good squirt of HP sauce, not something for every day but my word was it good.....:D

I love black pudding, never have it these days, it was one of my beeline foods when I was working away & staying in hotels, but it had to be the Scottish type, not the oop North type with great lumps of white fat in it

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Afternoon all

After me singing the praises of M & S burgers for the last couple of days, may I take it all back please? Yesterday's last one had lump of gristle in, eeew :eek: so no more of them for me, back to burger drawing board

Today is lovely and sunny, so an early start so I could get cracking in the garden, well sort of back & legs allowing. Now I think I may have "caught the sun" on my baldy bonce, normally I wear baseball cap in sunshine, but foolishly did not this time

The early start meant I was on time at Morrison's, clutching my money off coupons for things I actually needed, well maybe not the biscuits

Not bad, saved £1.30 so it was sort of free bread and biscuits

Found doughnuts fallen into my basket again, butas no breakfast, can I count one as part brunch?

Lunch was the overdue tin of Smart Price sardines on toast, I like them because only two in a tin which handily makes two slices. Added fresh sliced tomato as they went under the grill, and no flames today

Dinner, not sure, think it will be one of the M & S salmon fillets and a baked spud, they can both go in the same oven. Nothing to have with them, well nothing I fancy to have with them, perhaps baked fresh tomatoes?

Another doughnut will also die this evening

Farway - how yukky I'd email M&S, chances are they'll refund the pack price to you. I contacted them once about a loaf I'd bought. When I opened the bread felt stale on smelt odd though it was well within the use by date, a further look identified a wee tear in the bag. They refunded my spend and sent a £5 voucher as well

caronc

Farway wrote: »

I love black pudding, never have it these days, it was one of my beeline foods when I was working away & staying in hotels, but it had to be the Scottish type, not the oop North type with great lumps of white fat in it

No it was the Scottish type not stornoway but still pretty decent, I buy a roll of it and slice it so I can have a wee bit if the notion strikes:)

PasturesNew

I popped out .... you know how this will end....

While out I discovered a pack of 4 cheese topped rolls 30% off and a chicken/pasta salad (lettuce/carrots) for 25p at poundland of all places!

So I scoffed the pasta salad earlier and just polished off a cheese topped roll with an egg/salad cream mix I whipped up.

Gum's irritated/swollen again though ... so that's prevented non stop scoffing.

caronc

PN- If you go to the chemist they should have generic "corsodyl" for much less than the brand (here "Savers" stores also do it). Another good one is Hydrogen peroxide 9% you dilute a cap in a tumbler of water. I had a spell of gum problems after my second child and found both of these very good;)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

generic "corsodyl"

I actually have the real McCoy, from the trouble I had 3 months ago where the gums were so inflamed I had to visit the dentist and he told me to use that until my appointment day.

I've been using that once a day and salt/water 3x a day.... but once it felt better I forgot to keep doing it (as you do).

Mr_Singleton

meg72 wrote: »

And this is relevant to cooking for one How?
a couple of years ago I got an inheritance. the idea was to spend it as quickly but sensibly as possible and get back on benefits.

You quoted the wrong bit so I fixed it for you.

In the age of austerity where desperate people are being denied much needed support and services due to a lack of funds most people people would find it morally repugnant that anyone would rush to spend a large inheritance soley to enable them to get back onto claiming benefits.

I thought it was important to say.

Anyway off to do some yoga.

caronc

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

You quoted the wrong bit so I fixed it for you.

In the age of austerity where desperate people are being denied much needed support and services due to a lack of funds most people people would find it morally repugnant that anyone would rush to spend a large inheritance soley to enable them to get back onto claiming benefits.

I thought it was important to say.

Anyway off to do some yoga.

I wasn't going to jump in to this but as OP of this thread felt I had to. A bit of selective quoting as you called out another poster on, missing the bit "on advice from support services" .

Please can we leave this now and retain this as a supportive thread for folks in all sorts of different circumstances and outlooks joined by a common bond of Cooking for One. Thanks