Cooking for one

karcher

Morning oneskis

MITSTM glad the new kitchen is progressing well.

No CFO here, just pigging out on rubbish...for example yesterday a tube of pringles (on offer), a big bar of cheap SM chocolate and 2 pitta breads stuffed with cheese triangles and coleslaw

Having a really bad week and have lots of stresses and worries so going down the comfort eating/getting fat route! Doesn't help much:p

No CFO plans today...no idea what I'll have yet.

Nelski

karcher wrote: »

Morning oneskis

MITSTM glad the new kitchen is progressing well.

No CFO here, just pigging out on rubbish...for example yesterday a tube of pringles (on offer), a big bar of cheap SM chocolate and 2 pitta breads stuffed with cheese triangles and coleslaw

Having a really bad week and have lots of stresses and worries so going down the comfort eating/getting fat route! Doesn't help much:p

No CFO plans today...no idea what I'll have yet.

sorry to hear that Karcher ...virtual hug on its way. There is nothing wrong with going to rubbish food when you feel like you do and in fact doesn't sound like rubbish at all sounds like a better diet than mine

Hope things get better over for you over the weekend matey

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

...enormous sink ....

I hate kitchens - they don't do the job they're supposed to. Cupboards have become small/individual and you're stuck with what you've got as it's a waste/too expensive to rip it all out.

Only this morning I was annoyed, again, at my plate drainer because it won't fit in the kitchen sink to be washed. I can't wash anything big .... although I've now bought a big plastic tub to wash big things in - I'll fill it using jugs, then take it outside to the garden so I can wash big things and then empty the water in the garden. That's madness.

I'm in a hard water area, so hard water staining accumulates VERY quickly on things.

karcher

Nelski wrote: »

sorry to hear that Karcher ...virtual hug on its way. There is nothing wrong with going to rubbish food when you feel like you do and in fact doesn't sound like rubbish at all sounds like a better diet than mine

Hope things get better over for you over the weekend matey

Thanks Nelski

A hug is very much appreciated

Hope you have a great time in York...Indian TA is always good (in fact I'd love one myself) and as for Lobster in Whitby...I'm drooling..sounds fab. Enjoy

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hate kitchens - they don't do the job they're supposed to. Cupboards have become small/individual and you're stuck with what you've got as it's a waste/too expensive to rip it all out.

Only this morning I was annoyed, again, at my plate drainer because it won't fit in the kitchen sink to be washed. I can't wash anything big .... although I've now bought a big plastic tub to wash big things in - I'll fill it using jugs, then take it outside to the garden so I can wash big things and then empty the water in the garden. That's madness.

I'm in a hard water area, so hard water staining accumulates VERY quickly on things.

I was very aware that I needed my sink to be big enough to wash the largest of things in - in my case that would be a jam preserving pan I have.

Guess it's a trug you've bought? I've been using one to help with the washing-up whilst this is going on. I find trugs are useful for a large variety of purposes and have several on the go for various things.

caronc

Afternoon everyone,

moneyistooshorttomention glad there is light at the end of the tunnel. My sink isn't quite big enough to take my biggest oven tray but it is one I don't use too much, it takes my biggest pot though so does the job:)

PN how frustrating at least you've found a solution to your sink size. My dad's sink is tiny it would drive me nuts.

Karcher - hope things pick up, have a virtual hug

Nelski - York & Whitby two of my favourite places hope you have a lovely time.

I'm not CFO for one tonight and have no idea what we are having. Biscuits with cheese & coleslaw for lunch and a treat of a can of fiery ginger beer:D

Farway

meg72 wrote: »

Well done on getting a head start with your beans. I have a real slug and snail problem so start mine off on the windowsill in toilet roll inners then plant out when they have got some height, seems the little blighters don't fancy them so much. I have prepared the trench and got the wigwams up though. Have potted some potatoes and put strawberries in baskets, and have tiny tomato plants on windrsill. Started a couple of trays of little Gem.
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Meg, hope I have not mislead you, I start all mine in loo rols etc same as you, for the same reason as you. I think I should buy shares in slug pellet company, I have found snails wedged under the top of the wigwams where they can't get up or down

Not bothered with spuds this year, don't eat enough to make it worth the effort, strawberries I had one year the vine weevils ate what the slugs did not, but in true s0d's law fashion the runners have migrated to the borders,no idea if they will make it

MITSTM Best of luck with the kitchen, mine turned into a nightmare, the builder full of promises, but it was at time of football World Cup, so whenever a match was on the tele no workman, it was just awful, took a couple of months to get it completed

Back to CFO, out of luck with YS prowling in Lidl this morning, so just thick sliced wholemeal for health and bottle of brown sauce + 3 bars of red label choc for unhealth. The choc has dropped back to 30p again, no fanfare about reduced price, guess I may as well blame Brexit like everyone else

Breakfast was posh Frank Cooper's marmalade bought on offer a bit back, must say it is tastier than the 40p Lild jars, but so it should be at the price. I keep thinking I must get on and make some more of my own, well from the tinned Ma' Mande stuff, I have made it in the past and like it, just the faff for the afternoon in making it really that stops me, especially as I have two tins waiting in the wings for me to get off my bum and do it

Lunch was last of the bacon in a sarnie + brown sauce

Dinner is flan / quiche thingy with frozen chips Actifried, and it would be baked beans except I burnt the pan making the cheese sauce yesterday :eek:and it is going to need a bit of steel wool & elbow grease really, currently in the dishwasher so at least the burnt bit will be clean burn assuming the burnt pan fairy does not help out, one more problem of CFO, no one to blame for the mistakes

caronc

I'm not planting spuds this year as not organised enough! I do like to grow a few in a tub of varieties you don't see in the shops Anya are my favourites:)

Still no idea what's for dinner tonight as son has gone fishing - won't be fresh caught fish though as it's just perch where he's going and I'm not keen on them too muddy tasting;) Suspect it might be pizza or pasta tonight though I've been promised he will make HM chinese food tomorrow night so can't complain:D

PasturesNew

I decided I'm special and the weather's nice, so I'd treat myself

I wandered without aim in A1d1, although many of the shelves were empty of the items I had in mind ... then I spotted some panini rolls 30% off, so grabbed a pack of two and then grabbed a pot of sandwich filler.
I've only bought panini rolls once before because "they're just bread rolls really aren't they" so are really just a marketing ploy

Then I got a couple of crispbakes. That was it, I had food for today and some time in the future

I couldn't decide whether to serve the crispbakes with chips or potatoes, so had to leave the shop with neither.

Then it was off to £land for a jolly - I did have something in mind from there but they'd already sold out ... but I did get a squeegee stick for washing windows. I figure at £1 it's worth a go .... but I'd never buy one priced higher in case they're more trouble than they're worth

EDIT: Well, that didn't end well at all! Thought I'd have a quick go with the squeegee .... did the first two small windows, then went to do the patio door and it snapped, injuring my finger tip on my dominant hand

So I'm back inside .... hurting.... and pee'd off: is it worth it, for £1 to go back and moan/get a replacement or my money back? Or do I just shrug and use the half that still works .... or do I bind it with gaffer tape .... I'll probably just continue to use it, broken, to be honest....

I hate it when great ideas and plans end in pain and a cut finger.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I decided I'm special and the weather's nice, so I'd treat myself

I wandered without aim in A1d1, although many of the shelves were empty of the items I had in mind ... then I spotted some panini rolls 30% off, so grabbed a pack of two and then grabbed a pot of sandwich filler.
I've only bought panini rolls once before because "they're just bread rolls really aren't they" so are really just a marketing ploy

Then I got a couple of crispbakes. That was it, I had food for today and some time in the future

I couldn't decide whether to serve the crispbakes with chips or potatoes, so had to leave the shop with neither.

Then it was off to £land for a jolly - I did have something in mind from there but they'd already sold out ... but I did get a squeegy stick for washing windows. I figure at £1 it's worth a go .... but I'd never buy one priced higher in case they're more trouble than they're worth

Of course it's worth treating yourself you don't need an excuse though it's always handy :D mine is it's Friday and the weather is poor so wine will feature later:rotfl:

Son just off the phone he's finished fishing so is making chinese tonight, salt and chill chicken wings and veg chowmein, both from the "Takeaway Secrets" book I gave him at Christmas time so looking forward to that