Cooking for one

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

are you on facebook Kittie...our town has a facebook page where everyone asks and recommends people they have used. Works really well and the tradesmen want to do a good job then they get your recommendation. If you haven't got FB then I have used checkatrade in the past and got myself a very excellent tiler or I guess ultimately you could ask your neighbours...you never know they might offer to do it

I always figure there are people on Facebook spending their day sitting in the "cheap seats" with nothing better to do than to recommend their brother Bob .... or "Bob the Bodger" as his mates call him.....

Strangers recommending people over the Internet without any feeling of morality.... bit scarey that.

You could get JK Show participants willing to give you their recommendation!

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

I always figure there are people sitting in the "cheap seats" with nothing better to do than to recommend their brother Bob .... or "Bob the Bodger" as his mates call him.....

Strangers recommending people over the Internet without any feeling of morality.... bit scarey that.

Not when quite a few recommend the same person which is what happens....Bob the Bodger would get negative reviews so no point really

whats your choice anyway PN...yellow pages? equally untrustworthy

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

whats your choice anyway PN...yellow pages? equally untrustworthy

Sit and wait it out, do without .... although that's not really very successful as a master plan

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

Sit and wait it out, do without .... although that's not really very successful as a master plan

:rotfl::rotfl:

I do know what you mean though..trusting a bloke to come into your home is a big step for a singley and of course they may be bodgers. Our community is quite small I guess and word spreads so if someone messes up they wont be giving much of chance again and the good ones get plenty of business. Its the power of social media I guess

moneyistooshorttomention

I see a noticeable number of Facebook "recommends" round here - but would want a noticeable number of "recommends" for the same person in order not to get Bob the Bodger just because he was someone's mate.

Right now - I'm working on the basis of if one can get a firm to do a Major Job (yep....my kitchen then) and sees that the person in charge of said firm tends to know what a lot of the workmen round the area are like/is prepared to verbally "cuff them round the head" in suitable polite/jokey (but firm) fashion if need be then I work on the basis of grabbing his workmen on the basis of "If they're good enough for him then they're good enough for me" basis for any mini-jobs I want doing too.

You have to pick a good firm for Major Job though - as I've had other Major Jobs done and grabbed their workmen for sideline ones only to subsequently realise they hadnt done Major Job very well and had low standards for the workmen they employ (of course they all tell you that they take care to only employ the good workmen - duh!).

So that's not a method one can use unless having a Major Job done and finding the firm was one that are intent on only employing the best workmen around (rather than bodgers).

It is more difficult in a small area I find - as it's difficult for word to get around re who the bodgers are (ie in case the person you're talking to turns out to be their relative/mate/etc/etc) and I think that factor "stops the mouth" of a lot of people that would like to speak out about "bodgers they have encountered".

karcher

Feel sick

Just eaten a tin of mackerel in tomato sauce out of the tin and a chunk of crusty bread and butter.

Wasn't even hungry?

Doom_and_Gloom

kittie wrote: »

there are a few people on here who are cooking for more than one on a daily basis. It would be nice to know who is genuinely cooking for one.Preparing food for one person is a completely different ball game but then many threads get pounced on and taken away from the target, in this case the target is the SOLO person ie someone living and cooking for themselves and themselves only. Am I right? or not

OH cooks for me as I'm disabled. He cooks for himself. We have very different eating habits. It's not just preparing for one meals, the ingredients are for one too. I don't see how us living together makes it different. We both have for one meals.
I bought a load of vegetables and fruits yesterday (full price over £13 but reduced came to around £8) he may grab a carrot and/or an onion or two out of all of that. Seriously that will be it, possibly the same carrot/onion I'd otherwise have binned as I get full bags as it's cheaper even if from time to time I do end up throwing the odd one or two away. 1kg of carrots bought for 20p reduced, lose that would get you a few carrots. 1.5kg onions reduced to 59p, again lose wouldn't be as worth it even if I do end up binning a couple of the reduced onions though that rarely happens.
Yesterday I had the last of the spicy vegetable mix with rice cakes for dinner. The OH had packet beef noodles. We eat that differently. We are on opposite sides of the cooking for one dinner scales. He prefers packet/tin/frozen meals whereas I prefer home made fresh kind of meals. We may as well be different households when it comes to food.


As for the cauliflower rice and grater, I realised I have an electric processor grater thing (from Lidl). Would probably work and I can use that, normal graters I risk cutting myself due to my disability; worse not realizing until loads of blood :eek:. Just wondering how messy it would be though vs blender method. I've done carrots before and had a hard time getting it to always go in the bowl.
May try it later this week as picked up a reduced cauliflower yesterday 69p instead of £1.

PasturesNew

karcher wrote: »

Feel sick

Just eaten a tin of mackerel in tomato sauce out of the tin and a chunk of crusty bread and butter.

Wasn't even hungry?

I'd feel sick knowing a tin of that gunk was in my cupboard.
Mum used to hoard dozens of those sort of tins when I was growing up, sardines and cod roe ... I remember watching her pick out a sardine from a tin, then strip its backbone before plonking the sardine in a sandwich. Gross.

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd feel sick knowing a tin of that gunk was in my cupboard.
Mum used to hoard dozens of those sort of tins when I was growing up, sardines and cod roe ... I remember watching her pick out a sardine from a tin, then strip its backbone before plonking the sardine in a sandwich. Gross.

oh have to disagree there sardines on toast was one of of my favourites as a kid and still love them now ....mind you I do like disgusting things being a great lover of cockles too

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I`ve got about 30 tins of sardines in my shed, costco after I saw an article saying that sardines would be unavailable. Haha, got that wrong but I love them on toast. I have just bagged up 4 tins of mackerel for a dd, told her how quick and easy it was with chopped onion and mash potato on top. Never told her about the taste we used to eat them lots first in the 50s and then again when dh and I were skint. I couldn`t face another tin

complete change of plan over food today, found another pack of purple sprouting so had to have steamed green veg and fried some plain haddock to go with it. Was ok, didn`t have any tartare in but fried in butter. Consoled myself with chocolate afterwards. Lots of soup in the fridge so will have to have some later but already had my yummy toast and marmite for morning break. Probably crackers and a bit of cheese after. A boring food day, again

I loved cockles as a child, got them in new Brighton. Couldn`t eat them now, same as mussels and oysters. All those eyes and guts

Thanks for info about facebook nelski. The village does have a page and some people are offering stuff for sale. I may well ring my normal plumber to remind him but I am managing ok. Hes busy because he is good, trustworthy and doesn`t rip anyone off