Cooking for one

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

.... being a great lover of cockles too

Mum loved to have winkles - sitting there picking out the black dot from the top before scooping them out with a sewing pin. Gross.


Found a (33 seconds long) youtube of somebody doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXu_pEqpOA
Mum's were smaller than that, about 1/2 the size.

Billy101

Oh nice to see that you're taking help from Shirley.

I have spent a long time alone living away from family and Shirley served me well.


All the luck to you too!

Farway

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.

oops, better not come round here then, just had tinned sardines on toast for lunch, backbones, gutty bits, tails, skin and all

I also had breakfast today, toast with last of the yummy lime marmalade, should mix well with the lunchtime sardines on top !

Today's prowling found a YS mozzerella & veggie flan in Asda, as well as over 1.5kg of mixed colour bananas for 20p which was me sorted I thought

But Waitrose produced a YS Melton Mowbray large pig pie for 99p. I like pork pies but normally avoid due to cheap ones being full of ears, snouts, tails & trotters, but the MM ones really are nice being PGI controlled, but much more expensive

Looks like half of that with chips for dinner, and it has to be English mustard with the pie, brown sauce just will not do. If I were allowed booze these days it would also be a nice pint glugging down with it but the memory will have to do

So that's my CFO fixed until Saturday, becuase Saturday is over the daughter's for an Easter egg hunt, no cooking by me involved, Sunday may be out, not sure yet, so it may be Monday before I have to think too hard about food

Job hunting? I am retired now but I know jsut how redundancy feels, kick in the guts. I did sign on, soul destroying, but it was later in life, did my sums and gave up work for ever. Never regretted it and wished I was back in the office. Nice if you can of course

Has any one considered dog walking?
My daughter does that, started as something to do whilst kids at school, now blossomed into employing others, earns more than I ever did. I guess it may depend where you you live, she is near the new Forest with all the "rich" folks who are happy to pay someone to walk their pooch

And it is something that needs no training, just like dogs, there are volunteer dog walkers here, guess start there to try it first if one around

PasturesNew

Single cooking: It doesn't matter what you fancy - in the main you can't have it as you're ingredients short ... and a fridge of leftovers to get through before you're allowed to think about buying in new food.

Always something to be used up .... never got a full set of ingredients for any recipe. I swear if a recipe just needs Plain flour and water I'd have the wrong flour!

And all this time I've known I need a loaf of bread...and haven't gone out to get one before the tourist hoardes descend upon the local area and empty the shelves of anything/everything edible.

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Has any one considered dog walking?
My daughter does that .... And it is something that needs no training....

Personally, I've never liked them - and they dislike me even more, I'm attacked by random dogs in the street...

I also don't poop scoop....couldn't/wouldn't. Gross.

No training - but there are insurances and you need some clue as to which end of a dog's which. Public liability insurance would be one - and I guess some insurance in case you let go of an expensive hound and it got squashed under a car..... Increasingly, too, people "expect" more and more experience and know-how ...

Never had a dog, I know which end is which just because I know which end bites me .... and which end has the mucky stuff that might still be clinging on....

I'd do cat sitting, but, again, I fear the ever-creeping "insurances" and guarantees, etc.

I fed a friend's kids' guinea pigs while they went on holiday once...one died. I'd not wish to go through that with a "paid client" as there'd always be a suspicion from them you did something wrong.

Farway

Forbidden sea fruits it seems, we used to go cockling, bare feet feeling for them in the sand / mud, have to purge them overnight of course

Winkles, we had them round my Nan's, bloke used to come round hollering, one of us kids was sent out with a bowl for a pint of them. Used to sit there with Nan's hatpin scooping them out

Oddly I never fancied whelks, mussels or oysters

meg72

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

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.

I have an old kenwood processer which I just bung my cauli in works a treat.

PasturesNew

Well, from lunchtime I already had the mash made .... and the beans opened, so that decided it for me and my evening meal has been served early and it was the same as lunch: fishcakes, mash, beans.

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, from lunchtime I already had the mash made .... and the beans opened, so that decided it for me and my evening meal has been served early and it was the same as lunch: fishcakes, mash, beans.

sounds lush why is it what ever I plan everyone elses meals sound so much nicer

caronc

Afternoon everyone,
It's been a busy thread while I was off-line

It's so true the trials of being solo are much wider than just CFO:(

Facebook has been my saviour when needing "a man who can", it's a local group and doesn't pull any punches with any "bodgers".;) Before I became ill I was actually pretty handy and could manage most things unless it involved heavy lifting, thankfully my younger son is very practical and when he's home does all the wee bits I can't manage.

Seafood - with the exception of raw oysters I love them and I'm also partial to tinned sardines and mackeral and I don't bother picking the bones out.:D

Spent most of this morning dealing with a huge shopping delivery and most of this afternoon recovering from dealing with it;). I've definitely got used to "just for me" deliveries and the house is crammed with food for the weekend. My kids are not arriving until late so will be CFO tonight no idea what to have yet - the fridge is full but most of it's earmarked:)