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nothing untoward today, had visitors yesterday and have much leftover hm frozen cake, doh I wanted to run it down too

toast and peanut butter for breakfast, plus a few grapes and a fig

I still have hm soup in the fridge, will be good today and I`ve got to think of something to do with spring greens, maybe shredded fine with something or other. I also have some mozarella so will need to make a pizza. Just a simple one with tomato paste and able to be frozen in portions

Main thing is to get out on my bike later, it will be very quiet on the lanes today and I want to explore a new area

PN, oh sorry about the finger, I bet it hurt a lot. Did you swear, even a mild swear? I would have

moneyistooshorttomention

Found out yesterday that I've got 2 more weeks of things not quite "back to normal" yet in my kitchen. Don't feel I can fully get my act together until it's decorated. Cue for two little "s*dding things to put right" (though kitchen is perfectly usable without them) that are due to be done this coming week. The decorating of it isn't going to be done until the next week. Then I'm fully sorted and good to go with "eating as I decide" and in full swing for a decent kitchen to use at last.

So - somewhat improved eating now the bulk is done - but not quite there yet.

Stuff starting to come in from the garden to help out and yesterday's garden contributions to the menu was sorrel and spring onions and some rhubarb frozen from last year. The rhubarb being a bit of a CBA thing of some of the stewed rhubarb - topped with a leftover bit of bread made into breadcrumbs and sauted in butter and some almond flakes chucked on top as a sort of charlotte. Have decided one of my "alternative" type sweeteners doesnt do the job properly - so squeezed some healthy type chocolate sauce on top to up the sweetness levels.

Have got a load of plug tomato plants out there planted during the last week and must pay a visit to a garden centre during the coming week and see what other veggie plug plants I can find. Reflex action going on of "catch a glimpse of the world news = whoops better do some more work on the foodgrowing in garden" at the moment....

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

PN, oh sorry about the finger, I bet it hurt a lot. Did you swear, even a mild swear? I would have

It was disconcerting - I didn't swear. The effect of a crushed finger was beyond the ability to swear, I was in a form of "survival mode"; I could just double over going OW, OW, OW, OW for ages.... then stagger to the freezer for peas... then I got a raging overwhelming "super hot" moment and had to remove my cardigan, then I came over all queer - like my entire body drained of all blood... and I started to feel dizzy and light headed and at the same time I realised I wanted to be sick, so I was stuck between "am I about to pass out, or be sick, or both?" So I sat on the floor clutching frozen peas as I thought that if I fell I couldn't hurt myself from there.

I really thought "Heck, this is it .... body found after X months" ...

I then thought "low blood sugar?" and reached for the chocolates and ate one. Then I thought "unlock the house in case I manage to call 999" ... and I opened the patio doors and started to feel better (must have been the chocolate).

This morning I have bruising under my finger nail.

PasturesNew

You know how you're sitting on the sofa thinking you know what you'll eat - then you go to the kitchen and open a door and have an entirely different thought?

Breakfast turned out to be: toast, whole tin of tomatoes, 2 scrambled eggs, some cocktail sausages and brown sauce

A filling breakfast, just so I don't have to think about what to cook/eat for many hours to come.

Only the washing up to do, but that's not a lot: one plate, one knife/fork, 3 mugs.

mcculloch29

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Have decided one of my "alternative" type sweeteners doesnt do the job properly - so squeezed some healthy type chocolate sauce on top to up the sweetness levels.

That wouldn't be stevia, would it? I really want to support greener/Fairtrade/free range products as much as possible but having tried stevia in both granulated and tablet form, I've found it utterly useless. It went in the bin, and I hate wasting anything. I haven't got an overly sweet tooth but I couldn't detect it at all.

PasturesNew

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I really want to support greener/Fairtrade/free range products as much as possible

I support "the other team".
I support "money retained in my own purse".

I couldn't give one monkey's fig to saving a planet, or a species, or a tribe .... I go with price every time ... I'm saving "ME!"

moneyistooshorttomention

mcculloch29 wrote: »

That wouldn't be stevia, would it? I really want to support greener/Fairtrade/free range products as much as possible but having tried stevia in both granulated and tablet form, I've found it utterly useless. It went in the bin, and I hate wasting anything. I haven't got an overly sweet tooth but I couldn't detect it at all.

No. It's Sweet Freedom fruit syrup.

Though I'm not convinced by stevia either and have got vague idea I read something I didnt like that much about how its produced and/or what its got in with it.

I don't use agave syrup for similar reasons.

So - it looks like my sweetening stuff will be date syrup (which I do like and feel ok about how its produced) and maple syrup and both of these come in glass and not plastic. I've got coconut sugar tucked away I've not really given a good tryout yet - so it may be another possible. Of course - there's honey (ie a decent quality one - like raw/organic/etc). There do seem to be more sugar substitutes on the market these days - now that a lot more people are eating "my way" - so I keep my eyes out for what else is coming out.

mcculloch29

PasturesNew wrote: »

I support "the other team".
I support "money retained in my own purse".

I couldn't give one monkey's fig to saving a planet, or a species, or a tribe .... I go with price every time ... I'm saving "ME!"

I can go with that to some extent. I would rather not think about how my 1800g for £1.49 Heron Foods bacon is produced. I do think free range eggs taste better though.
Re saving the planet and species, once they are gone, they are gone. I like animals and plants so support saving them.
It's not quite the same as supporting Fairtrade, which is just ensuring workers get a reasonable deal.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I support "the other team".
I support "money retained in my own purse".

I couldn't give one monkey's fig to saving a planet, or a species, or a tribe .... I go with price every time ... I'm saving "ME!"

Not for me, but each to their own and do as circumstances and personal preferances require

I'm more in mcculloch29 camp, prefer to by stuff that does not mean some poor s0d has rotten wages / conditions just to knock 3p off my purchase and buy organic sometimes, and cheap horrible stuff sometimes, depends, I do not go out of my way to do make a choice, but will do without sometimes if I think it is "not right" which could range from local factory farmed through to organic from certain countries

Back to CFO, skipped breakfast, two reasons, still full from yesterday's "do" at my daughter's, and it was 10/10 for veg as suspected plus healthy omega oil laden salmon thingy in puff pastry, and I wanted early start feeding the roses

Lunch I decided to try again the HM pizza from baguette method I found on here [thanks PN]. Much better this time, so obviously practice is the key to that. And the tom ketchup was freshly opened vintage 2013 Heinz one

Dinner not decided, I sort of think I should use up some of the fresh veg in the fridge with a frozen de luxe pie, but think it is getting into the CBA range this time of the afternoon ans dtill full from lunch

Perhaps the filled Easter egg pressie I got yesterday will hatch this evening? Solve that food problem at least

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

I support "the other team".
I support "money retained in my own purse".

I couldn't give one monkey's fig to saving a planet, or a species, or a tribe .... I go with price every time ... I'm saving "ME!"

I found once I had kids I cared very much about saving the planet.