Cooking for one

caronc

iammumtoone wrote: »

shopping list:
Butchers: 1 piece liver, 3 sausages, 1 pork chop
Supermarket: 6 part baked rolls or small loaf bread, tin tomatoes, mushrooms, onion, tin sardines, two jacket pots, one fresh tomato, pack stuffing mix, eggs, pack bacon.
Store cupboard: Pasta, cheese, frozen veg, milk, flour

Monday
snack: egg sandwich
main meal: Pasta with Pasta sauce made with tin tomatoes. mush,onion, frozen veg, sardines (note I like this you could substitute tuna) take out some plain tomato based sauce before adding extras

Tuesday
Snack: Sardine/tuna sandwich left over from Monday
Main Meal: Liver topped with stuffing (use half pack) and bacon. Skin of jacket pot save insides filled with frozen veg. serve with tomato sauce from Monday

Wednesday
Snack: Bacon and fresh tomato sandwich
Main Meal: two sausages (cook three), Mash using inside of jacket pot from Tuesday, frozen veg, stuffing balls use rest of mix from Tuesday, onion gravy.

Thursday
Snack: sausage and stuffing sandwich
Main Meal: Pork chop, mushroom sauce, rice, frozen veg

Friday
Snack: Cheese Sandwich
Main Meal; Omelette (2 eggs) use up rest of onion, bacon and mushrooms. Potato wedges made with the other jacket pot.

I make that I am left with 3 eggs and 1 part baked roll/some bread.

Please feel free to pick apart and point out my mistakes (I am sure they are a few, PN I am expecting you to be good at this :rotfl:) It was actually quite difficult to do (a lot of thinking, I'm not used to it :rotfl:) not something I would want to be doing every week.

I will follow my plan but it wont be for a while as I am working long hours for the next three weeks so will be eating from the canteen so it wont work as I need a week I have time to prepare sandwiches.

Looks really tasty thanks for taking the time to do this and the shopping list , the one I posted last night feels quite inadequate by comparison in detail and quantities:o

iammumtoone

PasturesNew wrote: »

EDIT: I had a quick look, you forgot to buy the rice you'd expect to eat on Thursday.

:rotfl:I knew there would be something, that should be in the store cupboard list.

I agree with the word "challenge" I didn't actually mean it in that sense literally just not sure what other word could be used for what I wanted to convey, suggestions would be good here for future reference.

substitutions for ingredients not liked would be allowed

PasturesNew

I've kind of thought to myself that this year I should try to cook something different each week at least... nothing major. Not poring over endless cookbooks and buying alien foods from shops I've never shopped in before.

I mean that, say, instead of seeing cauliflower, think "Ah, I should do a cauliflower cheese"

All those foods one's eaten many years ago and "not bothered with" in recent times because it's so easy to get in a rut.

I've not cooked sausages for awhile ... maybe add a cheeky toad in the hole to the list.

So, not reinventing the wheel and finding NEW food to cook ... but remembering things I've just not bothered with for a long time that I like.

I used to make a gorgeous tomato and onion quiche ... lost the recipe unfortunately. Not made it for about 35 years And, while making that, I used to knock up a sweetcorn one too. I got both recipes from a friend's mother after I went to her 18th birthday party at a local village hall, where her mum'd made all the food... and they were gorgeous and straight forward.

iammumtoone

caronc wrote: »

Looks really tasty thanks for taking the time to do this and the shopping list , the one I posted last night feels quite inadequate by comparison in detail and quantities:o

Yours was a weekly one, this one I wont be repeating. I just wanted to see if I could come up with a plan that involves as little waste as possible by the end of the week and nothing to go back into the freezer.

PasturesNew

As little waste as possible would start by buying ONLY ingredients that could be used up in the final meal - with the final meal being a "chuck it all in" curry, stir fry, quiche, rice dish or big omelette. Then it doesn't matter if you've 1 cherry tomato and half a chicken, whatever you decided "can be chucked in".

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've kind of thought to myself that this year I should try to cook something different each week at least... nothing major. Not poring over endless cookbooks and buying alien foods from shops I've never shopped in before.

I mean that, say, instead of seeing cauliflower, think "Ah, I should do a cauliflower cheese"

Agree with this and don't think its just singles who get into this rut. My go to meals are chilli ...there is always loads in the freezer, Jacket spuds with cheese and beans, Scampi and chips with peas (always have a bag in the freezer) tuna pasta, roast dinner, veg bubble and squeak, bacon and cheese wedges, beef in red wine, chicken casserole, pies in various forms, curry, seafood in any form

Actually thinking about it I don't do to bad for variety but still lots more to add. Tried goose for the first time this christmas and it was gorgeous it made me think about all the other meats/fish that I dont eat

PasturesNew

If you buy a loaf and 15 eggs you have 20 slices of bread.
That could be egg and soldiers for breakfast for 7 days, leaving 8 eggs and 13 slices to make egg sandwiches for 7 days for lunch.


You'd f4rt like a trooper though.

Just thinking that through there'd be two crusts, crusts are good with scrambled eggs, which need 2 minimum.
So 5 days of egg/soldiers = 5 eggs and 5 bits of toast.
2 days of scrambled eggs on toast = 4 eggs and 2 crusts.
Leaving 6 eggs and 13 bits of bread for 6 days of sandwiches + a random/spare piece of toast as a "treat"
Probably need a tub of marg to be thrown in there somewhere to make the toast more palatable. But you'd probably not get through a whole tub in a week ... unless you got a big spoon and ate it!

karcher

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you buy a loaf and 15 eggs you have 20 slices of bread.
That could be egg and soldiers for breakfast for 7 days, leaving 8 eggs and 13 slices to make egg sandwiches for 7 days for lunch.


You'd f4rt like a trooper though.

Just thinking that through there'd be two crusts, crusts are good with scrambled eggs, which need 2 minimum.
So 5 days of egg/soldiers = 5 eggs and 5 bits of toast.
2 days of scrambled eggs on toast = 4 eggs and 2 crusts.
Leaving 6 eggs and 13 bits of bread for 6 days of sandwiches + a random/spare piece of toast as a "treat"
Probably need a tub of marg to be thrown in there somewhere to make the toast more palatable. But you'd probably not get through a whole tub in a week ... unless you got a big spoon and ate it!

No to marg...gotta be real butter every time.

I could never have just one slice of toast with any variety of cooked egg..has to be two slices, with the crusts being my absolute favourite

Farway

LameWolf wrote: »

Am I the only person who never has take-away, and who actively dislikes eating out, btw?

No, same here, never have take away, not quite true, I had a fish and chips last year

Eating out, maybe pub lunch couple of times a year when out mooching around Chichester / Winchester, but then it is only good old fish and chips mostly, cos I can't make my mind up on the other stuff

Farway

karcher wrote: »

Catering for buffets is always the same. You can guarantee that the meat eaters will dive for the veggie options, which are under catered for, and leave the veggies with the option of, well, [STRIKE]sweet FA[/STRIKE] nothing.

Why not make the whole thing veggie with a couple of token meet offerings as the meat eaters only seem to want the veggie stuff:(

And I speak from experience as I was a non meat eater for 32 years!!

Not just meat eaters at fault on this one.

The buffet this Boxing Day was sorted by my ex, she sked before who was likely to want salad on the side, just lettuce / toms sort of thing. No one but me & her wanted that, so she only did one dish of it

The rest of the family snaffled all the side salad, and the irony is they are all vegetarian, except me