Cooking for one

Hollyharvey

Well today I have had a change from the eggs on toast or muffins for breakfast and had some porridge. I had some single cream that needed using up, so I made the porridge with water and stirred some of the cream through. It made a really nice change.


Lunch was a salmon and cucumber sandwich. When I had to clear my parents' house out three years ago I found about 30 tins of red salmon (amongst other things) in the kitchen cupboards. So I took them home with me as I really like salmon sandwiches.


Dinner has been a small chicken breast with new potatoes and salad.


All in all a pretty healthy day food wise. Well if you exclude the lemon and sultana Danish pastry mid morning, and the two crumpets and butter this afternoon.


I think that tomorrow I will make an apple and blackberry crumble to have with the last of the cream that needs using up.

Tiddlywinks

It is tough to come home from a bad day and have no-one to talk to about it - that's what cats and dogs are for though isn't it ?

Living as a couple doesn't guarantee a hug or support... my aunt has been with her OH for 30+ years; he is an absolute !!!!! and, believe me, there are worse things than living alone when you're living with someone like that!

PasturesNew

Thinking about recycling, when you view my previous list of food I've eaten today, all that will go into the recycling today is
- One simple, small, plastic tray the 6 salad tomatoes sat in
- One margarine tub I finished - I use one 250g tub of margarine/month.
- Two crushed fizzy pop cans.

candygirl

meg72 wrote: »

Back home after a lovely week in Southport we went for various trips out including a day at Buttermere Lake. Absolutely gorgeous had no idea
the North West had such beautiful scenery as not been that far up before.

Downside is that I have brought so many left overs back I will be living on it for a week at least.

Yea it's lovely up here, but we like to keep it secret I'm only 15 mins from Southport

Tiddlywinks

PN - what about all those crumpet wrappers?

moneyistooshorttomention

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

It is tough to come home from a bad day and have no-one to talk to about it - that's what cats and dogs are for though isn't it ?

Living as a couple doesn't guarantee a hug or support... my aunt has been with her OH for 30+ years; he is an absolute !!!!! and, believe me, there are worse things than living alone when you're living with someone like that!

I can believe that. I'm thinking right now of the awful man a friend of mine is involved with (thankfully not living with or married to him - and I don't anticipate him asking - whew!).

He is just so "oblivious" of anyone else basically. He doesnt just do "oblivious" to her wishes/feelings/etc. He's like that with everyone from what I can see. Add that he's as mean as sin and unfaithful to her - and you can imagine just how often I've tried to "talk sense to her" and tell her she's worth better than him. She agrees with me every time - and then sees him again:(.

I'm so glad that I'm not the sort of person that so wants A.N.Other with me that I'll settle for that sort of treatment from a man. They have to be "good or gone" imo.:rotfl:

PasturesNew

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

PN - what about all those crumpet wrappers?

They don't go in the recycling, they're just a plastic wrapper. I just fold those into a tube, give it a twist, then tie a knot in it, making it the size of a large marble ...then toss it into the general rubbish.

If I'm wrong and it is recycling ... then that's because I'm not really familiar with it all - and it's too confusing to try to understand what you can/can't recycle ... but all food wrappings of the crinkly plastic/paper type go into the general bin.
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To be honest, I'm not sure if the black ready meal containers are OK or not - but I know that everything goes onto a conveyor belt and stuff is "picked out" if it's not wanted... and as mine's as clean as a whistle I leave it up to them to decide.

Recycling is very complex and involves lots of long words to try to fathom out different types of plastics and papers and stuff. If I think it's easy to pick out by hand on a conveyor belt and I'm not sure I'll lob it into the bin. I'd not make up a "mixed/sealed package of an assortment of various plastics" for example, it's all individually lobbed into the bin, so easy to spot/keep/remove.

My trifles and cheesecakes - I put those little containers in the recycling....

My brain understands one word "plastics". If it's rigid plastic food came in/on I'll lob it in.

elona

I have problems with deciphering "plastics" and "cardboard" for recycling as there are so many caveats as to what qualifies so just do my best.

On holiday I decided to have a healthy meal as had a lot of pizza and pasta so ordered chicken and a green salad. Was expecting various different green leaves, cucumber. spring onions, maybe green pepper etc. The look on my face when presented with a large plate full of lettuce ( the same kind of lettuce) with a little dressing was a picture according to DDs. :eek:

Tomorrow will be breakfast for me and a dd and then cfo but going shopping later for ingredients to make a beef and ale pie and lots of veg for Sunday lunch. Then back to cfo again for the next couple of weeks till dd and boyfriend come to stay for a couple of days.

mcculloch29

I am fairly strict with myself about recycling. My DD lives fairly locally but in a different local authority area.
That authority has a completely different approach to recycling and I often have to quietly fish inappropriate items out of my recycling bags and bin after one of DD's visits, as what she has put in for recycling is not the right type of plastic or paper.
I'd rather do this than make an issue of it, I try not to sweat the small stuff as life is too short.

On the food front, after having to tread warily yesterday I threw caution to the wind for brunch today and had fresh baked crispy rolls filled with delicious Irish bacon . Bacon 2 for £1.75 from Heron Foods, part-baked rolls 4 for 39p from Aldi.
Stuffed still, 4 hours later..

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

For glassware, I have only put the container out once, it's a rectangular bucket thing - in it there were about 15 empty coffee jars, 6 empty food jars and one empty schloer bottle from Xmas Day.

My glass recycle is so little that I normally just pop the one clean coffee / jam jar into my neighbours one, we are sort of friendly here, tit for tat, so I get their kid's takeway bags in my normal rubbish bin as the kids walk up the communal path, rather that than chucked in the road

My normal plastic / paper type recycling is fortnightlyly, like PN I am binary, it is either "plastic" or not, all "plastic" goes in and they can sort it out on the conveyor belt, but some plastic, like my meals for one trays are so yucky that I do not wash them and just bung them straight in the normal waste bin along with food waste like broccolli stalks

Last of the marmalade for breakfast, but snaffled some more Frank Cooper Oxford on offer in Asda, £1.70, I sort of toying making a banana loaf with some of the banana mountain, and thought of bunging some marmalde in there, so far got as far as egg & bananas on the worktop, then on here and it may be tomorrow's task now

Lunch was half of YS pizza from Asda, not a posh one this time, did the job

Dinner is last of my Morrison's ready mealsl, Chinese special chicken fried rice, not my most ethical buy as I note chicken is from Thailand so free range organic is not really high on today's list of foods

On a high note, spot of gardening, arctic winds forecast next week even down here, so wrapped the beans up in cosy fleece wigwams, spotted a lone strawberry flower whilst at it, will I ever eat the fruit before the slugs? Time will tell