Cooking for one

caronc

After a very "high end" day food-wise dinner was a Ginsters peppered steak bake, a flat mushroom and a mini corn cob - was tasty:D

PasturesNew

I've had a general day from hell in many ways, so decided to "treat" myself to a takeaway.... and it was rubbish. Then, because I'd eaten so much, I fell asleep right after Britain's Got Talent started and have only just woken up

Today I've had:
- Toast/beans/scrambled eggs.
- Tomato sandwich (1 slice/4 cherry tomatoes)
- 2 'weetabix'/milk/sugar
- Small chocolate trifle
- Veg Biryani.

elona

pastures

I ended up watching a couples of series of "Whitechapel" on Netflix instead of live tv and really enjoyed it. My middle dd pays for Netflix at her house and shares it with me which is very thoughtful of her.

I used to think the saying "A couple of hundred channels and nothing to watch" was a joke!;)

Treated myself to a fancy solar set of bathroom scales and tried them out yesterday - they were set to kilos so had to fiddle round to get them to stones and pounds - stepped on and got a nasty shock. All the weight I had lost has leapt enthusiastically back on :eek:

Having bran flakes for breakfast and a hairy dieters mince plate pie for lunch with green veg for all four of us.

I think it is recycling this Tuesday but lost track with being away.

caronc

Oh I loved Whitechapel and actually bought the DVDs

Back to CFO today so crab salad for lunch and "yet to be decided" for dinner, it's sunny just now but rain coming in later so won't be eating summery type food this evening.

I have friends coming round for lunch tomorrow though not much cooking to be done as mainly "picky" bits to assemble though I'm going to make a quiche today. Forecast for tomorrow is lousy so will probably bung a pot of soup together as well.

Tiddlywinks

elona wrote: »

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I ended up watching a couples of series of "Whitechapel" on Netflix instead of live tv and really enjoyed it. My middle dd pays for Netflix at her house and shares it with me which is very thoughtful of her.

I'm watching Mad Men on Netflix - never watched it before and so I'm binging a bit on the box sets.

Making sure I keep stacks of popcorn made up and ready to go to stop me reaching for the biscuits.

I've started a new regime of prepping fruit, veg and salads in 'bulk' every few days so I can just reach into the fridge and grab a mix for a sarnie or snack. It's really helping to keep me on the straight and narrow.

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I have prepped ahead too, did it an hour ago, before I become peckish. Stir fry veg and some turkey for lunch and aubergine/tomato sauce from the freezer, to go with pasta later

I still have too many (costco mix) brownies in the freezer, they are yummy and intensely chocolatey and moreish. I have a couple of workmen booked in for glazing replaceent tomorrow, so will off load a few. I have taken a blind down and unscrewed the ends, so I am ready

I never saw whitechapel and am tempted. I never saw poldark and loved it when I had the boxed set. TV is utterly awful lately, so boring, it sends me to sleep but so does reading in the evening and radio 4 is boring most evenings too

Food is ok today, no problem and nicely enticing. I bought a sauce made from fermented umboshi plums, so I`ll try a little today on the stir fry. Might be too salty, so I`ll be very careful

Its cold today, so I am about to get fleeces out for seedling protection on the allotment and courgettes and tomatoes are coming in at night all this week.

PasturesNew

elona wrote: »

All the weight I had lost has leapt enthusiastically back on

It is disappointing that it's possible to gain weight so much faster than losing it. Simple maths.

If the body needs 2000 calories/day to stay still, and you eat 1000/day, then it takes 3 days to lose 1 lb (3000 cals = 1lb).

On the other hand, a good bag of sweets extra and a huge helping of calorie-laden takeaway, plus an ice-cream and a couple of other treats unnoticed over the day can add 3000 calories to the 2000 regular food you also ate .... meaning you can add 1lb/day. More if you sink a bottle of wine or two across the day!

PasturesNew

I'm 10 years behind the world on TVs. I've a portable telly and a freeview box - and broadband/PC incapable of using catchup.

I've never had Sky. Lodged somewhere once for a month where it was present, but didn't know how to use it, so could only press the + button to get to the next channel and turn it on/off.

Never had/seen Netflix at all.

If I manage to remember/find something to watch that I like then I see if - if I forget/don't know then it's gone forever.

Also, no matter what I'm watching at 3am it disappears as the box rescans itself every night without fail ... and I've no idea how to stop it doing that. It means that sometimes something interesting is being watched at 3am and I lose it for 3-4 minutes and hope it lands back on the channel I was watching as I've no idea which channel I was watching

mcculloch29

Re checking what day the recycling goes out, in this part of County Durham we have a fortnightly rubbish one week, recycling the next timetable, plus a brown garden bin scheme.
If I enter my postcode on the 'My Durham' bit of the County Council website it tells me when all the next bin days are.
Useful as I can't see anyone else's bins easily from my window, if my mind goes blank as to what has to go out when.

Tiddlywinks

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm 10 years behind the world on TVs. I've a portable telly and a freeview box - and broadband/PC incapable of using catchup.

Is it your PC or your broadband that is slow?

It might be worth checking out some broadband deals here on MSE... then you could use Now TV (super, super cheap if you buy the box from Amazon) and buy movie passes for Christmas for Sky Movies for the festive period.

You can check what speeds are available from the different providers here:

https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/postcode_checker/

Personally, I'd now give up a lot before I gave up broadband for streaming.

You could get a Now TV box (£15 for a box with a two month pass to Sky Movies on Amazon) and watch movies/TV from Youtube on your TV - I'm watching Blake's 7 (the old 70s sci fi) from there... there's loads of the oldies all available free.

I became a bit of an expert in watching TV whilst recovering from my shoulder op... somehow I can't shake the addiction .
Loafing, watching old films on the goggle box and scoffing popcorn... paradise .