Cooking for one

meg72

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.

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Who cares? its one advantage of being single.

PasturesNew

meg72 wrote: »

Who cares? its one advantage of being single.

And, often, it's the only company you'll get all day

I've not actually spoken to anybody this year yet.

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

And, often, it's the only company you'll get all day

I've not actually spoken to anybody this year yet.

that makes me sad with that wit you really should not be hiding yourself inside

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

that makes me sad with that wit you really should not be hiding yourself inside

I'm not hiding - there's just nothing to go out for. I've not got the spare cash to go willy nilly doing things and joining things - and this "wit" face to face can upset people who misunderstand what I said/meant too

There's no "joy" going outside just to walk round in circles by yourself, in the cold, without waterproof clothing ... it's pointless... so I don't do it.

Here I've got a telly and I can eat ...

I'd go out if I could see a point.

What do others do when they go out with nothing to do and alone and empty pockets, in the cold?

Tiddlywinks

Going back to bread...

I've just finished off a small malted / seeded loaf I made on Thursday and it was still crispy... it's all down to the type of bread and the way you store it.

I used to make a loaf and store it in a plastic box thinking that keeping it airtight would help it 'keep'. It didn't, it made it soft from the moisture created by the yeast. I tried all sorts of things and then someone on here said they used a cloth.... BINGO!

Now I make a loaf in the breadmaker, put it on a rack to cool and then wrap it in a cotton tea towel and it sits on the rack till it's used up.

A medium loaf for the Panasonic takes 400g of flour, less than a tsp each of salt, sugar and yeast and about a tablespoon of olive oil. Then add tap water.

Even buying a super-expensive seeded flour the loaf costs me less than 60p and I get about 8 slices (plus end crusts) from each loaf. My normal brown loaf costs about 30p to make.

That loaf from Thursday did me for dunking in stew, a sarnie, a toastie, toast and jam for brekkie and I'm going to fry the crusts for croutons to have with a hummus salad tomorrow.

It's very rare I'd not get through a loaf of homemade - but then I'm greedy and love Nutella.

Tiddlywinks

PasturesNew wrote: »

What do others do when they go out with nothing to do and alone and empty pockets, in the cold?

Well... I nosey at those neighbours who don't close their curtains. Their windows light up at night and it's better than the telly.

I read a hippie psycho babble type book a couple of weeks ago about increasing your luck... hmm yes well... anyway, this guy suggested you walk along and look for lost coins, he reckons that if you expect to find some then you will start to notice them. Haven't tried it yet...

Anyway, have you thought about looking on Meetup? There's all sorts of groups on there.

https://www.meetup.com/

Some in our area (now don't take this the wrong way) are actually for locals that have social anxiety or feel shy or awkward. Their bumph says that you can come and go through the night and don't need to explain if you want to do a runner. You don't even have to mingle either unless you want to.

One which is a great idea is for home workers - they meet up for coffee and have Secret Santa from crimbo etc.

There are walking clubs too - they just meet and... well... walk . But as a group so you have some company.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's no "joy" going outside just to walk round in circles by yourself, in the cold, without waterproof clothing ... it's pointless... so I don't do it.

Here I've got a telly and I can eat ...

I'd go out if I could see a point.

What do others do when they go out with nothing to do and alone and empty pockets, in the cold?

Perhaps not exactly in your shoes, I do have waterproof clothing and cash in my pocket for instance, but unknown to me I have been walking "mindfully" for years. That is just mooching / dawdling along and just looking in other folks gardens, up at the clouds, generally looking around me

But one of my hobbies is photography, digital pocket camera, always on the lookout for the picture of the year, not yet found it of course

But then I am a glass half full sort of bloke. Whilst not my choice I see Brexit and Trump as an opportunity and not something to cry and go flakey over

Farway

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I read a hippie psycho babble type book a couple of weeks ago about increasing your luck... hmm yes well... anyway, this guy suggested you walk along and look for lost coins, he reckons that if you expect to find some then you will start to notice them. Haven't tried it yet...
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Always looking for coins, last week found 70p outside a pub, found a quid before that

Seems bus stops are good places, some kids today are so posey they chuck coppers away, don't want to spoil the look of the trousers, or maybe impress their mates?

PasturesNew

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

https://www.meetup.com/

I've often looked at that over the years - there's nothing much/of interest and most groups do end up spending money... e.g. they meet or end in a pub. And you have to drive to get to them and pay to park. It's easy to rip through £5 just to go and walk "for free" - and if somebody says "pub" at the end, that's another couple of quid.

Also, I rarely meet anybody I've actually got a single thing in common with - a lot of groups are "people getting away from their home/other half/family" and are then keen to dash off to them ... not interested in making friends, they're there "to get out of the house". IYSWIM.

PasturesNew

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

this guy suggested you walk along and look for lost coins, he reckons that if you expect to find some then you will start to notice them.

I've rarely seen coins... maybe it's more of a "city/urban" thing. If you're looking down at the ground/at your feet, you're not even seeing what you're walking past... and after 20-30 years you'd be a hunchback

Many years ago I realised that the arm/machine to get out of the multi-storey car park was a good place to check, very early the next morning.... if there were pubs/clubs near by - people with a car laden with drunk mates and a queue of cars leaving behind them will try to put the coins in the machine and drop them, in the dark .... they'd just get another one, not get out of the car to look for it. That can add up some nights. But I'm not going to do a 16 mile round trip to the nearest big town where that might happen "in case" I see any.