Cooking for one

meg72

caronc wrote: »

Sorry me again Meg which dehydrator do you have? Thanks

I have the round type Andrew Jones its years old and originally bought used on ebay . I bought it as at the time my DD was fund raising for her school shes a teacher. She needed large quantities of dried orange and lemon slices for Christmas decs and they are so expensive. This does the job perfectly and at a fraction of the cost.

If I had to replace it I would go for the latest one which is a rectangular shape easier to store and costs around £35. on ebay.

I use it a lot when I get reduced veg or a glut of something in the garden but it really comes into its own for Christmas, I make pot pouri with satsuma peel, dried hydrangea heads, tiny fircones and anything else I can forage, dried orange and lemon slices and a marvellous scented mix of cloves, cinnamon and orange oil.

They are really useful and a lot of fun.

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

.... bitty eating all day

You need to google that ....

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuPBbFOiygo

PasturesNew

Right... food... s0ddin' food. Again.

Whenever you buy something it can change everything ... in fact, it usually does, with items dominating the menu.

Yesterday I bought what I thought were "a pack of 6 bread rolls" - trouble was, I ate two with cheese/pickle and decided I didn't actually like them enough to "choose" them ever again.

So, four bread rolls remaining, with a best before date of yesterday (bought as they were 30% off, so thought a good time to try them) ... and as I don't particularly like them AND I'm trying to empty the freezer, there was no way I can freeze them.

So, lunch today will be one of those bread rolls with a beefburger and a squirt of ketchup. CBA to add cheese to the top, nor onions.

Three down, three to go.

Farway

at last, the parcel arrived, on time and I was in. Only 2 days wasted staying in when I could have been out mooching buying tat & rubbish

The HM mushroom pate is lush, as long as appearance is ignored, bet kids would love it if told it was cat poo on toast, 'cos that is what it looks like :eek:

I scoffed the last LO spud salad with it at lunch time, so change of menu tonight, still the cold pork but will be with steamed fresh veg now, just as well, it has gone cold and I have clicked the heating on

Now off to wrestle with the sound bar that was in the parcel, hope it improves my TV sound, fed up with the blurred mumbles on some programmes

Very MSE, the sound bar was a "points reward" from scanning shopping over the years, over 200 quids worth and something I would never buy. No cash alternative option unfortunately

That is one good thing about CFO and scanning shopping, only a few items to scan and not a car load. Same number of points as a family of 6 though AFAIK

PasturesNew

I appear to be serial-purchasing bags of my favourite choccies.... then eating them. I've done it again.

I had it in my head I wanted to buy something and "discovered" a branch of my preferred shop to buy from right across the road from an A5da... so off I went. The item's on their website but I've already been to two stores and they didn't have any, so I thought I'd try this 3rd one as a last ditched attempt. They didn't have what I wanted .... I still managed to make some purchases though, including a bag of my favourite choccies

Then it was into A5da... for the chocolate spread. Odd that, I remembered the price being a lot cheaper when I'd looked, although I admit I wasn't really taking notes so the cheaper price could be somewhere else. So I mooched.... and they had the product I'd originally set out to buy, but at 2x the price of the other shop - my research though told me this was still half price of other choices and I was standing there, so bought it anyway....

Then I spotted some strange reduced products. They weren't flashed stickers, they were in a separate cabinet and the reduced prices were "low key" and shelf marked... they had macaroni cheese ready meals that are usually 74p, selling for 35p. So I got two of those - the odd thing is they're best before 12 May. I also got a big lump of cheddar.

Already scoffed 3 choccies I'll call those "late lunch".

candygirl

A very weird, cba tea for me; a cheese, salad cream, red cabbage n roasted courgette wrap.Have still got tons of stuff in, so don't need to go shopping :-D

Tiddlywinks

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yesterday I bought what I thought were "a pack of 6 bread rolls" - trouble was, I ate two with cheese/pickle and decided I didn't actually like them enough to "choose" them ever again.

So, four bread rolls remaining, with a best before date of yesterday (bought as they were 30% off, so thought a good time to try them) ... and as I don't particularly like them AND I'm trying to empty the freezer, there was no way I can freeze them.

So, lunch today will be one of those bread rolls with a beefburger and a squirt of ketchup. CBA to add cheese to the top, nor onions.

Three down, three to go.

Nooooooooooooo - just no!

Throw them away - life's just too short to be eating stuff your won't enjoy.

mcculloch29

Or make rolls into breadcrumbs (see above).

I had planned on having fish and wedges, then a leaflet for a pizza company dropped on to the mat...

No, of course I didn't, but it did put pizza in my mind whilst gawping at the prices (£18 for 1 pizza?!).

So being of a hungry mind I made the bases out of flatbreads in less than 10 minutes and made 2 9 inch cheese, tomato and salami pizzas for approx £1.

They were slightly cheaper this time as I didn't have yogurt and used just milk for the flatbread dough. I also used cream of tartar and bicarb for baking powder. Both tubs have been in the cupboard for years, but don't appear to have deteriorated.

caronc

Evening everyone,

Meg thanks for the information I'm so tempted.....;)

I'm so glad I've got a pre-made fish pie for tonight as to say physio today was thorough is an understatement, I feel as though I've been run over :eek:, it'll be worth it though when the ache settles as I'll feel the benefit. Heat pad tonight for the worst bit (they now think when I had my last fall I might have chipped the bone where my collar bone joins my arm as well as wrenching the tendon and boy is it tender) and a large glass of red to soothe the rest.....;)

I've now got lots of mushrooms, spuds and green beans. My green beans were subbed up a size and in my order was a pack of mushrooms and a small bag of jersey royal spuds. (I've already got spuds and mushrooms in the fridge). I did point it out to the driver but as I was the last one on the run he said just to keep them as they would just get binned :eek: if returned.....so I did. I doubt it will be much hardship using them up though.;) Farway -I might need to make some mushroom pate will see how many are left after [STRIKE]the hoover[/STRIKE] my darling son has been up this weekend.

caronc

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Or make rolls into breadcrumbs (see above).

I dry out stale morning rolls on my radiators (wrapped in a tea towel) then blitz until very fine. I find this brill for HM burgers or sausages or coating fish etc.