Cooking for one

meg72

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Just got this from a friend and it cheered me, nasty cold day so cant get n the garden, thought I`d share in case anyone else wants cheering up this morning.

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I`ve just sat down with a cuppa, blimey some things take a long time, in fact the whole morning. The list:

prepared dough for sd bread, to be baked tonight

prepared for cheese scones, milk and kefir in a warm place. 1 lb of flour as freezes nicely. Will rub in and make later, when oven is on

grated cheese and there was too much for scones, steamed all the left over caulie, had in the vac jar for 10 days and spotless white, made cheese sauce with a real roux (butter and flour). Caulie cheese ready in an enamel dish (the brilliant old fashioned type) ready to grill soon

Blimey heck, so much standing. Got 1 lb of diced mutton de-frosting and 2 aubergines, so will make a mutton stew to cook slow tomorrow. It will just be a glug of this n that and maybe a touch of cinnamon. Should easily make 5 portions and will freeze 4

Hollyharvey

kittie wrote: »

Holly, that yoghurt mix with berries sounds good but try and add a few nuts too, walnuts are very good for the heart and some rolled oats and sunflower seeds, then let it stand for a while to soak and thicken up. That is what I meant by cereal, I have similar soaking for my morning snack today and it is something to look forward to


I don`t have any meal planned yet, got to put my thinking cap on, otherwise I will pick

I didn't get any nuts when I was shopping this morning but I will do when I next go out. I have added some oats to yoghurt and some defrosed summer berries and I will have this this afternoon when my DB and SIL are eating their scones this afternoon. This way it is the healthy option.

Hollyharvey

kittie wrote: »

Holly has your doc told you to cut down on salt? There is new thinking these days that the reduced salt guidelines were wrong. Salt is essential for our hearts to work properly, we used to have salt licks when we had horses and we should be sensitive to what we need, like the animals are. Our bodies tell us eg sometimes we can crave something salty, like crisps. I always add just two tiny grains of himalayan salt to my pasta water and I now put a little salt in my soups. My husband`s blood sodium level was very low, then soon afterwards he died while out keeping fit and healthy and almost all our adult lives we had this cutting out of salt. My family listen to what their bodies say and so do I, now

No the GP hasn't mentioned cutting down on salt to me. I do use the rock salt and not table salt although I did cut down my salt intake 20 years ago or more but I think I have probably been taking in enough.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
Not the best start to the day as when I got up my balance was kaput and I had raging tinnitus so the only thing for it was meds and back to bed until it settled. Thankfully it has a bit, but I suspect I'll be mainly horizontal today .
Just had the last of duck eggs poached and thoroughly enjoyed them .
Although my son will be arriving in a bit I'm still CFO as he's out with his mates tonight no idea what to have probably a freezer raid or a piece of steak.:)

Farway

Afternoon all, I will also be assuming the mainly slovenly horizontal postion today, down to making very good friends with Mr Shank's white telephone during the night. I finally got up at 1130, and am sat here in dressing gown with head, back & guts ache, like a brave little soldier

No idea what caused it, my meals were frozen fish & chips and banana sandwich

Needless to say no food required or fancied for today, the YS Lidl chilli is now in the freezer

Don't even fancy cup of tea, just some M & S presse that I have knocking around

Bit of a bummer, today's intention was some gardening, but not to be

Hollyharvey

Farway wrote: »

Afternoon all, I will also be assuming the mainly slovenly horizontal postion today, down to making very good friends with Mr Shank's white telephone during the night. I finally got up at 1130, and am sat here in dressing gown with head, back & guts ache, like a brave little soldier

No idea what caused it, my meals were frozen fish & chips and banana sandwich

Needless to say no food required or fancied for today, the YS Lidl chilli is now in the freezer

Don't even fancy cup of tea, just some M & S presse that I have knocking around

Bit of a bummer, today's intention was some gardening, but not to be

I'm sorry to hear that you have been ill Faraway. I hope that you start to feel a bit better as the day goes on.

Hollyharvey

caronc wrote: »

Good afternoon everyone,
Not the best start to the day as when I got up my balance was kaput and I had raging tinnitus so the only thing for it was meds and back to bed until it settled. Thankfully it has a bit, but I suspect I'll be mainly horizontal today .
Just had the last of duck eggs poached and thoroughly enjoyed them .
Although my son will be arriving in a bit I'm still CFO as he's out with his mates tonight no idea what to have probably a freezer raid or a piece of steak.:)

Hopefully taking it easy for the rest of the day now that it has settled a bit will help you. I have a friend who suffers with this as well and I know it can be extremely debilitating. He had to take early retirement because of the way that you never know when an attack will happen.

PasturesNew

The height of planning and culinary genius here again today.

Breakfast: One muffin, from the freezer; one scrambled egg.
Lunch: Two crumpets, from the freezer; spot of chocolate spread

Tiddlywinks

PasturesNew wrote: »

The height of planning and culinary genius here again today.

Breakfast: One muffin, from the freezer; one scrambled egg.
Lunch: Two crumpets, from the freezer; spot of chocolate spread

So, your evening meal tonight will be overflowing with fruit 'n veg then?