Cooking for one

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, there's a strange turn of events.... I went for a mooch round Sainsbobs... didn't even get a basket as I didn't intend to buy anything, just look to see what they sell....

No YS stuff of note. e.g. sandwiches I didn't want reduced from £2.50 to about £1.20, so pfft.

Then wander round the freezer dept - check out the £1.10/8 choc ices (but not buy any) .... and there they were.... hash browns, "reduced" from £1.25 to 90p. So without researching the market/price I just thought "seize the day" and bought them ... well, I was on a roll then! So I also checked out "cheap pizzas" and grabbed a £1.20 chicken/sweet chilli pizza .... and I thought "might as well get the choc ices now then as I'm buying frozen stuff

So I spent £3.20 in total .... freezer's jammed full of food... I'm supposed to be emptying it!

I'd popped out earlier and picked up my favourite choccies too - which is why I'd told myself I couldn't ALSO buy choc ices...

Worra biffer.... worra piggy wiggy. I seem to be "over treating" myself lately; I started.... and haven't yet stopped.

Oh well... I probably "am worth it"

Of course you`re worth it. Enjoy you treats.

PasturesNew

I opened the bag - there are about 20 in there .... so I nuked two.
Pretty tasteless and not the best way to cook them, but they're edible.
As I've now about 18 remaining, I'll cook them other ways too and see if they're worth getting again, but I don't think I'll be bothering.

For the same taste I might as well buy oven chips at half the £/100g price.

I've also now researched the prices.

Sainsbobs, paid 90p for 700g.
A1di do a bag at 72p for 750g.
Mr T wants £1 for 750g.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, there's a strange turn of events.... I went for a mooch round Sainsbobs... didn't even get a basket as I didn't intend to buy anything, just look to see what they sell....

No YS stuff of note. e.g. sandwiches I didn't want reduced from £2.50 to about £1.20, so pfft.

Then wander round the freezer dept - check out the £1.10/8 choc ices (but not buy any) .... and there they were.... hash browns, "reduced" from £1.25 to 90p. So without researching the market/price I just thought "seize the day" and bought them ... well, I was on a roll then! So I also checked out "cheap pizzas" and grabbed a £1.20 chicken/sweet chilli pizza .... and I thought "might as well get the choc ices now then as I'm buying frozen stuff

So I spent £3.20 in total .... freezer's jammed full of food... I'm supposed to be emptying it!

I'd popped out earlier and picked up my favourite choccies too - which is why I'd told myself I couldn't ALSO buy choc ices...

Worra biffer.... worra piggy wiggy. I seem to be "over treating" myself lately; I started.... and haven't yet stopped.

Oh well... I probably "am worth it"

I hope that you enjoy the hash browns, I haven't had any for ages but I do like them.


You are most definitely worth a few treats, we all need treats in our life.

Hollyharvey

I have had a day spent mostly cleaning and pondering doing the ironing. I decided to pass on the ironing, it will still be there tomorrow so can wait.


I had some porridge for breakfast today and a cheese salad sandwich for lunch with a banana and an apple later in the afternoon.


Dinner was turkey goulash with the last of the Jersey Royals and some steamed veg.


I have got a small piece of beef out of the freezer to cook tomorrow. I'm sure that there is enough there for about 4 meals, so I will probably end up portioning it up in gravy and putting in the freezer to use up for roast dinners.

mcculloch29

Cheese and bacon filled puff pastry wraps - hm - with hm oven baked BBQ wedges now, and baby leaf salad here, I am stuffed. Next time I get the blocks of pastry I will divide them in to 3 and make 2 wraps from each third, I felt very greedy eating three. Well, two for tea and one for supper just now, stuffed to the gills.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I do like a hash brown preferably baked until really crispy and served with HP sauce!:)
Thanks for all your kind wishes re my pooch.
I had a real yen for comfort food last night so put together a shepherds pie with bits from the freezer. It wasn't a pretty sight but hit the spot.
On- line shop this morning so salady bits for lunch and I'm not sure about tonight yet.
Hopefully I'll get my peas planted out this afternoon and maybe some chard seeds planted

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

It wasn't a pretty sight

I'm a firm believer in my saying "There are no points for presentation".

I once spent aaages making mum a "nice shepherd's pie". Mash, mince/etc. Then I greased a dish and put the mince in, carefully topped the pie with mash, added some sliced tomatoes and cheese, then put it into an oven to brown and get a crispy topping for about 15-20 minutes.... then I served it.

For all the enthusiasm when a plate was put in front of her, I knew she'd have been just as happy if she'd had a plate of mince and mash. She liked mince and mash ... but I thought I'd "make it nicer" .... and it wasn't needed.

Henceforth ... there are NO points for presentation

PasturesNew

At ~6am I had my breakfast. 2x toast, 1/3rd tin of beans, 2 scrambled eggs, splash of brown sauce, black coffee.

I figured I'd "set myself up for the day in case I ended up leaving the house". But it's grey/overcast and quite unpleasantly windy. I hate the wind - I always say it's the one weather you can't dress for.

There's a food festival locally, but I won't go today ... too windy. I'm not overly bothered to be honest. I've been before. There's no charge to "get in" as there's no "in" - it's all outside/they shut the High Street down.

But what you get is an endless row of expensive food outlets selling expensive foodie items.... with very few samples at all - a sausage sample would be the size of half a pea.

There are optional "workshops" to attend, where you buy expensive tickets for posh people to show you how to make expensive dishes using expensive equipment ... so that's of no use/ornament to me.

The rest is "artisan and/or organic local-producers of foodie fine dining foods; food stands selling outrageously priced 'latest fad' stuff" ... at food festival inflated prices. No hotdogs for £2, instead it's organic hand-reared pulled pork in artisan prepared hand rolled bread for £5.

And that's it ... so it amounts to: plodding along a crowded street, watching other people buy things ....

caronc

Oh a food festival that would be up there in one of my favourite days out though they are pricey!
Thankfully the local food market we have once a month although not a pile it high and sell it cheap one the pricing is decent for the quality and range of stuff on offer. Still a treat though rather than a stock up!:)

An interesting sub in my on-line shop today. I had ordered 100g of sliced pork from the deli counter (£1) which was out of stock. My sub was 1000g (10 x 100g packets of sliced pork loin) as the driver said they'll freeze but he was a bit mystified as well . They've a decent use by though - end of May so doubt I'll struggle to make a dent in them and I'm sure my Dad and Sister will take some....

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just back from 2 hours on the lottie and starving, scrambled my fridge looking for something, anything. Am now sat eating 1/2 a cooked portabella mushroom, sliced in butter, on 1/2 a thick piece of sd taste and yum yum. Never ever thought to eat that for a snack

all sorts salad for lunch, preparing in stages as in, all washed and ready, just in case CBA strikes. I went to waitrose yesterday, don`t go often as it is a 30 mile round trip but fancied a couple of hours out. I am envious of any close to one but also not envious cos it is so easy to spend loads of money

I don`t think of a number per day, I know I eat a lot of numbers, maybe 7-10 a day minimum but just counting up through lunch
grapefruit
cherries
mushrooms
lettuce
spinach
tomatoes
cucumber
alfalfa
red pepper
stewed apple
blackcurrants

Think I will have cereal and almond milk for my last meal. Don`t need to think harder. That plus a sd hm spelt fruit bun. Maybe a few nuts, maybe not because they will be on the salad. Maybe a slice of pineapple as is good for digestion