Cooking for one

meg72

caronc wrote: »

You can freeze the hot dogs if there are spare ones. I like the smoked sausage you get in the horseshoe shape, they have a really long use by date. Worth keeping an eye out for if you fancy a change.:)

Great idea for a salad, I think Ive seen the horseshoe shape in Poundland but could be dreaming lol.

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

You can freeze the hot dogs if there are spare ones. I like the smoked sausage you get in the horseshoe shape, they have a really long use by date. Worth keeping an eye out for if you fancy a change.:)

I try to avoid freezing things due to lack of space.

I'd be "scared" to buy a biggun .... what if I hated it? I'd be stuck, eating it .... because I refuse to waste money/food.

Lunch ended up: the spud salad and burger... I then cut a couple of slices of cheddar for the top of the burger and some cherry tomatoes.... and dolloped a big spoon of jalapeno relish on top.

It was NOM!!! Glad I had that now.

Out of burgers.

Hollyharvey

caronc wrote: »

Good morning everyone,
I've still got chocolate left from Christmas :eek: and no not because there was a mountain of it I just don't tend to go for sweet stuff if I'm munchy. Crisps, nuts etc. well that's another story.......:o

I managed to make just the right sized portion of sausage casserole last night so no LOs to use up:D.

Chocolate is one of my weaknesses, but really any cake/desserts and bakery products.


You did well on the casserole last night. I find it very hard to get if right so that there isn't any lo.

Hollyharvey

meg72 wrote: »

Really need a freezer sort out, Seem to have filled the both up again. Mainly with left overs and YS.

I've got the same problem at the moment. Both of mine are now filled up again, and like you most of it is left overs and YS. I have been batch cooking though recently and that takes up more room than the meat on its own frozen flat in ziplock bags does.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Sunny here too!

I'm out of so many "easy staples" it's tough .... I've no bread, no crumpets, no muffins, no eggs.... all of which I'd have headed for for breakfast - instead I grabbed the spud salad I made yesterday from the fridge, grabbed a fork and stood there beside the fridge eating about 12 chunks randomly ... then put it back in the fridge ... because you can do that when you live alone and you're not sharing food


Confession: Popped out this morning ..... bought ANOTHER bag of my favourite choccies I'm up to 3 bags/week I think.

Interesting breakfast


If you are enjoying the choccies then there is nothing wrong in eating 3 bags a week, we've all got to have some pleasures in life

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

So, to summarise:



That's a GREAT start.... what'll you have later?

I had a couple of crumpets with butter for supper at about 10.00pm. I don't know why because I wasn't hungry. If I haven't put on any weight when the doctor weighs me this week I will be really surprised

meg72

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I've got the same problem at the moment. Both of mine are now filled up again, and like you most of it is left overs and YS. I have been batch cooking though recently and that takes up more room than the meat on its own frozen flat in ziplock bags does.

Its a problem isn't it. I like to batch cook but am often put off because theres no room to put it. This flipping weather isn't helping either it was really cold yesterday made chilli concarne, four portions back in freezer and a pot of leek and potato soup. Today is glorious and really don't want soup so that's in the freezer too now.

meg72

Woo Hoo just won £10 in the Dr.Oetker Ristorante "Make Midweek Matter promotion. It was good anyway as got 5 pizzas for 2.99 but this is the icing on the cake.

PasturesNew

Here's a photo of my burger/spud.... it looked better in real life and tasted YUM.

Sizewise, it's a quarter pounder. Mr Sainsbobs or A1di, can't remember offhand. I'd have to look it up

https://s14.postimg.org/uws8a58ld/Burger_Potato_Saladx450.jpg

Notice spurious and random cherry tomatoes lobbed onto the plate, because I need to get through the whole punnet somehow, so I just keep shovelling them wherever I can

Farway

Nice win Meg72, that's 10 horseshoe shaped bangers from £land then?

Lovely sunny day here again, planted out the very last of my runners, all in pots, for those curious it is 34 runners & 6 climbing French beans. I think I will have a glut , but always someone wants runners in season and I can take excess to my Age Concern for clients to leave a donation. A few of us do that sort of thing. I may freeze some but space is problem, and lack of will & effort

Nil breakfast again, off into town for NHS eye test, kerching, £109 pounds later I was in Asda, bits & bobs, some nice YS salad tomatoes from Yorkshire, 6 for 11p, two packs as they keep & use them daily

Plus YS bag of salad leaves, and most important found a YS cheese & bacon flan for tonight's dinner, with frozen chips & salad, nice and easy meal

Lunch was the last of the bacon in a BLT sandwich, and last scrappings from the mayo jar as well, and nearly used up last Friday's loaf now as well, just in time to restock in Lidl on Friday

Looks like a stock up coming soon, nothing that I could not get by without, but in true onesie fashion, need some "stuff" put by just in case

Oh by the way, last night's salmon fillet, duly defrosted and nuked, but it spurted & popped the lid off in the nuker as the steam violently vented. Which left me with a slight salmony nuker. :mad: Lesson learnt there, do not nuke Lidl salmon that does not give microwave cooking as option

PS Caronc make sure the mini greenhouse is welll tied down or it will be blown away as they often are