Cooking for one

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Lidl

I've got "cake" written in my diary, so I might pop out in a bit to see if they've still got some, it's 79p. I'll give the fish cakes a miss this time as I can't KEEP putting things in the freezer


I'm just back from 4ldi .... "only went in for bread and to mull over bread rolls....." Usual story, I walked out with bread, bread rolls, crumpets, sandwich filler, a pack of small/sweet chillies (65p), eggs, two 350g packs of cheese, a 49p pasty and bubble bath. Spent over £7!!

I then popped into £land ... as you do ... and I appear to have bought ANOTHER pack of my favourite choccies!! OMG

Came home and I was starving. Belly was hurting and I said to myself "don't be so ridiculous ... when did you last eat?" and I realised it was 24 hours ago (pie/spuds/veg) ... so oops. I made a tomato sandwich and used a teatowel as a "bib" as I didn't want tomato pips/juice to squirt over my nice white top

I thought I knew what I was going to eat this morning, now not so sure.... too much choice now.

Hollyharvey

Afternoon everyone,


Farway It sounds like it was a very good trip bargain wise to Lidl this morning.
I went to Waitrose first thing because at my local one that's when they put their ys goods out. I got a pack of my favourite sausages reduced to 90p this morning. The trouble is, I had already got today's meal out of the freezer, so essentially swapped a lamb casserole for 6 sausages in the freezer


I'm another one who loves the enamel wear. I have got a lot of the white pie dishes with the blue line around the edge.


Breakfast today was a banana and a greek yoghurt.
Lunch was a prawn salad sandwich, followed by hm apple and blackberry crumble and cream.
Dinner will be the lamb casserole with a flaky pastry top (that's something else out of the freezer) and some steamed veg. Then followed by another crumble. I may mix it up and have custard with this one


I saw my gp today and he was asking about my diet because of my heart problems, and as I was going through today's meals I was thinking that I need to watch this. I didn't need to have the pastry topping and I didn't need to make crumble let alone buy cream to have with it. However, in my defence it has got one more bag of blackberries out of the freezer.


I need to start only using the berries with yoghurt or porridge for breakfast and not for making puddings

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I need to start only using the berries with yoghurt or porridge for breakfast and not for making puddings

It might not be the pudding, it might be the portion size... if you just had a supermarket small mousse pot as a portion it'd be fine. But "spooned out" portions START at 2x that ... before you nibble away at the cut with the spoon to make it neater... - ending up with a portion about 3x the size of a mousse pot.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

It might not be the pudding, it might be the portion size... if you just had a supermarket small mousse pot as a portion it'd be fine. But "spooned out" portions START at 2x that ... before you nibble away at the cut with the spoon to make it neater... - ending up with a portion about 3x the size of a mousse pot.

Yes, I agree. I think that my portion sizes on homemade puddings/cakes tend to be rather on the large side. I think I'm ok on savoury food portion sizes, it's just on the goodies

PasturesNew

Walked to L1dl ... it's cake tomorrow .... it's just the weekend, not today. They really make it hard for you to exit the store without buying anything as you have to ask everybody in the queue to move so you can squeeze out/past.

I did see where the cake lives though .... it's a biggun. Long swiss roll shaped thing about a foot long!

I checked for YS, nothing much, as usual. Just one pack of wafer thin chicken and two garlic flatbreads .... there's very very rarely anything worth having in that shop; been shopping there for 4 years and only ever picked up a YS twice.

PasturesNew

People under-estimate how hard it is to CHOOSE what to eat. Those with others/families have it easy as they can just cook/serve what other people like, ask for, demand and want ..... they don't have to do the deciding....

There are a gazillion things I COULD eat, with what I've got in the house ... but how on earth do you actually CHOOSE?

There's no rush though; had a tomato sandwich 3 hours ago, so plenty of time yet.

moneyistooshorttomention

Kittie

I've duly sent off for a couple of those silicon waffle mould things from Amazon after you mentioned them.

Now I know I shall be wondering exactly how to make waffles in them/what types you make/etc when they turn up.....

Have you got a recipe/ideas of types of waffles to do/etc in them?

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Well it's just started pouring and looks as though it could get quite stormy, I just wish it had held off for a couple of hours until my son got up the road.:(

moneyistooshorttomention -I can't help with the waffle recipes I've only made potato waffles in mine.

PN - I think you're turning into a shopaholic LOL :rotfl:

Farway - you do well with the bargains

Holly - it's a hard one trying to put on weight but not overload on puddings and cakes:cool:

I feel I have had a productive afternoon all my tomatoes, chillies and cucumbers have been potted into bigger pots. It took me ages but hopefully it will be worth it. :)My consevatory does now resemble a garden centre - so I'll get some ribbing from my son later:o

The burgers and buns are defrosted so not much to do for dinner just make wedges and salad. I do fancy making some burger sauce but will hang fire and see if my son wants normal or spicy I'm happy with either:D As it's Friday a glass of wine will be poured in a bit......

moneyistooshorttomention

Potato waffles are a form of waffles caroc:)

The plan is to try out a range of both sweet and savoury ones:)

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Potato waffles are a form of waffles caroc:)

The plan is to try out a range of both sweet and savoury ones:)

Yes but there isn't really a recipe, oil moulds, fill with mashed potato, freeze, remove from mould (I had no success cooking these in the moulds), cook :D They are blinking nice though...