Cooking for one

PasturesNew

I never did buy that cheap cake that's on this weekend at L1dl. Having seen it on the shelves (still at full price) Friday night - it was a right biggun.... and I COULD have frozen it, but it'd lurk for ages and I'm trying to empty the freezer.

Top basket's now got to the point where the ice is hindering the top basket from being pulled out, so I need to just crack on, eat what's in there, defrost it .... and start again.

So cake won't be bought this weekend.

In case anybodys ears pricked up at "cake" ... it's 79p this weekend only ...

It weighs 600 grams!
Confiserie Firenze Family Pack Chocolate & Vanilla Madeira Cake

https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/Offers.htm?articleId=2880

It's a long 'un

elona

caronc

Well done to your son on doing the back step. I am still wincing at the cost of the decking but it does look good and should be much safer.

Youngest and BF are out for the day and will probably be late back so a couple of sausage rolls (er, three) seem to have been demolished and a packet of crisps may well follow. Does the fact they are vegetable crisps make them healthy

Steaks are defrosting for tomorrow and have a frozen cheesecake and chocolate fudge cake as well. Having a CBA moment rather than a CFO!

elona

Pastures

That is an incredible story and I really enjoyed reading the newspaper cutting. We have one press cutting from around the 1930s of a cousin by marriage and the story of lots of stolen jewellery, diamond rings etc being found in his house.

That does pale into insignificance with your press cutting!

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I waited in the whole day for an amazon preium package that has not arrived. Grhhh, I really wanted to go in the fresh air but didn`t. I ended the day prowling, from fridge to freezer to cupboard, anywhere I might have hidden biscuits or cake. Not any not anywhere, I had a bowl of crispy cereal, 2 boiled sweets and a bottle of fizzy kombucha. Should have had the drink first as it made me feel pleasantly full. Drat, I scoffed a whole punnet of strawberries too. If I had biscuits in, the whole packet would have been eaten. Good job I am not around the corner from a supermarket, even a flat and safe car ride would have been enough, the journey from here is hilly, narrow and twisty and isn`t worth the risk/reward just for mouth hunger. Oh now I have remembered juicy dates but its ok, I don`t need them any more

I am going to have a full hm ready meal tomorrow, with salad and I am going to get busy, oh yes amazon say it should be with me soon from tomorrow to the 16th. How many days is that? next day my eye!! I got a month premium free after I complained

Hollyharvey

kittie wrote: »

. If I had biscuits in, the whole packet would have been eaten.

Yep, that would have been me as well, in fact I have been known to eat two packets of biscuits over the course of an afternoon/evening. One packet of chocolate digestives and one of shortbread rounds


That was many years ago though.


The other think that I used to do when I was married and we had dinner parties, was come down the next morning, make a cup of tea and rummage through the fridge for the left over gateaux or desserts for breakfast. My ex used to look at me in amazement . I haven't done that for nearly 30 years now though.

caronc

Good morning,

You can't beat LOs scoffed from the fridge the "morning after" for breakfast;)

Back to CFO again today either until next weekend or for a few weeks it will depend on my son's plans:)

I've no idea about food for today there are LO ribs and nice as they are I think I'll either freeze them or have them tomorrow. The HM spring rolls were fab but what a faff to make definitely not CFO food....:cool:

The sun is shining so salad and something for lunch and then I'll decide what I fancy for later.

meg72

Good morning Suns out so deffo a gardening day. My little plastic Blowaway lol is firmly tied staked down and ready to load with seedtrays.
I want to raise some herb and perennial flowers for next year.

Raspberrys, strawberrys and rhubarb all doing well, Tomatoes starting to flower and potatoes need earthingup. BUT I think my slugs and snails held a party and invited the neighbours cos my beans have been munched, lucky have some back up ones, but hey ho that's gardening for you, live and let live, HA unless you`re a slug or snail then its ok to be a serial killer.

Oh yes dinner, hmmmm, have got a small joint of beef, ready roasted in freezer, plenty of veg so if I do extra that's today and tomorrow sorted and maybe enough left for a pie on Tues.

Roast beef dinner for 2 today
Cold beef and bubble an squeak tomorrow
Pie and chips ? Tues.

Ha meal plan done.

PasturesNew

elona wrote: »

Pastures

That is an incredible story and I really enjoyed reading the newspaper cutting. We have one press cutting from around the 1930s of a cousin by marriage and the story of lots of stolen jewellery, diamond rings etc being found in his house.

That does pale into insignificance with your press cutting!

Ooh ... a family -connected story! Marvellous. I'd be interested to follow that up and see what the end result was.

When I bought my last house I was told a story that there was allegedly something "hidden" in the house, but nobody knew what. The rumour had been around since the 1930s when some huge robbery occurred ... and it was alleged either a map or the gold was in my house. Two old ladies next door told the previous owner's handyman that in about 1980 - and he told me when he found out I'd bought the house in 2000.

First thing this morning I car booted, but hadn't eaten since yesterday, so by ~11am I was utterly starving ... but can't afford the luxury of buying a Scouts Charity Tent burger for £2-3 there, I've food at home. I came home and had a Corrie Chicken Sandwich.

I've absolutely no idea what's for tea.... I've got a 49p pasty. That in my mind either needs to be eaten alone (then it's not really a meal) or is best served with mash and beans, but I've no spuds... and I feel in the mood for "proper spuds", not the instant. So hard when you've only got "the wrong potatoes".

I'll see how I feel later... might end up just eating the pasty on its own.

Bought some interesting bits and bobs at the car boot, but spent £13.50 that's not really necessary ... and I fear one item at least will need to be immediately resold as I was "sucked up in the excitement" and bought something I don't really want/need at all.....

I bought something "cooking related" too, but don't want to mention that else I'll end up having to use it just to let people know how that worked out. So I'll tell you in some months when I've finally got round to using it,

PasturesNew

Oh - I bought a lolly maker that's good for FFO (freezing for one!).

You'd think a lolly maker was easy to find .... when I was a kid we used to have them and I'd even bought one recently, very small lollies, but I thought better than nothing, until I tried to use it - and realised it's a "lolly maker for families" as the shaped part is integral to the set. So you pour juice/whatever into the six holes, but you can't extricate ONE easily. You end up faffing about waving the whole six in the air trying to warm up one just enough for the lolly to slide out.

This lolly maker is six individual cases with integral plastic sticks, that sit individually in a holding frame.... so you can fill all six, but only pick out one to defrost! Perfect.

Farway

Afternoon all

Sun's out, ready for a spot of gardening once it moves round the front a bit more, bit of a breeze. Got the 6 that become 7 toms potted on, next is tackle the daff leaves at the front

Meg72, shame you're not nearer, my daughter gave me loads of herb seeds for my birthday, needless to say all germinated, now I have zillions of herbs I do not use or know how / where to, like parsley, dill, coriander. I expect they will fit somewhere eventually

Early up this morning, no idea why, perhaps heavy rain woke me although it was not raining when I got up, and so actaully fancied some breakfast

Had two stale crusts to use, and scrambled eggs on toast fitted nicely in there

Lunch was the other part baked baguette, with cheese, tom & sald bit. It all fell aprat of course because I tried to stuff too much in it. Good job it was on large plate, turned into finger food

Dinner will be half the YS 3 cheese deep pan pizza from yesterday, with side salad, no spuds though or it will be too many carbs for the day for me

The other half of the pizza will be tomorrow, could be lunch / dinner or maybe even breakfast if I follow some of your CFO ideas and fancy a breakfast that is