Cooking for one

Hollyharvey

I've managed to clear half of a draw in the fridge/freezer but the chest freezer is still full to brimming. I wanted to cut up a 2kg joint of rump beef into 4 to use for roasts. It is from a really good quality butcher and a friend has managed to get it half price. She didn't realise that I had rund out of freezer space and she hasn't got room for it in hers.


So it's decision time...do I use the freed up half of a draw for this, therefore filling up the freezers again or do I pass on a good offer. I can't decide One quarter of it would make for a nice roast this bank holiday and salads/sandwiches for a few days.


On a more boring note, I'm waiting for a delivery and am already fed up. So far I have cleaned through the house including things like the tops of the kitchen cupboards.


Breakfast started off early with scrambled eggs on toast, then later yoghurt and berries, and mid morning a couple of slices of toast. You can tell I'm bored

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

.....really good quality butcher and a friend has managed to get it half price.


So it's decision time...do I use the freed up half of a draw for this, therefore filling up the freezers again or do I pass on a good offer. I can't decide One quarter of it would make for a nice roast this bank holiday and salads/sandwiches for a few days.

Have it. That's a legitimate use.

It's not as if you're pondering over some 24p crumpets from Lidl.

meg72

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I've managed to clear half of a draw in the fridge/freezer but the chest freezer is still full to brimming. I wanted to cut up a 2kg joint of rump beef into 4 to use for roasts. It is from a really good quality butcher and a friend has managed to get it half price. She didn't realise that I had rund out of freezer space and she hasn't got room for it in hers.


So it's decision time...do I use the freed up half of a draw for this, therefore filling up the freezers again or do I pass on a good offer. I can't decide One quarter of it would make for a nice roast this bank holiday and salads/sandwiches for a few days.


On a more boring note, I'm waiting for a delivery and am already fed up. So far I have cleaned through the house including things like the tops of the kitchen cupboards.


Breakfast started off early with scrambled eggs on toast, then later yoghurt and berries, and mid morning a couple of slices of toast. You can tell I'm bored

I`ve lost count of the number of times I have emptied a drawer only to fill it up again if something is a really good bargain I take the view get it while you can. A big part of the reason I keep my two freezers is the money it saves me. I originally told myself it was for the times I couldn't get out to shop but have realised lately that I can manage very well with tinned if need be.

So I would keep it lol after all it costs less to run a freezer if its full.

PasturesNew

I don't often use my freezer for bargains as I so rarely see them. I use it to break the cycle of eating the same things repeatedly, to provide more variety and to 'get something better'.

There's not a lot of anything of value in my freezer at all.

e.g. I bought the pie, that was reduced - this gave me four pie meals but I could only eat two. A big/family pie, to me, is much more satisfying to eat than individual pies, which become too pastry-based. I LOVE pastry, but when you get individual pies there's usually just a bit too much; family sized pies are more often deeper with the filling and the pastry/meat balance is right.

I am currently veering towards liking frozen packs of small things, such as fish fingers, fish cakes, burgers. A freezer enables me to buy a pack of 15 frozen fish fingers... and take 6 months to eat them all.

I rarely have "meat" in mine at all. I did buy a frozen turkey joint (standardised size/in a foil tray) at Xmas - and I have got a tiny bit of sausagemeat in there at the moment. In the past I've frozen a couple of packs of meatballs and mince. But, in the main, I get my meat from prepared foods, not raw.

My freezer usually contains 1Kg of frozen chips - not bought since I started to try to empty my freezer - and 1Kg of frozen mixed veg - and some whole chillies. It's often got half a frozen loaf in it, or muffins or crumpets.

Buying Xmas dinner food was my downfall - I bought in more frozen veg than usual, which is still lurking.....

If my freezer broke today it'd have very little of value in it.... probably £5-6's worth maximum.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's not as if you're pondering over some 24p crumpets from Lidl.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Although it would probably help if I ate a few of the crumpets in the outside freezer

Hollyharvey

meg72 wrote: »

So I would keep it lol after all it costs less to run a freezer if its full.

Yes I'm going to have it. I've had a piece of beef from the same place before and it was lovely. They usually sell it at £16.99 a kilo and it sells really well at that price :eek: and it is £8.49 a kilo, so really good value for the quality

PasturesNew

I opened the cupboards just to see "what've I actually got in here then?" - and right at the front was a single jar of paste..... my favourite, crab. So I thought "I should get round to eating that" - and I started to shut the cupboard door and thought "NOW!". So I made some toast and spread it very generously on top of two slices

It's definitely sandwich day here - it's a scorcher. Can't go outside though as there's heavy machinery/huge building going on next door

Sweating my butt off ... but I can't think of anywhere to "go to the beach" as I'd get there and just remember stuff I had at home, or things I wish I'd remembered to pack .... by the time I'd worked out which beach and what to take ... the day'd be over.

This is, in part, one of the reasons for my shopping trolley ... so I can pre-pack it one day when I think "tomorrow I will go ....."

A beach, on your own, is pretty boring really ... what're you going to do? You've had to lug all this stuff out ... and pick your spot ... and set it all up. Then what? It's all a bit boring sitting there staring at the sand/sea, without a costume or other people, anyway. And you'll have had to walk half a mile or so probably just to get some free parking (as it costs £7-10 for the time you MIGHT spend there).

Izadora

PasturesNew wrote: »

A beach, on your own, is pretty boring really ... what're you going to do?

Do you swim? A beach on my own is pretty much heaven for me, nobody to moan at me that they're bored/too hot/want to go home.
I pick my spot, put some music on (headphones, I hate people who think that everyone on the beach wants to listen to whatever they've got on) and read a book. If I start to get a bit warm I go for a quick dip to cool down and then carry on reading/listening to music.

When I was a kid I often used to take my textbooks to the beach to study as it was somewhere distraction-free and I could go for a swim to clear my head when it all got too much.

PasturesNew

Izadora wrote: »

Do you swim? A beach on my own is pretty much heaven for me, nobody to moan at me that they're bored/too hot/want to go home.
I pick my spot, put some music on (headphones, I hate people who think that everyone on the beach wants to listen to whatever they've got on) and read a book. If I start to get a bit warm I go for a quick dip to cool down and then carry on reading/listening to music.

When I was a kid I often used to take my textbooks to the beach to study as it was somewhere distraction-free and I could go for a swim to clear my head when it all got too much.

I do swim, but you have to be mindful of "who is watching your stuff" even if it's in a little tent. I did have a cossie, but I'm not that size any more (it's too big). I could swim in shorts - I've some "obscenely tiny shorts for a lady of my age", which I've owned for over 10 years (bought when I first lost 3 stone and never got round to wearing). And a T shirt could be found to go with those.

I have just bought a bottle of sun cream "in case" I end up going outside in the coming days, if I've got some in the house then it's one less thing to use as an excuse not to go

I don't listen to music and I don't read - can't even see words in bright sunshine either. In fact, I can't sit "in" the sun as I become lightheaded within 5-10 minutes.

The other trouble is I am an "attractant". I can sit on a deserted beach and within 10 minutes there'd be a family arrive and the parents would tell the kids to "go off and play your dad/I want a bit of peace and quiet" - and they'd find me ... and play footy/cricket/whatever near me and race/chase past/over me. It's weird... but it always happens.

I was on the beach last year, BBQ being fired up by my mate - and 3-4 kids decided that "over us" and around us would be a great place to play frisbee! Why? And why do the parents not notice?

Farway

Hollyharvey wrote: »

On my travels this morning I popped into M&S and I like the look of their dine in for £10 offer this time around. If the dates had been a bit better on some of the choices I would have got one. Then I came home and thought about it, and wondered about the freezer space because they are things that I would/have bought individually in the past. I will probably get one, but I can't get back to M&S until Saturday now, so I hope that they have got all of my choices on the shelf early because I have to be back home by 9.30am.

Only spotted your post this afternoon, I mooched into M & S this morning, and there was the £10 offer

Better still, my free £10 M & S voucher obtained after complaining, prompted by the CFOers on here, about gristle in the offer burgers I bought a bit back paid for this offer.

Thus free meals for two days, dates were OK for what I bought, pies & pie. Steak & caramelised pie x 2, bramley apple puff pastry pie, divis up readily, & rosemary pots will divi up as well

Then to top it all my Waitrose mooch provided tonight's CBA dinner, cod fillet in parsley sauce, comes with mash, peas & carrots, nukes in 4.5 minutes.

Meals sorted for the next few days

The shopping trolley proved it's worth carting the offers back to the car

I was going to have grilled rump steak & chips but it is too hot here, just the thought of popping the grill on and the heat from it made my mind up in Waitrose.

No gardening, too hot, some plants are limp and turgid in the heat, bit like me

Breakfast nothing, lunch was the last bacon rasher with brown sauce jus sarnie