Cooking for one

Hollyharvey

karcher wrote: »

CFO here is non-existent. Yesterdays meals consisted of one scrambled egg, half a tin of cold beans eaten out of the tin eaten after eating the before mentioned scrambled egg. Followed by 2 slices of toast with butter and cream cheese at about 10pm.

But you are sort of CFO because you are preparing food for yourself which is good. Anyhow, toast is CFO as far as I'm concerned
As PN says at least there isn't any waste, or leftovers that you have got to plough your way through.

Hollyharvey

karcher wrote: »

I've got a huge bag of fresh spinach that needs using but CBA to cook and there's too much for just one meal!

Will it keep better if I just wilt it down then put it back in the fridge to maybe use tomorrow/ monday/ tuesday etc

Sorry I can't be much help with this one. You have my sympathy though. I love spinach but stopped buying it fresh because I could never finish a bag before it started to go rotten. I did try to freeze it, and it was ok if you then use it in a recipe rather than as a side.

Hollyharvey

I was up early again today so cooked my chicken first thing this morning before it got too hot and I went out.


Breakfast was Greek yoghurt and berries today. I need to start trying some different things for breakfast I seem to alternate between the yoghurt, scrambled eggs and porridge. I don't like any cereals though so I kind of run out of ideas (other than left over pizza when there happens to be some in the fridge).


Lunch was a sandwich with some friends in the park. We had been out for a drink, but didn't want to pay the cost of a pub lunch.


Dinner will be some of the chicken with some salad and new potatoes.


Tomorrow and Monday will be yet more of the chicken. At least it has got that final half of a chicken out of the freezer, which has made a bit more room as the beef I got earlier in the week has now gone in the freezer.


At least I haven't bought anything while in town today that ended up in the freezer. I think I am just not going to go near any shops for a while (a said that two weeks ago though!).

Farway

Woken up at 0445 by thunder, lightning and torrential rain, and today was the day I had earmarked to plant up the pots at local volunteer job and reclaim my "garden centre" path

But it eased to a drizzle by about 7ish, so skipped breakfast and duly spent an hour or so planting stuff, and now I can walk along my garden path without weaving around plant trays

After the gardening bit, went into mooch mode around Asda & Waitrose, nothing of much use, Asda had bananas YS reduced to only £1.12 a bag :eek:, mind they were free range organic type. Left on the shelf of course and just bought a YS pizza 80p

The pizza become lunch but added extra cheese, toms & mushrooms. The LO half will be either tomorrow's cold breakfast, lunch or maybe even dinner

Last night's rump steak was excellent, I have always found Lidl meat to be good and this was no exception, just one part of the pack left now. It was probably going to be tonight's dinner, but weather is so changed from yesterday, cool & windy that part the M & S £10 meal for two will step forward into the space

So it is pie day, M & S 1 of 2 steak & caramelised red onion pie, rosemary spuds [half of them], fresh veg steamed followed by some of the M & S apple pie, blobbed with half a tin of custard. Greedy guts

Bit of a shock and the perils of CFO, went into fridge to drag out some fresh carrots for tonight, ewww, some had gone slimey in the bag, managed to save enough for today, rest went in the bin

All this love food hate waste fuss, whilst very commendable, does not apply when unable to buy loose carrots any more, seems Asda & co will no longer sell loose, just pre packed. And what can a loner do with 1kg or more of carrots before they go manky, without a rabbit or a donkey?

One could add it to Karcher's huge bag of spinach , seems indicative of same problem

I could use frozen ones but find they seem to come as noncey small sticks, slices or "baby" and I want just chunky half a large carrot size if you don't mind

Rant over

Hollyharvey

Farway wrote: »

Bit of a shock and the perils of CFO, went into fridge to drag out some fresh carrots for tonight, ewww, some had gone slimey in the bag, managed to save enough for today, rest went in the bin

All this love food hate waste fuss, whilst very commendable, does not apply when unable to buy loose carrots any more, seems Asda & co will no longer sell loose, just pre packed. And what can a loner do with 1kg or more of carrots before they go manky, without a rabbit or a donkey?

I didn't know about this. I thought that the local Sainsburys had stopped their loose veg because it is a small town centre store. I didn't realise that they were all doing this.
Do you know why?


In these days of trying to stop us all wasting food it seems wrong. Although I have not doubt there are commercial reasons for this decision

caronc

Good afternoon,
Forecasted torrential rain so far happened only briefy and the sun is shining again. Shame the shower was during lunch so we had to eat indoors.:( I was good at the food market and only bought smoked cheddar and duck eggs. On the way back we noticed one of the churches had a plant sale. My sister was looking for bits so we popped in. Needless to say despite the multitude of plants I already have on the go I came away with a bizzie lizzie, a catmint and a mimulus all for £1.50
I wasn't CFO at lunch time and as I said I was making salad nicoise which went down very well. There is a little left which I will enjoy for my lunch tomorrow. :DThe "star" was a jar of Tuna my son brought back from Athens which was gorgeous and had some mild chillies and capers in it. Apparently it cost less than 2 euros for a 300g jar - why, oh why can we not get this type of product it was sustainably fished and line caught in the med! Definitely not a CFO dish due to all the stuff in it

moneyistooshorttomention, Udon noodles - in a spicy, porky broth dish for me please if you google tonkotsu ramen you'll get lots of ideas

Karcher - if you wrap your spinach in damp kitchen roll it will keep ok for a few days. Alternatively if you wilt it and then really squeeze the water out it freezes quite well and is fine for currys etc.

Not sure what I'll have later probably chicken wings with something.

Doom_and_Gloom

So far just coffee and water today. So hot I'm not feeling well; part of my disability means I can't handle heat. I'm more susceptible to heat exhaustion and heat stroke, not good as the temp in my flat at the moment is 25C and that is with back door and windows open :eek:.
Later I will have some fruit (grapes, pear, orange and mango) with coconut water.
I have a snack of houmous and brussel sprouts planned.
Dinner tonight is vegetable curry, in the slow cooker right now. That used up 500g of the potatoes. I may have this with some rice to bulk it out but it can be a dish on its own due to potatoes.

caronc

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

So far just coffee and water today. So hot I'm not feeling well; part of my disability means I can't handle heat. I'm more susceptible to heat exhaustion and heat stroke, not good as the temp in my flat at the moment is 25C and that is with back door and windows open :eek:.
Later I will have some fruit (grapes, pear, orange and mango) with coconut water.
I have a snack of houmous and brussel sprouts planned.
Dinner tonight is vegetable curry, in the slow cooker right now. That used up 500g of the potatoes. I may have this with some rice to bulk it out but it can be a dish on its own due to potatoes.

Hope you manage to cool down, stick your feet in a bucket of cold water for a bit if you can while you are enjoying a cold drink:) I never thought of pairing brussels and houmous but can see it would work:)

WeeMidgie

Hello, another CFO joining in. I've been unwell for the past 2 months, lost and now regained my appetite. I eat paleo as it best suits my system. I started menu planning and simply making myself eat even if I didn't feel like it.

Breakfast today was 2 rushers of bacon with an egg. That kept me going till lunchtime which was an onion, celery and carrot broth, made yesterday, flavoured with Chinese 5 spice powder and matchstick pieces of fresh root ginger. Today I sliced half a cooked chicken breast into it and heated it all up well. There is more of the broth for tomorrow, but the chicken is finished.

Tonight I'm having oxtail casserole from the freezer, with broccoli and green beans.

Re carrots, I seem to get through a bag in about 2 weeks, as I make a lot of soups and broths all year round, and so use them regularly with celery and onions which I also keep routinely in stock.

caronc

WeeMidgie wrote: »

Hello, another CFO joining in. I've been unwell for the past 2 months, lost and now regained my appetite. I eat paleo as it best suits my system. I started menu planning and simply making myself eat even if I didn't feel like it.

Breakfast today was 2 rushers of bacon with an egg. That kept me going till lunchtime which was an onion, celery and carrot broth, made yesterday, flavoured with Chinese 5 spice powder and matchstick pieces of fresh root ginger. Today I sliced half a cooked chicken breast into it and heated it all up well. There is more of the broth for tomorrow, but the chicken is finished.

Tonight I'm having oxtail casserole from the freezer, with broccoli and green beans.

Re carrots, I seem to get through a bag in about 2 weeks, as I make a lot of soups and broths all year round, and so use them regularly with celery and onions which I also keep routinely in stock.

Welcome WeeMidgie, interesting username another west coast Scot like me perhaps.;)
Your food sounds lovely and we have all kinds of eaters on this thread and it's always good to swap ideas:)