Cooking for one

candygirl

Got an ASDA online shop today,n the bloke was so surly and unhelpful compared to the Morrison's guys.Anyhow have just shared a pizza with naughty pup.Luckily for her, my appetite is still not back Have got tons of stuff in now x

caronc

WeeMidgie wrote: »

Hi, caronc, and thanks also to Hollyharvey for the friendly welcome!

Yes I'm a Scot living in Scotland, but not based on the west coast where the midges in my experience are mighty biters! I swear when they see me coming they line up in squadrons to feast on my delicate Celtic flesh!! I live in a mainly midge free area, thankfully.

There's a small amount of left over oxtail casserole & green veg which I'll add to the broth for lunch tomorrow. The evening meal will be cauliflower steaks with crispy bacon. I have a solitary egg in the fridge which will do for breakfast, with half a yellow pepper and an onion gently fried first & then added to make a skinny omelette.

Monday's my food shopping day, so it's time to see what's on offer this week and think about the menu.

Love the cool soak idea for the feet, and genius to add tea tree and mint shampoo!

I do love the west coast:D but yes the midgies are fierce and just love me :mad:. My "roasting" feet are currently steeping as I type......;)

karcher wrote: »

I do actually :eek:...but I feel like living dangerously , so may just take the 'heat' hit :cool:

Thanks for the suggestion though

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I'm a wuss and would have gone for the mellow option:)

PasturesNew wrote: »

After this current bag of favourite choccies... I must give them up for awhile. Put them back to being a "treat" and not a 3x a week purchase

I've become a bit of a porker....

So I need to stop.

Today since breakfast I've finished off the pot of paste I opened the other day, ate that on a crust of toast; had the last bag of crisps from the multipack; sank 3 slices of the quiche (just one bit remaining), had some jalapeno coleslaw .... and most of a bag of my favourite choccies

Now the day's over, the sun's come out and the wind's died down.

Maybe reduce gradually we don't want favourite choccie withdrawal.....;)

The weather freshned up slightly so I got most (just 4 pots to go) of my cordon tomatoes into the greenhouse and watered the garden though of course it looks as though it will tip down shortly now.

Chicken wings with mixed herbs, garlic and lemon are in the oven along with a sweet potato and some mushrooms and I'll pop the last medium sized tomato in with it in a bit. Suspect I may have sweet potato left over we'll see ....:)

caronc

candygirl wrote: »

Got an ASDA online shop today,n the bloke was so surly and unhelpful compared to the Morrison's guys.Anyhow have just shared a pizza with naughty pup.Luckily for her, my appetite is still not back Have got tons of stuff in now x

My Asda online locally is dire so stopped using them a few years ago, Morrison's don't deliver here so it's Tesco for me, the drivers are unfailingly lovely and any "subs" both pretty decent and sensible. Hope you get your appetite back soon:)

candygirl

caronc wrote: »

My Asda online locally is dire so stopped using them a few years ago, Morrison's don't deliver here so it's Tesco for me, the drivers are unfailingly lovely and any "subs" both pretty decent and sensible. Hope you get your appetite back soon:)

Thanks hun x

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

After this current bag of favourite choccies... I must give them up for awhile. Put them back to being a "treat" and not a 3x a week purchase

Today since breakfast I've finished off the pot of paste I opened the other day, ate that on a crust of toast; had the last bag of crisps from the multipack; sank 3 slices of the quiche (just one bit remaining), had some jalapeno coleslaw .... and most of a bag of my favourite choccies

Can you just have one bag of your favourite choccies a week rather than the three? That would be a compromise between overdoing it and still having a weekly treat.


I just read through your list of what you have had today since breakfast. I've kind of been overeating today since breakfast. I've had two sandwiches at lunchtime, a piece of cake when I got in that I had intended to have after dinner this evening, a crumpet before dinner, dinner of chicken salad and new potatoes followed by crumble and ice cream, two breakaway biscuit bar things and I've just had a slice of cheese on toast. I don't know what is wrong with me today. I think I will blame it on the weather and it being a bank holiday weekend

Hollyharvey

candygirl wrote: »

Got an ASDA online shop today,n the bloke was so surly and unhelpful compared to the Morrison's guys.Anyhow have just shared a pizza with naughty pup.Luckily for her, my appetite is still not back Have got tons of stuff in now x

I've never used them but I know a couple of people who have in the past and they haven't been happy with them and now use different ones. We don't have a Morrisons store near here so I can't get anything from them. I tend to use either Tesco, Sainsburys or Ocado depending on who has sent me money off vouchers

Hollyharvey

candygirl wrote: »

Got an ASDA online shop today,n the bloke was so surly and unhelpful compared to the Morrison's guys.Anyhow have just shared a pizza with naughty pup.Luckily for her, my appetite is still not back Have got tons of stuff in now x

Hope you get your appetite back soon. At least you have now got some food in and hopefully having a lot of choices will help.

candygirl

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Hope you get your appetite back soon. At least you have now got some food in and hopefully having a lot of choices will help.

Thanks hun. I definitely don't recommend them.He could see I was struggling, n literally threw stuff into my hallway, n was huffing and puffing all the time

PasturesNew

Had a bad evening/night, being restless and nodding off, then waking up all through the night.

This morning's dry and the sun might be coming out a little, but it's cool/overcast at the moment - and a bit sea-breezy.

I want breakfast, but I want tinned tomatoes (for a change from beans), so currently waiting for 4ldi to open so I can go and get some tins of tomatoes, tinned potatoes and a loaf of bread or some bread rolls.... probably should also buy tomatoes as I've not got any and it's supposed to be summer.

I expect breakfast to be: the endless hash browns (again), poached eggs, tinned tomatoes, cocktail sausages.

I'd like to make a nice spud salad to go with that last bit of quiche, but I have no onions - and if I buy onions I usually chop/freeze them, which isn't an option, so I'll think about that when I am in 4ldi... see the price of them and the bag sizes and I might buy some and simply store them so they don't go off, rather than cluttering the freezer up with them. I only really want one tiny one - but, as you know when CFO, one small onion's nearly the same cost as a whole 1kG so you feel ripped off and "have" to buy the whole big bag as it's better value.

I think my overdoses of choccies are in part making me not eat/sleep well... and I can't cut back - I've always been the sort of person "if I have food, I have to eat the food I own" - so I've tended to shop by not bringing things into the house as the only way to control my binge eating. If I have it, I eat it .... if I don't have it, I can't. No self control.

I've no scales.... but I bet I'm heading for 9 stone instead of the 8½ I was 3-4 months ago.

EDIT: Got the tinned tomatoes and made the breakfast, but it was only while I was whisking the eggs I thought "Bugg4h, I meant to have poached eggs". Oh well.

Looked at onions in 4ldi - 3 large bags to choose from, but I only wanted one small onion .... and, in the end, I left the shop without any. So now I'm a bit hesitant to make the spud salad without it (as I do like it in there) ... but the spud salad was supposed to go with the final bit of quiche .... *sighs*. It's so difficult to always have the stuff in you'd like.

Bought myself a pack of choc ices though

Farway

Hollyharvey wrote: »

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

I suspect it is because they all have had flak over the amount of food they chuck out.

Quick flash of inspiration n marketing dept. let's not sell loose food, let's prepack it and sell it like that and then the [STRIKE]mugs[/STRIKE] valued cutomers can buy it and chuck it away at home. Out of site, out of mind. Ticks environmental friendly box, big hug & kisses from the don't waste food lobby. Cynical moi?;)

Eraly start deliberately, got some YS mixed colour bananas from Asda, 20p, been hanging on for them to appear as I knew they would have too sooner or later

Reason for no breakfast is off out to lunch with sone & family. Gastro pub with prices to suit, doubt any change from £25. It is nice food though and far beyond PN's quiche pub meal. May take pic if it is convenient

The M & S beef pie was excellent, one to get again now I know. Still another one left in pack

The sudden pub invite has mucked the cunning meal plan up, it was going to be the other rump steak, but it will all keep for a few more days

Catch you later