Cooking for one

Hollyharvey

karcher wrote: »

I've had an ice cream and 5 roses chocolates with a glass of milk

Feel sick now..off for a lie down.

Comfort eating is pants

I know what you mean, comfort eating while enjoyable at the time, sadly does have a tendancy to make you feel sick I did a similar thing with a whole large bar of chocolate and half of a tub of Hagan Daz ice cream a week or so ago. I had to go to bed for a couple of hours because I felt so ill.

candygirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I thought you were going to warn me that they pee up against them .... I'd actually not thought about dogs at all .... and certainly wouldn't have thought a dog would hump a trolley! I'll keep an eye out...

I think Bonnie pup would go nuts at a jolly trolley, as she despises prams n wheelbarrows :rotfl:

mcculloch29

caronc wrote: »

That's what I thought when I bought it but is a tad too strong for me which was a surprise. Still it has inadvertentedly worked out very economical of a little goes a very long way:)


Hope your poor tummy settles. Was it loaded with sorbitol?- I find even small amounts of it have a rather disasterous effect :eek:

It has a long list of ingredients, and sorbitol is number 2 on the list. Also isomalt, maltilol, maltilol syrup, xylitol... It was certainly one of those!
I'm much better now, it's all left my system (sorry if you are eating!)

moneyistooshorttomention

poppystar wrote: »

Thanks for the welcomes:)

Just upped the fruit count for today with mango and frozen berries……and just a small (:D) spoonful of clotted cream

Wah! Did someone say "clotted cream" - hushed silence, as I try not to think about clotted cream (as I'm from clotted cream country - yep...those West Country cream teas). Yep...they may be/sometimes are mis-named "other area of choice cream teas" - but they're ours and one of my faves....

poppystar

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Wah! Did someone say "clotted cream" - hushed silence, as I try not to think about clotted cream (as I'm from clotted cream country - yep...those West Country cream teas). Yep...they may be/sometimes are mis-named "other area of choice cream teas" - but they're ours and one of my faves....

Yup, I'm afraid clotted cream is an indulgence of mine

Memories of living in the south west and also of childhood holidays.

Anyone else remember doing this?... when we went on holiday to Devon I would always buy a tub of clotted cream for each of my grandmothers that would be sent to them in the post. You paid your money and wrote out the address label. Rather amazing that it always seemed to get to its destination still fresh. Those were the days when it wasn't on supermarket shelves anywhere else.

So, on those scones…cream first then jam or 'tother way round?

moneyistooshorttomention

Jam first definitely on scones.

Much debate goes on as to the "correct" method and each to their own imo.

I gather it's deemed to be the Cornish way to put jam on first and then a dollop of cream on top and the Devon way to put cream underneath and use as a butter substitute - though there is also debate on that:rotfl:

Personally - I spread butter on top of the scone (and god forbid the scone has any sugar/sultanas in it), then the jam and then a dollop of cream. In my mind it's a sorta pudding type thing and puddings have their cream dolloped on top.

I remember big tubs of clotted cream and having a portion scooped out from there and that it was possible to get some sent to elsewhere in the country by post.

Thankfully - now I am "elsewhere" in the country myself then = thank goodness it's possible to buy it elsewhere too these days and I can have my little treat sometimes still.

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

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You can't have many portions of those honey nut cornflakes left now? You seem to have had quite a few portions

A box is 500 grams. I checked the box and a portion is 40 grams and I had a small pie bowl, so popped it on the scales and weighed out 40 grams - and it fitted. So that bowl is my cereal bowl now and not any other "breakfast bowl" which contain 2-3x as much.

One box, at 500 grams, should provide 12x40 gram portions .... with a cheeky 20grams left over, which equates to "the extra few flakes you tip into each bowl even though you really know the bowl's already got 40grams in it".

So a box should do for 12 portions ... and I'm determined it will do for 12 and not fewer!

I am still trying to not buy in new food - yesterday I wandered into a CoOp and they had a YS Steak/Ale pie, £3.69 reduced to £2.21. I wanted that pie .... but the reality is that it'd become four portions in the freezer, so I left it.

I am trying to get to the point where the freezer can be defrosted, so the pie was not allowed.

Breakfast today was all food "already opened". I had hash browns from the freezer, 1/3rd tin of beans (opened 2 days ago), 6 cocktail sausages (pack of 40 opened 4 days ago).

For "afters", because even breakfast deserves afters.... I had a cheeky choccy sweetie

PasturesNew

Re clotted cream - you can still get it sent by post - and you can order it online to come to you

https://shop.roddas.co.uk/

It's not cheap, with a 4oz pot being £4.33 and 8oz being £5.92.

I had a job once where my first day was going out on the cream delivery van, to see how they integrated their stock control, delivery, invoicing and accounting system through a rugged handheld appliance. I just had to sit there while the van wended its way in/out of tiny coastal hamlets, with sea glimpses every 10 minutes.... nice work if you can get it! At each drop off point I simply had to observe how the system aided the delivery driver. Didn't have to actually "do" anything, except sit in a van looking out of the window, then stand around watching somebody else work.

Growing up, while on holiday, we didn't have/buy clotted cream - and never sent it to anybody. Dad'd typically buy a small bag of fudge and we'd send postcards to people we knew and might take home a small "tourist tat" item to 1-2 people max. Never had the money to burn on decent/proper gifts for people

I've never actually bought any clotted cream - only ever had it when my sibling's come home with a "Cream Tea Pack: Scones, Jam, Clotted Cream for 2, or 4", which you can pick up in West Country cake shops quite often. I'd never buy it as I couldn't eat a whole tub.

Hollyharvey

Afternoon all,


It is a beautiful sunny day here today and I am going to make the most of it by wandering up to the park for a walk shortly.


I haven't felt like too much heavy food today because of the weather so for breakfast I went back to the Greek yoghurt and some berries.
Lunch was some prawns from the freezer with a small salad and a bread roll (also found lurking in the depths of the freezer).
Dinner will be a turkey breast fillet with salad and new potatoes.


I have also enjoyed a cheeky ice cream after lunch and I think I will have some strawberries and cream for pudding this evening, provided I remember to pick up some strawberries while I am out. They will then do for tomorrow as well.


I do enjoy making the most of lighter foods when the weather is good.

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

It is a beautiful sunny day here today and I am going to make the most of it by wandering up to the park for a walk shortly.

Parks are strange things - I think they're mostly a big city thing as I'm not aware of ever having gone to one... yet people speak as if there's one everywhere.

Or maybe it's a generic word for "bit of random grass with a bench".

The word confuses me, to be honest. If somebody were to say to me "let's go to the park" I'd have absolutely NO idea where they could possibly mean.

Has that trolley arrived yet? I want to hear stories of picnic meals trundled in trollies.