Cooking for one

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

For afternoonsies.... I finished off my bag of favourite choccies. They lasted 2 days. Biffer

Thought of you today I popped into the works and they had your favourite chocolates at 50p. Bought 2.

PasturesNew

meg72 wrote: »

Thought of you today I popped into the works and they had your favourite chocolates at 50p. Bought 2.

Jammy beggah!



Wouldn't it be a great location if one could live near every form of "cheap shop" there was.... I'm near a Works, but it's still a 16 mile return trip, so I'm never in there as it's a very low priority shop for me. Went in there one year looking for "stocking fillers" and managed to find just the right thing, not been back since though.

Hollyharvey

Afternoon/evening everyone,


I haven't read through the days posts but will catch up in a minute.


I've had a friend from Suffolk down for the day and I had prepared a lasagne with salad for lunch for both of us, so not CFO at lunchtime today.


For breakfast I had some scrambled eggs on toast and I think I am going to have a cheese salad sandwich in a little while for tea. We met another friend this afternoon for a coffee and I did have a sneaky piece of cake then.


There is half of the lasagne left, so I have just portioned it up and put it in the tardis (sorry I mean the freezer ) I thought that if I didn't freeze it now there would be the possibility of it becoming breakfast tomorrow.


I will be collecting 'Trolley' from the shop tomorrow. They phoned to say it is now awaiting collection. I just hope I don't injure anyone on the way home with it in the morning. Saturdays in the town are rather busy.

PasturesNew

candygirl wrote: »

PN it's National fish n chip shop day today. Our chippy is doing a,special offer of fish, chips n.peas for £3.50 :eek: Shame I don't do queues, or eat fish lol:rotfl:

My chippy probably won't have any offers on.

It's a bizarre thing, but it's actually one of the best chippies you can get - and the owner/chef has fab past credentials of great note. Their portions are a good size too. It's a wonder I'm not in there more often (probably 4x in 4 years) - except that's easily explained away .... small chips is £1.50 ... or a 1kg bag of oven chips at l1dl is 50p and a Pukka pie at Sainsbobs when on offer is £1. .... that's why I rarely go.

But ... tonight... I just might. They shut at 8 though.

There's an indian just 4 doors along from there ... and, unfortunately, it's one of the worst tasting ever.... which is why I've only been there 3x in 5 years.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

So then I headed for the "meals in a tin" - and I had none... except a Fray Bentos pie, which I didn't fancy.

No! those Frey Bentos pies are full of 'regret'...I 'regret' trying them again. I should have left them firmly in my childhood.

SunnyGirl wrote: »

Good morning everyone. I'm a long time lurker in this thread as I have been preparing to cook for one for the last couple of months.

Welcome SunnyGirl

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

For afternoonsies.... I finished off my bag of favourite choccies. They lasted 2 days. Biffer

Being positive, they did last two days, which is better than one

Doom_and_Gloom

Breakfast - nutri-brex with almond milk.
Lunch - houmous, celery sticks, cherry tomatoes and cucumber.
Dinner - sweet and sour vegetables with brown rice, for the third day in a row...
Drinks - water, coffee, tea.

It's a good thing I love sweet and sour vegetables lol. I'm glad I'm the kind of person that doesn't mind eating the same thing for days for dinner.

SunnyGirl

Thank you for all the welcomes.

My lunch turned out to be a peanut butter and jam sandwich followed by the jelly/mandarins combo and a banana. Tea this evening was a lovely sausage pasta which I made this morning along with a keema curry (4 portions) and a spaghetti bolognese (5 portions). Pretty good from a 750g pack of minced beef. I put my usual potatoes, peas and 2 onions in the keema and 3 large grated carrots, onions and celery in the bolognese. I used to do this to stretch the meat out when I was cooking for 5 but am so used to the extra veg now that I don't like meals too purely meaty now. Plus it does me good!

PN - I was wondering while cooking the pasta what is your plan when you have cleared/eaten the contents of your freezer? Will you buy different types of food do you think? Or stick to what you've had in already? I get bored sometimes and am always on the lookout for new ideas. The keema is a case in point I was fed up of chilli.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I made the most of the sunshine and planted up the remaining wall baskets all bleeding ten of them:eek: which if I'm honest was probably five too many for me as I can't sit to do these so I am absolutely done now......
Still 'tis Friday so a good excuse to have a glass of wine and chill a bit. I got on SO Birds Eye Cod in tomato/rosemary sauce so I'm for one of these in a bit with some green beans & peas and no doubt a baked spud. I suspect the cod portion will feel a bit skimpy but 2 would be too much IFYSWIM. I did quite well with the fish as it retails at £4 for 2 portions which I would never pay however Tesco are doing various products for a £5 just now so I had ordered 3 packs of Birds Eye pollock in tom/herb sauce which must have been out of stock so got these subbed which works better for me as they are in individual bags rather than two fillets + sauce in a tray.:)

Re noodles blimey 40 packs - my cupboard would burst.:eek: I tend to get either the Koka or Nissin noodles which are frequently on offer so usually work out about 25p a pack. The Nissin Spicy or Tonkostsu Ramen noodles are really good so I use the sauce packet as a base for a noodle broth though I tend to ditch the Koka sauce base.

caronc

SunnyGirl wrote: »

Thank you for all the welcomes.

My lunch turned out to be a peanut butter and jam sandwich followed by the jelly/mandarins combo and a banana. Tea this evening was a lovely sausage pasta which I made this morning along with a keema curry (4 portions) and a spaghetti bolognese (5 portions). Pretty good from a 750g pack of minced beef. I put my usual potatoes, peas and 2 onions in the keema and 3 large grated carrots, onions and celery in the bolognese. I used to do this to stretch the meat out when I was cooking for 5 but am so used to the extra veg now that I don't like meals too purely meaty now. Plus it does me good!

PN - I was wondering while cooking the pasta what is your plan when you have cleared/eaten the contents of your freezer? Will you buy different types of food do you think? Or stick to what you've had in already? I get bored sometimes and am always on the lookout for new ideas. The keema is a case in point I was fed up of chilli.

Oh I like a keema curry preferably in a bowl with plenty of naan to dip/mop.:) I like to add an aubergine diced fairly small to mine along with the meat, peas and spuds. Pads it out a bit but also really adds to the flavour.