Cooking for one

SunnyGirl

Good morning everyone.

I'm another one who likes the name 'Shep' Dreadful news this morning with the terror attack, it's a harsh and cruel world we live in.

I'm in work again so lunch is a tuna sandwich, yoghurt, crisps and a banana - I bought 6 fun size bananas and 6 kiwi when I did the shopping last week, mostly because I tend not to eat apples, oranges and pears and also because they are small and will get eaten. The rest of the month I will use frozen or tinned fruit. Going to my Mum's for tea tonight and she is doing a treat of fillet steak, new potatoes and salad followed by a big profiterole pudding affair that she got in Aldi at Christmas and had forgotten about in the freezer until yesterday. I am very much looking forward to it as my budget doesn't run to steak. Ever :rotfl:No cooking as such for me today either.

PasturesNew

Back from booting. Although I made up two pittas, I popped the tuna one in the fridge and just took the cheese/pickle one with me. Also took a small pot of honey nut cornflakes.

Spent £2.50 car booting .... one item (£1.50) was a small "handbag" that has about 3 zippers and a couple of other compartments. I've got it to keep inside Shep, wrapped round the handles so it doesn't get buried. It's a great little bag to keep the "essentials" from burying themselves individually as it'll hold keys, money, phone, etc etc.

Ate the cheese pitta in the car park ... and came home. Ate the cornflakes at home, but too full to get the tuna pitta from the fridge, so that's tea sorted!

It's very windy out there. Can't do a lot when it's windy - there's no "joy" strolling around without a plan in the wind. I'd end up in a shop that sells food ... looking for sweeties and doughnuts, so it's best if I try to stay inside at home.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

Back from booting. Although I made up two pittas, I popped the tuna one in the fridge and just took the cheese/pickle one with me. Also took a small pot of honey nut cornflakes.

Spent £2.50 car booting .... one item (£1.50) was a small "handbag" that has about 3 zippers and a couple of other compartments. I've got it to keep inside Shep, wrapped round the handles so it doesn't get buried. It's a great little bag to keep the "essentials" from burying themselves individually as it'll hold keys, money, phone, etc etc.

Ate the cheese pitta in the car park ... and came home. Ate the cornflakes at home, but too full to get the tuna pitta from the fridge, so that's tea sorted!

It's very windy out there. Can't do a lot when it's windy - there's no "joy" strolling around without a plan in the wind. I'd end up in a shop that sells food ... looking for sweeties and doughnuts, so it's best if I try to stay inside at home.

Don't want to burst your bubble but please don't keep any essentials in a bag on/in your trolley - it's a magnet for pickpockets

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

Don't want to burst your bubble but please don't keep any essentials in a bag on/in your trolley - it's a magnet for pickpockets

I'm aware of others and am never in a crowded space - I dislike people/crowds and people being "too close" to me in any situation. I'd also "judge" any new environment.

The bag is fully inside the trolley bag, which is tightly bound and clipped. It's not on the outside. I also never lose physical contact with the trolley.

I live in an area where there are few people .... and it's nowhere near a big city ... and I never go to big cities.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm aware of others and am never in a crowded space - I dislike people/crowds and people being "too close" to me in any situation. I'd also "judge" any new environment.

The bag is fully inside the trolley bag, which is tightly bound and clipped. It's not on the outside. I also never lose physical contact with the trolley.

I live in an area where there are few people .... and it's nowhere near a big city ... and I never go to big cities.

Fair enough

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I never go to big cities either PN. Been to London three times in my life and came back wondering how people retain their energy living there, its an exhausting and crowded place. I use a trolley sometimes, a rolser but I still always wear a cross body zipped bag containing my purse. Thieves are so very quick and you don`t see it happening, ask me how I know

Not been here for a while, too busy getting aches from the allotment. Eaten fairly well, except for a day last week when cba on the way home from a cs, popped into coop and bought a £1 washed salad, added a thorner pork pie and succumbed to cadburys fingers on the way out. Lol, I enjoyed every mouthful

Back on the good eating wagon and enjoyed oetker pizza with salad today and yesterday. Boiled eggs for breakfast and I have oats and nuts and shelled hemp seeds all soaking in soya milk for last meal, to which I will add sliced strawberries. I have three lovely eccles cakes in the freezer, big organic ones and love them warm. No mouth hunger today and not yearning for one, good

Had to make soup just now, need to make sure I have something handy for a few days. All veg and have added arame (kelp seweed). Will be cooking soon and will finish by adding some miso. Haha, virtue in a bowl

No radio on, no tv, dire news again today, very upsetting

moneyistooshorttomention

I've been wondering where you were Kittie.

....and, on that note, long walk this morning and then...ahem...a nice cool (well it shoulda been - but the shop I bought it from ain't "quite" properly sorted on that:() lager later - and I really must get some food together. My excuse for the lager is "It's one of those days when I find it harder than usual to have to live on Planet Earth..." (ie sharing it with people like yesterdays terrorists).

Have got some (organic) bagged salad/more sourdough bread (how can you tell that I'm still on a cba thing re making my own bread at the moment?:rotfl:. I really must come off that - as the bread I buy is darn expensive....:()/some red pepper hummus (admission = Aldi's readymade). Time for a very belated lunch.....:o

Farway

All this talk of pittas, I did try some years ago and seemed a complete waste of time to me, like "wraps" when a bog standard sandwich does the job, but each to their own

Another early wake up, but this time took it more slowly, but absolute blank on both inspiration & YS front in both Asda & Waitrose. At least is was a cheap outing, bought nothing except a coffee in the pub

Out local Robert Dyas is closing down, not that I used it but have seen trolleys for sale there, just thought i would mention it even though I have one, unnamed, it is just a trolley, like my car is just a car

No breakfast, I was tempted by the LO jam sponge & custard from yesterday but never fell for it's sticky sweet talk, it will be scoffed tonight though. It was lovely, and glad I bought two now. One in freezer for a CBA time in the future

Lunch was nearly the YS pizza from yesterday, but have marked that down for dinner now with my foraging fail this morning

Lunch was the ever faithful cheese salad sarnie, again

Dinner is the pizza but I will add mushrooms & onions to it, with extra cheese. And a side salad to go with it, using my own radishes pulled this afternoon

Here is an ooooer missus one to snigger over

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

All this talk of pittas, I did try some years ago and seemed a complete waste of time to me, like "wraps" when a bog standard sandwich does the job, but each to their own

You're right ... but sometimes I fancy a change - and often wish I hadn't bothered

Wraps I occasionally try, but really can't get on with - they seem hard to eat/chewy and make the experience unenjoyable ... I keep wondering if I'm doing it wrong, but I can't see how I can. Single thickness they're passable, wrap it, or fold/wrap it and you're looking at 2-4x a thickness of something that's like a soft cardboard.

...I have one, unnamed, it is just a trolley, like my car is just a car

I agree to a point, but if one can choose ... and one has a preference, it's nice to have. There was a man flogging stuff at the car boot today that was new and well priced (but I didn't want anything he was selling). One of his items were trolleys. Just £8. But nothing special about the design/shape/construction to make me want to buy one at that price.... I've already got one, so next time I'll hold out for "a better design, better looking, more functionality" if I'm to be persuaded. £8 was a darned good price though, for a new one ... if you wanted plain navy or plain black

Tiddlywinks

PasturesNew wrote: »

Somebody needs a proper hobby!

Are you telling me to get a life ?

Farway wrote: »

..... I have one, unnamed, it is just a trolley, like my car is just a car

My car is a car BUT he's called Chubby because he has black and white chequers on the mirrors and bonnet (as in the singer Chubby Checker). Mr Tiddly's car is called Herman (a big Land Rover that is green and bolted together so named after Herman Munster ).

Life's serious enough as it is so I like to get my fun where I can :rotfl:.