Cooking for one

caronc

I suppose recent posts bring up the subject of food as fuel, "back in the day" when most people lived in houses without central heating diet was more hearty- soups. stews, porridge, suet puddings, custard and hot pudding etc.in colder months and cetainly in the house I grew up in keeping warm was a difficult (wore more clothes to bed than I did during the day:() therfore essential I think, even if a challenge for the solo diner, to eat as well as they can. It needn't be expensive food just comforting and hot. Should I go and get my hard hat......

PasturesNew

I snapped .... currently awaiting chips and beans ... ETA another 5 minutes.

LameWolf

Nelski wrote: »

Fair enough apologies ...there have been quite a few people on here over the years who just want to push the limits lower and lower and I always worry there may be someone vunerable reading it and think well if they can do 12 I can do 10

Blow that for a game of soldiers; one thing I will not compromise on is the heating; mainly because my "internal thermostat" is busted. Ours is set at 21, and I've been huddled up under a thick blanket, with my thick clothes on, two microwave wheaty bags, and still shivering to the extent of being in pain.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I snapped .... currently awaiting chips and beans ... ETA another 5 minutes.

Fab that's the business

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

I snapped .... currently awaiting chips and beans ... ETA another 5 minutes.

that makes me very happy :j:j:j

caronc

LameWolf wrote: »

Blow that for a game of soldiers; one thing I will not compromise on is the heating; mainly because my "internal thermostat" is busted. Ours is set at 21, and I've been huddled up under a thick blanket, with my thick clothes on, two microwave wheaty bags, and still shivering to the extent of being in pain.

I'm really immobile at the moment so feeling the cold desperately (apart from the hot flushes in the early hours- why can't they come when I'm freezing). Wheat bags and hot water bottles are such a godsend and I have my heating on though I do try to be sensible with it but it's an old house and although well-insulated still hard to heat

PasturesNew

Eaten it all now
That was really nice. Not had chips/beans for awhile as I've been mostly focussing on eating the leftover Xmas veggies, then the frozen veggies, etc.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

Eaten it all now
That was really nice. Not had chips/beans for awhile as I've been mostly focussing on eating the leftover Xmas veggies, then the frozen veggies, etc.

You sound more chirpy has it helped you warm up?

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

You sound more chirpy has it helped you warm up?

It has a bit

Heating's off now - room temperature is 17 according to my thermometer. Practically tropical

Tiddlywinks

I'm a big fan of Denby - they did some great lidded soup bowls in the 70s and 80s and you can still buy used ones on ebay.

I've got some very dodgy looking 70s ones which I use for soups and small crumbles.... they are bomb proof. 40+ years old and they're still going strong.

Here's an ebay search for 'Denby soup bowls'.

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