Cooking for one

Anne_Marie_2

MITSTM Am sure clothes sizes in the 70's were very wrong. I was a lanky skinny thing, and had to buy a dress I liked in a size 16 from one of the boutiques, I was a size 6-8 back then, so way wrongly sized. Liked the dress so much though, but cut the label off, didn't want anyone seeing that! No fear I would fit in it now, and I still am not a size 16, and don't want to particularly head there either. :rotfl: Wallis, on the other hand, were very generous with their sizing, I was a 4 in their stuff!

Farway - Glad that you've got your steamer sorted out. Must admit I do love veggies and new potatoes steamed, much better flavour I think, although mine is an electrical one, which have had for more years than I care to remember.

Couldn't get nice veggies today at the local shop, so ended up with a hardboiled egg, tomato, some carrot meze and an assortment of pickles for lunch.

Speaking of the steamer, has put me in the notion of asparagus from the freezer. A poached egg would go nicely, but have already had two eggs today. Might leave that idea for tomorrow and see what else I can have tonight. Plenty there, just don't fancy anything yet.

Smashing breeze at the moment and a load of cloud cover....long may it last. It won't of course, but will enjoy it tonight, and back to baking and cloudless tomorrow.

moneyistooshorttomention

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I'm the other way around. I'm bottom heavy I have always wanted to be 'in proportion' but in reality I don't think many women are.

Take it from me - I'm not sure you do want to be "in proportion". My "proper" figure is 36-26-36 - which is absolutely fine by me (when I'm back to it:cool:). But buying clothes in Britain isn't my idea of fun - as they tend to be made for "pear" shapes (so one tosses up between fitting hips or fitting waist). It's a bit of a to-do to find clothes that fit both:cool:

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popping in to say hello:wave:

still around but have got a sewing bug again, massively this time. This makes CFO more of a quick, what can I eat scenario. Its good because I am not hopping from meal to meal. Got to limit the time spent on mse

Managed to use some big lumps out of the freezer the other day, turkey carcase, lots of frozen veg and two legs. Made a casserole and left simmering on very low for an accidental 8 hours. Was nice and I have frozen 4 more ready meals

Lunch today was just a big plate of allotment greens, carrot and fried fish. Followed by thawed blueberries and strawberries. Allotment picking is pretty manic, loads of stuff is ready and am having to cut spinach and chard amd make compost, so new leaves come through

No special or fancy food being eaten or made, just fuel for the body ie protein and veg with some ice cream treats and berries. I CBA making soup at the moment and will have a bowl of cereal if hungry

Hope you are all good and will re-join properly when my sewing mojo has withered

PasturesNew

I popped out ... with a few coppers I'd found in the drawer. Money's tight today, can't get any more out of the bank at all and too scared to use the card in case it's declined at the till due to the amount of times I've tried to withdraw more cash from the bank today .... I had a bill to settle immediately and decided the best way to do this was by physically turning up and handing over my card...trouble was, they don't take cards, so then it was me frantically trying to claw together "more than your daily cash limit" ...

So ...it's down to the pennies I can find in odd corners.

I scraped together enough to go out for a box of choc ices - and en-route I spotted crumpets with a 30% sticker off (making them 24p/6). So I bought crumpets and choc ices.

Then I treated myself to a chocolate spread & crumpet moment

caronc

kittie wrote: »

popping in to say hello:wave:

still around but have got a sewing bug again, massively this time. This makes CFO more of a quick, what can I eat scenario. Its good because I am not hopping from meal to meal. Got to limit the time spent on mse

Managed to use some big lumps out of the freezer the other day, turkey carcase, lots of frozen veg and two legs. Made a casserole and left simmering on very low for an accidental 8 hours. Was nice and I have frozen 4 more ready meals

Lunch today was just a big plate of allotment greens, carrot and fried fish. Followed by thawed blueberries and strawberries. Allotment picking is pretty manic, loads of stuff is ready and am having to cut spinach and chard amd make compost, so new leaves come through

No special or fancy food being eaten or made, just fuel for the body ie protein and veg with some ice cream treats and berries. I CBA making soup at the moment and will have a bowl of cereal if hungry

Hope you are all good and will re-join properly when my sewing mojo has withered

:hello:Hello Kittie what are you making? I don't have the patience to sew. I can manage the basics but don't attempt anything else. I think my Mum who was a keen knitter/sewer knew she had lost the battle when I opted to take Latin instead of Home Ec.:rotfl::rotfl:
Just picked two courgettes, my first round one:). I love the round ones baked in foil with butter, garlic and herbs so definitely having that tonight, I'm not sure what else yet definitely something I can pop in the oven with it.:)

Doom_and_Gloom

Breakfast : crispy rice, chia seeds and cashew milk. Really tastes like rice pudding to me.
Snack at work : fruit and HM cashew date bar.
Lunch : vegan coleslaw, potato and salad.
Dinner : spicy vegetable rice served with avocado.
Drinks : water, coffee and tea.

There will be spicy vegetable rice left over. Will have it cold for lunch tomorrow as can't cook rice more than twice.

caronc

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Breakfast : crispy rice, chia seeds and cashew milk. Really tastes like rice pudding to me.
Snack at work : fruit and HM cashew date bar.
Lunch : vegan coleslaw, potato and salad.
Dinner : spicy vegetable rice served with avocado.
Drinks : water, coffee and tea.

There will be spicy vegetable rice left over. Will have it cold for lunch tomorrow as can't cook rice more than twice.

Sounds good - something that tastes like rice pudding for breakfast works for me

Fusspot

Do any of you here favour frozen meals, not exactly ready meals but say Birds Eye frozen fish/chicken and then add veg? Or what about full ready meals? I know they are not supposed to be good for you but the convenience of them when you live alone is too tempting to ignore

caronc

Fusspot wrote: »

Do any of you here favour frozen meals, not exactly ready meals but say Birds Eye frozen fish/chicken and then add veg? Or what about full ready meals? I know they are not supposed to be good for you but the convenience of them when you live alone is too tempting to ignore

I do the very odd full "ready meal" but tend to use "alomost ready bits" when I can't be bothered cooking. Tonight was Birds Eye bake in the bag cod, roasted tomato, baked homegrown courgette and home made wedges. For me an easy good mix between home made and pre-made and still ok from a cost/health point of view + one tray in the oven and go and do something else while it's cooking kind of meal:)

PasturesNew

Fusspot wrote: »

Do any of you here favour frozen meals, not exactly ready meals but say Birds Eye frozen fish/chicken and then add veg? Or what about full ready meals? I know they are not supposed to be good for you but the convenience of them when you live alone is too tempting to ignore

I've never bought "expensive ones" - I've bought a few ready meals under £1 usually just to break the monotony of leftovers/using it up. To me a ready meal is a treat, a meal I can ping and eat and there was no need to gather ingredients and no leftover ingredients to use up and no 2nds to eat the following day.

What I tend to do is to use ready meals as food ideas - and think how I can do them better/cheaper for more food, while not busting a gut.

There are some nice sounding ones at £3.50, but my target budget/day is £1, so I've never had one that pricey.

Ready meals are not necessarily bad for you. What is "bad" - YOU decide what is bad and read the labels to see how they fit your version.

I quite often eat pies/burgers where the packet flashes RED symbols for fat or something - but it's all "in balance" and over the day that might be the ONLY fatty thing I eat.

So you decide what's important to you and then check the labels to see if it's important to you.

Some ready meals are infinitely "better" than what a lot of people might put together themselves. You can't tar everything with the same brush; a lot of the scare-mongering uses sweeping strokes to write things off. Don't fall for it.

You can't be "good" on every item... so many fads and fancies, you'd die trying to find something/anything to eat if you believed and followed them all

Work out what frozen meals are catching your eye - and see if you can build that yourself from individual items, giving you more choice over what's on the plate and a wider choice of variations on that theme.

Frozen chicken/fish and add veg sounds great to me ....

I've been working my way up to buying a bag of frozen chicken breasts, but, to date, I've not eaten that much chicken to be able to see how I'd get through the bag without being bored.