Cooking for one (Mark Two)

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

Nothing scoffed so far today, did the washing/hung it out instead.... and I'm trying to mentally get round to doing something that MUST be done today .... but some things are hard to actually "get round to it" no matter how important they are.

I'm a professional procrastinator by default.

You and me both Pastures....:o

I keep myself somewhat "in order" by my to-do lists and forcing myself to do something-I-dont-want-to most days.

Farway

No breakfast porridge this morning, today is volunteer morning and time is tighter than normal slobbing about AM

Lidl waste of time, nothing to inspire, well there was YS smoked salmon but even YS clocked in at over £2, that plus lack of refrigeration while volunteering meant it stayed on the shelf

Lunch was back to cheese salady sarnie, as nice as ever if repetative

Dinner is ?????. Could be a healthy calorie light cottage cheese salad, or a not so healthy calorie heavy cheese on toast with baked beans. Sun is out at the moment, both options are minimum prep / cook so it really is undecided until I get in the kitchen later

Hollyharvey

After yesterday's food fest I didn't want any breakfast this morning (no surprise there ).

I have just used up the last of an opened tin of tuna in a tuna may sandwich. I think I will have to start having something different for lunch, but I don't want the tuna stash hanging around for years and years.

Dinner will be sausages, mash and steamed veg with onion gravy, if I can find the onions that I know are here somewhere. Two sausages out of the freezer doesn't make much space in there, but I just had a fancy for this today. I will have to try and have something that is taking up more freezer space for the next couple of days.

Farway

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Dinner will be sausages, mash and steamed veg with onion gravy, if I can find the onions that I know are here somewhere. Two sausages out of the freezer doesn't make much space in there, but I just had a fancy for this today. I will have to try and have something that is taking up more freezer space for the next couple of days.

MMMMn, now I sort of fancy that, I have frozen bangers & instant mash available, perhaps tomorrow's dinner is now sorted, well once I get some more fresh veg in

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Lidl waste of time, nothing to inspire

I blame the middle classes.... it was a GREAT shop until it became "trendy" to shop there - and, since that time, they are more focussed on chasing the ££s of the wealthier than doing what they used to do well: providing a really good range of standard products at good prices.

All that posh stuff they've squeezed onto the shelves, plus the growing number of "Special Products" in the baskets, has meant that the variety one used to enjoy at such shops has been obliterated.

While they're stocking 6 varieties of smoked salmon and 6 De Luxe dessert ranges.... gone are the cheap quiche varieties and interesting cheapo ice creams.

It used to be a joy to shop there, see what they had....

And, even the cheap stuff's gone up in price suddenly. All those meals for one that used to be £1.39 now seem to be £1.69.

Today I've had for lunch the final 2 sausage rolls, warmed up, from the 6-pack I bought at Lidl (£1.09 I think)

It's been the best drying day ever here....washing is already 99% dry as a bone! It's only been out there 5 hours! I'm used to bringing it in still a bit damp even on good days.

HarveyMorand

Hi,

New to the forum, hello all

With regards to meals for one, I've started to do a big batch of food for lunches on a Sunday for the week. Made a large paella on Sunday, and have had for most lunches this week (albeit starting to get bored of it now). I tend to keep things light in the evening with a chicken salad usually...sometimes with a tub of Ben and Jerry's after.

Anyone else have a solo treat most nights?

Hollyharvey

HarveyMorand wrote: »

Hi,

New to the forum, hello all

With regards to meals for one, I've started to do a big batch of food for lunches on a Sunday for the week. Made a large paella on Sunday, and have had for most lunches this week (albeit starting to get bored of it now). I tend to keep things light in the evening with a chicken salad usually...sometimes with a tub of Ben and Jerry's after.

Anyone else have a solo treat most nights?

Hello, :hello: welcome to CFO.

I think we all end up eating the same thing for a few days running every now and again and get fed up with up. The alternative is to try and get it into our already full freezers, and that can be a problem in itself. My freezers are usually pretty much full to brimming .

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Welcome to the forum HarveyMorand

As I suspected earlier today has ended up being mainly horizontal so dinner is going to be a portion of cottage pie from the freezer with some runner beans:)

moneyistooshorttomention

Finally - and my latest cookbook turned up by post today - ie one recommended by a friend "Never too late to turn vegan - the over 50 guide".

Started flipping through it and spotted an almond miso sauce to have with a Buddha Bowl/hippie bowl. Said sauce obviously one that would take about 2 seconds flat in my Vitamix (ie mega-powerful blender). Now I've not tried white miso (or any miso) before - but had a packet waiting for my attention and blitzed together almonds, miso, bit of garlic powder. Followed by finding it was thick and clidgy - so chucked in some mylk (ie plant milk) the recipe hadnt specified.

Just had some of that sauce with cooked rice and quinoa, some roast cauliflower, some cucumber, some tomatoes, some olives and verdict - nom/nom/licks lips. Miso is blimmin' expensive imo - but 'twas nice.

Well that experiment worked out:)

Now to see what the rest of that book holds in store for me...

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I blame the middle classes.... it was a GREAT shop until it became "trendy" to shop there - and, since that time, they are more focussed on chasing the ££s of the wealthier than doing what they used to do well: providing a really good range of standard products at good prices.

All that posh stuff they've squeezed onto the shelves, plus the growing number of "Special Products" in the baskets, has meant that the variety one used to enjoy at such shops has been obliterated.

While they're stocking 6 varieties of smoked salmon and 6 De Luxe dessert ranges.... gone are the cheap quiche varieties and interesting cheapo ice creams.

It used to be a joy to shop there, see what they had....

And, even the cheap stuff's gone up in price suddenly. All those meals for one that used to be £1.39 now seem to be £1.69.

Yep, agree on all that. They are building a super Lidl in town, so my local one will be food only so they say, be interesting to see if a wider choice turns up once those "special products" go

Welcome HarveyMorand, hope you enjoy your time here, One thing many find is the sudden triggering of food memories from years ago and the urge to go and retry it.

Caronc, you following me ? That was my last night's dinner. Hope yours was as tasty as mine was

Tonight's dinner was the salad option, slightly modified because when I opened the cottage cheese it was a bit furry :eek: so binned it. It was only a 10p YS so not unexpected TBH

So had cubed cheddar salad instead, with last of the Morries frozen chips, bottom of the bag so a bit bitty. Glad my next lot are the Lidl ones now back in stock

Then a pair of crumpets, with strawberry jam, very healthy, with the salad must be 5/5 fruit & veg so far