Cooking for one (Mark Two)

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:rotfl: Well dinner yesterday for me was various salad vegetables (tomatoes/red cabbage/etc), steamed spinach with lime juice squeezed on, tahini sauce, mixed quinoa and rice, few olives. Preceded by huge chunk of melon. More rice milk to drink afterwards.

The weight is still coming off (despite the occasional bit of booze). Not weighing myself - at a probable 10 stone something I daren't:rotfl: - but I think 1" - 2" has come off around my girth. A 2010's size 12 dress I bought from a car boot sale for en route to 1970s size 12 isn't quite so obviously too small for me. It's gone from everyone would notice it's too small to some people wouldnt notice it's too small:)

PasturesNew

Holly's been quiet about the burgers.... maybe she's struggling to find the words: "why did I ever listen to you, you know nothing of food, these were AWFUL.... awful .... I hate you, you ruined my Friday night tea"

SunnyGirl

Glad it was pie and trifle PN!

SunnyGirl

Morning all. A wet and windy one here too and I slept in. not waking until 7.30 when I usually leave for work at 7.45. A mad dash round but I only ended up being 10 mins late. I prioritised straightening my hair over putting make up on


My youngest son rang me from America at 1am and was chatting away until 2 which is why I slept in as it took me ages to get back to sleep. Lovely to hear from him though.


CFO today is the usual sandwich. fruit, yoghurt combo for lunch and it's keema and naan bread for tea tonight. I have been invited out for dinner tomorrow night as an early birthday treat (birthday's on Monday) so there will be no CFO tomorrow!

PasturesNew

I'd popped into the shop on my way to dinner, to grab a hostess gift - and spotted they had packs of four big bread rolls 30% off, so I grabbed two bags for the freezer. I've sliced those this morning and put them in the freezer, but the freezer's pretty bunged with stuff now.

Kept one back - so lunch will be lamb burger in a big bread roll.... not sure if that'll be adorned with a slice of tomato, or a cheeky side portion of chips (frees up some freezer space).

No breakfast as I'm still full from yesterday

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Holly's been quiet about the burgers.... maybe she's struggling to find the words: "why did I ever listen to you, you know nothing of food, these were AWFUL.... awful .... I hate you, you ruined my Friday night tea"

Hehe, you were right, they are lovely . You can detect the mint which is nice, but as you said it's not too overpowering which has been the problem with some lamb burgers I have tried over the years, and I like mint with lamb. They are certainly going on the regular food list . Thanks for recommmending them . I really enjoyed my dinner yesterday.


Sounds like your evening was good. Nice that they know you so well that they gave you some of your favourite food .

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Hehe, you were right, they are lovely . You can detect the mint which is nice, but as you said it's not too overpowering which has been the problem with some lamb burgers I have tried over the years, and I like mint with lamb. They are certainly going on the regular food list . Thanks for recommmending them . I really enjoyed my dinner yesterday.

Glad you enjoyed them - I worry about 'recommending' food as I know my tastes are ... retro/simple, which doesn't suit the palettes of modern people.

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Sounds like your evening was good. Nice that they know you so well that they gave you some of your favourite food

It's a CFO person who likes cooking for others ... and there are "trigger foods" to give me a call. When the host sees/fancies a pie, they'll buy it, then text me Probably got other mates for other products. I love mash; another of their friends despises it and probably wouldn't admit to liking pies. So I become the "pie and mash night" call

Farway

SunnyGirl wrote: »

Karcher
Just a quick thought that occurred to me on my way home with reference to living alone. I only use half a dishwasher tablet and the quick wash option unless the dishwasher is full or I've done a lot of cooking that day. I know we won't all have dishwashers or even use them if we have but it's something I do as a money saving thing and thought it might help.

I have slimline dishwasher but I use the slummy daddy setting, pile it all in daily, rinse, repeat daily until until one can't get anymore mucky bits in. Then wash using a whole tablet [un metered water BTW]

Up with the larks this morning, was awake listening to stupid o'clock news so got up and went to do spot of volunteer gardening, no breakfast, instead of laying in my pit

After that it was Asda mooch time, seems another stock purge is on. Lea & Perrins Worcester sauce, was £1.50, down to 20p, grabbed 2 of them for the pantry, essential for CFO. Plus a bottle of Polish tom ketchup, never had that but at 20p I'm willing to give it a go

Plus YS veggie Broccoli & cauliflower cheese en croute. 2 in the pack so one tomorrow and maybe cook the other at same time and have cold on Monday

Rain started and now set to continue for most of the day it seems, had mid morning toast & jam

Lunch will be salad sarnie, I will go upmarket and use mayo instead of salad cream today

Dinner, not entirely sure but with the wet & dull weather I think cooked chicken from freezer, with own runners & courgette plus LO half pointy cabbage seems a good idea. Use my new steamer again

PasturesNew

SunnyGirl wrote: »

....I only use half a dishwasher tablet .... something I do as a money saving thing and thought it might help.

Some tablets are in the L1dl Special Weekend Offers next weekend, if you're near a L1dl of course.

W5 Dishwasher Tablets x60, £2.95 reduced to £1.79

SunnyGirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Some tablets are in the L1dl Special Weekend Offers next weekend, if you're near a L1dl of course.

W5 Dishwasher Tablets x60, £2.95 reduced to £1.79

Brilliant thanks! I really like the Lidl range of cleaning stuff and laundry things and find them better than a lot of named brands. The only thing I'm fussy about is fabric softener as I like the smell of Lenor and it's the only one that doesn't cause my eczema to flare up on my back and chest randomly.