Cooking for one (Mark Two)

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Farway wrote: »

I suspect it may have been thought of but could stop some potential customers from going.

Too small, avoid, too large, avoid [that would be me]

Like pubs, families welcome, avoid or rush there depending on individual requirements

I very much doubt these firms have had the sense to think of this personally.

I would estimate it would about balance out according to personal requirements.

Within my own family - my mother would think "Too big - agh! my head hurts - too complicated - don't want much choice" on the one head.

Whereas I would be thinking "Really big - oh goody! Lots of choice - there's a better chance I will find what I want personally then. Less hassle in the long run than having to look and look and look in umpteen places - because I've not got enough choice". I'm certainly prone to thinking along the lines of "There's only 10 choices! Agh! I'm used to 20 choices - and I would like 50 choices".

Just thinking I could pretty much manage with 3 shops - provided they were all huge size - John Lewis, Waitrose and a genuine wholefood shop and that would be me pretty much sorted and rarely having to go into any other shop.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got an urge to go out for sweeties.....

I might be exposed to sausage rolls while out though! Soup might fade into the background .... and sausage rolls might become the winner.

Go on, you know you want your favourite choccies , and if some sausage rolls should fall into your basket, it's not your fault .

A bit like the stollen that fell into my basket this morning .

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Go on, you know you want your favourite choccies , and if some sausage rolls should fall into your basket, it's not your fault .

A bit like the stollen that fell into my basket this morning .

Favourite choccies are troublesome to find now, £land stopped selling them.

I've got some "fake marathon bars" from L1dl .... and a pack of digestives.... 6-pack of sausage rolls (two currently being re-heated) ... 10 large eggs ... loaf of white/sliced bread.

And I stocked up with a bag of oven chips and a bag of hash browns.

Spent £4.75.

caronc

poppystar wrote: »

Are you sure it won't explode? - they already look a bit like cartoon bombs:D

I've never nuked anything for that long either. Bit terrified quite frankly. Do you think it would work putting it in the oven whole too? Pretending it was a huge baked potato?

Even cutting in half is beyond me these days:( My attempts totally amused the friends I was with last xmas as I offered to do the veg and was presented with a swede as well as the usual culprits. I had to be rescued and put on table laying duty:o

Nope they don't explode but do "sing" rather alarmingly.... It does work really well though:)

Lunch was as planned lentil & bacon soup with part-baked rolls from the freezer. Simple but tasty, there was just my sister and I so I've plenty of soup left.
Definitely going with cod in sauce for dinner, with mash I think as it's pretty wintery feeling tonight:D

Need2bthrifty

I didn't fancy the l/o peppers today so opted for some split pea soup as that's the one I have most of in the freezer. I had some cheesy toast for breakfast so decided on a mustard sauce to go with my cauliflower and fish fingers tonight.

Got some garden tidy-up jobs done but feeling really tired now just hope I can stay awake long enough to see the last episode of Dr F0ster.

purpleybat wrote: »

if I knocked on my neighbours door with a big knife I think they may call the police!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Mine too

caronc wrote: »

Lunch was as planned lentil & bacon soup with part-baked rolls from the freezer. Simple but tasty, there was just my sister and I so I've plenty of soup left.

Yummy - that has to be the next one for my soup list, maybe with a ham shank rather than bacon.

caronc

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

I didn't fancy the l/o peppers today so opted for some split pea soup as that's the one I have most of in the freezer. I had some cheesy toast for breakfast so decided on a mustard sauce to go with my cauliflower and fish fingers tonight.

Got some garden tidy-up jobs done but feeling really tired now just hope I can stay awake long enough to see the last episode of Dr F0ster.



:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Mine too



Yummy - that has to be the next one for my soup list, maybe with a ham shank rather than bacon.

It's lovely with a ham shank but not half bad with bacon. I use half a pack of cooking bacon and it makes a good tasty stock. I have shank in the freezer so I think I'll make green split pea & ham with that . I made it in the pressure cooker so end to end including making the stock (I always prefer to do it separately) it took just under an hour;).

Farway

Hollyharvey wrote: »

A bit like the stollen that fell into my basket this morning .

I was sooo tempted as I went round Lidl this morning, but a packet of chocolate digestives did happen to fall into the trolley

PN, solution must be sausage roll soup? Or soup and dunk sausage rolls in it, or call them croutons as they float on top of the soup

Dinner over, the last of the cheapo bangers now gone forever out of my life,
I made my own chunky chips from a spud that was getting somewhat tired and sorry in the fridge, that plus nuked mushrooms & couple of eggs

Sliced banana / yoghurt / honey for pud

Very full now, may just squeeze some Bread Pud in later, or violate the virginity of the chocolate digestive packet. Or both:o

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am not one for bacon, pork, gammon, ham, hocks etc .... it does seem very popular in British cooking these days, I wasn't aware of it years ago, but maybe my parents and school simply didn't use it. I don't like the fat and saltiness often found.

I don't buy/cook lentils either .... although mum did used to have the very occasional hock with orange lentils in the pressure cooker - but I'm really not sure what she did with that when cooked as it wasn't served to us as a meal. Maybe it's something she/dad ate after we were in bed. It's possible my memory of it is from just 1-2 instances ever of them cooking it.

I prefer to cook the stock first so I can remove excess fat, I hate greasy soup and you can control the salt better. Lentils (all types) are probably my favourite pulse:). Certainly ham, gammon, bacon etc. were popular in my area when I was growing up don't think that has ever really changed.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am not one for bacon, pork, gammon, ham, hocks etc .... it does seem very popular in British cooking these days, I wasn't aware of it years ago, but maybe my parents and school simply didn't use it. I don't like the fat and saltiness often found.

I don't buy/cook lentils either .... although mum did used to have the very occasional hock with orange lentils in the pressure cooker - but I'm really not sure what she did with that when cooked as it wasn't served to us as a meal. Maybe it's something she/dad ate after we were in bed. It's possible my memory of it is from just 1-2 instances ever of them cooking it.

Maybe hock was a Northern thing? We never had it, not that mum would ever do that type of cooking, but my Nan would and we never had that there at all.

Had winkles picked out with her hatpin though

caronc

Holly/Farway - stop talking about Stollen I love the stuff and can't get to Lidl/Aldi to get any:( and I want some (in the next 10 mintes would be fab;))