Cooking for one (Mark Two)

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A new dawn and a new day and back on the good food wagon

Main meal will be fish and assorted veg. Second meal will be a basic hm pizza. Afters/snacks will be various fruits and a yoghurt and 85% chocolate. I have no sweet things hidden anywhere, not in my freezer either.

My criossants turned out amazing, I made 8 and will only have one for breakfast from time to time. They look as good as shop bought but are not as featherweight, fun to make. I will be making a custard base ice cream tomorrow and managed to walk past the ice creams in the supermarket freezer the other day. Mine is much more satisfying and I never crave a lot but I do crave a topping on berries and crumbles. My crumble topping is buttery and mixed to lumpy, so I end up with a bit of a biscuit type topping, which I find more satisfying

Anyway I intend to keep myself busy today

iammumtoone

kittie wrote: »

I will be making a custard base ice cream tomorrow

Can you post the recipe for that please, it sounds scrumpy.

moneyistooshorttomention

Caron - fingers crossed things will now move at a faster pace re your pension. Followed by you can then get on with getting your bathroom done.

meg72

Good morning, decided on an early start this morning as was up at 5am, goodness knows why.

It was too early to eat so just had a coffee and took two sausages out of freezer, to have with the last of my home grown tomatoes when I got back from Asda.

Now back Ive stocked up on smartprice rice pudding x 10, smartprice
custard x 10 and smartprice stuffing x 10. Will last a good few weeks.

Nice breakfast of sausage egg and tomatoes.

Checked my Iceland bonus account and was delighted to see the Christmas bonus has gone on, Yay £60 free food. Was really dubious about this as did seem to be too good to be true but it works.

PasturesNew

meg72 wrote: »

stocked up on smartprice rice pudding x 10, smartprice
custard x 10 and smartprice stuffing x 10. Will last a good few weeks.

That's a LOT of stocking up! I use cheapo stuffing in the main and rice pudding .... but I don't use the cheapest custard, I use "own brands", but not the super cheap ones.

meg72 wrote: »

Iceland bonus account and was delighted to see the Christmas bonus has gone on, Yay £60 free food. Was really dubious about this as did seem to be too good to be true but it works.

I have never been close enough to an Iceland to shop there more than 3x in my life... and then I've not been in a position to buy much at all as you do need to be going home to put stuff in the freezer if you're in there.

I'd like to have one handier, but it's such a faff to get to - and it has no car park, another conundrum to work around.

When people have £X on these bonus cards, I always wonder how much they had to spend to get that! I looked it up, you put £20 on a card and the bonus is £1... so to get £60 you've loaded your card 60x£20 = £1200. How many years did that take you? If I bought ALL my shopping entirely at Iceland it'd take me 2 years to spend that.

I can usually get £2-3 on the Sainsburys/Nectar card in about 2 years, but spending it comes with its own rules that often make it too hard for me to cash in.... it usually takes me 3-4 goes before I have the right mix/match of products/value to be able to do that.

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's a LOT of stocking up! I use cheapo stuffing in the main and rice pudding .... but I don't use the cheapest custard, I use "own brands", but not the super cheap ones.



I have never been close enough to an Iceland to shop there more than 3x in my life... and then I've not been in a position to buy much at all as you do need to be going home to put stuff in the freezer if you're in there.

I'd like to have one handier, but it's such a faff to get to - and it has no car park, another conundrum to work around.

When people have £X on these bonus cards, I always wonder how much they had to spend to get that! I looked it up, you put £20 on a card and the bonus is £1... so to get £60 you've loaded your card 60x£20 = £1200. How many years did that take you? If I bought ALL my shopping entirely at Iceland it'd take me 2 years to spend that.

I can usually get £2-3 on the Sainsburys/Nectar card in about 2 years, but spending it comes with its own rules that often make it too hard for me to cash in.... it usually takes me 3-4 goes before I have the right mix/match of products/value to be able to do that.

N

Nooooooooo £1,200 yikes as you say would take two years, lol might not even be here then.

Right to explain then. Normal bonus is £1 for £20 = £20.
Christmas bonus was £1 for £10 so I put £400 card =£40

the two are added together so £60 bonus.

Wednesday2000

I had Violife cheese and lettuce on toast with a cup of coffee this morning.

I definitely fancy a piping bowl of soup today, maybe a very easy HM tomato, carrot and red lentil.:)

meg72

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I had Violife cheese and lettuce on toast with a cup of coffee this morning.

I definitely fancy a piping bowl of soup today, maybe a very easy HM tomato, carrot and red lentil.:)

Yes definitely a soup day its blinking freezing. I will have chilli bean and tomato I think. Can of kidney beans in chilli sauce an carton of tomato passata, stick of celery and a small onion. with some grated cheese on top and a nice crusty part baked roll. So quick to make.

PasturesNew

meg72 wrote: »

....kidney beans in chilli sauce...

I've often got those in as they can be the same price as regular kidney beans, so seems daft not to buy them. I'll use them as part of the basic chilli recipe ... or I find half a tin of those (with sauce) tossed into a packet of dried noodle packs turns a snack into a meal. (I also use half a tin of peas in with noodles). That extra "something" just makes a simple pack of noodles look/feel like a meal instead of it looking like you skimped and snacked

And, as you've used them ... as the start of a "Chilli & X" soup.

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I thoroughly enjoyed my main meal today, variety of nice green veggies, gently stir fried with frozen mini tomatoes, then added excellent sardines, costco, skinned in olive oil, plus some pesto. Had that with a little spelt pasta. Very tasty and I feel virtuous. Followed by my chocolate and not even a hint of mouth hunger for sweetness

I have been doing a big clearout of spices and herbs this morning, facing the fact that I genuinely like simpler meals these days. Satisfying job, another enabler to moving forward

I am going to be busy this afternoon, knitting