Cooking for one (Mark Two)

meg72

Banana on toast for breakfast

was out at a craft sale 10-4 so took a big flask of coffee and two big rolls one ham one cheese was so glad I did as a coffee and roll at the venue was £4.00. and an afternoon scone and coffee was another £4. that would have been a real budget buster lol.

It was really warm in the venue so it was a nasty surprise to find it blinking freeing when we came out and the bus was 20 mins late.

Home now to thaw out and a chicken casserole out of freezer to nuke with a baked potato and a tin of rice pudding for afters.

Hope everyone is managing to keep warm.

Need2bthrifty

That's been a very productive afternoon and cosy afternoon in the kitchen. I made a small batch of Mushroom soup (3 portions) for the freezer, Romesco sauce for tomorrows evening meal, a Lemon Curd Cake (recipe I found on the GC thread, smells lovely haven't tried it yet, its still cooling on the rack) and whilst rummaging in the freezer I found a bit of short crust pastry dough about the size of a tennis ball so rolled it out and made a Lattice Jam Tart using a side plate, then rustled up my pizza, which I have just finished, all but 2 small slices, it was very nice indeed. The sauce I had in the freezer was more of an arrabiata than a tomato/basil sauce but it brought a nice heat to the mouth and I had forgotten that I had put so much sliced garlic in when I roasted the veg, oooh..wee strong but very, very tasty

So Friday has come around again and I need to go and make up my menu for the next 7 days, hopefully I can manage a plan without having to buy anything :cool:

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Now I have them home I see they should be defrosted before cooking, what a bummer

What is printed on the packet is a guideline. Remember that they have to protect themselves and remember that 50% of people are probably "below average intelligence".

Look at what you've got, think about the food/risks the packet is trying to avoid, then make your own choices/decisions.

"It's just a bit of fish" = defrost it .... go on .... do it ....

A lot of the time those guidelines aren't about how to handle it - but they're trying to avoid people managing to do something that gives them less than the "optimum quality the manufacturer would prefer you eat this at, so they don't get bad reviews because you did something that they can't control the quality of".

Farway wrote: »

Lunch was my annual pasty, it was Ginster's one

Minging. Seriously .... they're all hype and full of disappointment. The filling's not right, the texture's not right, the pastry's not right. If you want an annual pasty then I tried the 4ldi 39p or so one the other week and it's not that different to a Ginster's one in that it says it's a pasty on the wrapping ... and it's meat/stuff in pastry It's a cheaper level of disappointment at least! I'd eat the 4ldi one again, I'd not "recommend" people rush out for one though.

My favourite/most achievable ones are Rowes sold hot at some 4sdas... in Cornwall they're hot and £1 too!

moneyistooshorttomention

CBA day again today - life energy going on the blimmin' "existence" side of it. Leastways - electrician no. 2 did come in today as per plan and had a looksee and is fixed to come back next week to "sort things". Fingers crossed......:cool:

So - lunch was sourdough bread/someone else's more exotic type hummus I've had sitting in freezer for a while/tomatoes/mylk (aka plant milk), some grapes.

Dinner even more makeshift. Steamed sprouted broccoli with tahini sauce and few hazelnuts chucked in with it, then a sharon fruit. Followed by sourdough bread and glass of mylk.

Well - I guess I've covered a fair number of nutritional bases - so that will have to do for the day.

Glad

caronc I made leek and potato soup last night, it was lovely and warming at lunchtime, there's still half a bowl left so I'm going to have that in a moment while I decide what to cook for dinner

probably a mushroom and spinach omlette, because it's easy and I have all the ingredients to hand, I've had spinach in my veg box this week and it looks and tastes so much nicer than the bags I get from 4ldi

Farway

Dinner scoffed, it was the pizza with some salad, not a memorable meal but it was in the CBA category for ease

Will have a bowl of HM stewed apples later, with Greek yoghurt & honey

Planning eating out tomorrow, so no CFO. Off to see a "Sea of poppies" in Winchester. One of the poppies commemorates uncle who died in WW1, his ship exploded at Scapa Flow

Hollyharvey

I had a lovely lunch out, and have just had two crumpets for tea. When I've been out for a meal at lunch time even if I am hungry in the evening, I can never find the inclination to do anything more than put something in the toaster. I always feel it would be a waste of an opportunity to have a day off from cooking if I did anything more .

Farway - enjoy your trip out tomorrow, and day off of cooking .

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I hope today is the last of it money, blimmin long time

I am out all day, craft day and have had a good breakfast. Spelt/dried raspberries/cacao nibs and hemp milk. Followed by sd bread scraped with butter and toasted on the griddle plus an egg done on the same griddle at the same time with no fat. Ok I bought the griddle, expensive but 100% reviews and my very heavy iron frying pan got into such a mess last time I made drop pancakes. Saved on electricity and on butter, so a win win

Lunch will be packed salad and frozen cheese dropped scones. When I get home, a comfy rm meal, turkey with maild paprika taste with homely topping of swede/carrot. While spending money, I bought an electric yogurt maker with lovely small pots. Tonight I will buy some guernsey milk from sainsburys and use a small yogurt to make enough yogurt for 8 days. I used to make it lots but not for many years. I am pee`d off with the price of these top yogurts that I buy. The lot after this lot will be from organic guernsey but I need to order it first. I will save about £3-50 every time, more if I use supermarket organic whole milk

I`ll buy some leeks on the way home, they freeze very well, sliced, washed and dried on a tea towel

PasturesNew

I'm in that "middle ground" between knowing I've lots of food that could be eaten .... and wishing to go out to buy new food .... but it's raining.

So, for breakfast, I think I'll use a frozen bread roll I've got. I'll toast it and top it with beans and one scrambled egg (the last egg).

I've a frozen chicken breast joint in the freezer that takes up a lot of freezer space, so I'll put that in the fridge to defrost and tomorrow I'll pop that in the SC to just cook.

I've no idea beyond that.... there's "new food" I'd like to make, but that requires food shopping. e.g. a cheese bread I've not made for a few years ... and a nut roast.

Neither Lidl nor Aldi have super weekend, or weekly, offers that make me think "ooooh", so I'll not rush out.

I'm now out of: bread, eggs, milk, potatoes, cheese.
And low on coffee.

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl:At the thought of how long I would sometimes have to wait to go out shopping here if I waited for "normal" weather (ie no rain or wind):rotfl:. So supermarket visit lined-up again today - though a higher proportion of my food is now coming from the (genuine) health food shop instead and am about to scour Amazon for the stuff I can't buy in shops yet - so black salt, sriracha sauce and mushroom aminos coming by post then.