Cooking for one (Mark Two)

moneyistooshorttomention

So cold and/or midges on West Coast of Scotland or maybe rain and wind on West Coast of Wales.

What's not to love?:rotfl:

Now who lives somewhere balmy and livestock-free?:)

meg72

Morning all. Think I might be getting free of this lurgy at long last. Woke very early 4am don't know why but feel quite energetic and have steam cleaned kitchen and had a freezer sort out.

Have absolutely loads in still despite a real effort to use up this month. Problem is the kind of food I like to eat is such a faff to do for one i.e.
Roast dinners curry. casseroles Chilli. cottage pie etc I do four and freeze 3. Plus my love of yellow stickers.

I really don't need to buy anything at all this month. Christmas meat already in and larder stocked up. With the weather being so cold it seems like a good time to stay in the warm and use up. I am setting myself a challenge not to go shopping until Christmas Eve. Lol will see how long I last.

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Sausages and black pudding bought, divided into three and frozen. Something to look forward to over christmas. I fancy a trip out to waitrose but it is going to be a nice sunny day today, I`ll save that trip for sunday when it looks gloomy again

My appetite has definitely changed, I want smaller meals and am fed up with bulk-made home cooked ready meals. I still have three left and will use one today, I put them in foil trays and I know I will only be picking bits out but maybe the foil trays are too large. I am going to be lifting one drawer out of the freezer today to have a furtle, I need to do a stock take. Any future meat orders are going to be divided into easy-cook single portions, meats I actually look forward to, not meats that need to be bulk cooked. I do have a very shallow pressure cooker so could actually cook a `casserole` for two days if I divide the meat up appropriately for the freezer. That was a light bulb moment btw

Lunch a rm with no veg as there are enough veg in it. I have stewed apple in a big tub and yogurts for afters but in a couple of hours after

I had plain and simple porridge for breakfast but need to have some extra protein as that amount of milk is not enough, I think I will have what I had the other day, half a tin of costco sardines on half a piece of toast. Not the sardines in tomato but the ones in olive oil, very nice too. The rest of the sardines go into a little lock n lock for the next day

Glad you are n the mend meg

Wednesday2000

Sorry that some people are feeling under the weather, I had the flu recently and it was horrible. There are lots of nasty bugs around.

I have had a cup of coffee and herbal tea as I've been up since 5.30 today. It was freezing rain this morning, but I have had a hot shower and I'm wearing my long dress, jumper, fleecy socks and slippers so I feel okay.

I'm going to have toast with vegan bacon slices and fresh spinach for breakfast. Apple too.

Talking of crisps, I like the "posh" crisps from Aldi or Lidl, can't remember which shop, but they are lovely.

Wednesday2000

I was just looking for simple living blogs after looking at the new thread on here. I didn't realise eating seasonally was supposed to boost your immune system, interesting.

5 Best Ways to Boost Your Immune System | Simple Living Blog

PasturesNew

To me, simple living means living close to a shop that sells ready made sausage rolls

That's simple!

wort

Andy, you have much more willpower than me!! Especially if I have a glass of wine with crisp!!
The kettle ones come in two sizes, big and ginormous! !!! Only buy them on offer at a pound. Otherwise it's tesco or sainsbury. The small kettle crisp are usually not in the pepper flavour. Marks and Spencer do packs of small black pepper crunchy cracker "rice" type. But not cheap.
I can't have walkers, so usually get golden wonder from home bargains or tesco own brand .usually cheese and onion.
Just had toast but didn't really enjoy it, trying to decide wether to put this curry in slow cooker or wether it will cook down like the other jar sauce I used and be super spicy. As dgson is here for tea don't want to spoil it.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
wort your curry should be fine in the slowcooker but it will probably on take about 3 hours, an hour on high and a couple of hours on low and see if the chicken is cooked, if you are using breast chunks it should be.:)
kittie that's definitely the downside of batch cooking when you are CFO having a freezer full of meals you don't really fancy anymore;)
I think last night was the coldest it's been here, it's still -2C outside though it's nice and bright and sunny:). The forecast is for it warm up with mist/fog this evening and the rain's back tomorrow.

Just had toast and cheese spread for breakfast and lunch will be the last of the goulash soup. I'm not sure about tonight yet. I'm off to get a batch of lentil soup into the slow cooker for tomorrow night. It can cook away while I potter on with the cleaning:)

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yes, I have one rm in the oven for now caronc, I`ve got to be doing the freezer list this afternoon or, before I know it, I will have duplicates of duplicates. Sun is blazing in just now and I have been going around wiping marks that seemed to have suddenly appeared. That has decided me, what to do over christmas, other than have my 1 or 2 days out and watching dvds. Cleaning, I have to do that deep clean before selling, so thats going to be my job for the hols. I`ll make a chart and do a bit every day and I`ll also include touching up with paint. Needs to be done at some stage and it will keep the positivity going. I mean corners and using proper paint cleaner and white wax crayon to hide the 2 small cracks I noticed in some painted wood. I am noticing everything today and don`t get me going about windows

Next property will be more accessible so I am going to have a widow cleaner and an occasional cleaner, just now and then to do top to bottom

Caronc, cheese!!! I am gagging for some real strong golden cows cheese on toast, its on my list

AndyCF

PasturesNew wrote: »

To me, simple living means living close to a shop that sells ready made sausage rolls

That's simple!

Before our local Co-Op became a B+M, their own branded ones were half reasonable. It was sometimes a bit hit/miss but on the whole they were quite good. Perhaps strangely from what I recall the 'snack size 6 or 12 packs' tasted better than the 'normal size' packs of 4 or whatever.

Now out of range unfortunately, but the ones the brilliant local butcher has in (made there with real sausage-meat) are brilliant but they are expensive about 80p each but they are awesome. I must see about grabbing a couple next week as I fancy a few of cooked meat slices as well during next week.

Farway wrote: »

Blimey, what will power, which is why I never buy share bags of anything

Oh its not that, its just I think I might turn various shades if I sat and ate a whole 100g or 150g bag in one sitting :rotfl:
The ones I got from M's they either are well done on the edges or sometimes more likely still have a bit of the skin on which is quite nice anyway.


I've not yet been able to face those 'frozen vegetarian hot dogs' I've had since about August either yet, they seemed like a good idea at the time, have decent reviews but I've not really been in the mood for them. I was just really more in a 'micro cook sausage' mindframe at the time I think rather than them being either veggie sausage or traditional and as I noted the micro instructions on the pack as well as the usual "on the hob" directions I grabbed them.

I think I should of just grabbed a pack of frozen LM's sausages (instead of dogs) as last time I tried them they were quite nice and they "look" like they are cooked even when they are still frozen.

Compared to a different supermarkets 'own brand' veg-burgers which (to be fair a few years ago now) came out of a normal oven both greyish and a bit horrible.

Bit mixed up today as for some reason I thought it was Friday yesterday :rotfl::rotfl: hmm. Oh well.