Cooking for one (Mark Two)

caronc

monnagran wrote: »

don't worry caronc, lots of folk are having problems at the moment. We are being given the new blue format, made to log in and then being put back on to the green format.

Ivyleaf on the Garden Fence thread has reported it.

Don't know what's going on at HQ.

Today I had a bowl of Fruit and Fibre for breakfast. Corned beef and salad and a nectarine and apple for lunch.
Thankfully I absolutely love salad and am happy to eat it every day otherwise I would never get it because it doesn't last that long, even in the fridge.

Guess what! I found the remains of a bottle of cheap sherry in a forgotten cupboard so I had half a glass and felt quite sophisticated.

I am a very cheap date!

Thanks glad it's not just me

PasturesNew

monnagran wrote: »

I found the remains of a bottle of cheap sherry in a forgotten cupboard

A forgotten cupboard? Or just a bottle forgotten?

It'd take a mansion of a house to have a forgotten cupboard!

With all the storm excitement (I measured the rainfall and had nearly 2"/5cm of rain!).... I CBA to think of food, so opened that shiny new pack of digestives ...and scoffed two.

I've probably not bought digestives ever before ... except a few with chocolate on (probably 1 pack/3 years) ... and here I am polishing off a 2nd packet inside a week!

monnagran

PasturesNew wrote: »

A forgotten cupboard? Or just a bottle forgotten?

It'd take a mansion of a house to have a forgotten cupboard!

With all the storm excitement (I measured the rainfall and had nearly 2"/5cm of rain!).... I CBA to think of food, so opened that shiny new pack of digestives ...and scoffed two.

I've probably not bought digestives ever before ... except a few with chocolate on (probably 1 pack/3 years) ... and here I am polishing off a 2nd packet inside a week!

Or maybe an ordinary sized house with an extraordinary amount of chaos and clutter.

Never bought digestives before? Are you absolutely sure?

Welcome to the world.

caronc

monnagran wrote: »

Or maybe an ordinary sized house with an extraordinary amount of chaos and clutter.

I sometimes think my house is a tardis - how can so much be stashed in such a small place.:o

PN- digestives are my favourite biscuit. They are the only biscuit I tend to have in. Fab for puds but even better slathered in butter and cheese (or pate)

karcher

Monna Re keeping salad fresh: I learnt a very useful tip for keeping lettuce and cabbage fresh on the old CFO thread...wrap it in tin foil.

It works I tell ya

Farway hope you're better soon.
But more importantly I am so glad you have discovered the wonders of cold pizza for breakfast, Worcestershire sauce on cheese on toast or whole plum tomatoes on toast and balsamic vinegar on whatever takes your 'fancy'

Hollyharvey

caronc wrote: »

PN- digestives are my favourite biscuit. They are the only biscuit I tend to have in. Fab for puds but even better slathered in butter and cheese (or pate)

Oh with butter I want some now, and I haven't got any
I like rich tea with butter on as well.

PasturesNew

monnagran wrote: »

Never bought digestives before? Are you absolutely sure?

Welcome to the world.

I've not been one, in the past, to bother buying biscuits because .... you just eat them all

There are a lot of things I've simply not bothered buying because they could easily get scoffed without a second thought - biscuits, cakes, crisps... are not regular purchases.

caronc wrote: »

PN- digestives are my favourite biscuit. They are the only biscuit I tend to have in. Fab for puds but even better slathered in butter and cheese (or pate)

I've never had them with butter or pate! I'm not somebody who has much butter around. Probably only in recent years when I've randomly bought a pack for some form of cooking/baking/similar. I was brought up on Stork margarine and now just use cheap marg.

31p for a big pack of digestives at L1dl - and they're really nice and soft/moist, crumbly and .... moreish.

I've just scoffed a cheeky crumpet with chocolate spread
I'd never bought or eaten chocolate spread before recently - it simply never really appealed and finally, one day, I tried it! I'm on my 4th jar this year now That's a keeper. 80p/400g at 4sda.

moneyistooshorttomention

Caron - you're entitled to a "proud mum" moment about your son:T. Galling not to be well enough to go to the ceremony though. (Errrm...should we have a different name for a ceremony these days - for those of us that are currently watching "The Handmaids Tale" at present on tv - and what "ceremony" means in that context? Mygawd it's depressing).

Though - on a lighter note - I'm getting the better side of the weather here at the moment than some:). PN reporting gales/rain on the thread. My mother reporting same in a phonecall to me yesterday from our part of the country. For once - I've got it better here in Wales. Well it's gotta even out sometime. I was out in the sun gardening yesterday:)

Just had a first meal of the day - at this hour! Reason being waking up:mad: due to foot discomfort:(. At which point - I decided my stomach was feeling uncomfortable with hunger and so I wasnt going to wait till breakfast to put some food in it. Cue for a couple of slices of toast and bit of milk.

Still feeling uncomfortable though - with that foot discomfort (think its a bit "ingrown toenail" stuff) and got my feet soaking in salty water whilst I wait and hope for the (rarely taken) painkillers to work and I can go back to sleep. I'm a very poor "patient" if it comes to illness of any description - no matter how minor. I tend to start thinking "Look I'm on Planet Earth aren't I and that's a lot to cope with being here for a start-off - never mind throwing any illness in on top of that fact". Hence any illness at all gets a very poor reception from me....

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

.... "ingrown toenail" stuff..

Donkey's years ago my mate's older brother (aged mid-late 20s at the time) had one of those and ended up getting gangrene and having his toe amputated!

moneyistooshorttomention

Thanks for cheering me up Pastures - errrm....not:eek: I presume in his case it was down to him neglecting it?

I've had this before - two of them back in my 30s. How it went then was me getting referred by my doctor to the appropriate hospital department for them to do it and a battle on my hands because of not being pension age and they were only doing pension age people. I won the battle/they did it/all been fine since.

So I am now pension age (though in a different Health Authority). I know what "should" happen - ie I ring up and ask when it can be done/hope they'll say "We've got a slot later today" and "Job done = sorted" by end of the day and I shouldnt have to worry about it ever again - as the "last time around" has lasted me about 30 years.

Now how that is actually going to pan out in practice I wait nervously to see.....as I still can't afford:mad::( to pay for it myself all these years later.....

So I wait to see whether I'm told I have a wait/find I have to fight this time too/etc/etc.

EDIT; Round 1 - rang during what their website says is opening hours - and got recorded message which culminated in the bit I could understand saying their opening hours are shorter than their website says. Efficiency 'r not us (and "ohgawd cutbacks obviously") to start with. Will be ringing back later.