Cooking for one (Mark Two)

moneyistooshorttomention

Doom &Gloom - I would buy edamame beans frozen - if I could be sure of their provenance. That's the problem. I was having this discussion the other day re being unable to buy any soya beans or products thereof unless I'm sure they're organic. As I gather all soya stuff is g*netically m*dified unless it's organic.

I was being told "Oh the g.m. stuff is only being given to animals and not sold to humans" - but, having had more than 60 years on Planet Earth this time - I've become so cynical about the high level of inefficiency and/or dishonesty that I'm not prepared to take the risk that's the case.

But I did read a suggestion recently to use peas instead any time a recipe specifies edamame (if one can't find organic edamame). I'm waiting for organic edamame to be available - but, meanwhile, that's what I'm planning on doing.

SunnyGirl

PN I buy the frozen chicken breast joints from Aldi and Lidl fairly regularly. They serve 2 - 3 so are food for CFO purposes. I have a roast dinner one night, make either chicken soup or a curry or similar for another night and sandwiches for work with what's left. They're much more convenient that a whole chicken.

Morning all. A lovely bright and windy morning here so I have a wash load on the line although I'll take it in before I go for lunch as rain is forecast this afternoon. Some of the flylady thread jobs to do this morning then out for lunch. Looking forward to seeing my daughter as she was on holiday in Mexico for 3 weeks then straight back to work so I haven't seen her properly for over a month.

Caron I love FaceTime too! My youngest son has FaceTimed me a few times from America so I've been able to see bits of the camp and his cabin. Also being able to see him is great as I haven't seen him in person since June. Technology is great isn't it!

Doom_and_Gloom

Birds eye 'soya beans' are edemame and while not organic they are non GM to my knowledge. Edit : found a statement saying all birds eye soya is non GM. Probably simular to Alpro only using non GM if it isn't stated as organic.
Saying that if you want organic they sell them (in pods mind) at goodness direct.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've been eyeing up the little frozen chicken breast joints, £2.49, since about January - seized the day and grabbed one today, that'll go in the SC at some point in the next month.

I use those chicken breast joints a lot. I think they are really convenient. I'm not keen on the dark meat on chicken so if I use a whole chicken I *have* to make a curry to use up the dark meat, or waste it. I can't even eat it in pie.

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I decided to give myself a treat this morning and did an 18 mile round trip to waitrose. Got changed to go and before changing, weighed myself, last time was a month ago. I have lost 11 lbs :j that`s vegetables for you and I wasn`t on a diet, just didn`t have any gooey stuff or biscuits in the house. When I made scones then I didn`t add sugar and egg but made them with chopped nuts and sour cherries and they were a nice treat

That worked psychologically because as soon as I got into waitrose, the taste buds started playing up and I fancied, sweet, salty, buttery but I didn`t even have to be strong, no way was I going to start piling it on again. I wish I lived near there, they had good bargains. I bought one of those meals for 2 for £10, chocolates included. Starter and no pud and honestly I now have enough ready food and treats for the rest of the week, the starter is a meal and so is the side, never mind the giant pizza. I have come home with fruit, bread, oats and that meal and spent far less than it is worth. Yes I just ate my treat for this morning, a fab crispy rustic roll with butter and jam and I have put ys croissants and currant buns in the freezer

Money, sainsbury has organic edamame pasta, I just bung it into soup if I am having a cba day. My neighbouring farmer grows edamame as part of his rotation, he never ever rotated before, it is a new edict. He is always up and down with his sprayers. You are quite right to choose organic whenever possible, particularly grains and rapeseed oil etc. They have just taken off the oilseed rape crop and prior to that it is heavily sprayed with glyphosate to kill off all the vegetation, making the seeds easier to process. One great big reason why I grow my own and freeze as much as possible for winter, otherwise I have to use abel and cole or riverford for much of my food. I will never compromise on my food, having seen the way farmers abuse their arable crops. No wonder people are getting ill

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

.... lost 11 lbs

Well done! Once you've lost so much it is easier to focus on keeping it going.

kittie wrote: »

.....I now have enough ready food and treats for the rest of the week...

The trouble with having a house of great food is.... where DO you start?

kittie wrote: »

..... edamame...l

To be honest, I've been skim-reading posts with this word in as it's a new/peculiar word to me and I have NO idea what it is/means

PasturesNew

I have cooked...... a cristless quuche

Cheese/onion today. It finished nearly 30 minutes ago, so I'll be serving it (still too hot really, but I can't wait) ... in about 5 minutes.

EDIT: It was only a one-egger.... I cut it in half first.... but as I was waiting for the chips to finish ... and I was staring at it ... I put the other half on the plate too. Really tasty

moneyistooshorttomention

9 miles from Waitrose - is envious (after having been used to Waitrose a walking distance away):(.

Even the nearest Sainsbury is quite some distance away. Here I'm onto my 3rd choice supermarket - ie T*sco and it's only small imo.

Edamame is young green soyabeans PN. Used in lots of 2010's recipe contexts.

Well done Kittie on the weight loss - its reassuring to see that people can/do lose weight - just from eating healthily and being conscious of what they have.

Farway

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Farway - re that thorn in finger. Do you have something along the antiseptic type lines to put on it?

Me - I tend to head for tea tree oil (as I have a collection of aromatherapy oils in). But I guess something like TCP, Dettol - even at a pinch some salt in water perhaps? put onto the wound.

Making sure you kill off any germs. There are odd incidents of tiny things like that turning septic on the one hand - and we are starting to go into "antibiotics stopping working" territory on the other hand these days.

Would prefer not to be sitting here in a couple of weeks time thinking "Now where did Farway go? He's not posted recently".

Thanks Money, still here, as is the thorn. I have had tetanus jabs for decades because of my gardening and just such an event as yesterday. Plus I lick it, like animals do. spit is an antiseptic I read, but that seems open to question, get three experts & get three different answers

Waitrose, mine is about a mile away, with plenty of other options in same area. PN, mine has parking charge, but refunded in W/r if you spend in there, guess you are not as fortunate, but then we have lots of parking choices, including free parking

Bit mixed weather today, rain when I went out, now sunny

Real CFO breakfast this morning, 2 cold LO YS sausage rolls With the statutory brown sauce jus. But at least they are now gone out of my life

This morning's mooch did include Waitrose, and spotted very posh YS Haddock fish fingers, £2.49 for 6, down from 10/- each to 8/3d each :eek: I bought them having seen a rec for them on here. They are much larger than bog standard ones, but at 10 bob each so they should be

I had 3 in a sarnie for lunch, oven cooked as per destructions. I think they are better than the normal B*rds Eyet ype I buy, but not enough difference to make me buy them again.

I will have the other 3 tonight as fish & chip dinner, that way chips & fingers in same oven. And I suspect today will be the last time I buy fish fingers for years

I'll have frozen peas with the fingers & chips, that will be the only veg today, hardly healthy but it was salad yesterday, and a few hedgerow blackberries as I parked the car, does that count?

Hollyharvey

I've got a nice easy not a lot of cooking day today .

Breakfast was Greek yoghurt and berries.
Lunch a tuna mayo sandwich.

Dinner is the left overs from my lunch at my brother's house yesterday. I got sent home with chicken, stuffing, roast potatoes and yorkshire pudding. I've defrosted some chicken gravy I had in the freezer and got some veg ready to steam, so it's nice and easy.

I've even got some cheesecake that was left over as well