Cooking for one (Mark Two)

BucksLady

Pastures, my sister has the same problem. Additionally, she also assumes that people knows what she's thinking - if only we did . We are all 'wired up' differently and that's why each one of us is unique xx

mcculloch29

A lovely CBA brekky of a bit of mature cheese, toast and some festive malt loaf that was reduced at A!di.
Ready meal for lunch, probably something light for tea, as tummy is still recovering. and I don't want to push it.
Farway, garlic is a strong intestinal 'disinfectant', it was used as a cure for intestinal parasites. So your reaction isn't surprising.

MrAPJI

Apparently there had been a number of reports concerning that chap and he's now being questioned. One of my neighbours said he actually kicked his car - no damage thankfully. Anyway, that's quite enough excitement for one day lol

Farway

MrAPJI wrote: »

Just as I was typing this, I had a knock on the door. It was a guy with a yorkshire accent asking whether I would buy some dish cloths/cleaning products from him. When I explained that I didn't buy at the door, he became rather annoyed. He stated that he had recently been released from prison :eek: and needed people to buy his goods, after which he slammed my front door and marched off. (.

Seems like a clue there. As you say, enough excitement for one day

Lunch was the cheese salad baguette combo

I think dinner will be one of my emergency tins of soup. I say one of, it is the only one left:o So will have to get more next visit to Lild

Flavour is cream of chicken, and I'll have some stale WM bread dunked in I expect

wort

Happy belated birthday Money :bdaycake:

Had a quick roast beef sandwich on seeded gf bread at lunch, as my friend from work popped round .We haven't had catch up for a while, we work on different dept s , so only usually say hello etc.
Then my sister called she still comes most days since hubby died. And I'm due to go to a new (to me) yoga class with another friend from work later. She's been going for while and I've wanted to go, as I used to enjoy it many years ago when I went last. It's the start of a series of 10 classes, it's not within walking distance for me so my friend will pick me up.
I'm going to eat now then I'm not exercising on a full stomach. I've got left over pasta and lo potatoes with the same sauce from the last 2 meals I'd put into 1 pot together, so will pop in micro with cheese on top.
I will hopefully be back in time for the quiz at 9.30pm.!
Well done Mr AP on tidying the garage, it's on my list but will wait until the weather warms up!
The macrame things are back in fashion!!!! They were in a recent home magazine! !:eek::eek:

moneyistooshorttomention

Personally - I just thought "Well he (ie the doorstep caller) was really selling himself well - NOT" making that comment about having just been in prison. I know I would personally instantly "turn off" if someone said that.

The exception to that being if they'd been in prison for what I would regard as a "genuine reason" (ie imprisoned because of **** laws of the country penalising them for protesting about something I'd be blinkin' protesting about too). Shades of Greenham Common or the suffragettes struggle and getting imprisoned (what!!!:eek:) for a Good Cause. I never have been imprisoned (whether for a Good Cause or because of being a criminal - hastens to add that I'm not a criminal eek!) and I would treat the two different circumstances VERY differently indeed.

Hence - I wonder what the heck the caller was playing at for saying he'd been in prison (because, in the vast majority of cases, it would be because of doing something criminal).

But I've been known to stand there and positively "read the Riot Act" about someone turning up on my doorstep outa the blue and just hoping to sell whatever-it-was. Yep...I've even had a right go at someone that was trying to sell whatever-it-was to a vulnerable neighbour before now and person concerned got sent off with right "flea in ear" for trying it on in front of me.:rotfl:

Oh well - and back on the food front - and things didnt quite go "according to plan" today. Nevair mind - and there's the leftovers from 2 days back sitting in the fridge from the "main meal" that day and so it will be roast vegetables and cooked-up mixed grains.

Damn - I knew there was something I'd forgotten. I've still not bought that jar of pickled cucumbers I've had a hankering for for the last few days. I was in Aldi today checking out their new "vegan/fashionable" products and duly buying some of them - but I forgot that. I do have some organic edamame spaghetti that I found there though:rotfl:

EDIT; Yep and I can confirm that indoor pot plants are indeed currently back in fashion and I think the macrame holder thingies are too. Well - I've got an aloe vera plant sitting there in my bathroom now and basically "busting out all over". Does that count?

Irenadler

Hello Money...

Just seen that it was your birthday, so, Happy Belated One! : )

I have just discovered that Mr T's does tiny cucumbers, which I think might be more economical than buying a half or whole 'normal' one... Mind you, it is 75p for 5 diddy ones.

Haven't got round the problem of buying a whole Q and it withering up before I can finish it yet.... Hmmmm... So, if I get the small ones, maybe they would keep better. Huh, I lead such an exciting life!

Hey, maybe you can get those, Money, and pickle them? Just a thought.

moneyistooshorttomention

Yep...those weeny cucumbers having a home pickling session are "on the list to try" Irene. That list is getting longer by the minute.....:rotfl:. I have done a quick pickle sorta thing with yer standard long cucumbers - and it wasnt bad...though not quite the same thing...

Well - I take it "that there ain't no point" unless I'm still "learning/experimenting"....:rotfl:.

Agh...the "list to try" is still a mile long at the moment..:cool::rotfl:

BucksLady

MrAPJI wrote: »

On a more cheerful note, I had a really good laugh this afternoon. A friend of mine (60 and divorced) told me that on Saturday he was off ''speed dating'':rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I didn't realise that was popular amongst this age group. I think the guys are 55-65 and the ladies are between 50 and 60 lol. I would love to be a fly on the wall at this event

Speed dating is a lot of fun and that's where I met my husband
Mind you, we were a lot younger

caronc

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

Shame about the new recipe Caronc, I have also found some of her recipes need a bit more spices/herbs added for my taste.

Yes I think with this one taste/flavour was sacrificed in view of keeping the costs down.:mad: I debated trying to "jazz up" the LOs with additions but realised I would then have LOs of LOs. So much as I hate ditching food, I'm afraid into the food waste bin it has gone! (At least it has been recycled;))

MrAPJI wrote: »

Just as I was typing this, I had a knock on the door. It was a guy with a yorkshire accent asking whether I would buy some dish cloths/cleaning products from him. When I explained that I didn't buy at the door, he became rather annoyed. He stated that he had recently been released from prison :eek: and needed people to buy his goods, after which he slammed my front door and marched off. I've just called Mary, telling her 'not' to open her door this guy. Most odd and I'm now going to report the incident .

We had a spate of similiar a couple of months back, tied to an increase in burglaries in the area. The local police reckoned it was a gang operating and the chap door knocking was alerting his mates if there was no answer. They did identify where they had been staying but they had legged it so not caught.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm still eating, a little, but it's not worth mentioning.

Tea was 2 small squares of chocolate.

Oh PN - hope you feel more like it tomorrow.

The coldy-thing I appeared to be coming down with yesterday seemed to have gone this morning only to reappear this afternoon complete with the chills. A snooze and a couple of paracetomel seemed to have knocked it back again so fingers crossed. It's not killed my appetite though so lunch was a largeish bowl of broth, toast and some fruit. I'm just heading to ccok dinner and going to make sure there are plenty of herbs and spices (and garlic - sorry Faraway) added. I'm just going to griddle the pork and have with spuds and stiry fried kale & onions so nice and easy (and hopefully tasty):)

I see the a long thread has been "zapped" again. Probably time I thought about starting "CFO- Mark3" just in case. However, the 13th is the anniversary of me starting the first CFO thread so will hold off to then if folk don't mind and hope we don't suddenly disappear into the ether:eek: