Cooking for one (Mark Two)

lessonlearned

Money...... sounds like it might be infected. .If you can't get to see a GP would it be worth you seeing a chiropodist, failing that a consultation with a chemist. I often use a chemist as my first port of call. They are very knowledgeable.

Hello Monna. I'm new here too. I'm living on my own now, first time in 37 years. I'm loving it. I've never had so much disposable income now that my food budget has plummeted. It will be even lower when my son takes his cat.......spent £11 yesterday, half of which was on cat food. Lol.

SquirrelSmall

Yesterday was a challenging day, given that the gas bottle ran out as I was boiling the kettle for my morning coffee. So into the office, meeting carnage, back to the boat (I think finance were about to report me to HR for swearing. Irony being, I work in HR...) Leftover curry for lunch. Faffing and dealing with stupidity at work all afternoon.

Then one of my neighbours came over to do my eyebrows (I can kid myself that I make an effort), her hubby switched over my gas bottle. So it got to 9pm and I had quiche, new potatoes and salad for supper. With a side order of thunder and lightning.

I just hope today's idiot rating is lower than yesterday. They were out in force...

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

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

It was surgeon error. He'd had some operation and should've been called back for a check up, but wasn't.

It was only because the surgeon was leaving and tidying up his files that the error was spotted and he was called in - if not, it could've been his leg I understand.

Back in the olden days when people were grateful it wasn't the leg and didn't give a thought for suing!

moneyistooshorttomention

Oh right PN - given that I've spent most of my 60 plus years to date living in Britain - by now I'm well up on checking for the Idiot Factor. I know how efficient my country is not:cool::(.

So I google a variety of websites as to how things "should" be/make notes of what they should be doing and when and so on......

I can well believe a check-up went missing in your friends case:cool:. I am in the "well if you dont clock them one for inefficiency - then they will carry right on being inefficient" school of thought personally. So...yep...if something is someone else's fault then.....

But I try very hard to stop anything on a "someone else's fault" list happening in the first place....and hence one big household diary that I make "Have they done x yet?" comments in as required.

Anyways - I've rung the NHS and thought "Agh! They were straight back with the words 'waiting list' and 'months' ". Got an appointment to throw some money at it with a private podiatrist in 2 weeks time (still a blimmin' wait - but at least not nearly so long....:cool:). If need be = I'll throw some more money at it if I'd be left in pain for longer otherwise (and then panic where the money is going to come from....but that's another story....#shrugs#).

moneyistooshorttomention

Lunch coming up. CBA to think of anything interesting to do with those remaining 2 portobello mushrooms. So - it's the mushrooms baked/tomato/cucumber/courgetti (aka courgette spaghetti)/few olives/tahini sauce.

Preceded by two of those flat peaches.

Probably drink of rice milk to finish.

Phhht to the "clean eating" horror story in a newspaper today - I'll haul back onto just "healthy vegetarian" once I've got my figure back (2010's size 10). I'm starting to feel there are some bones still in there underneath the flab:). Anyways - I know I'll probably be having a couple of glasses of wine tonight...

How's your diet going Lesson Learned?

caronc

lessonlearned wrote: »

Money...... sounds like it might be infected. .If you can't get to see a GP would it be worth you seeing a chiropodist, failing that a consultation with a chemist. I often use a chemist as my first port of call. They are very knowledgeable.

Hello Monna. I'm new here too. I'm living on my own now, first time in 37 years. I'm loving it. I've never had so much disposable income now that my food budget has plummeted. It will be even lower when my son takes his cat.......spent £11 yesterday, half of which was on cat food. Lol.

Our local pharmacy is great too - so helpful for those things where you're not sure if you need to see a GP or not. If you present with something that they deem urgent they'll contact your GP for you so you can be seen as an emergency. I get bothered with nasal herpes usually they settle but a couple of years ago I had a doozy and also what I thought was an eye infection so went to see if they could recommend anything. Pharmacist took a quick look up my nose and at my eye and said I needed to see a Dr straightaway as the herpes outbreak had spread to my tear duct and could damage my sight. They phoned the GP and arranged for me to be seen immediately:D

SquirrelSmall wrote: »

Then one of my neighbours came over to do my eyebrows (I can kid myself that I make an effort), her hubby switched over my gas bottle. So it got to 9pm and I had quiche, new potatoes and salad for supper. With a side order of thunder and lightning.

Thank goodness for hepful neighbours:D

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Lunch coming up. CBA to think of anything interesting to do with those remaining 2 portobello mushrooms. So - it's the mushrooms baked/tomato/cucumber/courgetti (aka courgette spaghetti)/few olives/tahini sauce.

Preceded by two of those flat peaches.

Probably drink of rice milk to finish.

Phhht to the "clean eating" horror story in a newspaper today - I'll haul back onto just "healthy vegetarian" once I've got my figure back (2010's size 10). I'm starting to feel there are some bones still in there underneath the flab:). Anyways - I know I'll probably be having a couple of glasses of wine tonight...

How's your diet going Lesson Learned?

My favourite way with big flat mushrooms is to chop the stalks and mix to a paste with garlic, parsley, olives, olive oil and parmesan. Pop mix back in the mushroom, sprinkle a few breadcrumbs on top and baked (I'm sure it could easily be veganised) then served in a bun with salad and relish:D

From tonight I'm not CFO for a few days as my younger son will arrive back from Cardiff this evening. The weather is definitely on the turn still really warm but windy and grey with rain due later so I think I'll make pasta and meatballs for dinner. Breakfast was the usual toast and fruit and I'm not sure what to have for lunch. It can wait a bit as I've just scoffed a load of peas picked from the garden.:)

moneyistooshorttomention

Will probably give your recipe a go caron once my weight is sorted.

Easy to "veganise" Parmesan - just use nooch (aka nutritional yeast) sprinkled on top of something instead. Havent yet tried out the recipe I see for making a vegan sorta equivalant for Parmesan.

I'm trying to base my food around "whole food plant-based" at the moment - so avoiding using oil if I possibly can. Just had a couple of cautious sprays of spray oil on the mushrooms just now instead of wholesale pouring on of oil I've done in the past. Have come to the conclusion that cheese, oil and alcohol have been the culprits in my case - so virtually abolished cheese and oil for the duration and minimising amount of alcohol (ahem....well those 2 glasses of wine I'm anticipating whilst out tonight...ahem....for instance) and I did have a couple of designer beers recently. But it's rather less alcohol than before...

Lunch now finished - with a bit of nooch thrown over the top - as I didnt think it had quite enough flavour. Huge chunk of melon afterwards. Never mind "10 a day" - I'm probably getting rather more than that at the moment.

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Will probably give your recipe a go caron once my weight is sorted.

Easy to "veganise" Parmesan - just use nooch (aka nutritional yeast) sprinkled on top of something instead. Havent yet tried out the recipe I see for making a vegan sorta equivalant for Parmesan.

I'm trying to base my food around "whole food plant-based" at the moment - so avoiding using oil if I possibly can. Just had a couple of cautious sprays of spray oil on the mushrooms just now instead of wholesale pouring on of oil I've done in the past. Have come to the conclusion that cheese, oil and alcohol have been the culprits in my case - so virtually abolished cheese and oil for the duration and minimising amount of alcohol (ahem....well those 2 glasses of wine I'm anticipating whilst out tonight...ahem....for instance) and I did have a couple of designer beers recently. But it's rather less alcohol than before...

Lunch now finished - with a bit of nooch thrown over the top - as I didnt think it had quite enough flavour. Huge chunk of melon afterwards. Never mind "10 a day" - I'm probably getting rather more than that at the moment.

I couldn't remember the the name for nutritioal yeast thanks for reminding me. I don't use a load of oil in the recipe just enough to bind the ingredients together so a few sprays would probably do the trick

PasturesNew

SquirrelSmall wrote: »

... her hubby switched over my gas bottle....

Not sure what you mean by switched over or which system you've got, but 25+ years ago I lived in a mobile home with big orange gas bottles. I had a dual system on that - there were two bottles side by side and when one ran out the controller automatically switched to the second one.

It won't have been a posh/expensive system at all, just a "normal type of switch".

If you have to rely on others changing your bottles when you run out - and needing somebody to be available on a whim, it might be worth looking into one of those as you could then ask people and they could do it at their leisure without you running out of gas and waiting for somebody.

PasturesNew

I had food at about noon - it was breakfast fodder of 2 hash browns, the final 1/3rd of the open tin of beans, the final 2 little sausages and a scrambled egg + a statutory brown squirt.

So that's cleared the sausages - so I don't have to freeze them, always a bonus.

No idea what's later on .... it could be baked spud/cheese as that's easy and I do have to eat those spuds at some point.