Cooking for one (Mark Two)

PasturesNew

I think I've just found a product that's disappeared from L1dl & 4ldi. They certainly are gone from my local shops.

Luckily for me I'd tried them both and found them poor value/taste, which is why I hadn't registered that they'd gone from the shelves.

It was the "indian meal - presented in a takeaway style bag", where you get two meals, two lots of rice, naan bread, for about £3.50.

They were pretty rank ..... good job I didn't like them. I hate it when things I buy/like disappear.

Doom_and_Gloom

Been interesting reading everything.

I'm still around just not been posting.
I had a break from my stew last night and had HM curry out of the freezer with bombay potatoes also out of the freezer for dinner. Enjoyed it with a beer that I made into a shandy to make it go further. Very nice. Though twelve odd plus hours later I think I still smell of bombay potatoes :rotfl:.

Had coffee so far today and about to have another. Yeah I'm predictable I know.
Will have fruit later.
Got a pack of tuscan bites out of the freezer last night. Will get a couple of wraps out the freezer later and have the tuscan bites with hummus in the wraps.
It will be the last portion of stew in the freezer for dinner tonight, I'll have that with courgetti.
I have to pick up a watermelon after work tomorrow as I'll be having the last of my current one later and I am really into eating it every day at the moment. A watermelon lasts me at least a week so not to bad, for me it works out better value to get a whole one than the packs or even frozen. Problem is the initial space taken up in the fridge. Thankfully it's rather empty right now.

Hollyharvey

I've just put together a Shepherd's pie for dinner using the left over lamb from my roast yesterday. At least that means there isn't any lamb to go back in the freezer .

I just grabbed a yoghurt and banana for breakfast on my way out this morning and am planning on having a cheese salad sandwich for lunch shortly.

At least there is nothing else going into the freezer today .


PN I know what you mean about hating it when supermarkets stop stocking something that you liked. I hate it when that happens.

PasturesNew

I'm sitting here eating an over-stuffed ... big yorkie, chicken, stuffing, mash, swede/carrot, peas.

It nearly didn't all fit in there!

Photo in a bit .... once I've finished.

PHOTO:
It's difficult trying to take photos in a confined space!
So this doesn't do it justice ... and was taken before I poured gravy on it.

It's 7"/18cm wide.... so 1" wider than a Fray Bentos pie. It probably weighs in at 600 grams.

https://s21.postimg.org/lbx5ut713/Giant_Yorkie.jpg

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Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm sitting here eating an over-stuffed ... big yorkie, chicken, stuffing, mash, swede/carrot, peas.

It nearly didn't all fit in there!

Photo in a bit .... once I've finished.

PHOTO:
It's difficult trying to take photos in a confined space!
So this doesn't do it justice ... and was taken before I poured gravy on it.

It's 7"/18cm wide.... so 1" wider than a Fray Bentos pie. It probably weighs in at 600 grams.

https://s21.postimg.org/lbx5ut713/Giant_Yorkie.jpg

6378h1dco

Oh wow! That looks absolutely lovely, I could just eat that right now. I hope that you enjoyed it.

SunnyGirl

PN That looks really good! I like the idea of mashing some swede and carrots together then some swede on its own I'll borrow that one :T

Afternoon all I'm not really CFO today as I'm at my sons tonight. I had no breakfast as usual and 2 scrambled eggs on toast for lunch. I've been busy cleaning through this morning which is it mostly done for the week thankfully.

New cats are getting on ok although the older one is still in hiding. She's eating at night so I'm not overly worried. The other one is a plant water so I've had to hurriedly check google to ensure that my orchid that I got for my birthday and the aloe vera plants aren't poisonous which they're not thankfully!

Money Cats are usually choosy who they will go to so consider yourself very honoured

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
Brill looking meal PN:D
Must be the day for hummous & wraps D&G, I made a batch of hummus earlier and have just scoffed some in a wrap with falfalel, spinach, rocket & watercress. It was blooming lovely:D

The peppercorn sauce I made last night was a tad salty for my taste (I blame a beef stock pot I used) so there is quite a bit left. I reckon if I bake it with added courgette, chard & spuds that'll tone it down a bit. So it's that and lamb chops for dinner tonight:)

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Oh wow! That looks absolutely lovely, I could just eat that right now. I hope that you enjoyed it.

I did. It was a really tasty belly filler!

SunnyGirl wrote: »

PN That looks really good! I like the idea of mashing some swede and carrots together then some swede on its own I'll borrow that one :T

It was quantities-bought driven. I picked a swede, but I only bought a small pack of carrots ... so the swede was double what was needed to make the mash .... but I cooked the whole swede anyway, as it would be daft not to as it takes the same amount of time to cook half as to cook the whole.

And, once it's done, it's done .... and ...well...there's always the freezer *rolls eyes*

I still have a 2nd Yorkie in the freezer; they're not good kept in the freezer as they do take up a LOT of space and you have to be careful not to break/squash them... so I'll probably repeat this tomorrow.

Leftovers right now: still got some of the chicken, still got 2Kg spuds, 350g mashed swede, 600 grams mashed swede/carrot, a bit of gravy made from the chicken stock.

And I'd rather not freeze any of that, but looking at that list it will be inevitable.

Farway

Afternoon all. Just back from walking round RHS Wisley, slowly, went out early without breakfast as I had to pick up car from it's MOT repairs, nearly £140, oh well, 40 odd quid is MOT fee so as car repairs go not too bad

Lunch was out in the Wisley [STRIKE]Cafe[/STRIKE] restaurant, just tuna mayo sarnie at nearly 4 quid. Every time we say let's bring our own and have a picnic, but never do, I enjoyed the day though

Dinner, not sure, certainly CBA to do much, there is a crust less quiche / flan / thingy in the freezer and that looks a likely candidate along with the blob of LO instant mash from Saturday and obligatory brown sauce Jus drizzled over

Maybe some more of the stewed apple mountain later,and sorry to hear of your apple probs MoneyTSM

I find stuff vanishes from the shelves just as I get to like it, I assume it is only me buying it twice a year though so no profit there. Or as sounds the case with the carry out curry, so rank no one bought them after the first time

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

.... tuna mayo sarnie at nearly 4 quid. Every time we say let's bring our own and have a picnic, but never do

With £4 you could've run into Aldi and walked out with a whole quiche for 2-3 people for about £1.40, a tuna sandwich for about 85p, a 2 litre bottle of fizzy pop for 45p, a cheesecake for four people for 99p .... and still had change left over to throw in a fountain and make a wish!

Farway wrote: »

I find stuff vanishes from the shelves just as I get to like it, I assume it is only me buying it twice a year though so no profit there. Or as sounds the case with the carry out curry, so rank no one bought them after the first time

I think the speed of change has rocketed... before you'd have YEARS of a product being sold.... now, with fast access to crunchable data on spending habits, they like to keep up with the modern fads ... and have to ditch stuff quicker.... lots of things "we rely on seeing" will have disappeared forever in the next 2-3 years I bet.

For the L1dl bags... I did a direct comparison of the bagged sort -v- buying individually (which were the same brand) - and it worked out that by buying the bag you were reducing your choice ... and you got a worse deal than if you'd picked up the individually packaged items. With those bags the flavours are never my favourite, so getting a bag when it was a "bargain" didn't seem so bad; to buy a bagged job lot and have to eat TWO curries that weren't my favourite, was one step too far when I realised it was better to choose what I liked (better) from the individually boxed items 2' to the right.

I would add that I've noticed the L1dl chilli (that I like) has gone up by 20p since I first bought it! Cheeky sneekiez.