Cooking for one (Mark Two)

caronc

I'm finally playing with my dehydrator. I had a few wraps in a pack that I realised I probably wouldn't use before they went mouldy so I've cut them in triangles and hopefully they'll dry out ok. Thought they would be good for dips etc. and not a huge expense if they don't. I was wee bit concerned the kit might be really heavy on electric usage but going by smart meter it seems much the same as using the slow cooker:)

PasturesNew

I must add.... not tiring of those burgers at all ... but I do like them to be in BIG bread rolls (L1dl don't sell those, 4ldi do)....

Lamb/Mint currently on the go. Two eaten from a box of four. I'll get the jalapeno ones again next time I think... they're both gorgeous.

Farway

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I've had scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast, when the colder weather comes porridge will enter in the breakfast choices .
I fancied porridge this morning but the urge passed once I thought about doing it

After all that excitement I think I will just have a cheese and pickle sandwich for lunch .

I finished up with similar, toasted cheese & HM chutney. Cheese is such a handy standby, shame about the calories

Dinner none the wiser, I remembered the long lost fish fingers in freezer, could just man up and have some of them, just to make a start on clearing them out, it is either them or the LO manky flan or yet another cheese binge

I have salady bits but they just don't appeal at the moment, nor does the fresh veg, including the runners

No doubt something will turn up, not short of food, just none of it I fancy, except chocolate biscuits and cake, and thankfully I have not bought any of those

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

*sighs* .... I know how that chicken feels.

:rotfl::rotfl:Pastures. Look at the positive side of things. I'm certainly not "left on the shelf". I'm just very choosey:)

I've certainly had people say words to effect of "Why on earth didnt you marry them (look what you dipped out on)?" about a couple of my exes...

Actually - don't know about your exact agegroup - but, in my generation, it has proven to be the very rare exception indeed of a man that would have treated me totally as his equal in all respects - and done his 50% share of the housework without my having to even mention it was "his share".

SunnyGirl

Good afternoon all. A late one from me today as I've been with my daughter to look at the house that her and her boyfriend are buying and have just had a clean survey back on. She's very excited and the house is lovely, in a great spot for motorway links for her bf and great bus and tram routes into Manchester for her when he can't drop her off. It's a shame she can't drive herself but she's had epilepsy since being 10 and the seizures come and go without her ever having got to the required time limit for the DVLA.

I haven't yet eaten anything as I'm not hungry today which is most unlike me. Maybe I'm coming down with something :rotfl: I'm reading the freezer chat with interest even though it's not an issue I have personally. I have a chest freezer, which helps, and I only buy stuff for the meals I've planned plus a few extras just in case. I only visit a supermarket once a month, although even less recently as I've been shopping online which stops me seeing or buying things that I fancy on a whim. It works for me but we all have our own ways of doing things. One downside to my way is that I never buy YS food ever but I also don't spend anything week to week. When something runs out such as fresh fruit I eat frozen or tinned in juice. Yoghurt lasts me a month as I choose the longest dated ones I see and always eat them after the date anyway. My nose and taste buds will tell me if they've gone off

Tea tonight is a grilled chicken breast, new potatoes and peas. I'll make some Bisto chicken gravy to go with it. Another Bisto fan here! The other 3 chicken breasts in the defrosted pack will be made into a red Thai curry, a rogan josh curry and a chicken in mushroom and garlic sauce respectively and frozen tomorrow.

PasturesNew

SunnyGirl wrote: »

....I have a chest freezer...

If I had one of those, I think I'd use a few differently coloured "Bags for Life" - the sort from 4ldi, which are like a plasticised material.... and I'd use those to organise it so I could hook out "everything of Type A" in one go. e.g. a bag of things I've opened ... a bag of bread things .... a bag of stuff I made/froze myself....

So when I went to the freezer I'd stand a better chance of seeing all available options of a particular type of thing I went there for.

My sibling has a single unit chest freezer with a single basket at the top - I went through it once putting all the "already opened" boxes in the basket. It's amazing how many boxes of identical products one person can open as they didn't realise they had already opened one like that.

SunnyGirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I had one of those, I think I'd use a few differently coloured "Bags for Life" - the sort from 4ldi, which are like a plasticised material.... and I'd use those to organise it so I could hook out "everything of Type A" in one go. e.g. a bag of things I've opened ... a bag of bread things .... a bag of stuff I made/froze myself....

So when I went to the freezer I'd stand a better chance of seeing all available options of a particular type of thing I went there for.

My sibling has a single unit chest freezer with a single basket at the top - I went through it once putting all the "already opened" boxes in the basket. It's amazing how many boxes of identical products one person can open as they didn't realise they had already opened one like that.

I do that and it's great! I have two baskets that go at the top of the freezer if you like that I keep fresh meat of all kinds and fish, and a partitioned bit that I keep veg in then the rest is 'space' so I have 3 Aldi orange bags in it. One for boxed food like pizzas and some ready meals, one for potato products and one for bready stuff. I stand milk in the space next to the bags. Sounds like we are similar in our organisation PN

Don't think my freezer is anything posh it's 20 years old at least and was my Mum's before she got a smaller one that she promptly hated :rotfl:

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I use 3 bags for life in my small beko chest freezer. Its full to bustin now, all allotment stuff and thats where I have been again this afternoon.Tbh its always certain women who are up there, picking and harvesting. Its definitey not a mans domain any more, the women are far harder working. We`re all about the same age and its the old mantra `waste not want not` with us. That is what is so tiring, I haven`t sat down today but I certainly get the exercise and did a 6 mile bike ride earlier I don`t feel at all like picking at food on days like this, except I am programmed to eat the three meals a day

boxed spelt cereal and milk, boiled egg, cherries, an apricot, purple grapes, veg soup with gammon and brown lentils, roll mop with salad and a hunk of my fresh bread for afters with damson jam, or it won`t get eaten. Hard to remember to drink enough though, easy mug of tea at breakfast, then coffee and then I forget most of the day

Working all day means that if I sit down with my knitting and radio, I always fall asleep in the chair. Don`t want to, want to go to sleep in bed at 10. There is nothing that keeps me awake except sewing and I have nothing to sew at the moment. If I go to bed early and read, which is nice, I still fall asleep too early, then wake too early

SunnyGirl

Kittie Could you read for a while in bed in the morning when you wake early? Then you'd at least be resting instead of getting up and going straight away? I think that many of us are so used to getting up and at 'em from years of working, bringing up children and the like that it's a hard habit to break. I actually have a kettle in my room and little glass containers of coffee and sugar so only take a spoon and milk in a small thermos mug up with me at night and I can then have a coffee and come round to the day instead of leaping straight up.

PasturesNew

For tea ... I went with an easy option: oven chips and beans

Looking at the freezer, the biggest blocker is the Big yorkie .... and the longest lurker is a bag of lamb mince. I might, therefore, knock up a lamb keema/similar ...and shove that into the Yorkie in the next week. Then the freezer will be back down to "1 empty".

Also lurking is the pizza I bought, expecting to cook it immediately over the weekend, then changing my mind. But a pizza is "a bit special", so can only be eaten on a Friday or Saturday night ....so I'll get that out too this weekend ....and that 99p cheesecake I randomly bought.

So, I've got the weekend food sorted And all that lot will empty the freezer a treat

Doesn't look likely I'll eat more swede/carrot mix, so that'll need to be frozen later.