Cooking for one (Mark Three)

candygirl

I'm making an egg, n 3 bean salad.Have been eating so much rubbish this week, I need to start behaving lol.

Farway

It was a fish finger & ketchup sarnie for lunch, excellent

About to nuke my MFP sweet & sour

Posting on FB, local chippy offering free delivery no minimum order for confined to barracks oldies, now there's a thought to ponder

Brambling

I was going to say stay away from day time TV Farway but I will now add stay away from the chippy chips    if the CV doesn't get you the diet will    I know what you mean about strange how the brain works I don't usually mind being indoors on my own but it feels difference now I'm being told to be careful, I'm not having to self isolate but am advised to be 'social distancing' .  My MRI scan appointment is for the 26th March I'm wondering if that will still go ahead, it's 7.20 am so i'm thinking the hospital will be quieter then but that is also a consideration about going.  As long as the weather is dry i plan to walk lunchtimes, i'm lucky that I live on the outskirts of town.

I popped to the garden center lunchtime to pick up as couple of packets of salad seeds (i used mine up last year) and some compost so I can start thinking about planting seeds in my mini greenhouse outside i'll leave a while longer.  I don't think i was the only one with the same idea I have heard that DIY stores are also busy with people deciding if they're stuck indoors they will make good use of their time, their large usually busy cafe only had 2 people in.  I was annoyed when looking at seeds that a woman was hovering at my shoulder I resisted the urge to cough     I popped into their very small farm shop which other than a good butcher is usually mainly expensive goods (posh oats, flours etc) and noticed that the shelves are definitely more bare than they were on Sunday with a lot of their expensive stuff now almost gone (like their £3+ for 500g pasta)  and no eggs etc.  I only went in for one of their lemon bakewell tarts for afternoon tea so that didn't worry me. 

Lunch was a gammon roll and dinner will be the LO beef stir fry and rice which i had forgotten about yesterday.  Working from home will mean I can rethink how i usually do lunches 

candygirl

BRAMBLING I'm the same! I usually don't mind staying in, but am quite panicky at the thought of a total lockdown,  which I'm sure is imminent

Brambling

Candy we are lucky we have our fur balls  . To keep us sane(ish) 😉 although his lordship has spent the day on my bed 🙄

caronc

Good evening everyone, 
Very late on parade today. Spent most of the day on the phone with the out of school club I volunteer with, we got a heads up re the school closures and it seemed we'd be expected to close also but tentative indications seem not but still not clear. It's been a trying day but hopefully we'll have some clarification tomorrow. 
Crackers and cheese for a quick lunch and tonight it was cajun spiced chicken thighs, potato peeling 'crisps', corn on the cob and HM coleslaw. My nephew did a quick run to the SM early afternoon for bread and milk. Just as well a proper shop wasn't needed as most of the shelves were completely bare... He managed to get both though it was a take it or leave it choice with the bread. 

Farway

Seems strange not going into town for my normal Thursday YS mooch, it did cross my mind but I really don't need anything & I'm out early tomorrow morning anyway, podiatry appointment, so will take opportunity to pop into L's & maybe Co-op which is opposite. Only thing I would like are some eggs but even that is not desperate.

The local pub is branching out, now the dining out & pub going is vanishing he is doing click & collect groceries, presumably via his catering connections, his prices seems reasonable, not at Asda level but certainly W8rose level.

Some of our local cafes are also now starting doing hot food click & collect, very entrepreneurial

Floods of tears from grandchildren, exams cancelled after they have worked so hard. They've cheered up now, all in same boat so just getting on with it, one of life's lessons

Today's TV post weather was Al Jazeera  ,  It was about CV, 'phone in & myth busting I thought they did a good job

Porridge breakfast

Lunch, very likely a cheese & piccalilli sarnie

Dinner, I've taken a FR gammon steak out to defrost, so I'll grill that, with HM chips, fried in butter mushrooms & eggs

Message from my ethical on line FR meat folk, priority booking slots for over 60s and free delivery. Not required yet but nice to know

Wednesday2000

My sleep is all messed up as husband is still on nights.

I woke up at 4 to let the dogs out and checked through a couple of forums and then took my medication and went back to sleep as it makes me really tired. I woke up again at 11.30.

I was really hungry so I had the blueberry porridge I had prepared yesterday and then a vegan cheese toastie. That was a good idea to keep the oats and fruit all ready in the fridge so I did it again today for tomorrow.

I have to go out to pick up more meds and I'm feeling a bit nervous! The advice to keep 2 metres away from people is going to be impossible.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
I'm having a much needed afternoon feet up time after a hectic morning. Sis and nephew had hoped to go home today but that's not able to happen yet, they've gone out for a bit and I'm enjoying a couple of quiet hours😁. Still no word re the opening /closure of the out of school care, there should be a national announcement at some point this afternoon after which I'll need to get my proverbial back in gear as either way there will be a lot to do in the next 24 hours. Crackers, cheese and grapes again for lunch and tonight it's scotch pies with beans, mash, gravy and peas. There are four pies in the pack so I'll be stashing one in the freezer before my nephew scoffs it 😉. 

candygirl

Brambling said:

Candy we are lucky we have our fur balls  . To keep us sane(ish) 😉 although his lordship has spent the day on my bed 🙄

Madam's been having her usual rant at the bin men