Cooking for one (Mark Three)

candygirl

CARON there are 12 tins per pallet. I got 2 pallets, but I go through chick peas so quickly,  as roast them,  use them in curries, salads etc 😘
WEDNESDAY! Check you out with Mr Russia 😉😂

Brambling

PN sometimes it's quicker to queue rather than drive around town, unfortunately I think when people post a quiet time at a shop everyone then turns up at that time the next day.  I have found if I just want milk it's worth paying the extra 20p not to queue and go to the petrol station (not attached to any SM) 

i had the gardener come in and tidy the garden this morning, there were some amusing moments of me asking him to move some plants without knowing their names it was a bit left a bit, right a bit, fire from across the garden.  The soil was 'hard as a rock' which was why he was doing it and not me 😁 my hands aren't great and really ache after digging in it.  At least now it's done I can keep on top of it and I'm supporting a local self employed person.  

Lunch was the last of my stuff vegetables this time half a pepper with LO French beans.  Dinner was pan fried cod loin, asparagus, runner beans and mash potato.  This was the cod I brought YS from M&S a couple of weeks ago and a lovely piece of fish just normally very expensive if it hadn't been less than half price 🙂  

candygirl

BRAMBLING,  you're so right about not driving around everywhere to save a few pence, especially at the moment. I've been getting all my shopping online, n at first thought it was expensive, but I'm saving so much on diesel at the moment. I doubt I'll ever go back to shopping all over the place 🤔

threepenny_bit

Brambling said:

threepenny_bit said:

Oh how I wish we had some flowers here in Alberta - the snow has been melting the past 2 days and hoping that Spring is starting. Nothing green to look at yet and  certainly no flowers.

I live on the outskirts of town and within walking distance of several bluebell woods which I always think are typically English  . Although my house was built in the mid 60s wild blue bells, wood anemones and wild garlic come up every year in my front garden, and tend to run amok 🙂

I miss the bluebell woods near my home  when I was growing up. My parents always have aconites and snowdrops early and then you know the bluebells wont be far behind. 

Wednesday2000

I got something out of the freezer last night and I didn't really know what it was. It was a type of chickpea soup I made. I had it with two slices of toast.

Farway

Wednesday2000 said:

I got something out of the freezer last night and I didn't really know what it was. It was a type of chickpea soup I made. I had it with two slices of toast.

The mystery frosty packet, at least being own freezer you know it is something you probably like, may not always suit of course, stewed fruit that should've been stewed beef but hey ho that's CFO

I could do with a mystery no thought required meal for dinner. I'm not a take away person but today is a day when a trip to the chippy would be ideal, the only open chippy is delivery only, min £12 so s0d that

Nice & sunny again so it's probably salad again. And I may put the canes for the beans up

Lunch will be LO roast turkey sarnie, there was plenty for last night's dinner as well

Dinner, salad, in my bag of T*sco spuds delivered by ND there is a large one, which is is ideal size for baking.

However some of the spuds have hidden black tinges inside, only visible once peeling   I'll bake it and take a chance it'll have to binned once I cut it open, spud lucky dip tonight

Should it be OK I'll have tuna / sweetcorn / mayo mix inside, with salad. If spud is gunge, then just skip baked spud part and console myself with a mint Club

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
It's a gorgeous day here though the weather is due to break on Sunday. I have a couple of bluebell patches in my front garden that were here when I moved in and appear reliably every year. I do love to see a big swathe of them in woods when I get the chance. My son's air fryer order has been cancelled, I think I'm more disappointed than he is 😞. We are making the most of the weather and bbqing this evening. I've a chicken crown and HM burgers defrosting to grill. We'll cook some veg as well on it too. We'll have the burgers tonight and use the rest over the weekend. We are having a family quiz tomorrow evening so want an easy meal to avoid faffing about. I've cooked some baby spuds to make potato salad to go with the burgers and the chicken and I've a tub of coleslaw in the fridge as well. I had my grocery order delivered this morning so the fridge is well stocked with fresh veg for salads. There was only one sub and one unavailable item which is better than it has been recently. Lunch was a ham, cheese and pickle sandwich with baby plum tomatoes and grapes. 

PasturesNew

Re queueing and other shops that sell bread. I typically pay 55p for bread, so not keen to try shops that charge more. It's £1/loaf in £land. I'd seen them in £land, but I was off to 4ldi next door next... or so I thought.  I just figured there must be a shop without a queue... and there wasn't.  Reading the papers last night it seems the world was out and about... so I hit that crowd of people all going out.... I was unlucky.  

BONUS! I'd like to proudly announce ... I'd had a tip off about a chippy that's open, it's about a mile away.  I went there today - had CHIPS FOR LUNCH £1.90 for a medium, which was pretty darned large really. More than enough, I struggled to get to the end.  I asked him when he's open and he's doing special/long hours.  11am to 8pm Mon-Sat.  Brilliant... I'd driven there at about 1.55 hoping to catch it before it shut.... no need to have panicked  

He's a strange one.  No website, no FB page.  He fries chips and sells them to locals who know when he's open.   Local chips for local people  

I won't need to eat again today.  I probably will, but I don't need to.  I'm happy knowing there is a chippy, where, when and how much chips cost.  Great. 

Yesterday, having obtained a loaf, I had sandwich overload.  I cracked open the cucumber I'd bought a few days ago and hadn't got round to it... yesterday I scoffed at least: 1 tomato/cucumber sandwich, 1 cucumber/crisps sandwich, 1 salmon paste/tomato sandwich, 1 slice of bread with the rest of the salmon paste, 1 packet of crisps.  I can't remember if I had a noodle pot... might have, might not, who knows... I'm trying to just keep on top of which month it is.

Nelski

hey all
 pn Im super jealous of the chippy....chip butties my favourite

weird eating continues here like this morning.... and I apologise in advance....Left over beans a couple of anchovies bbq sauce and red Leicester cheese all served with a doorstep piece of bread and butter for brekky?? I know its wrong and yet it was so right going back to normalish tonight with some chicken tenders in a roll with bacon coleslaw and a salad. Course whether it happens is another matter

Farway

Great find on a chippy PN at least it's something hot and maybe splash out for a fishcake or suchlike it they sell them of course

Baked spud in, it looks OK from the outside so fingers crossed it's not manky inside. Tuna / mayo combo mixed and maturing in the fridge, only have to sort out salad & dinner's done