Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

My delivery arrived on time, I must be blessed, on local FB loads of moans about them.

My driver was polite & very helpful lifting boxes into the lobby, SD of course.

I tend to milk it a bit TBH by making sure they can see me with my stick when politely asking if they would mind just lifting it inside for me

muffin_man_7 said:

Faraway just a thought could the deodorant be the new compressed version   they  have less of the gas

Not sure, I thought it was down to branding, Right Guard instead of Asda " Cheapskate" . Only charged for cheapo not RG so no complaints here

The chilled food is well within BB dates, over a week for macaroni cheese for instance. It'll be eaten of frozen well before then

Now I'm back to stuck for choice with a full fridge including load of Iceberg lettuce

More rain overnight but sun's out now. If it keeps out I may creep out & pick the only bunch of grapes before they start rotting with the rain

Lunch today is down to use up last of HM loaf, I may toast it with jam if it's too stale for a sarnie

Dinner, also bit of a use up. Last of the corned beef, with some of the YS mushrooms in use up older eggs omelette.

Now my spuds have been replenished with decent Maris Piper [some good sized bakers in there BTW] I'll also make AF chips & a bit of side salad

Wednesday2000 said:

I walked past a man today who was shouting hysterically saying to his friend that there was going to be panic buying and then rioting (!) here soon.

Reminded me of the joke about bloke shouting out "It's going to sink" as the Titanic sailed from Southampton

They chucked him out of the cinema

PasturesNew

Tipping it down here. Dentist later today. I can't tell if my tooth is wobbly as I've been super careful about not poking it about to see and not eating things that need teeth.  

I'm sure I was going to type something else here, but have forgotten what it was. 

Wednesday2000

It was cold here this morning but when I went out it warmed up a lot. I got in 9000 steps as I went for a mooch around the chazzers again.

I was starving when I got in as I went out without breakfast again. I had an avocado roll and some orange juice. I managed to avoid Gregg's this time. There was a big queue outside anyway.

Brambling

Farway said:

Reminded me of the joke about bloke shouting out "It's going to sink" as the Titanic sailed from Southampton

They chucked him out of the cinema

 When the film (the Kate Winslet one) was in the cinema during a discussion at work I said I wasn't going to see it as I knew how it ended the ship sank and was really told off by a colleague who was going that evening as 'I had ruined the ending for her.......'

I did wake up with cold arms this morning, my window was opened and they were outside the duvet.  Socks have also gone back on today as my dining room floor is chilly

I was talking to someone last night who had been to our 'big' Tesco it seems that the shelves were bare last night at 6pm (the usual suspects were missing).  I don't need anything other than F&V at the weekend so that could be a quick trip to the T Express near me as I don't think i need enough to visit the farm shop and I need to pick up a prescription Saturday morning.  I have pulled together a Iceland shop for next Wednesday I just scraped the £35 for free delivery.  No vouchers so I can revise it next Tuesday if required.

I had a trip to the hygienist first thing this morning which involved lurking outside in the drizzle for 5 minutes until they buzzed me in, annoyingly they have also put the price up £10 since the last appointment in January and they aren't polishing at the moment.  I feel that we are paying for their lockdown     And because I know how to have fun I'll be queuing in the rain later for my flu jab, the advice from the surgery was bring a umbrella if it's raining as you will be queuing outside and will be let in via the fire door so you can exit via the main door.  

I fished out my 'George' grill from under the stairs i had stopped using one when I replaced my original with one with removable plates as it never got hot enough and just ruined the food by boiling it.  My current one has fixed plates but I got out of the habit of using it.   I retested it on a burger from the freezer lunch time (YS 3% fat one from M&S) and as I'm trying to be good no bun just a watercress salad with loads of HM cherry and baby plum tomatoes, the last ones are ripening off on the window sill.  

Dinner will be a pork chop, runner beans, courgette and new potatoes.  I may cook the pork chop on the 'George' seeing as it is out. 

greenbee

@Brambling - the £10 may well be the PPE charge. I think it's £40 for my practice... but given the extra stuff they were wearing I can see that it gets expensive. They've also invested in air cleaning systems so that they just have to disinfect each room rather than leaving it for an hour between patients as it wasn't feasible and the backlog of appointments for essential treatment (like my bone graft, extractions etc) was getting longer. 

I'm still eating soup. I have chocolate, but can't eat it until my gums have healed enough (and ideally the stitches have dissolved as chocolate in the stitches isn't a good look. 

PasturesNew

Dentist.  The good news is my teeth are all all right.  The bad news is my hereditary and lifelong gum shrinking issues are causing all manner of things, the wobbly tooth is an area that's become infected due to excess tartar.  I had three X-rays. That's the problem I have: I produce excessive tartar, which then gives gums a bad time and causes shrinkage and infections and problems.  I think I got it off my dad... although it could be mum, who had all her teeth out when she was 21 and dentures put in.  

Next appointment is to have a scale and then a clean.... first scaling appointment isn't until the end of October and the cleaning is booked in for Xmas week.  I just have to be "careful" until the end of October, 5 weeks... if it flares up and becomes painful/swollen I can call them again for an emergency and he'll give me antibiotics....  

I don't pay, generally, as I've been going private for the last 20 years since I had a huge under gum scrape 20 years ago and thought it best to just be private and not have to face sudden large bills.... at a guess it's about £500/year or so.  On balance, it'd have been cheaper to save the money into a separate pot, but you don't know - and I have, over the years, had a LOT of treatment done on these things.  That initial scrape, at year 2000 prices, was over £400. 

I stopped off at a large 4sda on the way home and grabbed two large bottles of mouth wash and some common table salt (so I can do salt washes). 

I also grabbed a Jamaican patty (currently in the oven), a quiche, slab of cheese, bar of chocolate and wine gums.  

I don't know what 4sda sells + I don't know the store layout + there were plenty of people in there that do know what they're doing, so I left it at that and came back.  I did spot, in passing, what looks like a CFO box for £3 that's a Mexican meal in a box... but had left my glasses in the car, so couldn't read the box to see what's in there. I could see it said chilli. Might be worth investigating at some point, although a lot more than I'm usually willing to pay for food!

Loads of places I don't want to buy are being reduced at the moment.... trouble is, bad places piggyback on the backs of the good ones that previously sold in their road and so a lot of the reductions are just them dropping any pretence about value.  

Farway

Looks windy outside, but at least the sun's out. Not that I'm going anywhere, today feels like it will be a loll around & comfort food day

I'm all set for another lock down / Brexit now, my lose tea parcel arrived this morning plus fridge & freezers are full

Not CV stockpiling, just my normal CFO winter prep really, but more so with the second freezer

Brambling said:

Farway said:

Reminded me of the joke about bloke shouting out "It's going to sink" as the Titanic sailed from Southampton

They chucked him out of the cinema

 When the film (the Kate Winslet one) was in the cinema during a discussion at work I said I wasn't going to see it as I knew how it ended the ship sank and was really told off by a colleague who was going that evening as 'I had ruined the ending for her.......'

That made me smile, I find the lack of knowledge in some is astounding, not expecting brain boxes but basic stuff would help

As an aside, one of my distant rellies was the youngest survivor from the Titanic so I feel I have connection of sorts

Meals today, as above, all convenient & comfort stuff

Lunch, tin of H's cream of tommy soup with some stale HM bread dippers. The soup was part of my "make it up to £35" from Iceland shopping

Dinner, tin of spaghetti on toasted stale HM bread, with couple of fried eggs on top

PS, The curse of substitution in on line shopping.

My cheapo custard creams were subbed with  McV's ones, the "peel here" didn't work and I sliced myself prising the tab up from the pack.  

Makes a change from slicing fingers opening corned beef tins

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
LOL re the Titanic "spoiler"   
Glad your teeth are okay PN and hope your mouth heals soon greenbee 🤗
There was a heavy frost here this morning, my sis texted me to say she had to scrape her car!
Just waiting for Tesco to arrive, I suspect there may be subs on a couple of items but I was able to order what I needed so we shall see.
HM soup and the last of the HM rolls for lunch. My son will probably get a chippy tonight so I'll be CFO, AF breaded haddock and a baked spud sound tempting.
ETA - just two subs so not too bad   

Wednesday2000

Derr at your colleague Brambling.  

Wednesday2000

I bought some food from Coop today after another charity shop jaunt. Pineapple, olives and a falafel wrap. I only had half the wrap so I'm making jacket potatoes now. I will have one with either baked beans or veg and gravy. It does feel more autumnal today.