Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Cold but sunny here today.
I've had fairly productive morning - bathroom has been scrubbed, laundry caught up with and Tesco order for tomorrow sorted out. I'm just enjoying a quick cuppa before cleaning out the stove and doing a bin run. Then it's lunch and feet up for a bit.
Lunch will either be a toastie or oatcakes and cheese. Tonight it's a "here's one I made earlier" shepherd's pie from the freezer with veg and gravy. 

justkeepswimmimg

Sunny and cold here today too, more scraping this morning.

Busy office day so reheated some of my HM mushroom soup for lunch. Salmon with broccoli and pesto pasta tonight.

Glad to see the end of another long week on the horizon 🙃

Brambling

Cold here today or maybe it was me, the heating was turned up I usually have it just ticking over on low 

I must have had a power cut during the night as the radio alarm was flashing when the furry alarm demanded his breakfast, it was earlier than I usually get up but a 4.5kg tyrant sitting on my chest tapping my face did get me out of bed 🙂. Work wasn't too bad, lack of meetings meant I actually got my to do list done 😁 and I finished by 5.15pm

I made a vegetable coleslaw (yellow pepper, red cabbage, sprouts, carrot, sugar snap peas, celery, apple, spring onion) using a yoghurt dressing rather than Mayo for lunch and had with Brie and a PB roll.  I cooked the roll in the AF definitely better than turning the oven on just to cook it.

Dinner was a lentil and vegetable 'cottage' pie (is there a term for a veggie cottage/shepherds pie?) with a cauliflower topping and some savoy cabbage 

Farway

Very hard frost again, must be cold I heard my heating come on early so I assume it was the “frost” setting that triggered it, but sunny & blue sky anyway

Looking for inspiration for dinner, usual freezer full but nothing inspiring in there, could be the not yet made kipper pate that nearly got made early in the week, maybe pull my finger out & make it?

Lunch will be the last of the veg burgers, they are Linda’s own, ¼ pounders, OK but have that pervading vegetarian taste which is OK but tends to make them very samey, and probably they say same about meat

Dinner, as above, still thinking about it

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
I think a veggie cottage pie is a "Shepherdless" pie Brambling. 
Back to dull and damp here this morning.
Tesco are due soon- three subs but sensible ones so happy to accept them.
Apart from stashing the groceries and routine chores I don't  have any plans for today. 
Cheese and ham wrap for lunch and probably breaded haddock with some LO wedges for dinner. 

justkeepswimmimg

Shepherdless or shepherdess, can’t remember which 🤔

Home day today so got out for a walk at lunchtime to collect a John Lewis order from Waitrose (managed to only pick up a free waitrose weekend and nothing else)!

Lunch was a jacket spud with cheese, tuna and the scrapings of the coleslaw pot with a bit of rocket and cucumber. Veggie night here - made a yummy harissa chickpea stew with crispy halloumi and mint/cucumber yogurt, served with a naan bread.

Another week in the longest month ticked off 🙃 

Brambling

That's it thanks  guys I was trying to do it with cottage and couldn't make it work 🙂

Other than a manic couple of hours this morning it was a bad day 😁 and 5 o'clock finish 🙂

food wise was a repeat of yesterday but there are no LOs left. Lunch was 'slaw and Brie and dinner shepherdless pie and savoy cabbage.  I managed to burn the roof of my mouth trying to test it had heated through  - it had 🥵🙄

Farway

Back to grey & dull again, but at least it’s milder even if not nice enough to drag me out to garden tidying

I made the kipper pate yesterday, turned out well with some LO for today’s lunch. added more tins to the on line order

Whilst rummaging in the pantry, with idea of possible salmon pasta for today I came across a few jars of pasta sauce, stockpiled in 2020 & 21 lockdowns, all coming up to BBE dates, in fact a Dolmio Bolognese one is BBE right now.

I guess this one was from one of the mixed lots “food parcels” that were sold during the early panic empty shelves days because I don’t buy them normally

Anyway, that triggered today’s meal plan, Iceland mince out of freezer & defrosting, tonight is spag bol night using the Dolmio sauce

Lunch is the LO HM kipper pate with toast + maybe bit of salad alongside

I’m still pondering my on line orders, now on hold because W8rose offers expire Tuesday and although there are slots it’s a bit too soon and I’ll wait & see what the new offers are. Asda sent e mail, missing me and a tenner off my next shop, catch of course is having to spend over eighty quid on one shop, which in my CFO land is very unlikely, even for very posh local meat at Christmas

caronc

Good afternoon
Yes unless you want to stock up on loo roll, soap powder etc. reaching £80 as CFO is a challenge (unless you buy booze when it can scarily easy lol ).
Damp and grey here too today. Apart from wrapping my sister's birthday presents for tomorrow I've had a lazy morning. I'll do a bit of prep for tomorrow's meal later, she's requested fondue so lots of cheese to grate, but otherwise I've not much planned. I'm CFO tonight so will see what the freezer come's up with for dinner. Lunch is going to be a BLT wrap. 

Brambling

I did move my delivery to Tuesday Farway so I could keep some of their offers, I had menu planned around them 🙂 

i walked into town this morning for a haircut it wasn't as cold as forecast so it was a nice walk, it's a couple of miles each way.  The walk back wouldn't have been too bad but I brought some SO blood oranges and a bag of bananas in M&S, the bananas were their 25p a bag as they are ripe. And there was 8 in the bag.  So even with a break at my sister it was a heavy walk back and my hip has been aching tonight.  I should have got a lift back from my sister 🤔 I did gift my nephew the ripest bananas for cake making

lunch was a YS pack of peri peri chicken from M&S from their deli range, 50p rather than £3 which I had in a bread roll with salad. Dinner YS half price spicy prawns with jacket potato and salad