Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Glad

Dipping back into the thread, it's been an odd year, moved house and also had covid in June, some of the symptoms of which are refusing to go away! and now I'm only working 2 days a week
Both things mean my shopping and meal planning has been all over the place but need to tighten the belt and plan better 

There is a great little c0 0p at the end of my new road and I'm getting used to when things are reduced, also experimenting with what can be frozen for later, basically everything so far

this week, cheese feast pizza £6.50 down to £1.20, cooked tuesday and will make 3 evening meals with salad
lunch today was cheese savoury sandwich filler, downpriced to 26p and will make lunch tomorrow too (2 tubs bought and one in the freezer)
breakfasts are oats with blackberries picked on dog walks and yoghurt I make myself

also while the oven was on I made homemade dog treats, sardine flavour

just to add, how early are the blackberries this year and there are sooooooooo many 

Farway

A dull & drizzly start to the day, but the sun's out now. I went up to water the volunteer pots anyway, the rain never really came too much despite floods in lots of places it missed me

Into Co-op while out, just bread, lettuce, Cuc & YS pack of toms, even though I have some HG toms YS ones are always welcome

With the drizzle this morning I fancied F & C today, so one breaded haddock fillet is defrosting for dinner

Lunch was more fish, bog-standard F finger sarnie for lunch

Dinner, the breaded haddock & HM AF chips and nuked LO beans

Even though fish is not ace for gout there is news, Dr rang with my blood results, confirmed it's gout, and I am going onto Allopurinol for three months I think. I'll collect the prescription tomorrow and start then

caronc said:

I hope DGS got the results he wanted Farway.

Yes thank-you, all done, he's got his Uni place he wanted, some brainbox computer stuff at Southampton, he was initially going to Durham but with last year fail & Covid lockdowns + girlfriend + finding he likes going to the pub with his mates + part-time job + his home comforts Southampton became a no-brainer

His siblings also got the passes they wanted, one granddaughter is studying horticulture at Sparsholt, and she got a distinction, which means she gets to help design & stage their exhibit at next year's Chelsea flower show. A star is born !

All in all, a decent week this week despite a gouty start

Brambling

Hi Glad 👋

we shall expect pictures from Chelsea next year Farway  will your GS live at home? I think that's the tablets the last doctor told me about Farway after my second attack, although looking at your link I'm not sure I could take them as I'm on thyroid medication . 

Did you get you Tesco delivery Caronc, I read that they cancelled all deliveries after 1pm today but wasn't sure if that included north of the border 

Quiet Friday which is just as well with only two of us working today.  I went to watch the national theatre live screen showing of Prima Facie tonight, very emotional to watch at times due to the subject matter but it was 90 plus minutes of just the one actress no interval she even moved the set by herself very powerful,  jodie Comer who was in killing Eve 

lunch was the last of the beans on toast.  Dinner chicken in cider with leek and mushrooms from the freezer with new potatoes and veg

Farway

Sunny but with welcome cooling breeze

Brambling, yes I'm a bit dubious about allopurinol, reading up & Dr YouTube it can cause side effects from other medicines being taken, some of which I'm on, but it's not prohibited, so I'll give it a go with fingers crossed, well they would be if I could

GS will be living at home for his Uni course, and from what I see on TV with student living costs, rents etc it sounds a very wise move even though I expect it will curtail some of the wilder student activities

Meals for the day

Lunch, cheese & salady sarnie

Dinner, I've taken a YS Marks pork chop out to defrost, so that grilled, with steamed HG climbing beans, LO limp broccoli, carrots and I think mashed spuds. If I cook all my HG beans and lots of mash, that's a B & Sq ready for mid-week

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Congratulation to DGS Farway.
Hi Glad
Thankfully I got my Tesco order Brambling, one of the lucky ones it would seem. Must have been a day for system glitches as Boots lost their systems yesterday and I couldn't get my meds. Hoping it's fixed today.

It was pouring first thing but has dried up now and the sun is trying to break through. Might risk hanging out some washing. DS2 is going to help me tackle some corner/awkward cleaning but apart from that I've nothing very much planned.
Last night we ended up with SM pizza (Morrison's Finest and it was lovely) so LO cold pizza for lunch.
Easy dinner planned of bought Southern Fried chicken, onion rings and oven chips with corn cobette salad and HM blue cheese dip. 

Hector was a whirling dervish again yesterday but managed to look very sweet in this photo 

Brambling

I can't see any horns there Caronc 🙂 maybe 666 under the fur at the back of his neck?

I'm happy to let you Guineapig the meds first Farway  I did see it can cause gout to start with 

Trip out to the farm shop with my sister this morning, I didn't need much just topping up on some fresh stuff and some proper bacon, sausages etc. Visit from nephew and family this afternoon and I swapped baby cuddles  with half a large cauliflower  the cauliflower at the FS were huge to big for CFO but too good not to buy for £1.10. My sister does really like it enough to share so I avoided me eating it all week 🙂 the baby has found her voice and has reached the screeching stage his lordship was fascinated enough by her to stay in the room 

Lunch was tuna and watercress sandwich.  I had a cooked breakfast for dinner, using up some of the farm shop supplies

Farway

'Morning all, dull day & cooler, which is good because I'd decided today was slow cooked stew day, and I'd taken the meat out to defrost before I went to bed last night

Brambling, I took my first Allopurinol gout tablet last night, so far so good. When I looked into the far reaches of my medicine cupboard I found some old packets of them, BBE 2008, so I must have been on them over 15 years ago and clear of gout since then, from memory I never had any adverse reactions but always a first time

Finalising my Asda online list today for delivery Wednesday, I keep adding and then subtracting items the more I look at tit, once I've paid I can just let it happen

Meals today, lunch another cheese & salady sarnie

Dinner, as mentioned, slow cooker beef & mushroom stew with dumplings, smells nice already with a good few hours to go yet

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Overcast here but dry so far. I'm hoping the rain stays away as I want to get some garden tidying up done. Many of my annuals haven't recovered from the combination of very hot weather followed by very heavy rain. It's been a short season for them here not helped by Hector's fondness for destroying plants!
House is a good bit cleaner after a thorough going over yesterday. I even washed the back windows.
LO chicken for lunch. Tonight I'm cooking a pork version of May Berry's Creamy Paprika Chicken using pork fillet medallions. We'll have them with new potatoes, carrots, green beans and Portobello mushrooms. 

Brambling

Lazy day for me pottering indoors and out 

lunch was a sandwich with the last of some tuna Mayo and some salad,  Dinner was rump steak from the freezer with AF chips, fried onions, mushrooms and tomatoes, asparagus and half corn on the cob 

work will be busy this week but I've holiday booked afterwards for a couple of weeks, no plans to go away but i'm looking forward to a break from work dramas 🙂

justkeepswimmimg

Right, back to CFO for a bit after a lovely few days with family and being cooked for (oh, and one lunch and one tea & cake out 😉)

Back to the grindstone from tomorrow so a straightforward meal plan done and a quick whizz round sainsburys before they shut when I got home this afternoon.

Car picnic at the services for lunch (HM cheese and pickle sarnie but bought a cuppa). Salmon with pesto and cream cheese topping, new potatoes and veg tonight.