Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

 I'm having pasta with broccoli, peas and pesto sauce for lunch.

justkeepswimmimg

Sounds fun, caronc 😅

Not quite the day I planned but it turned out to be very productive, just didn’t do the “concentrating” task I needed to…oh well, sure I’ll get to it eventually!

Damp and grey for most of the day but wrapped up and managed without the heating until this evening.  Brightened up this afternoon so walked into town as needed the post office for a voluntary admin task.

Lunch was a cheese and coleslaw sandwich with cherry tomatoes. Creamy sausage and leek pasta tonight 😋

Brambling

Work wasn't too bad today, just busy enough for the day to go quickly and to tick off some items from my to do list, just as well as I was on my own most of the afternoon and my Dutch colleague kept calling me 🙄

My sister came around for lunch, only crumpets with toasted cheese and some salad. As I was on my own it was a slightly longer lunch than a hour My nephew and his OH have been given a room at the Ronald McDonald house next to the hospital which allows them to have deliveries so we were planning what we could send them.

I went to Sainsbury just after 6 and got some unexpected really good YS bargains I only went to use some vouchers   i picked up some veg and a parsley plant all for 20p each and then some meat and fish £8 instead of £34.00 🙂 including a £17 joint of beef for £4 which will do for a family dinner.  My sister comes up to stay on the 24th so I'm covered for dinners There was a women with so many packs of meat in her arms she couldn't hold any more she turned her nose up at the fish so I took one pack of each leaving the rest) she wasn't happy that she had to put her load in her trolley and I picked up the beef and a pack of pork chops  🙄 she then stood next to the guy asking him how much he was pricing each new pack for and grabbing it before it went on the shelves.  I left as a old couple started complaining about her. I went in to use vouchers for using their smart shop which ended today, £1 off president butter bringing it down to less than own brand so a couple of packs were brought for the freezer 

Dinner was a clear fridge of odds and sods when I got home, potato wedges, salad and some seafood sticks 

Farway

Good bit of YS shopping there Brambling, and very greedy of the YS grabbit lady, but not knowing her circumstances maybe it was justified, I would still execute her though once I snatch power from Mrs E Truss

Sunny out and very Autumnal looking

Finished my Asda online shop, discovered I'd run out of Marmite, so swapped out fresh chicken for a jar on the list. The chicken was only there to bring cost over £40 anyway, I have a frozen chick in the freezer if needed. Of course, the healthy option would've been to swap out the posh jar of wild strawberry jam

Lunch, fried egg sarnie planned

Dinner, nuke last of LO chicken & dumpling stew

Wednesday2000

I was just saying on here that I never find any YS stuff in shops! I have once at a Sainsbury's near to a music venue, but I was going to a concert so obviously couldn't take food in a bag in with me.

ETA - near Alexandra Palace. I couldn't remember the name.

justkeepswimmimg

Another gorgeous autumn day here so load of washing out on the line, which makes me ridiculously happy 🙃

Just a pottering kind of a day - went for a swim and did a food shop, and not much else!

Scrambled eggs and mushrooms on toast for lunch. Butternut squash, chorizo and feta tostadas with guacamole tonight (with Strictly and 🍷)

Brambling

The baby was taken off the ventilator late this morning  she is still on oxygen and has a feeding tube but this afternoon managed a little feed from mum and early evening they moved her from ICU to HDU   A little video of her with my nephew shows she is a little confused on what is going on but awake 

I'm envious of your weather JKS 😐 It was a lovely early start here put when I went out to put my third load on the line it started to drizzle.  Upstairs is a bit like a laundry with bedding and towels 

I went for my flu jab this morning and was offered by Covid booster they were really quiet probably because currently according to the nhs website and 119 there is nowhere in town you can have it 🙄  I'm not complaining  and having chatted to the nurse I called my sister who is over 60 but hasn't received any notifications and she went and had them as a drop in.  The nurse told me they were phoning family and friends to go in today.  Sore covid arm and I slept through the start of strictly, just as well I was recording it 🙂

My sister and I went out for lunch at a pub just outside of town, which benefits from being a free house with a good menu 😋 we decided to have a proper lunch rather than a sandwich, we both chose the rack of ribs in bbq sauce, chips, coleslaw and salad 😋 very nice and very filling so no dinner required I had a banana at 9.30pm 

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Looks as though I didn't press submit on yesterday's post!
Good to hear that baby is improving. 
Had a lovely lunch with DS2, DS1 and DIl-to-be, I thought I might have over catered but there's very little left over! They're back again on Tuesday to pick up camping kit and toad-in-the-hole.  
Roast pork and apple sauce tonight, a rather lovely looking piece of rolled loin and apples from the freezer both from our recent weekend away. We'll have this with various veg, roasties and HM gravy. Picky bits/LOs for lunch

Farway

Sunny morning and made most of it by dong a bit up the volunteer garden, just daff planting, not by me, I was leaning on my stick & supervising , then back to volunteer buddy house for coffee & biscuit

Back in time for lunch, used up the OOD tin of sausages & beans, on toast, and put an OOD ready mix quick loaf in the Panny

I'd taken a LO beef stew + dumplings out to defrost last night, so that's dinner, just nuke it

Had phone call from Dr surgery Friday PM, Flu jab booked next week & Covid week after, they managed to book my Covid local, I couldn't get local one online, sounds similar to you Brambling. I knew if I waited sooner or later I'd get local to me, I wonder how mayn more of us there are?

Good baby news, Brambling, a weight off their minds

justkeepswimmimg

Hope baby is continuing to improve, Brambling.

Out for lunch today (roast beef dinner followed by sticky toffee pudding 😋) so stirred myself to do something useful before I went out - kitchen cupboard fronts all wiped down, sink shined, hob cleaned and floor swept. Also dusted in the dining room, including behind the console table, not sure when that was last done 😶

Lazy afternoon and smoked salmon sandwich for tea.