Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Another lovely sunny day, shame I was at work. Quite a productive day in the office actually.

Tuna and sweetcorn sandwich with cherry tomatoes and then strawberries and mango for packed lunch. Fired up the bbq this evening for halloumi, new potato, pepper and cherry tomato kebabs. Served with salad, pitta bread and minted yoghurt 😋

Brambling

Jackie I've put packing pellets peanuts in my general rubbish, yours should take it as long as it's sealed in a bag.  Strange concoctions are the curse / benefit of CFO 🙂

Between the gout and the heat I didn't have a great night sleep again and was still awake at 3.30am 😕 I really didn't need three back to back meetings between 10 and 1 🙄 followed by my manager calling us to say he wouldn't be calling us!! He got called in last night due to system issues and was working until1am so I think his brain was a mushy as mine 🥱

I decided I wasn't up to driving and walking around SM this week so did a Waitrose order for tomorrow, it is a lot easier to make the minimum spend then it used to be🤨 I did top up with toilet rolls as I did have a £1 voucher for them 

Falafels in a flat bread with salad for lunch.  I defrosted a couple of FS pork and leek sausages for dinner and AF them with some new potatoes for chips and the last of the LO runner beans 

Wednesday2000

I have an outdoor concert tonight so this warm weather is a blessing. It is meant to be stormy here on Sunday. I don't have any other plans this weekend, I'm just looking forward to my dog being dropped home as she has been at the kennel for two weeks. I'm going to carry on watching Dawson's Creek. I didn't watch it back in the 1990s and I'm enjoying it.:)

I just looked out the window at the garden and the neighbour cat likes that our dog has been away. He is sitting on our garden chair, lol! Cheeky.

I'm about to have some toast.

Farway

More sunshine today & hot

Dentist went OK, mutually agreed to leave the filling until next time, there's another tooth theta may need work on but again nothing desperate. I don't know if Covid & NHS funding had made them less gung-ho about filling & filing and appointment scheduling. I had the option of 6, 9 or 12 months before next visit, once upon a time it was 6 months only. Opted for 9, so that March 2024

Brambling, minimum spend seems just a blip these days, but I heard some are upping the limit to £50, mind I sometimes go past that at times. With the rising prices I was looking at Amazon Prime shopping from Morrisons, I am a Prime member, but decided against for the moment unless something only available at Morries, a bit like my W8rose shopping.

In the main, Asda & a bit of personal visit to Marks is working for me these days

The fresh chicken I bought has a couple of shelf days left, but I may cook it later, dismember & then freeze some of it, given the forecast I think salads are more likely than roast dinners

Lunch, some of the bacon bits, grilled as a bacon bap

Dinner, trying out some of the Asda Melton M pork pie, plus salad

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Tesco are £50 now, as an experiment I ran through what would be a typical CFO basket and with a little juggling of when to buy loo rolls, wine etc. it was easily over, definitely a huge hike in prices since back in 2017 when I started the thread!

I'm tired today as Frank was quite unsettled during the night, too hot and away from home. Hopefully he'll be better tonight. 
I think I'm admin-free today or if anything crops up it should be minor.
Tesco are due though are apparently running a bit late. After that I'm for a lazy afternoon, or as lazy an afternoon you can have with two daft dogs careering about the place!
LOs for lunch and tbc for dinner - something easy with minimal prep. 

justkeepswimmimg

Warm again but making the most of it before the rain comes back. Nice productive wfh day and then dashed into town to get a Father’s Day card in the post 😬

Filled pasta (the slightly posher one cos I had a voucher), tuna, sweetcorn and sun dried tomatoes with salad for lunch. BBQd salmon and asparagus with salad and jersey royals tonight.

Brambling

Waitrose are still £40 minimum with £3 delivery, I haven't had a delivery this year, i use a vary of SMS, farm shop, farmers market and the likes of Savers, Wilkos.  I stopped going to the 'big' Tescos which is the other side of the town at lockdown and never went back to it although T Express is walking distance and my go to for milk or fresh bits if needed.   No subs but I returned a huge broccoli head which was nearly a kilo in size and nearly £2.20 I would be eating it for weeks! 

I'm working on and off this weekend so as it was quiet finished at 4pm 🙂 foolishly I went to pick up my thyroid meds the chemist (small Boots outside town) was so busy and they weren't the most efficient! 3 of them trying to use one computer when it's all computerised, i think with the pharmacy in Sainsbury's closing and most of the small chemists this will be the norm, I swapped because my usual one is a pain to park at and they had issues after it changed hands 🙄 my foot didn't appreciate me standing in shoes for over 30 mins

Lunch was a repeat of yesterday falafel and salad wrap.  I had a couple of chicken legs delivered having seen them on Farways menu recently 🙂 and AF them for dinner and made a big salad to go with one of them.  Second will be ate something over the weekend as a quick lunch if I have to work over 

 

Wednesday2000

I had some "dirty" loaded fries at the concert last night, along with two pints of cider. The concert was good but we missed the last train home so our friend had to stay at our house as he couldn't get back to London. He left this morning as he had to go back to feed his two hungry cats!

I have just been tidying up a bit and doing an Asda order for Monday. I need to vaccum before the window cleaner gets here and my dog is dropped home.

I had GF toast with flora this morning and a cup of coffee with oat milk as I felt tired.

I got my allergy test results and I didn't get a strong reaction to anything. I got 2 for crab and wheat, I obviously don't eat crab being vegan! I also got 1 for rice and soya. 1-2 is considered low.

I think I will carry on eating GF for a while longer anyway, maybe another couple of weeks to make it a month. I am going to have a falafel wrap with salad in two GF wraps for lunch.

Farway

Early start again, watering the large pots up the volunteer place, all completed and home by 0930. Rain is a "maybe" here, so couldn't take the chance of the pots drying out

A few spots of rain but nothing more than that, warm & dull sums it up

Brambling, chemists are getting in short supply, my local easy one closed, and I had to move, I did look into postal or free delivery ones, but I don't think I could be on tenterhooks wondering if my keep me going pills are going to arrive or not. It's OK for Asda to leave off the bananas but missing some pills is different

I read the infamous Venture Capitalists are involved somehow, so once assets stripped the shops close

I cooked the chicken yesterday, just needs portioning up & freezing what is not for immediate use

Lunch, torn between bacon or black pudding bap, could just be greedy and put both inside the bap

Dinner, more of the Asda melton M pork pie, with salad & new potatoes

caronc

Good morning everyone,

My hay fever is dreadful today so I wasn't surprised to see we are in one of the Met Office Very High pollen alert areas. It's been raining on and off but that doesn't seem to be making much difference. On a plus it's a few degrees cooler.
After initial mayhem when Ari arrived, the three pooches are being fairly well behaved. Frank was better last night, took a while to settle but once he did slept through.
Salady bits for lunch. Bratwurst & onion sandwiches tonight, though I may forgo the bun, with salad and HM wedges.