Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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Thats me finished and all tidy and dw on, good job I have energy first thing, I couldn`t do that marathon in the afternoon. Prepped a drawer in the freezer, so meat and fish drawer is crammed but thankfully all single pull-out portions of easy cook stuff and I have a mostly empty drawer for rm meals. I am glad my freezer is at this stage, just food for one and I buy in if I have guests

Wednesday2000

I had a cheeky Chinese takeaway last night.:) Veggies, rice and spring rolls.

I'm having blueberries (I remembered to take them out of the freezer last night) and the rest of the coconut yoghurt for breakfast. I'm going out for a pub meal later with my husband. It's the first time we have been out together in years as he and I have both had a lot of health problems the last few years and not socialised hardly at all!

I'm looking forward to it.:A I know they do quite a few vegan dishes at the pub, veggie burgers, onion rings, garlic bread etc...

I'm avoiding gluten apart from eating out and takeaways. Just being gluten free at home.

I'm not sure if I will eat anything else before I go, maybe some muesli.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
kittie - I'm exhausted just reading what you've been up to, the shepherd's pie sound lovely:D

MTSTM - good luck with the sprouts, frozen brussels are not my favourite ok(ish) in bubble & squeak etc, but I'm not keen on them as a standalone veg, there is a texture change with the frozen ones that I'm not overly keen on.

I think it will be another easy day as I'm still feeling very sluggish so dinner I think will be fish & oven chips. I'll steam some veg to have with it.:)

Wednesday2000

I forgot to say :hello:to new people.

I just had a packet of crisps. I think that is all I will have until I go out.

It's really sunny here, it's a half hour walk to the pub so I think we might enjoy the sunshine. Such a contrast to the horrible snow we had.:p

PasturesNew

When I popped out .... I came home with a chocolate bar. I've eaten half of that already.

Then I thought I'd have "just a few chips and a bit of that chilli I made" .... so I did

Farway

Welcome Terence05 & Brambling, as PN pointed out, just stick around and the ideas will pop up, even if it is CFO LO cold pizza for breakfast. There aren't any food rules here

A nice set of acronyms to hand now, CFO, CBA & CFJ.

Into L's on way to volunteering, no breakfast, still trying to forget another bowl of cereal last night:o Could I count that as a very early breakfast?

Bought my compost. I must be improving, picked up a 40l bag. This time last year I struggled with a 20l bag
And bonus, at last L's came up with a dinner idea. YS rm roast chicken dinner, never had their one so worth a bash

The pushed boat out and bought fresh loaf at last. Used a couple of slices for cheese & salady sarnie for lunch

Dinner will be the YS rm roast chicken dinner

PS edit. The RM chicken dinner was good. Nice chunk of chick breast, not slices. I added extra nuked frozen broad beans. Def buy again if on offer

caronc

Good afternoon,
I've definitely got a dose of the CBA, hopefully I'll have more oomph tomorrow or else I'll be CFJ as well from lack of activity :rotfl::o

On a plus none of the baby plants potted on yesterday have keeled over (yet!)

A portion of rather nice home-breaded haddock is defrosted for tonight so looking forward to that. We ended up with a spare one time when my son was up and he made this for dinner so the extra got popped in the freezer (and I forgot about even though it's on my freezer list:o) . Meals for the next few days are still undecided:)

Brambling

Today 'my get up and go' stayed at home whilst I went to work, I don't think anyone noticed that only my body was present but I was glad when 5pm came around

Lunch was some coconut Dahl retrieved from the freezer the favours had matured well but I'm not sure if the effort of toasting spices and grinding them (ok bashing with rolling pin) was worth It I may revisit at a later date but tweak the recipe. Dinner will be HM fish and chips when I get off my butt. I brought YS redfish so time to see what it's like, I think I will dust with seasoned flour and fry.

Just need to forget the emergency bar of chocolate hiding behind the emergency gin under the stairs

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

Today 'my get up and go' stayed at home whilst I went to work, I don't think anyone noticed that only my body was present but I was glad when 5pm came around

Lunch was some coconut Dahl retrieved from the freezer the favours had matured well but I'm not sure if the effort of toasting spices and grinding them (ok bashing with rolling pin) was worth It I may revisit at a later date but tweak the recipe. Dinner will be HM fish and chips when I get off my butt. I brought YS redfish so time to see what it's like, I think I will dust with seasoned flour and fry.

Just need to forget the emergency bar of chocolate hiding behind the emergency gin under the stairs

I love dahl but tend to cheat and use hot madras curry powder with ginger & garlic added, it gives a very satisfactory result:)

Emergency gin - every household should have this.:D Though I don't stash mine in hall cupboard as I'd never find it...... It's safely stashed in the dresser on the same shelf as the emergency wine, fuses and candles (much to my son's amusement.......) (I should really pop some tonic in there too:rotfl::rotfl:)

Brambling

I may try your version of dahl next time thanks always happy to try short cuts

With reference to the gin I was only supporting my local producers at the farmers market .... honest