Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Back to sun, and salads.

I'm going to have the other ready made lasagne for lunch with salad Must be catching, I had one yesterday, from Waitrose. Far far better than the Asda one, and cost less as well. Before I tried it i was happy enough with the Asda one..

Lunch, maybe frozen cheapo Asda Essentials cheese. Never win any prizes but it's Quick N Easy at 99p

Dinner, Grilled Pork loin steak, either new spuds or AF chips, plus salad

Wednesday2000

I just saw that Wednesday the 29th of July is National Lasagne Day!

I had some melon and a sandwich before my appointment this morning.

I'm going out for lunch, but then I'm making a satay peanut sauce with marinated tofu and veggie stir fry with udon noodles. I'm going to make my dinner for tonight and then two more meals so I will batch cook.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Grey and showery and feeling cool at 14C. I've a stack of voluntary admin to tackle this week and need to catch up on the chores that got bumped last week when I was lurgified! DS2 is on holiday so we also hope to gut his office aka the dump lol!

Salad and fridge gravel for lunch. Chilli eggs tonight though rather than with bread I'm making AF sweet potatoes and padron peppers. Chilli And Tomato Baked Eggs Recipe | Breakfast Recipes | Tesco Real Food

Need2bthrifty

Not too bad a day here, caught up on some laundry which was out and dried before I had to head out for a bowling match this afternoon, the result was very close but we eventually lost by two shots 😑

Lunch was a sandwich with gammon from the freezer.

Dinner was also from freezer stock = chicken curry & rice.

justkeepswimmimg

Overcast and fairly cool this morning with the odd spot of rain. Brightened up this afternoon and it looks like a warm night ahead before a hot couple of days.

Avocado and scrambled eggs on toasted bagel for lunch. Out this evening so early tea of pesto pasta with tuna, green beans and cherry tomatoes.

Brambling

Turned into another hot day, ramping up to 30c again on Wednesday.

My boiler seems to have died, I'm waiting for my boiler guy or his son to confirm if it needs replacing, he fitted it 21 years ago so I've had my moneys worth and it has cost me nothing other than services. TBH I think it's time to replace, he may be able to buy time until he can replace it but I'm away at the end of the week for a couple of weeks so no rush and I would prefer to wait until they can fit me in. They don't have a web site or advertise just word of mouth which keeps them busy. Plasterer and decorating due in September and new windows earlier this month means it's going to be a very expensive quarter! I did look into heat pumps but no where to put it so that saved me doing sums!

I took my EF to a pub lunch today, just fish and chips, it was very nice but I've had indigestion all afternoon. I completed a form for her, end of life wishes which cheered her up, but she did understand the need.

Dinner was not required.

Wednesday2000

I am back to my class today. I haven't been there in months. I then have to write out a card for my friend and post it off as it is her 60th this weekend. I have had a bowl of melon and pineapple and I will have my usual toast before I leave.

Farway

Still hot. Prescription collection and Morries first thing

Morries was bad, the fridges & freezers have broken down, so all empty. Luckily I was only after bread + salad bits, but as luck had it, the YS stuff had been moved to front of store cool display, I guess for quick clear-out. Glad to help so I picked up a few YS decent ready meals near half price. 😁

My luck stayed because a lucky dip voucher coughed up £5 off the bill at the check out. 🤑 Which makes a nice change from the usual useless to me vouchers, £2 off a pack of nappies type

Lunch, with my new loaf and and salad bits, it's a salad sarnie

Dinner, TBD, one of the Morries YS RMs, depends on how I feel later, there's a Beef Bourguignon in there with Dinner pencilled on

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Hopefully your boiler guy can get it ticking along until you can replace it Brambling. 🤞

Dry just now but we have torrential rain with thunder and lightening forecast for this afternoon.

Had a fairly productive day yesterday, DS2 made a start on gutting his office and we agreed that part of why it became the house dumping ground is that there is insufficient storage so I'm going to replace an early1990s display cabinet with some more practical cupboards which should help a good bit. I managed to make a decent dent in part one of the admin and also got the big freezer fully emptied and defrosted. I'll get it wiped out and switched back on today. While juggling freezer contents I discovered a portion of mushy pea curry which I'm going to have for lunch today and a couple of forgotten ham hocks so if they haven't turned I'll get the slow cooker on tonight. In a bid to overcome my apathy about fresh tuna I'm trying this tonight though reducing the sugar quite a bit Miso-Marinated Tuna Steaks Recipe | Tesco Real Food .

Need2bthrifty

Welcome rain this morning, it felt and smelt so much fresher afterwards but the temp is picking up again. 

I had a quiet day at home catching up on chores because these bowling matches are knocking my routine out of kilter.

A picky lunch of hummus, pitta, grapes, cucumber, tomato, olives.

Chicken caesar salad for dinner, using cooked chicken from the freezer, last of the salad leaves and the end of the ciabatta tossed in the AF to crisp it up - yum 😋