Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Lunch was chicken and pasta salad, I poached a chicken breast when I was cooking Sunday and had left over pasta from yesterday. I try not to eat too much bread as it doesn't always agree with me so thinking what I can take for lunch can be a bit of a challenge sometimes especially if I have no LOs from dinner like tonight. At the start of the winter I make a lot of veg soup but I'm all souped out now so giving it a break.

I found a lamb shank HM ready meal in the freezer for dinner, I forgot I had been organised enough to freeze mash and two veg with it so just a case of shrove in microwave, which was just as well as I got caught by my neighbour when I came home. Slightly worrying conversation as he tells me he has fallen a couple of times today and had problems getting up he's 86 with cancer. He's stubborn but I'll try to talk emergency alarms again tomorrow I'm not holding out much hope for a successful conversation.

caronc

Do you know which hospital he's being treated at? If so a wee call to the hospital social worker might help? If not raise a concern with your local Social Services Department. He sounds very vulnerable. My Dad resisted an alert system for years but loves it now he has it, our tack was to persuade him was that it increased his independence not eroded as it meant when he was poorly we didn't need to keep checking up on him. If he's totally not for it would he consider a cheap mobile phone so he could call 999 if he got stuck. Both Farway & myself are big fans of having a mobile always to hand

Brambling

Thanks Caronc he has family but it's complicated... he fell in January even through he could reach the phone he didn't call for help, when his son phoned him he had been on the floor for most of the day, it took the fire brigade to break in as he had so many bolts on the doors and he spent 4 weeks in hospital. His care package was a carer 3 times a day for 6 weeks, that lasted 3 days he only agree so he could go home. His family want him to go into at least sheltered accommodation and have decided that not 'helping' him will force his hand. I'll try again tomorrow I'll mention the mobile phone option, unfortunately I don't have family contact numbers but I think I know where his pastor lives and he may listen to her

My mum had an alert system unfortunately when she fell and broke her neck at 85 she wasn't wearing it, she was another stubborn one just as well as when the hospital wrote her off and moved her to a side room she didn't give up and after 14 weeks in there discharged herself. Lived until 92 still didn't wear the alert half the time

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Hopping along with food, a fine intake but really cba with making any fancy food these days. I am loving the individual tastes of freshly prepared simple organic ingredients. I have excess carrots and will need to make something to preserve them, probably a soup, which I can have at any meal

Breakfast was sourdough toast with goats cheese and a very nice room temperature tomato. Later will have the cacao/hemp/berry drink. Lunch is fish and various steamed veg with raspberries and brown cow (treat) yoghurt after. Snacks, nuts and and the last bought (disappointing) fruit bun, made 12 of my own to freeze after the first taste. Tea will be a celery stick and granola

For two days I have had fresh English asparagus on sweet leaves and what a heavenly starter that was. I wish I had ordered some for this week but it will be on my list for next week and hang the expense . What a treat that was

House hunting continues, looked further afield on the net but that means much more expense, rat runs, north facing and tiny gardens. Doesn`t harm to browse and to register interests, as long as I keep a cool calm head

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10 to 8 and the food preps are done and I have used a fantastic dicer, which I bought for magimix food processor 10 years ago and never used until today. What have I missed! plenty, ok I can chop and dice like the best of em but these dice are small and even and I romped through a large celeriac and a swede in no time.

I now have a roasting tin full of these small dice, mixed with oil and fresh herbs, ready to roast later and will then be frozen for CBA days. I usd the same tools for soup prep, getting through onion, celery LO fennel garlic and carrots. Doing this prep makes veggie intake so much easier. Probably enough soup for 2-3 days from the fridge

All I have left to use by today is half a sweet pointy cabbage and one portion of sweet salad leaves. I have ginger to deal with, scrape and freeze in chunks. Then a whole empty fridge drawer for my delivery this morning, which I know includes a pie, couldn`t resist it, was the most yummy pie, will be for saturday after craft day

viv0147

Every Sunday I print a menu for the following week, I then shop accordingly I find it is quite a good money saving technique. Also knowing when to take things out of the freezer to defrost for the following day is useful, I keep the list on the side of my fridge! If on a particular day I don't fancy what I have on the menu for that day I just swop it around. I have been doing this for the last 2 years it takes a little bit of effort but in the long run, it saves time, money and having unnecessary waste.

moneyistooshorttomention

Sounds more organised than many of us get to be:rotfl:. Some of us are intermittent meal planners - which may or may not work out.

Must admit the latest thing I've done on the "trying to be more organised about what I eat front" is I've found a blogger/YouTube guy that frequently puts up little videos (within my way of eating) that are somewhere between 10 second and about 3 minutes long - in which one sees him making up the dish. Down beneath the video is the recipe. His YouTube channel is called "Exceedingly Vegan". Quick check later - the longest is 4 minutes, 38 seconds.

I'm thinking that might be my next thing to try to keep on track.

Farway

My name is Farway, and I confess to eating a whole FB pie last night:o

It was as anticipated, more pastry than meat slurry, but it filled the CBA slot

Then later I scoffed a YS large packet, of honey roasted nuts, put by for grandchildren, wicked Granddad now snatching food from their hungry little mouths:D

Up and about to usual pot of tea, porridge, honey, banana & HM yoghurt

Popped into a car key shop, £30, and that's just for a new shell:( Main dealer new one is close to £200:eek::eek:

Nothing of much interest food wise in shops, but did get another cauli from the green grocer because last week's cauli cheese was so nice I've decide to repeat it

I went mad and bought two posh pasties, I had a BOGOF coupon which expires this weekend, use it or lose it. I was stuck for food today, so it was chicken pasty for lunch, and a beef one for dinner

I may have some chips with it, or maybe open a tin of beans, or just eat it on it's tod

Gardening today was clearing the cat poo of the grass, just before the hail started, then it poured down. At least the poo has been rinsed:). Sowed some nasturtiums, different variety to my normal trailing self sown ones

KxMx

Had good success with a "remnants" meal last night.

4 new potatoes, thinly sliced and well cooked, whitefish fillet (Iceland freezer to microwave) grated cheese and a little butter.

I cut up the fish, put everything in a bowl & mashed together with back of spoon.

Served with bread rolls.
It was really nice!

wort

Nice and sunny day but very wind and boy is it cold!
I've been shopping @ @ldi. 1st time in 2 weeks, got cauli, so Farway has now put me in mind for cauli cheese, sometime soon!!
Tonight , tea is veg pasta bake, I've made a big dish and should get 3 or 4 meals from it. I'll keep one for fridge for tomorrow lunch then any left for the freezer. I'm having a couple of pieces of garlic bread with it.
I took a parcel in for neighbour, then whilst out my parcel came and went back to the depot.!
I'm working next 2 days so need to try sort new delivery date out!