Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

You should come up here PN, the weather is just right for pies, beans & mash!

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at least these days we do get a list on ingredients on all foods, must have been horribly difficult for vegans in the old days.

caronc

I think while "vegan/veggie" etc. is much more mainstream, it still isn't easy though much, much better than it used to be. Still many hidden traps for cooks & chefs who think they are doing the right thing (and I'll not mention those who don't try to be informed:mad:). I reckon I'm pretty clued up on food but only found out a few years ago that Lea & Perrins wasn't veggie/vegan suitable:o. I knew to be wary of/check wine, cheese, honey etc, but that caught me out!

pineapple

I did enjoy the wedding even though I'm ambivalent about the royal family. I thought the music/singer that she walked down the aisle to was fabulous. He is clearly smitten. I think it was around D Day when someone last looked at me like that... :sad:
The preacher could have been fabulous but he did go on far too long. He reminded me of that Pedigree Jumbone ad - om & nom & nom......
Anyway lamb chops for tea tonight with frozen peas and mint from the garden and some fancy ice cream for afters. Too tired from gardening and painting to do anything complicated. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Brambling

I worked in a hotel in the mid eighties if anyone asked for a vegetarian option waiters would argue who went to ask the head chef :eek: and the options were usually omelette, salad or pasta in tomato/veg sauce. He didn't take the question very well :rotfl:

I've had been a little cba this weekend mixed with a case of the 'blahs' yesterday afternoon and evening the advantage of living alone is I could wallow in it I walked it off in the sunshine this morning. We shared a toasted tea cake mid walk so that was lunch, dinner was egg fried rice with lots of veggies and the salmon I cba to cook last night.

With my friends and family I'm not known for my tact and diplomacy :rotfl: so I probably wasn't in the correct mood for a phone call with one of my sisters today, she has several major health issues which are caused or made worst by her weight, diet and lack of any exercise ie really high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. I may have given her some not so pleasant home truths today, after she told me about some blood results. I asked if she was trying to slowly kill herself I would feel guilty but I know she wasn't really listening to me. My other sisters think I can empathise more with her because we both live alone, I think they forgot how different we are :cool: I will probably get told off my my 'big' sister.

Does it make me a hypocrite if I'm sitting drinking a glass of port now?

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

I think while "vegan/veggie" etc. is much more mainstream, it still isn't easy though much, much better than it used to be. Still many hidden traps for cooks & chefs who think they are doing the right thing (and I'll not mention those who don't try to be informed:mad:). I reckon I'm pretty clued up on food but only found out a few years ago that Lea & Perrins wasn't veggie/vegan suitable:o. I knew to be wary of/check wine, cheese, honey etc, but that caught me out!

I was caught out by honey last year, and luckily someone mention it before I could feed honey roast veg to a vegan, in my defence she had only recently changed from veggie to vegan. I understand Parmesan cheese catches people out and Italian restaurants got bad reviews for adding it to their vegetarian dishes

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

Does it make me a hypocrite if I'm sitting drinking a glass of port now?

A big fat nope if your health is fine!!! "Everything in moderation" etc. I am equally frustrated by my Dad, he loves his frying pan and his cheese but not great for his tummy issues...... :mad: Thankfully his diabetic control is (now) very good:)

Doom_and_Gloom

The not knowing what is vegetarian/vegan is just a testament to how disconnected most people are from where their food really comes from and/or what they are eating.
Remember when I met my husband, he doesn't eat fish and told me he won't eat anything with fish. I remember him grabbing Worcestershire sauce at his parents to put on his cheese toast. I instantly said "that has anchovies in it" to which he didn't believe until he looked on the label, and then three more bottles. He honestly had no idea and would have stayed oblivious if I hadn't told him. He still won't eat fish but that sauce is an exception even now :rotfl:.

I have said before we are a couple but OH is omnivorous and I am vegan so we eat differently so cooking for one. Haven't posted in this thread yet.

I had sweet and sour vegetable, smoked tofu and baked potato for dinner.
OH had cheese pasta.

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

A big fat nope if your health is fine!!! "Everything in moderation" etc. I am equally frustrated by my Dad, he loves his frying pan and his cheese but not great for his tummy issues...... :mad: Thankfully his diabetic control is (now) very good:)

The frustrating part is when a intelligent person can have such a blind spot about their own health, blood pressure reaches 200/115 add another tablet same with the diabetes.:mad: I have my own weight issues but passed my 'well woman' health check last year, I think the nurse was disappointed as she expected me to fail

Doom and Gloom i think people are more aware than they were about vegetarianism 30 years ago although a vegan diet catches a lot of people out however with the internet the information is out there so no excuse.. I remember 20 years ago telling a vegetarian what gelatine was made of and why she shouldn't be eating jelly babies etc, she didn't believe me until she looked it up.

moneyistooshorttomention

Brambling wrote: »

I worked in a hotel in the mid eighties if anyone asked for a vegetarian option waiters would argue who went to ask the head chef :eek: and the options were usually omelette, salad or pasta in tomato/veg sauce. He didn't take the question very well :rotfl:


With my friends and family I'm not known for my tact and diplomacy :rotfl: so I probably wasn't in the correct mood for a phone call with one of my sisters today, she has several major health issues which are caused or made worst by her weight, diet and lack of any exercise ie really high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. I may have given her some not so pleasant home truths today, after she told me about some blood results. I asked if she was trying to slowly kill herself I would feel guilty but I know she wasn't really listening to me. My other sisters think I can empathise more with her because we both live alone, I think they forgot how different we are :cool: I will probably get told off my my 'big' sister.

:rotfl: .......as I do keep my mouth shut about the size some people I know are.....whilst the one thing I do do is quickly remove any biscuits/sugar/etc I'm automatically handed with my coffee if out in a cafe. The reason being so that it's simply not available for anyone oversize with me to just thoughtlessly help themselves to (on top of automatically having the biscuits/sugar/etc they've been automatically handed with their own).

I blame my mother for that one - I did pick up her habit of casually "spiriting away" excess food from someone that doesnt need it before they can notice it's there.....so they can't put on even more weight:rotfl: It took me quite a while before I realised food would surreptitiously vanish sometimes....

Though it's also down to my mother that I believe in "cater for whatever-it-is and then shut up" school of thought as what I do personally and say nowt about other people choosing whatever-they-choose. Reason being she gets so uptight at the thought of anyone wanting something different to eat to the (meat-eating/very conventional/very unhealthy) way she eats. I've long known she will openly say what a nuisance/inconvenience it is to just reach 2' to the right in the supermarket when she picks up a ready meal for herself anyway to pick up a ready vegetarian meal for me and do get fed-up with her attitude on that. She has learnt to reach that extra 2' in the supermarket and then she gets it/heats it up in microwave and moans about it every single time as "Oh you....ever so much trouble"....