Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

flubberyzing wrote: »

Yesterday evening I ended up eating nearly 3/4 of a chocolate brownie pudding thing that's meant to serve 5, according to the packaging...

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Novice_investor101

Good morning, all.

Yesterday's food was some samosas at my mum's house & I stopped at services to get KFC on the 2 hour drive home. I've nothing in I fancied & cba to cook. So that was last night's tea.

Today I begin the week of 8pm finishes (home by 9pm) so I didn't do any food shopping. Also turned the heating thermostat down as there's no point heating the house too much if I'm not here.

Lunches/tea will be sandwiches. I got home so late yesterday that I couldn't get to the shops to buy sandwich stuff. So today's tea at work will be a Sainsbobs meal deal I'll pick up on the way to work & I'll pop in again on the way home to get some bread & snacks for the rest of the week. It'll be tuna & sweetcorn sandwiches as I've 3 cans of that in.

I looked at my house on Nimbus. Found out that only 3 houses (Inc mine) on my block of terraced have bought the freehold from the freeholder. The rest are one big chunk of red. Can also see where my house boundary does a dogleg behind next doors, where the old outside toilets used to be. There's supposed to be a right of way that allows next door to access that bit of land for their long since demolished toilet.... I'm planning on blocking it off & plonking a shed there. Hence why I bought the freehold. Since the house next door is rented out, I don't think anyone will complain or even notice. It's blocked off now with a big wooden board & I use it as a dumping ground....

This weekend I'm planning on going back out with a local Ramblers group. A different one that I used to walk with. Looking forward to that & need to get all my old walking gear out & check it still fits. The WP jacket is a bit tight, but I'll lose a couple of lbs from this week's eating nothing but sandwiches...

PasturesNew

Novice_investor101 wrote: »

.... samosas at my mum's house

I LOVE samosas, but not the thin ones so often found in shops - years ago there used to be a shop 200 yards from where I worked that had monster sized ones... 30p they were and about he size of a snooker ball.

Novice_investor101 wrote: »

& I stopped at services to get KFC on the 2 hour drive home. I've nothing in I fancied & cba to cook. So that was last night's tea.

That's fine ... if your focus is on "saving money" though, try to not head for "deals" and what you WANT... but look for the cheapest acceptable food on the menu....

Novice_investor101 wrote: »

....today's tea at work will be a Sainsbobs meal deal I'll pick up on the way to work & I'll pop in again on the way home to get some bread & snacks for the rest of the week. It'll be tuna & sweetcorn sandwiches as I've 3 cans of that in.

Again, I'd avoid the meal deals... you can save money by looking at it and thinking "I don't really need the crisps/drink" and buying their cheapest sandwich instead. Especially if you're going round the shop anyway .... get yourself cheap multipack of crisps and a cheap pack of 6 drinks as they work out cheaper per unit and you've got the rest for the rest of the week's lunches.

Novice_investor101 wrote: »

I looked at my house on Nimbus. ..

It's been down for me all this morning - it must've been YOU that broke it!

caronc

Good morning everyone.
Just popping in to say hello-I'll catch up properly with what's been going on in CFO-land later:)

Despite some hideous weather the party was a roaring success, those expected came, the food was raved about, the meds & gin worked and my cousin made a beautiful cake to celebrate the "Greek/Scottish pairing".:D Yesterday was a bit chaotic and I've lots of tidying up and laundry to do today but it was completely worth it and now it's back to just me I can potter about at my own pace.
Food is in the yet to be decided camp, I need to sort through buffet LOs, there wasn't a hideous amount LO and we used most last night for dinner. I've a couple of portions of curry & spanish chicken to get frozen and some roti but that's about it in the must use ups I think:).

Farway

For some unknown reason I woke later than normal so bit of a lazy day on the cards. One more plus of CFO

Yesterday's dinner was two more bowls of HM soup, with croutons
I've put the rest of it, enough for another meal, in the 'fridge. I may eat or freeze it, undecided so far

Breakfast was usual porridge etc
Lunch, probably cheese & salad bits sandwich

Dinner, I've taken some YS bangers out to defrost, plan so far is bangers, mash, some lovely Savoy cabbage [steamed to death due to my tum:(], carrots & maybe some frozen something or other veg
Or if CBA strikes, sausage sandwich:o

PasturesNew wrote: »

A license doesn't give you the same rights as a lease.

A license is where they agree to some land being used for something, but they've not "sold away their rights" with a proper lease. .

In my previous house I'd arranged something similar, the SEB [it was prior to Maggie's sell the silver time] allowed me to use a strip adjacent to my garden.
The strip was part of parcel of land around a sub station, but there were not any cables under it. All drawn up legally and made clear in my house deeds that it was not my land and could be taken back anytime
It remains part of the garden to this day, house has changed hands a few times since then and no idea, or cares, if current owner is aware

moneyistooshorttomention

Novice_investor101 wrote: »

I looked at my house on Nimbus. Found out that only 3 houses (Inc mine) on my block of terraced have bought the freehold from the freeholder. The rest are one big chunk of red. Can also see where my house boundary does a dogleg behind next doors, where the old outside toilets used to be. There's supposed to be a right of way that allows next door to access that bit of land for their long since demolished toilet.... I'm planning on blocking it off & plonking a shed there. Hence why I bought the freehold. Since the house next door is rented out, I don't think anyone will complain or even notice. It's blocked off now with a big wooden board & I use it as a dumping ground....

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Then you'd be best off to do some googling - you could start with a very recent thread here on the housing sub-forum. It was about precisely these circumstances and the user of that Right of Way was told it's illegal for the neighbour to block a ROW and that they should take back their "ownership" of that right or charge the neighbour to buy their ROW off them.

The small building that had originally been toilets for both houses - with a brick wall between them - is still there. The next door neighbour conned the person that started the thread into having the dividing wall and their door removed. The advice on the thread was for the ROW owner to "get in there" and put back the wall and the door. They certainly had it spelled out to them exactly what the neighbour had done and the neighbour wasn't allowed to do that.

You would probably be best sending a letter to the owner of your next door house offering to buy their ROW off them. It will never be extinguished and you won't be able to build a shed there unless they voluntarily relinquish their ROW to you (eg by selling it to you).

If you try and just take that from them - the current owner may or may not complain. But the next owner and the one after that and the one after that ad infinitum might do so....

Sometimes "complaints" take the form of things illicitly on land mysteriously "vanishing"......ahem....ahem....

caronc

Think I've caught up on all the CFO goings on!:)
:wave:Growing Plants - welcome to the thread. Are you a keen gardener, there's a few of us on here.
Glad you got your bathroom finished wort:)
Sounds like a thorough photo session flubberyzing:)


Aren't boundaries such a nightmare my friends had real problems with a "ransom strip" that shouldn't have been there all sorted now thankfully. Thankfully "leasehold" was abolished up here in 2012.


Thanks for all the good wishes re the shingles, they're settling now so I'm very scabby hamster but I managed to cover them for Saturday night:). They were horribly painful but that's settling to so the worst would definitely seem to be over:D.



I've had a rake through the buffet LOs and decided to ditch the small amounts of curry & spanish chicken that was left. My freezers are full at the moment, I don't fancy either tonight so in the scheme of things from the volume of food that was made I could live with a small amount of waste. There's a smidgeon of pulled pork left which I'll have with salad in a roti for lunch.

After a weekend of buffet eating I think bangers &root veg mash or breaded pollock may well feature tonight. Much as I love cooking, I'm a bit cooked out today. I've loads of veg in the fridge so this afternoon I'm going to do a meal plan to make sure I use it up. My F&V count could definitely have been better over the weekend so I want to get back to normal from tomorrow as my system doesn't cope well if I don't eat a decent amount of them.


Anyway tea-break over best get back to the tidying up as I've a chap coming tomorrow to do a survey for installing a woodburner and I'd like the place to be clean & tidy for that:).

Wednesday2000

I have been loosely following Weightwatchers points (at home) over the past two weeks while I've been walking at least an hour everyday as well.

I stepped on the scale and I lost 8 pounds in 14 days!:T

I'm really happy with that as I have struggled to lose weight for a while now. I'm sure the weightloss will slow down a bit now though.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I LOVE samosas, but not the thin ones so often found in shops - years ago there used to be a shop 200 yards from where I worked that had monster sized ones... 30p they were and about he size of a snooker ball.

I like veggie samosas. I used to really like Jamaican patties, I grew up in Lewisham and I used to be able to get nice ones from a stall in the market.:)

Wednesday2000

I had a pitta bread with marg for breakfast and some mixed nuts and raisins.

For lunch I had a bowl of the HM lentil soup with a roll and some cherry soya yoghurt and a banana afterwards.

Farway

Turned out nice & warm today, so I managed a spot of gardening, removed last of the long since shrivelled climbing French beans and planted some February Gold daffs in the pot
Looks a bit untidy because I have to put mesh over them until they can fend for themselves in Spring, cats & squirrels:mad:

I was going to pot on my other fig in there, but it has sent roots down into another pot and needs a bit of a tug to remove it, and I've not got any tug left at the moment:( Job for another day, at least it is now dormant

Spuds peeled and cabbage prepped. Only needs cooking now
I've made extra in readiness for bubble & squeak with burnt bits later in the week:D

I've still got roses in bloom, and I found some Yellow Balcony toms lurking under the foliage in the conservatory. Just enough for adding to a salad soon