Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Novice_investor101

& some Smith's scampi/bacon fries 6 pack, & 7 little bars of toffee crisps for next week's pack lunches.

Farway

Yesterday's SC beef stew thing finished up with dumplings in, very nice and two portions left for another day

Dull & yucky out, Caron a nice log burner would be grate right now [see what I did there?:D]

Into L's on way to volunteer job

Ran into Black Friday loons, normally it's just me & school kids in there spending their lunch money on doughnuts at that time of morning

Today was two queues at checkouts, huge TVs in the carts, I saw three sold while I was waiting

However getting the spirit of it I nabbed two packs of Extra mature Cheddar, £2.40 something a Kilo, I was going to buy cheese anyway, and at that price it would've been silly not to get some

Then 2 x 24 cans of Pepsi £4.99 for 24. I don't normally drink or buy it, but I've grandchildren who do, and Christmas is only a bit away, not got my invite yet but at least won't turn up empty handed:)

The rest was onions, of offer, 1kg 49p, the onions were nice CFO size and not football size

Plus offer on Satsumas, 69p, my first this season, hope they are not too sharp or it's not a good buy

Nurse check up on way home, 'flu jabbed while there. Fingers crossed on after shock, time will soon tell

I was a bit too early for the chippy to open, just as well I guess, into Costcutter while waiting for my prescription to be filled, dinner sorted, YS Quiche from there:j

Lunch usual cheese & salady sarnie. Now I've loads of BF cheese in it will taste even better

Dinner will be the YS quiche, probably with oven chips and I've couple of wrinkly tomatoes that may get grilled

Only black spot today, the milk shelf tray bit in the fridge has snapped:(. The drawer fronts in the freezer section snapped a bit back, low temperatures & age I guess.
Job for weekend, find replacements and maybe buy if not silly prices

moneyistooshorttomention

Still nowt much to report on the food front - as still dieting. So lunch was toast with quark spread on it and some fresh fruit after. Dinner tonight will be Slimming World chips, hard-boiled eggs, baked tomatoes. I've got the bit between my teeth - as I've had compliments from 5 different people in recent weeks and they're the first ones I've had in the years since moving here - so it's worth it.

Any time I get a "jitter" and think "Agh! Life!" I don't reach for a glass (or two) of wine. I reach for the Bach's Rescue Remedy instead and I'm feeling more confident in the first place - now that I'm starting to look better again.

Getting there...getting there....and without the "being driven to drink" bit that I had latterly in "that blinkin' job" and then with a couple of the neighbours here (until they piped down after a couple of years of getting nowhere with me) - I should be able to eat exactly what I please #fingers crossed. Reports of "incoming new recipes being tried" should resume soon....

candygirl

Novice_investor101 wrote: »

That's what I'd prefer to do, than microwave stuff. Next time I'm in town I'll have a look in £land or H-Bargains for some as they're dead expensive in T.

Haircut accomplished -£6.
Went to Farmfoods on the way home looking for Gregg's sausage rolls. It was like stepping back into 1985....

No sausage rolls but I spent £7 on some bacon for weekend brunches, a big tub of chocolate spread that's not great, some seriously strong spreadable that was a bargain at £1 & some frozen scotch pies.

Just tried one now in the microwave. Not like Holland's meat pies at all! But still quite nice - I had to smother it in Henderson's relish, but I do that to every pie with meat in it....

I get mine from Home Bargains, n they do a few sizes

Novice_investor101

I'm a bit stuck for what to eat tonight - i've been a bit unruly foodwise this past couple of weeks and have fell back into eating rubbish/empty calories again... I feel like i've piled a couple of lbs back on. I'll be weighing myself in the morning to see what the damage is. My stomach feels paunch-ier.
Time to get back on the healthy work pack ups and ditch the work canteen, and eating some proper veg at teatime instead of processed french fries.

I'll still be having a bacon butty for breakfast tomorrow, i'll just be grilling it on the George Foreman instead of frying it....

Glad

Hi all :wave:

back to cooking for one as the children are off on their travels

this weekend I'll be using up food in the house so tonight I've had a large plate of cauliflower in cheese sauce

caronc

Good evening everyone,
:wave:Glad- hope you aren't missing the kids too much
Scotch pies Novice - glad they were ok. I like a splodge of HP on mine.
wort - yep I have a carbon monoxide detector:)
Farway - would sugra glue be a solution for your shelf if you can't get spares? My friend used it on hers as "temporary fix" some years ago and it's still holding:cool: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00WW8KIQO/ref=twister_B079H4YS22?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1



Blimey after a milder day it's blinking baltic tonight:eek:. I'm not sure where today has disappeared too, went to the shop to get milk & use the ATM, had a snooze, finalised my Christmas pressie list and had a phone catch up with both my boys and with a friend and suddenly it's heading towards bedtime.:)
My friends with pooches are coming by on Sunday lunchtime so more soup making tomorrow and they'll bring some nice bread. I'm between grocery deliveries so it will be based on what I have in, probably spicy root veg:). Had a big mug of HM soup for lunch and popped two portions in the freezer, if I'd known then they were coming I'd of frozen the lot and used it on Sunday but surplus soup never goes wrong in this house.

Easy dinner tonight from the freezer of breaded pollock, oven chips and spinach.

PasturesNew

I've scoffed for England today ....

1: Hash browns, scrambled eggs, beans.
2: Stewed apples & custard.
3: 2 hot sausage rolls.
4: Large portion of mash, with a bit of cheese added + corned beef crispbake + beans.
5: 200 grams chocolates.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've scoffed for England today ....

1: Hash browns, scrambled eggs, beans.
2: Stewed apples & custard.
3: 2 hot sausage rolls.
4: Large portion of mash, with a bit of cheese added + corned beef crispbake + beans.
5: 200 grams chocolates.

Making up for yesterday

Brambling

Talk of beef casseroles and dumplings tempted me to buy some beef shin and a YS ox cheek lunchtime so I may do that Sunday, just need to decide whether to slow cooker it or use the pressure cooker :think: I think I have a bottle of beer somewhere to add to it.

Noisy day in the office with the builders in, like a giant dentist drill when they cut metal :eek: by the time they left we were all wincing . I came home to spend 15 minutes on the phone explaining to my neighbour that cordless phones do have batteries and that eventually they need replacing as they stop recharging :wall: I couldn't face him tonight so will try and catch him tomorrow and have a look at the volume settings, not that I know much about phones, just probably a little more than him I'll maybe steer him across the road to one our other neighbours.

I nearly forgot to sort today's lunch last night, I had to get out of bed at midnight to get something out of the freezer :cool: so it was HM sausage casserole with LO green beans. Dinner was burger, onions and HM chips