Cooking for one (Mark Three)

meg72

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

btw - having worked out that pastures' ban is due to last till 30 december (and knowing mse do
esn't tend to lift bans promptly as soon as they are over) better say "happy christmas pastures" now - as i know you'll be reading along/albeit unable to post.

happy christmas pastures. And a big bah humbug to mse who considered that such a long standing, much thanked supporter deserved to be treated like this at christmas, isn`t it supposed to be a time of good will to all?

Pastures sin was apparently to give a forthright,lol as she is,and honest opinion, no sin in my book, or is mse not a place for honesty now.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Waves to PN who hopefully is still looking in and wondering if she got her sausage roll urge satisfied:).
I'm fond of terriers candygirl most of my mutts have been terrier type though definitely of the "Heinz" variety. They have such lovely personalities and I love their smiles:)

Logs arrived and my son spent a couple of hours trundling them up to the wood store and stacking them. I've a long garden and it was raining so the poor lad was soaking and frozen but he didn't complain. He's headed off to see his Dad for a well deserved relaxing evening so I'm CFO tonight:). I'm making most of the quiet time, as chaos will properly start tomorrow when my older son and his fiancee arrive.
Easy dinner tonight of southern fried chicken, coleslaw, corn and oven chips.

Novice_investor101

I've always enjoyed Pastures writings on this thread, & others. I did wonder what occurred for mse to be so harsh. I wish her a merry Xmas, too.

In CFO I've treated myself to breakfast & lunch at work canteen, using a £5 food voucher. Decided it's too expensive (even with £5 off) & the canteen ladies are so slow that I've barely time to eat the food in my 30min lunch break after taking 20mins to procure it....

Not bothered with tea tonight. Been nibbling on chocs at work all afternoon.
Tomorrow I'll be having fried eggs on toast for brekkie - I've a full loaf & 7 or 8 eggs with BBE 24th on. Think I'll be settling on having a beef joint, possibly brisket, for XCFO as the party food idea was too expensive. Gonna see what T have on offer. Dreading going, it's gonna be rammed.

Have about 3 portions of pasta bake left. One for lunch & two to go in the freezer. Which is now emptying nicely. Faraway reminded me I need to get a pork chop out of the freezer for tomorrow's tea.

Brambling

Glad to see the lad is earning his keep Caronc you've obviously got them well trained :rotfl:

Wednesday if you can get away with eating carp and still lose weight don't question it just enjoy it

By the sound of it I think I got away lightly with a trip to W*itrose lunchtime although the cars were queuing to get in the car park and it was busy in store I was able to pick up the few bits I needed including Prosecco for Christmas lunch (I'm keeping the bottle of champagne under the stairs ) and went straight through the basket only till . I foolishly made a hair appointment for tomorrow late afternoon :eek: so I think I will go into town just for that and avoid all shops

Quiet day in the office with just 4 of us in the and not many emails . I did have a Victor Meldew moment this afternoon when I found a half tub of ice cream in the fridge :eek: who puts ice cream in the fridge and then leaves it there :mad: it wasn't from today :mad: I did my mrs angry impersonation and then went through the fridge throwing away two half cartons of soup and a half bag of salad and other bits and bobs which wouldn't survive until the new year. My manager sent me home half hour early before I sent round an email or stuck a message on the fridge :rotfl: the only reason I did it was because I use the fridge for my food

Lunch today was LO pulled beef ragu and pasta from the freezer and too many chocolates left in the office. Dinner currently an apple, the pork fillet taken out for dinner hadn't fully defrosted which was just as well as the pasta was a bigger than normal lunchtime portion

:wave: PN

Farway

:D:D at mental image of Brambling binning fridge items

Nice & sunny out, but there is no way I'm going into town for a mooch, reports on local FB are of mayhem, one to avoid, and of course buses use the same roads so even if not driving still sat going nowhere

Usual porridge + orange for breakfast, new batch of yoghurt on the go. The yoghurt incubator was a present last Christmas, and one I've used all year, more use to me than more socks

Lunch, will be some more of the beef, may go healthy and add salady bits in the sarnie, after another stroll down Quality Street:o last night I think I should

:wave: to PN

Novice_investor101

Not going anywhere today - the traffic is horrendous and its been tipping it down all day...
So I've washed one load of dishes, drunk two cups of coffee, portioned up 3 lots of pasta bake and stashed in the freezer and now sat with HWB on my lap and playing on the internet.
Treated myself to the Harry Potter box set as a xmas present to myself. Paid for with free gift vouchers from work and arriving tomorrow - so i'll be watching that on xmas day

Still don't know what to do about food XCFO wise... I'm still leaning towards roast beef (or slow cooker chucked in on xmas eve night), but that means having to go buy some. Might feel up to going to T tomorrow and see what is reduced to clear meat wise, as they'll be shut for two days i'm hoping there'll be some bargains to be found. Decided I want to have at least a cooked brunch and a proper meal with a dessert for tea, then may snack on cheese and biscuits in between. And some fizzy pop, as a treat. XCFO shopping list is taking shape....

Brambling

It's a far far better thing I do now ............ :rotfl: I'm pretty sure Charles Dickens didn't write that about facing town Saturday before Christmas but it fits I need to bite the bullet and go get my hair cut, colour etc so a long appointment. I should have deferred it but my hairdressers partner was so happy to give me a Christmas appointment that I couldn't say no and to be honest it was today or in two weeks and it's already too heavy on top :eek: if I don't return it's because I'm whimpering in a corner somewhere :rotfl:

Lunch was two quickly thrown together scotch eggs cooked in the air fryer so lovely and crispy

Dinner will need to be the pork fillet I didn't cook yesterday but something quick as I won't be back until late. I'll have time to think in the hairdressers chair but I'm not buying anything so will have to be something using up ingredients in the stores :think:

Farway

Still resisting the unopened box of mince pies, the one resting on top of the unopened mixed fancy biscuits. In the spare bedroom luckily or it would be too easy for my fingers to do the walking

Only CFO today is scrub a spud to bake, prep some broccoli & carrots & find the frozen sweetcorn skulking somewhere in freezer

Apart from grill the lamb chop, dinner sorted

I found my long lost jar of mint sauce, unopened & sealed but not looking healthy, sort of beige:eek: BBE mid 2016
I'll open and try it, then I think the bin calls

During mint sauce hunt I found a jar of horseradish, unopened, but top had "popped" so that is now in bin, it was YS so not huge loss and not worth the risk really

moneyistooshorttomention

That'll be two main meals and an extra (ie snack) meal for me today then.

Out and about - so bought myself some vegetarian curry at the event I was at and a weeny raw chocolate. Shoulda bought myself a second helping worth of it in the event - as it was only a small portion - and hence coming back and thinking "Snack time" and getting some toast to keep me going until dinnertime of 2nd helping worth of yesterday's buddha bowl of quinoa/various veggies and a "sauce" drizzled over the top of thinned-down hummus.

Still - I "killed about 4 birds with one stone" at the event I went to and have just "signed myself up" for some more voluntary work. I guess you've got to know an area reasonably well - when you turn up at something and there's half a dozen friendly faces there that you know and you end up eating your lunch in company with a friend.

Wednesday2000

I've had lots of sparkling water today and a banana and a big bowl of pasta with red pesto.

Brambling wrote: »

Wednesday if you can get away with eating carp and still lose weight don't question it just enjoy it

Very true!:D