Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Most of my banking etc. is paperless these days and like you I have pots in various locations. I've typed up a list of my accounts and popped it my file

This is what I need to do, with no paper statements there would be a lot of scrabbling around for someone and I would hate for some to get lost :eek:

Typical busy day at work today but I made myself walk lunchtime and enjoy the dry weather after yesterday's rain . Tomorrow I'm on my own again so I might not get out

Farway is it you who occasionally eats the w*itrose jumbo fish fingers? I haven't brought any for a while I usually only buy if I can find them YS especially after they stopped their 20% off with My W*itrose card but when did they go up to £4.50 :eek: I had to double check the label

Lunch was HM chicken noodle soup followed by stewed rhubarb and strawberries. Dinner was a jacket potato with cheese and HM coleslaw and a bit of salad

I've a confession to make :shhh: I have let my freezer audit lapse :eek::eek: I have a rough idea what's in there but there could be some surprises as when squeezing in LO lamb shank and sauce I found some beef short ribs :huh:

PasturesNew

Brambling wrote: »

I've a confession to make :shhh: I have let my freezer audit lapse :eek::eek: I have a rough idea what's in there but there could be some surprises as when squeezing in LO lamb shank and sauce I found some beef short ribs :huh:

As a rule of thumb, if you need to keep a list you've probably got too much in there

At any one time, if my freezer broke, I could usually replace the entire contents for £5-10.

Right now I have:
1 portion of chips
10 hash browns
peas
2x375g packs of beef/pork mince
1 12-pack of chilli meatballs
½ 12-pack of chilli meatballs
4 sausages
4 slices of bread
3 oven bottom muffins
1 portion of spicy parsnip soup
1 sliced green pepper.
2 chillies



That's about £5s worth.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
A rough idea is better than no idea Brambling:cool:

I think when it comes to freezer usage how much is too much, like CFO, will vary greatly and there is no right or wrong approach IMHO. Personally as I like to bulk buy meat online, batch cook, freeze garden produce and also rely on home SM deliveries, more is great when it comes to freezer stocks .
Another day of the sun shining, still chilly though but I aim to get my front garden weedkillered this morning. I'll leave the back slabs just now as I have pooches visiting at the weekend and don't want to risk one of them munching a poisoned weed:eek:. Overnight lots of tom seedingly have poked their heads through and my first courgette has appeared:D:D.
Lunch will be soup again but dinner remains undecided.

UncannyScot

Morning Folks

Still plodding...

This evening, once I have had my batch prepped dinner, I shall be starting off two Homebrew Ale batches. An IPA and a Copper Ale Ready to drink in approx. 4 weeks time...

With the changing season I will be prepping more lighter meals like pasta salads and wraps n stuff like that.

:A

Wednesday2000

All I have had today is water with my thyroid medication and that disgusting herbal crap my Chinese doctor gave me. God, it tastes revolting.:rotfl:

I'm waiting for my Ocado shopping to arrive and then I will have a sandwich. I will have some fruit and then some olives while I am waiting.

Some more of the HM soup for lunch.:)

caronc

Putting weed killer down has been put on hold as it looks as though it's going to rain.......:(

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

Putting weed killer down has been put on hold as it looks as though it's going to rain.......:(

Glorious, blue, blue, blue, cloudless, sunny skies here on the south coast.

I've made up one of the whips, the butterscotch, three portions, which are now sitting in the fridge.

I defrosted an oven bottom muffin earlier and spread a bit of marg on it.

Might do some spuds/beans/cheese later (still not started that 2nd bag of 2.5kg spuds I bought over 2 weeks ago as I'm still using the previous bag). Weather turned, so there was less spud eating going on.

Farway

Blue skies here as well, really nice out with the blossom everywhere

Porridge breakfast

Into town today, odds & ends, plus a freebie £1 pud from Iceland for my birthday, I chose custard slices:j And hot X buns on offer, bought my annual pack, 50p, high living here at Farway Towers

Into W/rose, Heck posh bangers on offer, 2.50, pack of those, plus impulse buy of YS posh chipolatas, fancied a toad in hole today once I saw them

Brambling wrote: »

Farway is it you who occasionally eats the w*itrose jumbo fish fingers? I haven't brought any for a while I usually only buy if I can find them YS especially after they stopped their 20% off with My W*itrose card but when did they go up to £4.50 :eek: I had to double check the label :

Yes, it's me, but like you have to be on offer, my buys were with the card 20% offer, made them a reasonable price, at full price I expect I could go down the docks & hire a trawler for less:D

Lunch was last of the bacon in a sarnie

Dinner, hope to be toad in hole but could change if CBA arrives

Sowed some French beans, in pots. My outside sowing of beetroot is peeking through, cherry & pear are covered in blossom, fingers crossed for them. All looking good so far

PasturesNew

2 whips eaten..... chips currently being cooked, they'll be cheesy chips within 10 minutes.

Wednesday2000

PasturesNew wrote: »

2 whips eaten..... chips currently being cooked, they'll be cheesy chips within 10 minutes.

I had never tasted that until i was at uni in the Midlands. I didn't even know it was a thing.:p Some people I knew used to get it with gravy too.

I didn't ever get the gravy one as I was vegetarian even back then.