Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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Sort of using up from fridge and/or freezer. No real ambition today.

flubberyzing

A cheese and tuna panini from Costas for my breakfast. Then had a browse around the garden centre to see if any new houseplants caught my eye - but nothing jumped out at me.

Might have a couple of eggs and/or fruit for lunch. Then dinner will likely be one of the burgers I got last week, which I put in the freezer, and I'll mash up the last few Jersey Royals. It'll be too much for one portion, so the remains will go in the fridge for tomorrow.

I had a sneaky early weigh-in this morning. Another 2.lbs off, making 4 in total since the diet started nearly two weeks ago. I'm not officially due to weigh in until Monday, so I'll continue to be good over the weekend, and hopefully keep that loss.

pattypan4

Yes PN, I saw them online too but having driven all the way to sinasbury, they didn`t have them and asda was 20 miles the other way.

I am travelling in 40 minutes and was wondering how to get the bits eaten today, don`t want to get back to eating grabbed bread and cakes when I get back. Small salad eaten and the LO watercress yummy soup and a hm roll. I picked all the spinach leaves out of the salad leaves that came in my veg box. Uncooked spinach is not good for thyroid.

I made a quick caulie cheese for when I get back. Very quick, dried organic milk, cornflour and nutmeg with water, slaked and beaten. Heated to simmer with small bit of butter. Added pepper and strong cheese already grated in the freezer
Phew at least I have looked after my intake today and still have the last pud for after caulie cheese and cooked spinach, dry choc sponge, soaked with hm bottled blackcurrants and topped with yoghurt


That will be it for the day, should all have been eaten by 4.30, then nothing until fuel for breakfast around 6.



I haven`t eaten so well in the last year, been stressed over selling/buying, so mainly it was grab food plus biscuts plus chocolate

Farway

Back from helping DS with shower pump, all went well, except motorway journey from hell, it's closed, being widened and bridge being knocked down. Stick as far west as Chichester Brambling, safe that way

Porridge breakfast
Lunch was eat out post pump fit, in a GC, I had a corned beef & pickle sarnie, very nice, just what I fancied

Sat Nav took me on a wild wander to avoid traffic on way home, eventually I recognised where I was. I'd still be sat in traffic if it was not for SN

Dinner, I think it will be last of the breaded cod fillet + chips + frozen peas. CBA to think or prep anything more exacting

Wednesday2000

I made the most lazy CBA soup today. I blended up a sachet of chopped tomatoes in the blender and then added sea salt, chilli salt, pepper and cayenne pepper with a splash of boiling water.

It was surprisingly nice! I had it with vegan cheeze and crackers along with carrot sticks and salsa again.:p

pattypan4

I must make the caulie cheese again next week, it was scrummy, real comfort food. I can make 2 portions from a small caulie and pop one in the fridge. My mouth wants some sweets or biscuits or crisps, anything tasty but I am not giving in. Will try a long drink of water instead. Am I just bored? maybe but I will nod off if I start to read. Perhaps I should find a gripping film

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Sorry to hear you are expecting bad news Brambling <<hug>>
Another fan here of cauli cheese patty pan, though I find cornflour rather than roux based sauces tend to go a bit watery/thin if frozen, hope yours freezes ok:). My sis, who is dieting, sucks a frozen grape if she gets the urge for something sweet and says that works and one is usually enough to kill the craving.

Wednesday - your soup sounds lovely & if you want to boost the protein content the Slimming World version using baked beans blended in is tasty.
I got woken at 5 am by what sounded like hail and couldn't get back to sleep. After tossing & turning for a bit I gave up and made a cuppa. As I was up and organised early I decided to deep clean my bathroom, took ages as it's a bendy job and while I'd like to say it looks different to after it's usual clean, I can't say it does really. Though at least I know the hidden bits are scrubbed too!:D
My sis and nephew popped round for a cuppa but apart from that it's been a fairly quiet day though I made a good dent in some lurking admin.

Cheesy beans with mushrooms on toast for lunch using up the lurking 1/2 tin of baked beans. I really enjoyed it and had there been more beans open I'd probably have been a greedy guts and had more:o.
Easy fish pie tonight using pollock in parsley sauce and mash from HM RM stash in my freezer "jazzed up" a bit with some smoked salmon trimmings, prawns and spinach (all also from the freezer:cool:) and sliced tomato on the top. I'll nuke steam some green beans to have with it. It's definitely a night here for comfort food as it's dreary and cold. Despite it being under a week to the longest day I'm just off to light the stove. :eek:

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Back from helping DS with shower pump, all went well, except motorway journey from hell, it's closed, being widened and bridge being knocked down. Stick as far west as Chichester Brambling, safe that way

It seems they were directing traffic off the M27 through Fareham, my friend almost missed the train, she went home via Portsmouth and the Gosport Ferry. It seems the roads were chaos :eek:

Well done on the weight loss Flubberzing . I find the weekends difficult food wise unless I keep really busy, mouth hunger rather than proper hunger :cool:

It was good to sit and catch up with my friend, we've known each other since we were students. We found somewhere different for lunch and had a bagel topped with avocado mashed with chilli, smoked salmon and scrambled egg, it was really tasty and a generous portion . We blamed the intermittent showers for the need to move from lunch to coffee shop :rotfl: we were good and avoided cake

I cba to make dinner and not very hungry so I've eaten a boiled egg, a small chunk of strong cheddar cheese and loads of cherry tomatoes and a pack of cheese and onion crisps. Back to eating properly tomorrow

Fire_Fox

Friday: [STRIKE]Late night[/STRIKE] fruit dessert for breakfast (rhubarb/ blackberries/ cinnamon/ Greek yogurt/ mixed seeds).

Half-@rsed attempt at meal planning.

Hard-boiled six eggs and ate two, plus half an avocado. Finished the blue cheese and green veg soup. Left a vacancy .... :think:

Half-@rsed attempt at refrigerator tetris.

Today: Meal plan, pshaw.

Roasted chermoula rainbow trout (green olive tapenade/ garlic/ lemon pepper/ vine tomatoes/ banana shallots). Conceived as a simplified version of the ill-fated Moroccan chermoula sea bream, but the only omission was sliced potato! :rotfl:

Ate half of the fish dish with YS babyleaf salad and some pistachio kernels. Salad leaves turned out to be 45% by weight shredded root vegetables (beetroot/ carrot) so the meal was quite substantial.

Late night fruit dessert (strawberries/ green apple/ cinnamon/ Greek yogurt/ mixed seeds).

Food waste: Very OOD lime juice, small piece dried-out cheese.

Wednesday2000

I had a sandwich with lots of water for breakfast.

I'm going to have that tomato soup again for lunch. I will add a tin of brown lentils this time.

I might have a burger with a big salad for dinner. I do have 4 spuds so might make some oven chips too.

caronc wrote: »

Wednesday - your soup sounds lovely & if you want to boost the protein content the Slimming World version using baked beans blended in is tasty.

I actually don't have any baked beans in my cupboard at the moment. *The horror*:eek::rotfl:

PasturesNew wrote: »

Last night I ate a whole tin of peaches from a large mug - so that's one less tin in the cupboards.

I love tinned peaches.:A