Cooking for one (Mark Three)

pattypan4

I am another one with joint aches, hands and a shoulder and only since the damp weather. Took paracetamol before bed last night, fed up of waking with the aches

I very much enjoyed the roasted medley of peppers, shallots and courgette yesterday. Would like to eat the same today and need to find some protein thingie to go with it. Maybe I will do some tvp and a bit of brown rice in the rice cooker, oh yes plus umboshi that I love, ooh and LO spinach on the top, will get rid of the last of it. . Yes that is a plan, good. Not thinking too much about food at the moment, I have started the washing as it is an ok drying day and the basket is full


I have salad bits and cottage cheese, will be fine for a late breakfast. Only one fuel bix eaten so far, I ran out of hemp milk, need to make more, takes 1 minute to whizz, just 1/2 cup hemp to 3-4 cups water and I don`t add dates or vanilla. Keeps a few days

as for snacks, I have a few boiled sweets, some black chocolate and some frozen victoria sponge which is nicer frozen than fresh. I dare not keep biscuits in the house any more, owning up to eating a full pack over 2 days

Farway

Extra snack last night, DD bought me a pack of posh chocs for Father's day , only 6 luckily as they were have one & want another

Back to normal today, porridge breakfast, then made fresh batch of yoghurt
Because it's not raining a quick bit of gardening, trimmed the goosegog & thinned out the plums

Decided I should have something a bit fresh & green today, so I've got a salmon fillet defrosting to go with a salad tonight

PasturesNew wrote: »

. Got a bit of a hankering for cucumber/egg sandwiches too IF the loaf BBE is 22nd June or greater I'll buy a cucumber and some eggs. IF the loaf is sooner than that date I'll go without bread again as it's too hard trying to get through a loaf in fewer than 5 days.

Now I fancy one, not really boiled egg fan but this could be lunch today as I've got everything in stock I'll give it a try, may add some salad cream or mayo in there

Wednesday2000

Toasted sandwich for breakfast followed by a cup of green tea.

It's quite nice weather today, for a change!

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Must be the day for egg & cue sandwiches as that's what I've got planned for lunch too:D as I have loads of eggs needing used.
I do have core stuff I order most times when I food shop but like to add different things as well, though it does means dealing with "use ups" but I'll live with that for a varied diet. I'm happy to basically eat the same things for breakfast & lunch most days but do like to cook different things for my main meal. Hence the loaded freezers:rotfl::rotfl:.
It was sunny when I got up but we have wet & windy weather forecast for this afternoon and certainly it's clouding over and very breezy, I don't think I'll be gardening/lean to clearing today. I'm pretty off balance this morning ot helped by washing my hair and changing my bed, I think a day pottering in the house will be about the extent of my activities.
HM pizza for dinner tonight, I have dough & sauce defrosting so an easy put together later once I decide what toppings I want. At moment I'm thinking red onion, peppers, salami amd mozzarella with spinach/rocket/watercress wilted on top at the end.:)

pattypan4

no vic sandwich cake for me later, I already ate it and the dark chocolate. CBA the roasted veg so only salad but I have boiled some spuds and want to chill them so that the starches change and they are less fattening, sigh, every little helps

flubberyzing

I'm now home from a very easy morning at work. It was an "Aspiration Day", where various speakers come in, from different fields of work, talk to the children for about 40 minutes, and then we move on to someone else.

I accompanied two year 3 classes around. First we listened to an electrical engineer (WAY over the children's heads - talked about voltages and electric currents - these are 7 year olds).
The we met the CEO of London Irish Rugby Club - nice guy, but again, a bit over the kids heads.
Then we met a vet, who was by far the best. He was the most "kid friendly" of the bunch, telling them things they could understand.

I've just finished a late-ish lunch of a ham sandwich, and some carrot and cucumber to dip in hummus. I did a Lidl trip on the way home, and got mostly fruit and veg.

PN, I know what you mean about having to "use things up". There's lots of good things about CFO, but using things up can be a challenge, and I personally find it prohibitive to what I can buy.
For instance, I only buy one loaf of bread a month (when I do my "cheap week" of "things on toast"), because I just wouldn't get through it in time otherwise, and I don't really have the freezer space for a loaf.
The other thing is potatoes. I don't usually want potatoes with my meal often enough to get through a whole bag, and just don't have the freezer space to make it all into mash or roasties.

When shopping with main meals for the week in mind, unless I know I want something that I've already got "in stock", my general rule is "two proteins". This week, for example, I got a box of 4 chicken steaks, and a box of 4 breaded cods. Then I'll alternate through them until they're gone. However, I've still got two frozen burgers from last week, so that's the meat portion of my evening meals sorted for a fortnight.
I do try and meal plan, just because it's the most satisfactory method for me to manage both my food stocks, and my budget.
I'm now home for a few hours, then I'll head out again at 4:30 for a couple of hours tutoring. I'll also need to get petrol on the way home.

Farway

My lunchtime egg & cuc sarnie was a mess:( Because I only eat one boiled egg once a decade I've not got a lot of experience on timings. I once had a colour change egg shaped thingy, but that's vanished:mad:

After hunt the sole egg cup, at back of cupboard obvs, it was time for snotty egg:eek: Which of course is only known once the top is off the said egg. Carried on regardless, turned into a very runny sarnie.
At least I tried, By time another ten years have rolled by I'll probably be spoon fed another snotty boiled egg:D

flubberyzing wrote: »

PN, I know what you mean about having to "use things up". There's lots of good things about CFO, but using things up can be a challenge, and I personally find it prohibitive to what I can buy.
For instance, I only buy one loaf of bread a month (when I do my "cheap week" of "things on toast"), because I just wouldn't get through it in time otherwise, and I don't really have the freezer space for a loaf.
The other thing is potatoes. I don't usually want potatoes with my meal often enough to get through a whole bag, and just don't have the freezer space to make it all into mash or roasties.

I'm same with spuds, which is why I have frozen chips or roasties mainly now I've two freezers. The occasional baked spud if on offer somewhere

Salmon fillet defrosted, rest is easy salad assembly

elona

I had a coffee and a sausage sandwich for a late breakfast and have just put some pork ribs and soup veg with stock in the pressure king pro to eat later. I have a chicken to roast and then strip the meat from the bones so I have cooked meat for several meals and also the carcass to freeze to make soup.

Had a busy weekend with family so having a really quiet lazy day with my feet up and reading a book that just arrived by my favourite author.

PasturesNew

flubberyzing wrote: »

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For instance, I only buy one loaf of bread a month (when I do my "cheap week" of "things on toast"), because I just wouldn't get through it in time otherwise, and I don't really have the freezer space for a loaf.
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Unless you've lived it, you can't understand it.

I, too, try to buy a loaf carefully, only buying one when I'm ready to eat it all/most of it + find one with enough days left on the BBE sticker.

People glibly say "freeze it". They don't get that, for those without a "family home" history they've probably not got a large freezer, or spare freezer, or a big kitchen, so their freezer space is more likely to be minimal.

As a rule, I find frozen bread's nowhere near as nice as fresh too...

But, what if you did freeze it? You'd still probably want some fresh bread (as it's nicer) for sandwiches - and then you've frozen two of them!

CFOs get through bread at a much slower rate.... and it's important to try to dispose of an entire loaf before buying another, which then becomes a drudgery.

"Oh, but you can buy half loaves" - really, thank you for telling me that, I've got to nearly 60 and never realised. The issue with half loaves is accessibility + cost for what you get + choice. As a rule I buy the 36p L1dl loaves.... I bet a half loaf costs more than just tossing out what I've not eaten! Looking at MySupermarket, it appears that only Warburtons do a Half - and that half costs £1 - and only at Asda (costs me £2.40 fuel there/back).

PasturesNew

I had a portion of chilli for lunch, with spaghetti.

I'd planned on having a bag of 5 dougnuts for tea, which'd come from Sainsbobs (best/fluffy bags of 5).... so off I went to Sainsbobs. Sold out of doughnuts Shame as they were shelf priced at 50p/5 instead of the expected 65p.

It looks like tea tonight will be a box of Matchmakers and a 250g bag of chocolates I bought instead

Farway wrote: »

Because I only eat one boiled egg once a decade I've not got a lot of experience on timings.

I've got a little 1-egg nuker that works a treat. I've a 4-egg one too. I've nailed an egg/soldiers down to 4½ minutes on half power in the 1-egg nuker, which is chicken shaped and can even be its own egg cup.

I had a spate of having egg/soldiers, but after I'd done that a dozen times over about 3 months I haven't really done it since. I think I'd prefer wider eggs for the best experience. My eggs, being L1dl large, aren't that great a size for the true/full experience.

I did buy a backup egg nuker, from 4ldi, but when I read the destructions it wanted the egg to be pierced. So I'm not really pleased with that purchase as I like not piercing the eggs as that's one fewer steps where something has the potential to go hideously wrong.