Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Using my oven and small wash loads are my two electric usage "could do betters" but tbh I worked out to make a sd loaf costs 36p in electric and a quick wash 20p so it would be quite a bit of cutting back to make a massive impact on my bill so while I'm mindful I don't fret about it. I am good at not using the tumble drier much and not having the shower on for longer than needed as these are my two most expensive things to run.

PasturesNew

Spicy sausage naan pizza will be lunch today.

I've been having to hold myself back from making it since about 9am this morning when I first fancied it

Not eaten today yet; looking forward to that pizza... ooh look, it's nearly a legitimate pizza eating time

Wednesday2000

OMG, so hot and muggy, I just went for a walk and my face is almost as red as my dress!:o:D

I had a toastie for breakfast. Don't really feel that hungry in this heat.

CRANKY40

Good afternoon all,

caronc the syrup loaf is a hit with the HT. He's had a lot of migraines recently which I'm sure are because he only has a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast at 7am then nothing until his school lunch at 12:30. He won't have toast after his cereal but this morning I fed him a slice of buttered syrup loaf and he ate it. I can see it being a regular breakfast feature. We had a late lunch yesterday because he was sent home from school with a migraine so dinner was cheese on toast because neither of us were that hungry.

I started running again this morning which usually means that I eat better because food becomes fuel instead of just food. I had 2 small wholemeal toast with peanut butter for breakfast, I've just had poached egg on small wholemeal toast for lunch and dinner will be skinny sausages from the butcher (they don't leak fat when they're grilled), with a dry fried egg, the half a small pot of baked beans that is lurking in the fridge and some mushrooms which also need using up.

The HT will also be cooking for one - he will make his own dinner which is pasta and meatballs in tomato and basil sauce. The tomato and basil sauce is out of a jar - I buy it when it's £1 and it does about 3 portions for him.

Farway

CRANKY40 wrote: »

caronc the syrup loaf is a hit with the HT. He's had a lot of migraines recently which I'm sure are because he only has a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast at 7am then nothing until his school lunch at 12:30. He won't have toast after his cereal but this morning I fed him a slice of buttered syrup loaf and he ate it. I can see it being a regular breakfast feature.

That's nice to hear, one small step for Caron, one giant leap for HT:D

My Panny quickie loaf turned out yummy for lunch, used the W8rose brown flour again.

Next job is is on line meat shopping, hope they have the stuff I want this time, sold out when I looked a couple of weeks ago

Farway

Dinner scoffed, my Morries RM chicken tikka ready frozen was delicious, I'll definitely buy that again

caronc

CRANKY40 wrote: »

caronc the syrup loaf is a hit with the HT.

Glad it got the thumbs up from the HT:)


Good evening everyone,

Housework got done, papers have been signed and savoury mince is simmering away. It's a real use up of lots lurking veg - onions, carrots, celery, garlic, mushrooms, red pepper and butternut squash with around 1/2lb of mince in there somewhere;). I'll add the last portion of the bought green beans once it's nearly ready. Not the most summery of dishes but the weather is far from summery here today. If the rain had let up a bit I'd of popped to the veg patch and picked a courgette to add. I'll have some with nuke steamed new potatoes and needless to say I'm expecting LOs:).
Lunch was a corned beef & salad sandwich with the last of a punnet of grapes and a couple of satsumas. I had sliced tomato and a peach with my breakfast toast so I'm romping ahead with my F&V intake today:D.

PasturesNew

I decided to bite the bullet and make a chilli tomorrow with the L1dl 30% off sticker 750g pack of mixed pork/beef mince I picked up 2-3 weeks ago.

I got the meat out of the freezer, stacked up some tins that can be chucked in, got the last 3 onions out and put those on the worktop, got the SC out ... so that's all ready for tomorrow morning and I'll not forget as it's all sitting out ready to be done

It's been as dry as a bone here for weeks now.

Just 2 minutes ago I heard an odd noise outside, I got up quietly and peeked outside, expecting to see some bird biting at something hard.... the noise was like a squirrel eating nuts, or a bird pecking at a snail - it turned out it was rain spots! Didn't expect that.

Today I've eaten twice, the sausage pizza and later on beans on toast. I really wanted that pizza again a bit later, but I'd have had to do it on toast and cook another sausage (and they're frozen, so CBA). I do like a sausage/cheese combo.

I've bread that's best by tomorrow and 1/4 of a cucumber that needs eating... but I'm out of eggs, so I might need to buy more eggs, or just have cucumber sandwiches tomorrow.

I never did get round to making the syrup loaf as I've been too busy eating other food that needed to be used up I also CBA to see if I've got the bicarb. Half my pots/spices were "tidied away/out of sight" for house viewings and half are out ... and I just couldn't face looking to see if I had got the bicarb + having to actually make the thing... then cook/wait for it

There's a limit to how much one can cook/eat .... but I'll get round to it one day.

Brambling

Hi dekaspace :wave: are you able to batch cook and freeze so you can have a homemade ready meal for when you get home.

Today was very much the same as yesterday, we are system testing at work so the team is shut in a meeting room usually swearing for 6 hours a day, at least tomorrow will be broken by a two hour conference call with the system developers in India :wall: at least it pays the bills

I amused the builders tonight whistling for the cat, they were most impressed that he came running . It's the way I've trained all my cats it's just being cats they always hear you but sometimes chose not to acknowledge you :rotfl: It's not unusual for his lordship to come running and then get sidetrack half way up the path by something and then totally ignore me

Food wise today lunch was the same as yesterday salad with egg, seafood sticks and ff cottage cheese. Dinner was LO lamb meatballs with braised fennel and green beans

pattypan4

Grhhh, I have wasted 2 whole days waiting in for deliveries that have not arrived. 2 companies that I have never heard of and parcelforce. They had better arrive today


I started with protibix and berries, I changed from 2 to 1 protibix after channel hopping last night and seeing that programme about 600 lb people who cannot move. That was the best incentive ever, to lose a bit of weight or to at least be careful. I`ll have a second breakfast later, maybe some sd toast and marmalade and an omlette. Main meal frozen nut roast and whatever veg I have and at some time the LO frozen hm yoghurt ice cream. That is it for the day, apart from a maybe soup and an apple. No biscuits or crisps or similar in the house, only some bath biscuits that I could have with a bit of cheese


I am not buying any more biscuits for `just in case ` visitors. I end up scoffing the lot and then feel guilty