Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good evening everyone,
PN- hope you get your shelving unit ok
Farway - yes vacuum sealers are definitely one of those things that you never realised was missing from your life until you get one:rotfl: I'd definitely replace mine when it dies.
MTSTM - not a clue re the black chick peas though I suspect they are nutritionally the same

I had a bit of a frustrating afternoon, phoned Drs for blood test results all ok and review in 4 weeks:) so far so good. I had been holding off ordering repeat meds pending these in case another tweak was made. I usually order them on-line but the recent change wasn't showing so had to do it over the phone. One of meds I take all the time and another with a similiar name on an ad hoc basis. Well I just knew the girl wasn't listening to me......:mad: Checked on line just before they closed and yep she'd mixed them up, thankfully managed to get through to the surgery before they closed and I think it's all sorted now.

My winter slaw at lunch time was really tasty but despite having some cooked turkey and a hard boiled egg it didn't fill me up so I've been a bit munchy this afternoon which is unusual for me. There is slaw & turkey LO for lunch tomorrow but I think I'll defrost some soup to have with. I'm hoping the venison sausage and lentil casserole is a bit more substantial.

I've not bought any shopping since 03/02 (though my Dad did give me spare milk last week) and I don't think my fridge has ever looked so bare (since the kids left home :rotfl:) especially the veg drawer which is down to spuds and a pepper. I still have a couple of onions & a tomato in the veg basket, loads of frozen veg/brambles and grapes & an apple in the fruit bowl so I actually still have a fair bit in and meals for tomorrow are mainly already sorted. However, I'm out of eggs, bread, cheese spread and running low on milk and teabags so a shopping is booked for Friday morning to restock.:)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

..... My winter slaw at lunch time was really tasty but despite having some cooked turkey and a hard boiled egg it didn't fill me up so I've been a bit munchy this afternoon ...

I find any salady style, raw-based, foods make me hungrier than if I'd not eaten at all. There's something about eating cold/raw food that just makes my brain think "you're being starved.... get some proper food now".



If I'm filling a plate, or a pitta, or a sandwich, I feel fuller by leaving out the salady stuff usually... it looks more, but doesn't fool my stomach

PasturesNew

You can only buy two kinds of biscuits:

1] Biscuits that you eat and then dislike and cry with every one as you've wasted your money on biscuits you don't like.

2] Biscuits you love and can't stop eating.....

I've bought Type 2.

I've had 10 of them now, which is about half the 350g bag

(Yes, I know there's another type: "Cheap biscuits that are passable and bought as they're cheap")

wort

Pn I hope the shelves are ok after all the faff, I'm just glad you can get them and haven't been sent back. Similar story to mine they hadn't let me know they were there. I'd bee in twice too!!

I'm working today and having dgson for tea, as I'm out for tea tomorrow.
Lunch will be the pasta prepared yesterday, with a passion fruit yogurt.

Wednesday2000

I didn't like the corn tortillas last night, yuck.

I'm having a cup of coffee and deciding what to have, maybe baked beans on toast as I didn't have them yesterday.:)

bouicca21

It was always my mum's philosophy that biscuits should be ones everyone liked - but not that much. That way they lasted longer than if she bought biscuits that everyone loved.

PasturesNew

Been out to L&A ....

A: bought the nuker egg boiler, don't bother - it's not like my other one, there's a "yolk pricker" in it, which is a faff. I'll try it without to be honest, my current one doesn't need the yolk pricking!

A: Grabbed a random jar of curry sauce (bit of a pricey one) to lob into the SC with the L beef. Also got a pack of their chillies which are on special this week at 45p (so not THAT special/cheap!)

L: Got 6 sausage rolls....
L: Grabbed the beef and headed for the tills with 3 items. I'd added it up mentally and had the right money in my pocket, but wasn't 100% sure to the penny of the price, but I was asked more more than expected, so I checked - the beef had been priced at full price (£2.59), but there was "a little man" immediately to hand so I pointed at it and got my 40p back

You do have to double check receipts don't you!

I tossed the beef, 2 onions and the jar of sauce into the SC. That's tea sorted. Although it doesn't come cheap as I didn't grab the cheapest curry sauce jar. £3.20 it adds up to and will make 3-4 portions. But still cheaper than buying a ready meal (which is half rice anyway) for ~£1.50.

PasturesNew

A funny thing happened to me .....

Imagine the scene.... I am hand-carrying a pack of 6 2-litre bottles of fizzy pop from the shop to my car, which is parked close to the door, so just a 15 pace stride. I reach the car and stand on one leg with the 6-pack resting on my thigh and I open the car door and put the pack down behind the driver's door and shut the door. That's what ... 10 seconds? Fully attended, broad daylight, just me about ....

I opened the driver's door, got in the car, keys in the ignition .... and there's a cat on my rear parcel shelf. A fully grown, large as life chubby cat!

So .... what to do? It can't have travelled there with me .... or could it? I decided it must be the shop cat .... as there was no cat poo in the car or evidence he'd been there overnight .... so I got him out, but his collar came off in my hands and he ran off.... so I chased him. *sighs*.

Luckily ... one of the store staff was stacking stuff outside and said "it's not our cat, he lives over there" and nods to the houses alongside. Phew! At least I didn't have any guilt I'd dumped a neighbour's cat far from home

She held him and I put the collar back on. "He's always doing that" she said.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
:rotfl::rotfl:re the cat PN, they do seem to manage to get into all sorts of places. My sister's one likes to "broaden his horizons" so to speak....

Still stormy and bitterly cold here, I had to be up and out early for an apointment and boy am I glad to be back indoors.

Breakfast was the remaining scotch pancakes with salmon spread, an unusual but quite palatable combination. :cool: Lunch will be the rest of the slaw & cooked turkey and I'll also have a mug of HM soup with it to ward off a repeat of yesterday's munchies. Tonight is the remaining savoury pancake filling with either pasta or a baked spud. So definitely a use up kind of day, the remaining portion of venison sausage/brown lentil/root veg stew will be getting popped in the freezer:)

pineapple

PasturesNew wrote: »

I opened the driver's door, got in the car, keys in the ignition .... and there's a cat on my rear parcel shelf. A fully grown, large as life chubby cat!

Gosh I would freak out
Plus I don't much like cats and would have to consider my response.... :cool: