Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

... a "Dr Foster" moment:eek:, not quite up to my middle but certainly well up my leg:mad:. ...

Shouldn't laugh .... did though

I've gone for a "cupboard emptier", super early/before 11am. I finished off the opened stuffing packet, finished off the opened instant potato sachet ... and opened a tin of beans. Also did a couple of spoons of gravy.

My focus should be on using up food I've got.... and I've had a lurking can of chicken in white sauce for years. I've also got the spuds I bought the other week, so I guess today/tomorrow I should make 1-2 mash topped chicken pies with those. Ideally served with a tin of peas, but I have no peas. So I'll probably buy in a tin of peas just to go with that... or I might not. Loathe to buy/bring new foods into the house as the focus is now probably on packing. Signatures look imminent....

PasturesNew

agenthenry69 wrote: »

:money:I feel like i'm gettin bored of eating the same healthy s**t everyday (chicken salad).
Can anyone recommend meals they like? ;):D:o

Fish finger toasties

Healthy food is not healthy if it's doing your mental health no good whatsoever

Chips > Lettuce. Fact.

unrecordings

agenthenry69 wrote: »

:money:I feel like i'm gettin bored of eating the same healthy s**t everyday (chicken salad).
Can anyone recommend meals they like? ;):D:o

Ramen (instant noodles) works for me. I go for Nissin and generally buy a selection of flavours from a local Chinese supermarket. The secret is to fortify it with extra bits. You're just pouring on boiling water and waiting for the noodles to soften - in the meantime add little bits of vegetables, maybe some cooked meat - whatever is lying around. If I'm making a 'proper' meal, I'll sometimes put stuff to one side for the next ramen and I've generally got a tub in the fridge of useable leaves, herbs etc

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

Welcome to CFO agenthenry, lets us know the sort of things you like to eat and if you are eating at work what facilities you have to hand and I'm sure we can help. We each have our own view on healthy so it can be a bit of minefield!
PN - I shall ignore you laughing at my wet leg (it was quite funny though in hindsight:rotfl:)
Hope your meat order turns up ok Farway, do they package it in CFO sized portions for you or is it mainly stuff you'll use for batch cooking anyway?
And it's raining again....... I was going to head to the library this morning but decided to wait until tomorrow when the forecast looks a little better. There was a brief dry spell during which I nipped to the bin and watered the greenhouse. No more toppling over and there were a few more toms ripe. Instead I bit the bullet and phoned HMRC re a problem with my online account! I was on for ages but the chap was incredibly helpful and got things sorted out - there was a duplicate entry showing which would have resulted in me getting a tax bill I didn't owe. :eek:
I quite often make home made wedges and take out some to portion and freeze before they are fully cooked. If I'm doing this I don't season them initially and add it after I've removed the ones for the freezer so I'm not stuck with that particulary flavour. Tonight I'm taking some sweet potato ones out to go with chicken thighs and roast veg. I haven't decided what seasoning to have, though my favourites are jerk or garlic/thyme/oregano. Later on I need to prep more beans for the freezer as there was a lot more ready than I thought there would be when I picked them yesterday. Too many for me to use before they go limp and I don't want to waste them. I think the wind, rain and cold will probably finish them off it's certainly hammered my courgette plants which will be heading for the compost bin when it finally dries up.

Lunch is a repeat of yesterday's ham salad roll, plum & cupasoup.

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

PN - I shall ignore you laughing at my wet leg

It'll be making me snigger, a LOT, for weeks to come

This is why I have no friends.... I find humour in things they don't appreciate as being amusing

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

It'll be making me snigger, a LOT, for weeks to come

This is why I have no friends.... I find humour in things they don't appreciate as being amusing

I'll just assume you are laughing with me not at me:rotfl:, I'm pretty thick skinned;).
I posted before I mean't to hence the long addition to my earlier post!

Farway

Welcome Agenthenry, with the FBI? Yep I'm watching Mind Game at the moment;)

As Caron says, give us a clue. I tend to stick to easy and healthy sometimes comes into it, but most meals fit somewhere in there, and this being CFO there are no limits or rules as to what gets eaten or when, cereal for dinner is fine, as is cold pizza for breakfast

Does fish enter in your diet or do you loath it?

Ingredients fresh / frozen / ready made / don't care /not bothered?

Caron, meat order arrived, some over the front step, stupid eco friendly plastic bag split as he was lifting it indoors for me:eek:.
Luckily it was all frozen, wrapped & packed so no harm done
I choose CFO sizes, max joint weight for instance is 1kg, 250g packs of stewing steak, single or max 2 pack chops,steaks and similar

All packed away, odd shapes with gammon joints and shanks, but went in OK. A small bit of space left should I find irresistible YS

One pack arrived fresh cut & unfrozen, so I'm leaving that out for tomorrow's meal
It's a 2 pack of lamb shoulder chops, one I'll freeze once opened, the other I'll have with some nice Cornish spuds from the green grocer when I'm out mooching tomorrow

Dinner, good choice with salmon salad, sun did come out & it's pleasant now, had Lunch of tin of sardines on toast in the conservatory

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

I'll just assume you are laughing with me not at me:rotfl:, I'm pretty thick skinned;).
I posted before I mean't to hence the long addition to my earlier post!

Definitely with, not at.
Although the difference there is intent.
I am not laughing at your misfortune, your distress, your wet leg... I'm laughing at the comedic imagery it brings to mind

... and, admit it .... you're laughing too. Now.

PasturesNew

Well, that went well, but also not.

I wandered into Morries - saw their takeaway bags at £5 and thought I'd have bought one except I wasn't going straight home so didn't fancy leaving it for an indeterminate amount of time unchilled. Picked up a tin of mushy peas and a 4-pack of Double Decker choc bars. I knew I was going to Mr T so told myself "if Mr T has them at £5 I'll get one"

I went into Mr T specifically to treat myself to a case of 24 fizzy pops. I got those. I was also in there specifically to get 3-5 packs of their 14p instant noodle packs - and they didn't have them. It's not a monster store, but large enough - I was in the noodles/jarred sauces/rices aisle 3x but they didn't exist. Looking online, they only seem to now have 30p packs of their own brand noodles (didn't see those in there either).
I also checked out Mr T sliced white bread, but it's only got 4 days on the label, so I left it.

Came out of Mr Ts with the fizzy pop, a 4-pack of After Eight mousse, a twin pack of indian takeaway (£5) and a pack of jelly babies and a 39p pasty.

I've opened the jelly babies and scoffed one mousse.
One of those indians will be for tea. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/285709302
2 curries, 4 bhajis, 2 naans.

EDIT: Don't bother with those boxes of meals for 2 indian curries. Awful quality of chicken. Korma sauce taste/texture/amount was lovely, meat was hard to cut through and looked "a bit iffy" and it was quite chewy. Bhajis and naan were as one'd expect in such a box. I've left 3 chunks of the chicken as it was grossing me out.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Glad your order arrived okay Farway, despite the bag splitting, and fitted in the freezer.:) Hope you don't find as I do that when you remove something from a full shelf technically creating space that it's a "Krypton Factor" challenge to get the remaining items back in:eek:
PN - yes I'm sure onlookers were highly amused, me less so at the time but I'm sure I'd have struggled not to smile if I'd been watching:rotfl:. My shoe is still drying out...... I've never found a chilled/frozen pre-made chicken curry that I'm that keen on, I think they are cooked within an inch of their life so to prolong shelf life and the best bit is nearly always the sauce. However, even with HM food I'm not keen on reheated chicken or turkey breast , if I do reheat it I tend to fish the meat out, heat the sauce and pop the meat back in for the shortest possible time to get it properly hot.

I got a few things off my "to do" list today mainly involving long phone calls. I'm "on hold music'd" out :eek:but thankfully got what I needed to get done achieved. I completely forgot I had garden beans to sort out and cba now so fingers crossed they'll be fine until tomorrow, I'm fairly sure they will be.
The rain has finally stopped but the wind has picked back up and the temperature has really dropped. It's supposed to drop to 7C by midnight and it feels as though it will. I set the stove earlier and will light it shortly so the living room is toasty by the time I'm ready to watch TV. Dinner is mainly as planned except I'm having a baked spud instead of sweet potato wedges with the chicken & veg.