Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

I can't think of a single supermarket round this way that has an upstairs... in fact I can only think of one, ever, that I've seen!

I wish supermarket websites listed their shop floor area as one person's "large" is another's "small"... and if you're in an unfamiliar area and know there's one 10 miles to the left or one 10 miles to the right it'd be nice to know which was the largest, or smallest, and pick based on size...

caronc

Good evening everyone

unrecordings wrote: »

As for escalators, I have a bad case of vertigo at the moment, so having problems with stairs, escalators, and lifts. On the latter, I went for an MRI last week, and accidentally looked down the lift shaft (which they'd helpfully illuminated) as I crossed the threshold. I think I was still shaking when I got home

Poor you - stairs, escalators, lifts and moving pavements are a vertigo suffers nightmare. It's such a horrible feeling <hugs>


Tesco Finest Melton Mowbary Pork pies are good - no knobbly bits and go on SO from time to time.


I got loads done outdoors today , veg patch apart from my chard and calvo nero which will keep going for a bit is cleared and all the tom plants are out of the greenhouse. I've a big bowl of semi ripe ones and only a small bowl of green ones. I've left the cues as there are a couple of almost ready ones on the plants and they still seem quite happy.:) I've also a largeish collection of various sized kholrabi as the tub had become saturated and the stems were beginning to rot. Hugh F-W has a good recipe for kholrabi, potato and spinach gratin so that will be getting added to my meal plan. I over did it though and I'm decidedly staggery tonight:(, my sis popped round for a cuppa after her work just as I had finished up and promptly told me to sit down and she'd sort the cuppas out!

My sausage, black pudding and parsnip bake has been put on hold until tomorrow and dinner will be the easy option of LO veg curry from last night with a poached egg and pitta instead. The forecast is ok for tomorrow and I hope to get a start in the flower garden but we'll see how steady I am in the morning and take it from there. My meal plan is definitely having a bit of shuffling about this week:). The plus side though is that apart from F&V and basic fridge staples I shouldn't need a much shopping this week, I'll take the opprtunity to stock up on loo roll, coffee, toiletries and some SO chocs for Christmas to make up the minimum order, wine may also feature as I'm running low........;)

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't think of a single supermarket round this way that has an upstairs... in fact I can only think of one, ever, that I've seen!

I wish supermarket websites listed their shop floor area as one person's "large" is another's "small"... and if you're in an unfamiliar area and know there's one 10 miles to the left or one 10 miles to the right it'd be nice to know which was the largest, or smallest, and pick based on size...

PN - we had this issue when we were in Fife and found google maps/view helpful as well as looking at the stores opening hours and if it had a petrol station. There were a few bits we wanted that we thought a smaller store might not have and the two towns they were in were pretty much the same distance from where were but in opposite directions.:)

unrecordings

caronc wrote: »

Poor you - stairs, escalators, lifts and moving pavements are a vertigo suffers nightmare. It's such a horrible feeling

It's temporary. I grew out of it, but the chemo/steroids/fatigue/muscle weakness (and the cat) all consort to make it worse again

unrecordings

Farway wrote: »

I don't like heights these days, never worried me before but not now


This one makes me shiver just looking at it [just in case of collywobbles, , it's a lady photographer on a sky scraper
https://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/assets/constituent/000/305/122/305122_original.jpg

yup - went and clicked on the link didn't I...

caronc

unrecordings wrote: »

It's temporary. I grew out of it, but the chemo/steroids/fatigue/muscle weakness (and the cat) all consort to make it worse again

Hopefully it will go soon, I think for lots of folk it's one of those things that clears but then lurks until your system gets hammered for some reason then has a party!

unrecordings

It was dissipating, but then my steroids got upped, oedema got worse, so knees & ankles weakened, less exercise - vicious circle. I'm reducing steroids agin, so hopefully reducing oedema, increasing exercise, and achieving whatever the opposite of a vicious circle is. In other news just had a lovely OOD pork chop for tea - the lady said use by Tuesday, the label said 13th. I had my flu jab today so what could possibly go wrong. Cat had the last of the honey roast ham too (I cut her nice middle section that had none of the cure on it)

Blue_Doggy

unrecordings wrote: »

It's temporary. I grew out of it, but the chemo/steroids/fatigue/muscle weakness (and the cat) all consort to make it worse again

I have vertigo from time to time.It’s horrible. The Brandt-Daroff exercises (NHS recommended) were suggested to me and I found they worked (for me, anyway).

unrecordings

Blue_Doggy wrote: »

I have vertigo from time to time.It’s horrible. The Brandt-Daroff exercises (NHS recommended) were suggested to me and I found they worked (for me, anyway).

Thanks - I've got physio on Weds I'll ask about this, though given the left hand side of my body barely works, I'm not sure how I can make it work - i'm not sure it's vertigo as such, because I don't actually feel dizzy, I just have no balance (which is maybe more steroid/muscle weakness in knees & ankles

Brambling

Evening . Late on parade for me today, Just back from the local theatre watching Ballroom Boys which is a couple of the original guys from Strictly, I would have been home earlier but spent half hour chatting in the car when I dropped my friend home,

Another wet day, but I missed the worst of the rain when I was inside tonight, there was a lot of surface water to drive home in but had stopped raining, like Farway we were yellow weather warning tonight.

Our local 'big' T*sco has a trolley escalator but only to the none food items I rarely go there and even less frequently up stairs

Easy food today lunch was some of the vegetable and bean soup made at the weekend followed by cooked fruit and dinner was very similar to Farway, gammon with bubble and squeak and a dollop of piccalilli which finished the jar