Covid-19 Isolation Support Thread

Fire_Fox

I am somewhat similar to Miro in that I live alone in a city centre, and classed as 'at risk' but not 'very vulnerable'. IME it may be worth finding an online group for your area via, say, Facebook, to ask which shops are busy and which are quiet in your postcode.

Here the central indoor fresh food market, two freezer stores plus M&SFood all have good stock and are not hitting customer capacity, whereas the regular supermarkets and discounters have queues outside. The difference in footfall is stark. I would need to adjust my walking route to avoid other pedestrians (outside banks/ at bus stops) but it's do-able for the able-bodied.

This might well be 'old news' but the experts who feature on TV news Q&As agree that the greatest risks are being in an enclosed space with/ too close to an infected person, or touching something contaminated then touching our face. These experts also say that it is fairly easy to 'decontaminate' food by removing/ discarding outer packaging and immediately washing our hands, washing/ peeling loose produce, and leaving dry/ longlife goods/ parcels/ outdoor clothing to one side for a day or two during which the virus naturally breaks down.

HTH someone!

annieb64

I'm getting very tired of being asked "what's for lunch"?. DH doesn't like eggs so normally when he's at work I have scrambled eggs, an omelette or leftovers for lunch. Now I have to think about lunch every day and I'm running out of ideas especially as I'm trying not to go to the shops more than once a week.

Nonnadiluca

My answer would be, " whatever you fancy making yourself".

C_J

Ha ha - yes, lunch is becoming an issue here too Annie! I usually take leftovers in to work but now that we are both home all the time, Mister CJ looks forward to having lunch together. I tend to do a rotation of the following things :

homemade soup with toast or croutons

toasted sandwiches or panini

sausage sandwich

fish finger bap

home baked sausage rolls

granary toast topped with smashed avocado and a poached egg

macaroni cheese

tuna, butterbean and red onion salad
jacket potato with a curry topping

leeks wrapped in ham and baked in a cheese sauce

Beans on toast

Pasties, made with home made pastry and filled with chopped up Sunday lunch leftovers

Salads of various sorts

Mini pizzas topped with whatever needs using up from the fridge

happyandcontented

Yes, it always seems to be mealtime here too!

annieb64

Nonnadiluca- I try to get DH cooking more but he seems to make such a performance of the simplest thing that I end up taking over.C-J -thank you for the ideas. We do have home made soup quite often and beans or avocado on toast. I'm  trying to keep an eye on DHs weight so don't  want to give him too much pastry. Will have to try him on more salads.

-taff

It's the thinking about what we're[ make that me] are going to cook next. I keep saying I should meal plan but then I forget about leftovers and they have ti be used up so it's making something, then making something again with theleftovers, then having just a little bit of stuff that's no good for anything. Ad add to that having stuff that has to be used [ the fresh fruit and veg mostly becuae all the meat is in the freezer] and my head is nearly ready to explode.

I should sort the food stocks out and make a list.....:)

Wicked_Lady

I've had a chicken casserole in the slow cooker all day and will do a jacket potato to share with it.
Our lunch options sound rather boring; we rotate between cheese and crackers, cheese on toast, boiled/scrambled/poached eggs, baked beans with toast, grilled bacon/mushrooms/tomatoes, tuna salad or an occasional bacon sandwich. Things like pizza or jacket potatoes would fill me up too much.

oceanspirit

Lots of salad or hm soup for lunches here.  Today's salad was cashew and red pepper "burgers" and tomorrow will be roasted butternut squash and lentil.  If there are leftovers from the day before, I will eat those as OH has a fear of leftovers but I'm quite happy to tuck in to a cold stirfry etc.  He will however eat rice cold with a salad the next day and he loves saute potatoes made from leftover cooked spuds which I will sometimes put with a salad to ring the changes.

Miró

oceanspirit said:

  Today's salad was cashew and red pepper "burgers" and tomorrow will be roasted butternut squash and lentil.  

OMG.....<drools>....that sounds delish!  Could you pop some in a jiffy bag and send it over please?