Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Just had nibbly stuff for lunch, as it was the Age UK shopping trip this morning.
We were incredibly late back, as one lady demanded the bus ferry her from Supermarket A to Supermarket B at the shopping centre.

That's not in their remit, although they did it, as if she had walked it, she would have held the bus up even longer. She was also late out for the bus, hey-ho...

The volunteer helper for the shopping trip is a good friend, and my shopping was brought in to the house for me. She trotted off with a just published novel in return.

I investigated Home Bargains and Lidl, we don't have either of these shops, despite my town having a larger population. We have a very small town centre with sky high rents and restrictive covenants on expansion. We were lucky to get Aldi.

I was so pleased to see that Home Bargains had Marvel, two tubs of that bought. I use it a lot for cooking.
Lidl has started doing Nespresso capsules, same price as Aldi. Lots of nice tempting nibbly things for me, plus cheese and cold meats, missed these while I haven't been to shops..

PN, the toastie maker was free to review, from Amazon, so I can't complain. It doesn't take really thick fillings though, so I will try your method with those, thank you. .
I bought Galpharm's Gaviscon equivalent for nearly £2 cheaper, in HB, same ingredients. Tummy seems ok, touch wood.

A biting wind, but no ice or snow, and we should stay clear, though temps are forecast to stay only just above zero, and no more than 5 degrees for a few weeks yet.

Mixed feelings with the local council. They have installed a dropped kerb at the end of my block of houses, whoo-hoo, everywhere else had one years ago, and it's at the access to the local play park, so was needed. This was at my specific request. No more whacking the trike tyres off kerbs or getting bogged down on the muddy grass, because that was where the kerb was lowest.

However, I requested assistance with getting my bin emptied today, it was approved, but didn't happen. Bin is still full.
Ah. Reported. Their online systems work well, so it should get done.

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Just had nibbly stuff for lunch, as it was the Age UK shopping trip this morning.
We were incredibly late back, as one lady demanded the bus ferry her from Supermarket A to Supermarket B at the shopping centre.

That's not in their remit, although they did it, as if she had walked it, she would have held the bus up even longer. She was also late out for the bus, hey-ho...

The volunteer helper for the shopping trip is a good friend, and my shopping was brought in to the house for me. She trotted off with a just published novel in return.


Mixed feelings with the local council. They have installed a dropped kerb at the end of my block of houses, whoo-hoo, everywhere else had one years ago, and it's at the access to the local play park, so was needed. This was at my specific request. No more whacking the trike tyres off kerbs or getting bogged down on the muddy grass, because that was where the kerb was lowest.

However, I requested assistance with getting my bin emptied today, it was approved, but didn't happen. Bin is still full.
Ah. Reported. Their online systems work well, so it should get done.

Coach trip, some folk, old or young, can be a right PITA and plain inconsiderate & selfish at times. I found this but just have to put up with it, we once wasted a couple of hours in Kings Lynn when a couple failed to turn up. I'd have driven off and left them:mad:

Same with councils, I think they mean well but left & right hand are not connected at times. I had similar with garden rubbish, got sorted in the end but can be frustrating

Only stew left to nuke for dinner, feeling quite hungry so may mop up the excess with a slice or two, or just have some toast later. No biscuits in the house on purpose, they keep getting eaten:o:

I have been scratching around for food during the past few days, surprisingly have eaten well but not a heck of a lot to choose from in the house. Its because I have been majorly busy clearing here, I get involved and forget to eat. I had a tin of soup last night, I think it was a veggie vegetable and green lentil but soon after my stomach felt very uncomfortable, even woke me up. I read the label this morning, it was the dratted chilli. I had two more left, they are going into the food bank box

It was a dash to the supermarket this morning, got a few bits of fresh things, some veg and fruit and milk and was tempted by the small sourdough loaves on the bakery counter. I bought one normal sourdough san fransisco type and one rye sourdough, well both were rubbish. I had one slice of white and it tasted of flour and the texture was heavy, still I froze slices. The rye one was wet inside, I swear I could have rung it out. Absolute rubbish bread compared to hm. Don`t know why I was tempted but it won`t happen again

The best buys were 2 boxes of ready cheese salads, had one today and have a craft day tomorrow, good for my packed lunch. I have already prepped for my last meal tomorrow, soya, rice, ginger, umboshi plums and will add the water tomorrow and put it on timer in the rice cooker. I need to do that because it is always a tiring day and I have a 75 minute drive back

I`ll have to get my arris in gear on sunday. I need to make a few ready meals and some soups for the freezer and some scones and cinnamon rolls again for the freezer.