Cooking for one (Mark Three)

I decided to bite the bullet and make a chilli tomorrow with the L1dl 30% off sticker 750g pack of mixed pork/beef mince I picked up 2-3 weeks ago.

I got the meat out of the freezer, stacked up some tins that can be chucked in, got the last 3 onions out and put those on the worktop, got the SC out ... so that's all ready for tomorrow morning and I'll not forget as it's all sitting out ready to be done

It's been as dry as a bone here for weeks now.

Just 2 minutes ago I heard an odd noise outside, I got up quietly and peeked outside, expecting to see some bird biting at something hard.... the noise was like a squirrel eating nuts, or a bird pecking at a snail - it turned out it was rain spots! Didn't expect that.

Today I've eaten twice, the sausage pizza and later on beans on toast. I really wanted that pizza again a bit later, but I'd have had to do it on toast and cook another sausage (and they're frozen, so CBA). I do like a sausage/cheese combo.

I've bread that's best by tomorrow and 1/4 of a cucumber that needs eating... but I'm out of eggs, so I might need to buy more eggs, or just have cucumber sandwiches tomorrow.

I never did get round to making the syrup loaf as I've been too busy eating other food that needed to be used up I also CBA to see if I've got the bicarb. Half my pots/spices were "tidied away/out of sight" for house viewings and half are out ... and I just couldn't face looking to see if I had got the bicarb + having to actually make the thing... then cook/wait for it

There's a limit to how much one can cook/eat .... but I'll get round to it one day.

Grhhh, I have wasted 2 whole days waiting in for deliveries that have not arrived. 2 companies that I have never heard of and parcelforce. They had better arrive today


I started with protibix and berries, I changed from 2 to 1 protibix after channel hopping last night and seeing that programme about 600 lb people who cannot move. That was the best incentive ever, to lose a bit of weight or to at least be careful. I`ll have a second breakfast later, maybe some sd toast and marmalade and an omlette. Main meal frozen nut roast and whatever veg I have and at some time the LO frozen hm yoghurt ice cream. That is it for the day, apart from a maybe soup and an apple. No biscuits or crisps or similar in the house, only some bath biscuits that I could have with a bit of cheese


I am not buying any more biscuits for `just in case ` visitors. I end up scoffing the lot and then feel guilty

I had a portion of chilli, with basmati rice, about 45 minutes ago.
I've boxed up two tubs with 2-portions each, which are cooling before I pop them in the fridge.

Kitchen looked like a bomb'd hit it because I had all four tins I'd opened drip drying before I put them in the recycling bin; I had 5 empty/washed plastic sauce bottles drip drying ready to go into recycling + the empty/washed ex-mince plastic dish drip drying .... then there was the pyrex bowl I'd pre-cooked the meat in (in soak) and the SC pot (in soak) and the bowl I'd eaten chilli from (in soak). As I'd used a fresh spoon every time I had a poke/dabble, I also had every large spoon in soak. I've done all the washing up except the SC pot now.

Still loads of drying to be done and then, with space cleared a little, I can finally tackle the SC pot, which requires the draining board almost to itself.

There's also a cereal bowl, lined with foil, that contains all the fat I drained from the par-cooked mince, which is white and almost set now....

Chilli was super tasty. Lobbed in a spoon of cocoa, just because I had some and thought "why not"....

I've now got to eat a further 4 portions of chilli, then 3 portions of pie from the freezer and one bit of kebab meat ... and that's the freezer just about emptied, but that amount of food would be another week even if I am not tempted to eat something else/different instead There'll still be six sausages in the freezer, which will probably mean six sausage/cheese pizzas to be eaten the following week.