OneGuyFromBarlick

Yesterday I got more sprouts from the Co-op and added them to the veggies in the fridge. I love sprouts! (Good job as they are a perfect food for diabetics)

Three hot meals of meat and veggies and a snack of 4 fried eggs for second breakfast!

Three hot meals od meat and veggies plus a mini second breakfast of pork and orange on oatcakes.

I'm getting last week's batch into a corner. Veggie shopping looms and I am roasting my chicken this morning.....

I am on the last of the veggies and this morning I will be cooking the new batch.

I had last batch for breakfast and dinner and new veggies and chicken for tea.

I had a vegetarian day, three helpings of the new veggies and I cooked savoury cabbage as an extender.

The new batch of chicken and veggies is going down nicely! I cooked buttered swede as an extender,,,,

I started and finished the day with chicken and veggies but for dinner I gave in to a yen for smoked bacon, eggs and baked beans.

Out with friends to the Four Elephants for tea today, should be a good social occasion and a catch up. And, of course, good curry

Had curry last night, Labour Party Curry Night for members past and present and supporters. Bosoms room was rammed. Curry was a mixture of vegetarian options only as a majority of those present are veggies. Tasty anyway and very well attended. Nice to catch up with a few other ex members.

Enjoy yours at the Elephants Kev, not been to the venue for a while.

PanBiker wrote: ↑17 Jan 2026, 14:59 Enjoy yours at the Elephants Kev, not been to the venue for a while.

looking forward to it

Three hot meals..... It begins to look as though today might be pork and orange in the slow cooker.
I can't remember when I last went to a restaurant.......

Chicken and veggies X three for breakfast dinner and tea. I cooked pork belly with onions, tomatoes and oranges slowly all day.

I noticed last week that in Aldi -the price of beef has increased, and substitutes are being sought even for the pies. I never saw Cheese and Onion Cornish pasties before. Confirmation came today
No meat pies


Thankfully chicken and pork are still affordable.

For a long time now beef has been too expensive for me. Susan was asking me the other day what I wanted to do to celebrate being ninety. I said how about going to the Tempest and having a steak....
On the wider subject of food prices. Last year I was doing my doom-sayer bit about the possibility of food rationing if the present attitude to neglecting farmers and relying on food imports continued. What you have noted David is food rationing being implemented. It's being done by price.
Another aspect of this I have noted is that Ramen is being sold as an exotic food. It was always seen as the cheapest food available, Ramen Noodles is Japanese Poor Folks food..... I noted last week that Ramen Stock is on the same shelf as Garlic Paste and Kimchi in the Co-op.

Three hot helpings of meat and veggies. I treated myself to a mid morning snack of nuts and raisins....

Exactly the same as the day before......

Three hot home-cooked meals..... Could that have anything to do with my age?

I am getting last week's batch into a corner, roasting my chicken today and veggie cooking tomorrow.

The two last helpings from last week as I cooked and then new batch veggies for tea.....

Settling into the new batch of chicken and veggies. I improved the shining hour by cooking an extender of savoury cabbage and onion.
{I always say that one of the keys to healthy cooking is the ability to make bland vegetables exciting!)

Chicken and veggies X three and I cheated by adding some hot smoked salmon to dinner and tea after finding it on sell-by date reduction in the Co-op.
Expensive still but tasty and a source of long chain Omega-3.

Chicken and veggies for breakfast. I called in at the Cathedral of choice for a couple of cupboard fillers and saw a prime rib steak at half price, £3.80. I can't remember when I tasted beef last and so I bought it. I cooked steak and onions in a casserole and after adding veggies I had three meals so Iit wasn't too expensive. I had steak onions and veggies for dinner and tea and really enjoyed the change.

Pasta for tea today at Fabello's in Foulridge. Current chef is Giovanni as Fabio is no longer there, the menus show Vanni'sso perhaps a name change is on the way. Needless to say the food was very good.