"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[Annb]

The chowder was actually not too bad - it tasted better the next day (today) so I thought I would offer it to my lunch guests as an alternative to the lentil soup I'd made. And I burnt it! I put it onto the hob at too high a heat really to get it going, intending to turn it down after a few minutes. I was already struggling to stay upright so I thought I'd just rest my aching bones for a minute or so. Then I couldn't get up again and while I was trying, the chowder stuck on the bottom of the pan and burned. I could smell it and, of course, I could taste it. So, there was no choice to offer - it was lentil soup or nothing. Just as well it didn't burn. I am still soaking the chowder pan, trying to get the burnt stuff off the bottom without damaging the pan. It hasn't worked yet but tomorrow I'll boil it out with soda. That'll do the job.

Breakfast today was a small bowl of the chowder (while it still tasted allright).

Lunch: lentil soup (small bowl).

3rd meal: another small bowl of the chowder - it's not good enough to serve to guests, but is still edible.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast: Lentil crackers with some beef paste - Princes sandwich pastes - I bought a few different ones but tried the beef first. I used to love sardine and tomato paste and one of the jars is just that. I have made my own in the past but never made a beef version. It was actually better than I had expected.

2nd meal will be some more of the left-over chowder made into a kind of fish pie with some hard boiled egg and topped with kohl-rabi slices.

EDIT: I have an idea about making something like the beef paste myself. Hadn't thought of it before. Should be simple enough.

 

[Annb]

Thinking of changing my id to "lonevoice". Where is everyone?

Slept better last night
B: ff greek with walnuts and alpine strawberries straight from the garden.
L: tasty salad using greens leaves from the reduced M&S fancy salad, half a mozzarella ball reduced in Lidl, a slice of ham (reduced from lidl) cucumber, a drizzle of dressing and a strawberry from a free pack from lidl. Chopped mint fresh from the garden. Looked really good, tasted even better and a bargain. Well pleased
Later, another slice of ham with some cheese and a mini icecream (9g carbs).
D: 2 90% sausages, mushrooms. At last minutes stirred in large teaspoon dijon mustard, splash of cream, splash of water. Yum. Hubby had a piece of flatbread with his.
Later a rum on a rock

I guess everyone is busy - apart from yourself and @debs248, and me. This time of year many folk are out and about doing summertime things, so the forum takes a back seat. I'm not all that busy though and this, and a couple of other forums keep me company, while I'm stuck in my chair for much of the time. This, and rubbish TV are my companions (so really it's only this; the TV is just a background kind of "noise offstage).

Your sausage dish sounds lovely. I really should remember to add mustard to sausage dishes.

 

[debs248]

Thinking of changing my id to "lonevoice". Where is everyone?

Still here, just nothing interesting to report

L: tasty salad using greens leaves from the reduced M&S fancy salad, half a mozzarella ball reduced in Lidl, a slice of ham (reduced from lidl) cucumber, a drizzle of dressing and a strawberry from a free pack from lidl.

Sounds like a lot of our meals. Sadly hubby is not low carb and brings home a lot of reduced pies, but he also looks out for things I can eat too. We have 4 half price Waitrose spinach mornays to chomp through this weekend!

Today I've had

Tiny slice of "BBQ" pork pie.
Coronation chicken sandwich filler with what I call pondweed - one of those bags of watercress/ spinach/ rocket

Tonight it's (bargain) rump steak with mushrooms and tenderstem broccoli, probably followed by a cheese selection as the fridge is bursting and I need to make room as it's French week at Lidl soon!

 

[MrsA2]

Still here, just nothing interesting to report

I don't claim to post anything "interesting". I just like to post my food as it helps keep me on track, and the mods didn't like that I add comments so I'm not allowed to use the main thread. Please don't make "interesting" a criteria for posting, I'd rarely reach that!

However today wasn't quite as planned
Usual early yoga, loved it after a 3 week break
Late breakfast of a cold sausage some ham and a couple of strawberries.
A visit to a private garden opening where everyone else was eating cake.
L: a repeat of yesterday's salad with the addition of a few olives. 30g weight of dark chocolate almonds. About 9g carbs.
Later a little light gardening.

Then just about to go to quiz night when a friend called, he'd found his Mil was on the floor and not coherent, could I help?
Turns out we think poor lady had had a stroke late yesterday. Ambulance called, arrived promptly and took her off. So I spent rest of evening washing and cleaning up the mess. Poor chap only lost his wife a few months ago and this was very triggering for him.
Got to end of quiz, where they had kindly saved me the ploughman's of pate and cheese (I left the bread). I had a large glass wine.