We will be having Gammon, R. Potatoes, B. Onion, Carrots, French Beans and gravy for lunch today.
SJ that sounds lovely. I love gammon. I tend to have it for dinner rather than lunch. I’m off to the pub with friends for dinner and might now have a gammon steak!!
I’m having egg mayo sandwiches for lunch, with a packet of cheese and onion crisps. Not very healthy, but one of my favourites.
dunno yet
We just had a nice juicy thick rump steak tonight, with mushrooms, potatoes roasted on the wire racks with butter and sour cream, peas and corn.
Big plate of vegetables I was on my own and thought why not it’s my favourite, so carrots, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks and peas.
Just had Welsh Rabbit for supper, mmmm it was lovely.
Susie darlin’ its even better as a ‘buck Rarebit’ - topped with a runny yolk poached egg.
mouth is watering at the thought of Welsh rarebit
To all you halogen oven owners. Are they really that versatile? A neighbour got one some years ago but I keep forgetting to ask her how she’s getting on with it.
I don’t use my big oven (other than for storage!), favouring instead the counter top mini oven, which works tirelessly most days, occasionally using the microwave.
There is also a problem with space in my kitchen, or rather, lack of it, so if I bought one, heaven knows where it’ll end up! Even the bread maker lives in the lounge! There is probably only a space, 2ft square, on my work top, that I have available to work on.
thinks…could get rid of the mug tree…
I used to have a mini oven/micro combi, but the power supply went on it. Wen it came to replacing, I decided to buy a separate microwave immediately, then another mini oven when I could find one. So both take up valuable room on my very small work top (my kitchen is tiny).
Oh, another point. Also in my kitchen,tucked on top of my cooker at the back, is a two ring camping gas stove, with the gas bottle attached and on the side. The big blue gas bottle!
Bought that on a whim when that neighbour did (we are all electric here, so thought could be handy in a power cut). Wondering if I might as well get rid?! Not used that for years, either. thinks…one for the carboot?!
That could give me a bit more space…
Yup, time for a radical rethink. Ooh ooh, getting excited. i could offer it on my local Facebook sale or swap page, couldn’t I? Or, or, someone down my allotment might want it.
Or or, I could use it myself…
Had my morning porridge today and will probably have a ham/mustard sandwich for lunch, if ‘my friend’ hasn’t scoffed it
We have just chucked ours out found it quite dangerous, you have to reach in from above to get the food out so when it has been on the number of burns I have had off it went off the scale, so out it went. Possibly if I were taller or had longer arms I would have been safer with it.
Oh, that’s interesting Julie! Something to consider, thanks.
Ham and coleslaw sandwiches for lunch (I’m a creature of habit). Not quite sure what to have for dinner but have a notion for a curry 
Chicken breast with broccoli, cauliflower and carrots for meat eater
same veggies for me with quinoa
Grace will be having whichever she fancies, probably the quinoa she seems to have got a taste for that, certainly enjoys it more than my tofu LOL
Last evening I had a ‘ready meal’ from Sainsbury’s. Got it to stick in the freezer because it was reduced … OH BOY … what a load of rubbish.
A piece of tough chicken with floppy green beans, carrot strips and 3 small potatoes … and I do mean floppy
Makes me wonder why anybody would pay the full price for this junk 
Then make your own Rachel darlin’ - I can’t be doing with these ready meals - there’s never enough in 'em for my appetite.
I have chicken breasts in the freezer, a bag of (desiree) potatoes, (I think) I may have some green beans, if not I know I have a bag of mixed veg, and I have fresh Carrots, parsnips, and celeriac and could make my own meal from those ingredients and fill my plate with them.
I DO make my own but just occasionally I can’t be bothered, I’m too tired, don’t fancy the washing up afterwards.
Will be cooking a chick breast joint and peppers later today to eat cold … or warm … or whatever
Oh Julie, tofu is the devils own food. The first time I went to Yo Sushi, I ordered the ‘never ending’ Miso soup, it arrived and I took a cautious mouthful, which contained what I can only describe as a gelatinous ‘blob’. I sat there, holding this disgusting ‘whatever’ in my mouth and no idea what to do with it. The waiter laughed and offered me a serviette and told me to spit it out. He also said that the majority of customers had the same reaction and then got me a mug of the soup without the offending stuff. My son said he should have take a photo as my face was a picture. Without it the soup was delicious.
The answer to avoiding burns with the halogen is to use the stand for the lid, and to use the tongs that come with it to lift things out. I am barely 5’2" and you don’t get much shorter and I have never had a problem with mine, neither with the current glass version, or the original aluminium one, and that one used to get really hot.
Our current kitchen is a tiny galley with one small approx 2’ wide surface where my Bamix, my teeny new Bosch food processor and my halogen sit side. By side, and another where the micro lives (now used mainly to heat tins of soup, milk, and make custard and white sauces), leaving about a metre for the kettle and jars holding wooden spoons etc and space for serving and prepping. But the new flat, although it has a smaller kitchen when it comes to square metres, has a long shelf below the window, which will fit all my gadgets nicely thank you very much. Son will be pleased that the sandwich toaster can come out of the cupboard! There is also a work surface to the side of the cooker which this one does not have .
Anyway to get back on topic. Tonight will prepare one of my ‘all in the pool’ chopped salads, with chicken. As for lunch? Not sure, I had a bit of a small fall last ravening, so still in my pit feeling a bit stiff and sore. So walking, or standing for the next few hours is maybe not on the cards.
I have found with ready meals they really do vary in quality, and some meals lend themselves more naturally to the packaging and delivery method. Lasagne is excellent (tescos own brand morrisons and sainsburys) as is shepherds pie etc the meat and couple of veg ones are dire (all brands).