Daily Project Round 10

That's right @WinterFrogs excellent memory! She's 7 at the end of this month 😳 a maze sounds about right!

It's funny, it's perfectly mainstream to have kippers or smoked salmon for breakfast so why does tuna feel more odd? You're right though, sugar crash ahoy for the coco pops...

D is 6/7 am I right @SingleThreadJoiner2? That trench is more like a maze in my experience 😆 If it's any consolation my lot are better cooks than I am now!

I just had left over tuna/salad mix for breakfast. DH thinks I'm very odd and is eating coco pops 🙈 But I know who's going to have a blood sugar crash mid morning and it ain't gonna be me!

Can you create a step by step for the paper mail @Mumtobabyhavoc ? I have a similar problem with some family admin. I can make myself feel very busy and productive while I am procrastinating about that, but it's all still lurking malevolently in my little office. It just needs is to be filed, and a couple of phone calls made, and yet it feels so hard!

I'm just off out into the garden to do a bit of jungle clearance weeding while it is still cool. And must get something out of the freezer for dinner tomorrow. Spicy plants again tonight. Something smug and spicy, to use what's in the fridge before it wilts and needs turning into soup.

Best get to it. Happy Sunday 😊

Enjoying all the cooking chat. In theory I love to cook and try new recipes but in practice it will never happen during the week, and D isn't interested anyway. At least H also enjoys both the cooking and the eating. Occasionally we manage something interesting at the weekend but less often than we'd like. Ah well, something about eventually we'll be out of the trenches, right?! Right..?!

That makes a lot of sense @WinterFrogs. I really have to be in the mood to do much other than simple. And plant based and spicy sounds great to me. I could definitely live like that most of the time. DH does the majority of the cooking here. He gradually took over once he retired and I let him.

Hehe @Peridot1 🤣 My DH is the 'you' in that scenario! He points out recipes in books and news articles and I say something like 'ooh that looks tasty' and suggest he cracks on. He doesn't though.... I mean he does cook, and actually perfectly well, but I think the things he points out are just food porn really. He likes watching cooking programmes too. I just want everyone fed really, the simpler the better. But wholesome. I like the idea of cooking lovely meals but I just feel like I have better things to do. Hence my new interest in more plant based, spicy cooking. It just looks easy and healthy. God I make myself sound like such a bore with my simple living blarney 🙈 It's just cos I have so much going on that I don't write about on here that my brain would explode if home life was complicated as well 🙃

@WinterFrogs - we both like trying new foods and both like cooking. Well I like cookbooks. He likes cooking…😄. I liked the idea of main meal salads rather than just a salad as an accompaniment to a meal. We are both on Mounjaro and I’m trying to make sure we eat enough protein and fibre while on it. DH is pretty traditional with foods in some ways though. Very much a meat and potatoes man. Although as we lived in Asia he does great Asian food too.

Ah @Peridot1 that sounds like something i would probably choose at a restaurant but I'm way too lazy to cook and put it together myself. Salad here is just normal salad stuff plus baby spinach, beetroot ( not pickled) and chopped/sliced raw veg. I try to have it at least once a day and ( still on the lazy theme) tinned fish ( occasionally pan fried salmon) or eggs or cold chicken. DH not quite so enthusiastic as I am but will eat a small salad. He's more of a meat and potatoes/pizza and chips kind of guy left to his own devices.

A chickpea curry went down surprisingly well the other day.

I hope you are doing ok with all that's on your plate @Mumtobabyhavoc! Your food sounds very tasty too 😋

I've done a bit of washing today and it's drying beautifully. And after writing about how I try to be minimalist on another thread, I have taken my own advice and cleared some clutter from the bedroom. I'd be way more minimalist if I lived alone. But I do my best and fortunately DH is not too much of a clutterbug.

Hope everyone is have a nice day 😊

@Mumtobabyhavoc - it was Crispy Spiced Lamb, Augergine and Freekeh with pickled onions. Had to pre pickle the onions. Make a separate dressing. Roast the aubergine separately. Cook the bulgur wheat I used instead of the freekeh. And as DH wasn’t convinced it was a full meal I had to do some potatoes for him as well. 🤔
I suppose it wasn’t that complicated really but lots of different steps. Was very tasty though. Wouldn’t bother with the aubergine next time. Or eggplant to you I suppose! I have leftovers for lunch for a few days and the dressing and onions keeps for a week.

Morning all.

Woken up early with some really strange noises from outside. I think it was birds in the guttering above my bedroom windows. Might be a sign that the gutters need clearing out.

Have unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher - cooked a complicated salad dish from the book I mentioned last week. Very nice but would do it differently next time. And DH cooked for DS so almost every pot in the house was used.

Have washed a bed throw and hung that outside. Now washing fleeces that were hung in utility room so I can clear that a bit.

Did a charity shop run yesterday and they took everying except a rug. Will put that up on Freecycle.

Still fiddling with interiors. But walked into the sitting area this morning and thought “yes - happy with that”. Have ordered one final cushion to balance other sofa and that’s done. Need to buy a rug for under the dining table but will take my time.

About to go to PT session and then have a guy coming over with samples of solar film for the windows to try to keep the house cooler.

Have a good day all.

Hope your mum is better very soon @Mumtobabyhavoc x such a worry and a stress for you. Thinking of you. ❤️

Sorry to her that about your Mum @Mumtobabyhavoc. Sounds like it will be a huge juggling act for you. Do you have any other family support or help? Hope so.

@RunningKatie - hope ear issues get sorted. What is it about DH’s helpful comments at times.

Good luck wth the food/cooking plans @WinterFrogs!

@RunningKatie I hope you are able to get the the bottom of the ear infection. Good that you have a referral to ENT. I hope the appointment comes round soon. Wishing you all, all the best 💐

I am so sorry to hear this 💐

Oh @Mumtobabyhavoc - so sorry to hear this, your poor mum. It sounds a logistical nightmare, I wish we were all closer to chip in with support.
Dc2 is now being referred to ENT for the possible ear infection etc., dh came home with a great scare story for me to make me feel like the worst parent in the world. Helpful not.
I found my notebook and lists, I'd been clearing up the spare bed and scooped up throws and blankets which it had hidden in.
2 weeks to the school holidays, whilst it can't come soon enough I am concerned about levels of screen time and how to keep them under control. I need a plan and slightly more sociable teens!

Oh my, Havoc! What a character! 💕 Glad all ok, even if you did have to leave in a hurry!

I love the sound of your evening @Peridot1 😊

I have been extremely busy at work all morning. But tomorrow I definitely get a day off 😁 She says, hopefully! There is always something to do!

I have gone off piste with my cooking, to DH's surprise and hopefully delight. Having said that, we are having leftover bean chilli with baked potatoes tonight. But I have started looking at my spice rack and decided that there are a lot of simple recipes out there that I can start doing. Get a bit fed up with those long winded ones on line where they do an explanation of how they came about the recipes and who they were with and what everyone was wearing at the time.
Just give me the damn recipe and stop wittering! Bbc good food is quite useful, and more concise. I am writing a list of things I need to use up all the bits and bobs in the freezer. I aspire to be one of those people who uses a freezer usefully and doesn't lose things or let them get freezer burn. Blasted DH will insist on filling it up with oven chips and ice lollies. I'm going to have to stage an intervention!

I have just downloaded an app that's supposed to train your brain. It's called Elevate. So I have that and the flylady app to keep me on track. Thanks to another thread asking the question, I have also discovered I can do two press ups ( proper ones) It's taken several months of a daily short strength training routine which includes planks and wall press ups. I'm all out to try to use it all before I lose it!

No wonder the washing up sometimes doesn't get done 😂

I hope you are all having a lovely Thurday 🫂