Weird Solo Meals?

[NotQuiteCockney]

I can't seem to bring myself to cook for just myself. So I eat weird leftover things.

Today's (early) lunch: cottage cheese and homemade spicy ratatouille. Eaten cold. Yum.

What weird things does everyone else eat?

I always eat properly even if cooking for myself, I just put a baked potato in the oven and have it with salad or tuna or make a griddled chicken sandwich.

Because I am worth it

now I love sardines on toast, the ones in tins with tomato sauce

this used to be dd1's favourite tea with brocolli until she went all fussy

lol at colditz and her one woman fish finger crusade...
left to my own devices I would really like to eat a whole lot of buttered spinach
with black pepper and some nice bread and butter
so, possibly, nearly a spinach sandwich

oh I only like posh sardines on toast

the Brittany ones

they are sooooooooooooooooooooo good

I like carbs A Great Deal. I don't always want a plate of carbs, with extra carbs on the side.

NQC they also do curry and rice and chips in the chip shops and Indian restaurants in lots of places.
basically, iy's just a cultural thing - we feel cheated unless we have bread or potatoes. because it is so bloody cold most of the time we neeed something warm and comforting
imo

You know what I mean NCQ

stop bringing my undercarriage into matters

Colditz

I just don't like cheap fish fingers

I buy cheap beans and everything else, butI don't like the coley type stuf they're amde of t hat's all

Oh NQC, utter balderdash!

There is the fried breakfast, egg, tomatoes, sausage, bacon, mushrooms, black pud and beans.

There is the Sunday dinner, meat, potatoes, and veg

There are various stews, all meat and veg based

The carb obsession actually seems to be the Italian influence.

Coley is lovely.

Didn't mean to sound cross

I think the Blitz-type carb obsession comes from when there was no meat to fulfil the yen for cooked breakfasts and roast dinners.

Meanwhile, my favourite and most rarely made weird solo meal (of which I am not proud) is to make a whole Yorkshire pudding and eat half with leftover gravy, then the other half with golden syrup.

But Italians have pasta as a starter, not as a main course! And I don't think they're half as big on chip butties as the rumours suggest.

And I grew up in Canada. We don't have the same "carb with carbs" obsession, and we have actual cold weather.

whispers:

(Coldiytz, was taking the piss)

LOL

So what do Canadians eat then?

We need carbs because it is so bloody damp here.

Moose
and bear

with maple syrup

HC, you're not saying curry, rice and chips is a staple in the Indian subcontinent, surely? Or just that they've learned to cook carb-with-carb to soothe the English?

(Suddenly I remember that Goodness Gracious Me sketch where they all go for an English, and order 72 plates of fries ...)

There are traditional English dishes that are less carby, true. (Although most of those involve more than one sort of carb, ime. And nobody eats those tomatoes, nobody.)

MrsB, I'm afraid my horror at your yorkshire pudding meal overshadows my agreement with you, re: the Blitz.

yes but in Canada you have Nice Big Warm Houses and in the winter you don't leave them except to get into yor Nice Big Warm Cars...
I once tried to have a nice walk to the shops to get a newspaper in December in Ontario. It was Bad. Very Bad. Could have done with a nice bag of chips to speed me on my way.
yes carbs are Cheap and Filling, that's the thing.

Hmmm, isi t perhaps a combination of our climate and the fact that culturally we have quite recent experience of mass food shortage? I'm thinking of rationing which didn't finish until a while after the war, and I think had quite a profound effect on the national psyche around food - and certainly in my family I think there's a cultural hangover from the fact that we are Irish immigrants who fled desperate poverty and hunger in the not too distant past. I think the carb obsession is interesting, it's a sort of "aggregate comfort eating" - we still need it to make us feel safe. Which I suppose would explain why our pop-icons of beauty and sexual appeal tend to be bone-thin - they represent a state of such affluence and plenty that they can afford to turn down food - thin without being poor. In the middle ages, especially just after the great plague epidemics, the sexually idealised woman had a much more generous body shape, probably because it indicated that she was not dying of consumption and could survive childbirth.

I waffle, don't I?

Seriously, we eat food. Like Americans. Generally, a traditional home cooked meal would involve a piece of meat, some white carb, and some veg. We just don't do carb with carb and some grated carb on top. And an extra twig of carb as a garnish.

How does damp explain the need for carb?

yes, I mean in Indian restaurants as in The Taj Mahal restaurant, just three minutes frm this cinema, or similar
I suspect it isn't all that popular in Bombay

No Greeny, good god if you waffled there would be no room for anyone else on MN

Hmm, but to be fair, the average North American is much fatter than the average brit, and lord knows we have our skinny idols. I think thin = rich more because only the rich can afford to work out 72 hours per day, and live on nice food rather than cheap carb.

It's true, many Canadians live in warm houses etc. But personally, I never really did. And I've never owned a car, I walked everywhere, even in Montreal, which is really hilly, very icy, and very cold. My last Montreal flat had one blower type thing to heat it, and yeah, it was bloody cold, but whatever ... I still didn't eat chip sandwiches! Or even chip bagels!

I Don't Know.

With My Breasts.

I don't know why the British embrace all carbohydrate food from every nation, and reject everything else, perhaps it is to do with the fact that as a nation, we don't like to spend a lot of money on food?