A man with no job can spare the time.
What are you having for breakfast?
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A man with no job can spare the time.
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Yep, whatever we say about the French, they do get the important things right - like food.
Scrambled eggs. Not any old eggs but corn fed golden yoke eggs.
Scrambled eggs on toast again but with a few fried tomatoes on top.
Getting a bit fed up with tomatoes. Hey, @Notch7, you should come up here and take some eggs and toms back with you - you'd make a killing round your manor where (according to you) they've not seen an egg or a tomato since Christmas.
I’ve still got these to use up before tomorrows weekly food shop. If they haven’t been used by then, Mrs Mottie will bin them and buy fresh again!
Getting a bit fed up with tomatoes. Hey, @Notch7, you should come up here and take some eggs and toms back with you - you'd make a killing round your manor where (according to you) they've not seen an egg or a tomato since Christmas.
I’ve still got these to use up before tomorrows weekly food shop. If they haven’t been used by then, Mrs Mottie will bin them and buy fresh again!
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Weetabix, oats, yoghurt, golden flaxseed and honey today.
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Have you ever thought how much you could save if you didn't throw all this food away?I’ve still got these to use up before tomorrows weekly food shop. If they haven’t been used by then, Mrs Mottie will bin them and buy fresh again!
I'm quite proud of the fact that I try to throw the bare minimum of food in the green bin.
I have never taken any note of dates on food, but follow the steps that I'm sure everyone has done until the introduction of dates on food.
Look: does it look OK?
Sniff: does it smell OK?
If the food passes these first two tests, then it's probably fine, so then
Taste: does it taste OK?
If so, scoff it!
It seems silly to chuck stuff away just because it's past its date.
I get the odd lettuce leaf that starts going brown or a manky cucumber end, sometimes soggy carrot, but all these bits get removed and the rest is edible.
I have set friends a challenge in the past. I tell them to use the above steps to decide if the food is still edible.
Then I tell them to make a list of all the food they have saved from the bin.
At the end of each week, I tell them to tot up the cost of all the items saved, then put that amount in a jar.
At the end of a couple of months, you'd be surprised how much you save.
Then you pay it into the Grandkids' savings accounts!
Mushroom bagel this morning.
I had some carrots, spuds and greens left over from yesterdays roast so I bubbled them up and had them as part of a fried veggie breakfast. That’s my 5-a-day covered in just one meal.
A brace of poached eggs on toasted muffins with an asparagus and chive topping. Delish.
Fridge clearout/shopping day breakfast. One tomato, two mushrooms, three eggs. Grilled the tomato and mushrooms, scrambled the eggs up with the last of some soured cream and Parmesan cheese. Not bad.
I went over the allotment yesterday and picked a few ingredients for todays breakfast. Chives and asparagus. Plan was Scrambled eggs on toast with chopped chives for Mrs Mottie and poached eggs on toast with chopped chives and asparagus for me. All on fresh, home made bread of course. Didn’t quite happen - I forgot to put the breadmaker on last night and Mrs Mottie refused scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast saying ‘it’s a meal' so she had her usual one and a half weetabix plus a cup of hot water with a slice of lemon. She's having the scrambled eggs for lunch.
I had to make do with the last slice of bread and the crust!
I had to make do with the last slice of bread and the crust!
When I used to go to college for my apprenticeship, in the canteen I once saw two non-white students have a fight over a sandwich made with the crusts! They both wanted it.We used to save our crusts, for a neighbour who would only eat the crusts
Step grandson, would always leave the crust of a sandwich on the plate, un-eaten. I don't mind a toasted crust occasionally, but mostly they go in the bin.
Mine usually go out for the birds. Only one of them went for the birds this morning though.
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