A Job for Me for This Week, a Taste Test and a Snooze

 

This week, after weeks and weeks of sorting, shifting and stripping out at Mum's, we have finally reached a stage where the jobs left in her little bungalow are virtually all jobs for the professionals.  The kitchen fitters, the decorators etc etc, after they have done their things we will have to snap back into action again with choosing carpets and blinds etc, but for now this week I am going to concentrate on doing a job for myself.  We will still be visiting Mum of course, but the only thing we have to do or supervise this week is the taking away of the huge old fashioned storage heaters and luckily my grandson is able to do this in his removals van.

So what is my job for the week?

Well the photo at the top of the post is to inspire me to actually crack on and get it done!!

I need to go through my food cupboard, put like with like and in date order of using things up and finally get a proper look at what I have in my food stock.  I sort of started a couple of weeks ago and as you can see in the photo got all the pestos together, in date order of needing to be used ... and then something came up and nothing more was done.

Today is the day I start again ... and finish!!

I've started now, even though it is just after six in the morning ... I have just taken out the last jar of homemade marmalade to have on my morning toast.  Oh well that's one less thing to get out onto the worktop.  😁

I had these in the freezer, so I decided to taste test one of them on Saturday.  Alan was busy watching the Six Nations rugby, I was reading when I realised that I felt hungry so I just went for some something simple that I could put in the Remoska and leave for twenty minutes.  At just £1.19 for two I thought I would give them a go as I had heard some good reviews from others.

I'll be honest I really wasn't keen.

They came out exactly the same as the photo on the box, which is pleasing and quite unusual.  The overwhelming taste was the baked beans, I should have expected no less really.  They were edible and passable as a quick snack, but for me there was no substance to them and to satisfy me I would have had to eat both of them as the same time.

I had a baked potato later on, I should perhaps have made a meal of my 'snack' and had them together as a meal.  I am quite into baked potatoes at the moment, which thinking about it actually make a quicker and no doubt more nutritious snack instead of a manufactured pasty.

I might even have a go at making a couple of these for myself with the puff pastry that I have in the freezer, only to make it more satisfying I think I would actually add some mashed potato to the beans and sausage.

Alan and Mavis having a snooze on Mum's floor the other day after our final day of lifting and shifting.  All the carpets have been taken up as you can see, the curtains remain hanging until the kitchen is stripped out, to give the illusion of occupation.  But we had cushions and underlay so for a man that can sleep on a clothes-line this was ultimate comfort.

He had just finished running his final ever three-day international conference the day before, so I let him sleep for an hour before we went on to visit Mum.  I'm good like that!!  😄

Sue xx