Yum, I am coming to your house
I am starting off small, thinking of one actual recipe to make during the week. The rest of the time we are fine just keeping staple foods and winging it. When I was single I planned everything and shopped with a list etc. My husband is the opposite and will call me up on the spur of the moment and say "what do we need from the store?" and I haven't been able to shift this. Perhaps if I plan a couple of meals on the weekend to make during the week and write up the list of what we need before he asks then I could give it to him.

I don't know why this is so hard. I feel silly. I had things all worked out when I lived alone.

I did make something fun on Friday night, that I had planned out. On Thursday I made my chickpea curry dish, which tastes better at least 24 hours after you make it, when the flavors have really developed. On Friday I sauteed onion and cut up chicken thighs, and then added cauliflower, carrot and curry powder, and served it over brown rice, with the chick peas. It was yummy and we got 2 meals out of it plus a little bit left over. Now I need to come up with something for this week.
Allison

: thoroughly enjoyed reading Allison,
: though I confess I am envious of
: the grill. My family don't like it
: ( I LOVE it) Honestly they have
: alien tastebuds.

: anyway I love planning menus and
: things, I do it once a week
: because then I don't have to think
: all week, For me the dilemma of,
: what shall we have tonight? is too
: exhausting, so I write it in my
: journal and then I can see clear
: what to get out of the freezer for
: next day/or shop for I'm adaptable
: with it though

: Turkish kebab from the local shop -
: very fresh and lovely, treat night

: sunday roast beef, yorkshire pud etc

: cold beef and I shall have baked
: salmon as I'm not keen on cold
: beef/ non meat Monday spaghetti
: with green olive and feta for the
: DD

: chicken leg joints baked with lemon
: wedges and rosemary

: meatballs (GF sausage, lamb mince,
: leek, mint egg, fried, + passata)
: and Greek salad/pitta

: cobb salad

: steak/

: well you can see we are carnivores
: ...... well omnivores I suppose
: and sometimes we join in with
: non meat Mondays which has me
: running to my favourite BBC Good
: Food pages for inspiration

: standard house browns are potato
: wedges, brown pasta, pitta bread,
: new potato, sometimes cous cous,
: rice. I stay with my best browns,
: gram flatbread, bhaji, beans, lot
: of roasted vegetables and
: vegetable noodles and I llike
: shredded buttered cabbage too

: for convenience I do a lot of salads
: to live in the fridge. theres a
: small window of summerness going
: on here.... potato, 3 bean,
: coleslaw, cold roasted vegetable,
: and they keep for a few days so
: that's easy and its so refreshing,
: also I dice cucumber and peppers

: I think that's a great idea on the
: weekend cooking. We had a tweak
: about a year ago as dinner in the
: week had to be an hour later, new
: routine. I thought that might take
: some adaptation but by luck we
: were in a position to adjust
: breakfast and lunch later too so
: it worked really well !

: when we go abroad I have to be
: careful if theres a 2 hour time
: change, but for just an hour, most
: of Europe, I just don't change my
: watch and my body stays on GMT
:

: I wish we had access to bison. I saw
: ostrich in the butchers the other
: day but was a bit scared to try it
: !