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My friend Lisa came over today so we went to a little Indian Restarant just down the road from me and we both had a Lamb Dosa. (Think of a fajita 1' Long) - it was delicious!!!

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Today we had Haddock, new potatoes, French runnerbeans. Tonight we will just have a sandwich.

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Defrosted a chicken breast, chopped it up, peeled and chopped an onion, chopped up some chestnut mushrooms. Sweated the lot down for a few minutes, poured some oriental stir-fry veg and egg fried rice over them, and emptied a sachet of 'lemon chicken' sauce into the pan too and let the whole lot simmer for approx 45 mins.

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Stir fried mushrooms, shallots and teeny tomatoes with tofu.

Meat eater has chicken salad.

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So, after shredding the thigh and leg meat into the salad, I stripped the carcass and stuck the bones including the skin and wing tips, in a medium pan covered in cold water and left to simmer on a low gas. I was therefore left with the breasts, and a quick look in the 'fridge revealed, half a red pepper, half a yellow pepper, half a red onion (rest had been used in the salad) half a container of cherry toms (ditto)and half a carton of elmlea double cream substitute from dessert a couple of days ago. Cubed the chicken breasts, reserving all the bitty bits, for the soup, cubed the peppers, halved the toms, chopped the red onion, plus half a yellow onion (reserving other half for soup), and put enough fusilli for two on to cook. Softened both onions in garlic infused olive oil, then added the peppers, followed by the toms, then the cream, plus filled the carton with milk, gave it a shake up and added that. Fresh cracked pepper and sea salt and about two dessert spoons of grated parmesan, done! Drained pasta and added it to sauce and gently folded all together so pasta could absorb the flavours, then served. It was delish.

As for the soup, after simmering the bones for about 45 mins, I drained them and added a chicken stock cube and a veggie stock cube to the liquid and picked all the teeny tiny bits of chicken off the bones and added to the liquid. Chopped the reserved half a white onion finely and sweated, added the stock, about a cup (small mug maybe) of frozen mixed veg (in this instance Tesco cheap version about 75p kilo and it works perfectly) and left to simmer, finally added some pearl barley and some orange lentils, some herbes de provence, some bay leaf oil, finally fresh black pepper, sea salt and some chilli flakes to taste. When the barley and lentils were cooked turned it off to go cold, then put the res? well cook the chicken in the soup and it breaks up into fibres) He took it to work yesterday and said it was 'excellent', and he had kept half in the 'fridge for tomorrow. So one roast chicken = a salad each, a pasta dish each and two lunches. Not bad going huh??

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mmmm I think I will come over to your house Daisymay, you can share your dinner with me.

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We had Fish and Chips today. Will probably have Indian Savouries tonight.

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had egg bacon sausage mushrooms and beans for brekker so nothing else till later tonight if at all.

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That'll keep me going for a few hours yes Hazel darlin' - but all day??? - not a ghost in hells chance.

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I've got a sweet potato but forgotten what I was going to do with it got diced turkey too. Hey Daisymay you'd like this, diced turkey 0.28p 2 x turkey breast 0.14p altogether got £23.00 meat for £2.30 Tesco last Friday evening. Think I'll go and clean the fridge out and see what else I've got in there.