My main carer, J, who has now been coming to me for four years, looks after me so very well and in addition to that she also cooks me (and her mother in law) a lunch very day. Monday and Tuesday lunches are particularlt good as her partner M does the honours on Sundays. They (as is traditional round here) rotate beef, pork, chicken and ham. Lamb only occasionally and M makes the most wonderful Yorkshire puds each week and also gravy to suit the joint. I love his beef gravy best - drips from the joint, red wine, marmite and beef stock (not from a cube). Twice a week I have cold meat or Scotch egg or pork pie or quiche (home made) with salad. The other three days will always have one fish dish and then two others- sometimes pasta - and she makes a really good lasagne.
In a fortnight she has a week's holiday and has been fussing about my meals. I have forestalled her and am going to order my week's meals from Fairhursts a local meal provider I used to use before I needed carers. I shall have a good salad I shall make myself one day and the other a jacket potato with a good filling. Here are the meals I have chosen:
Beef Lasagne
Fish pie
Chicken, bacon and mushroom pie
Pulled pork hotpot
Vegetable chilli.
And the vegetable side dishes:
Medley of green veg
Pickled red cabbage
Potatoes Dauphinoise
Bubble and Squeak
Cauliflower cheese.
The whole lot only come to £42.50 and delivery is free for orders over £30. So if they are as good as when I used to use their service before - very good value.
I am afraid to say I have two ovens (Bellings) built into my units and standing one above the other. I have forgotten how to use them!
Pouring rain again today - absolutely abysmal weather and chilly with it. Added my first cellular blanket of winter last night as the previous night I never really got warm. Now it is sure to mean another heat wave!
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From what I can tell from the weather app on my phone, Ripon will get 26C next Thursday. Until then, it is probably going to remain chilly and wet-ish. I guess your are, not being that far from Ripon, will be similar.
Your meals sound nice; there would just be a bit too much meat for my taste. I really like meat but usually do not have it more than once or twice a week, mainly on weekends. Fish features even rarer in my diet, although I really like trout (and occasionally get fish & chips at "my" Irish pub here in town).
I think it is a good thing to be having contact with the meal company as you never know when you may need them and there is nothing like being independent in my view. The weather is cold and wet and miserable here today and I have turned the heating on in order to have a comfortable evening. I have been having a wool blanket on the bed for several days now.
I would certainly enjoy all those meals, especially if I don't have to cook them!
We are having duck breasts tonight, my favourite.
It has been wet here too all day but just starting to clear now with a dry day promised for tomorrow.
Your post is making me hungry - all that delicious food. I have treated myself to a short retreat this year, while I can still manage such things. It is held at a hotel a few miles away and my son will drive me there and bring me home again. There will be a tutorial on hand stitching and simple embroidery - all materials supplied and I am looking forward to being waited on. No chores, no meals to think about except which ones will I choose.
The weather here has been atrocious too and none too warm, but should improve tomorrow. I am packing a warm cardigan anyway.
Good to see that you are well sorted!
Food all sounds good, a nice variety of wholesome meals. I just checked and it’s 12 degrees here, I am sitting in a short sleeved t shirt, cropped trousers and yes flip flops, the balcony doors are open and I am not at all cold. I have so enjoyed the cooler temperatures and the rain since we returned from Italy but a little heat next week would be nice, fingers crossed.
A friend calls the 'heat and eat' meals "ding" meals as that's the sound her microwave makes when the food is hot! You've made some delicious choices.
Alas, you've also made me think of beef which we cannot digest due to both getting a Lone Star tick bite several years ago. Sigh! Those ticks have spread from Texas eastward across the south and up the Atlantic Seaboard so are a danger in all woodlands in those areas. I miss beef!
May you fare well in your carer's absence.
Hugs!
I just got a small filet mignon out of the freezer for my dinner. I still cook most of the time but do it early in the day. If I wait too late, dinner will be soup from a jar bought at the supermarket. Today I am having broccoli with cheese and a baked potato with my steak. It is a holiday weekend here and we are having very nice weather. My kids are happy that I am still eating well but if I have to I will eat those delivery meals. Yours sound very nice.
Any meal made by someone else is a Very Good Thing in my view.
Wet here all day - nasty
That is a lovely selection of meals!
Enjoy Weave!- Pam
It all sounds delicious! Hope your carer has a lovely holiday and comes back refreshed!
Ceci
How very lucky you are with your carers. Our weather will improve this coming week, with temperatures around 30 C for quite a while. I shall have to start mowing again.
We are lucky that there are people to provide us with ready cooked meals. Your carer comes up trumps with her meals and those from the catering company look good.
Going on bed on chilly nights: I use a wheat bag which goes in the microwave for 90 seconds to heat up. It is easier than a hot water bottle and warms up my cold feet a treat!
That's my sort of selection. How nice to be cooked for.
You have a good appetite, Pat! Your carers are such treasures!
My sentiments exactly!
What wonderful meals you have! I don't know, honestly, if I could eat all that meat, but it all sounds delicious. You are fortunate to have such caring carers. I often make something that lasts us several days, since neither of us mind having the same thing, with varying sides, for a few days in a row. Right now it is my homemade turkey noodle soup.
I'd be surprised if your caring carers are paid the same as many other carers. You do seem to get a lot of extras.
Your meals for the week from the outside supplier seem very good value, even if you do have to learn how to work an oven again.
Not sure what I will do when I stop cooking for myself. Thank goodness for microwaves and toaster ovens with air fryers built in. I don’t do take out except the occasional pizza. I have family, but we know we don’t want them to do our meals. Your solutions seem to be the best ever. As a vegetarian, it is difficult to get ready made meals. For some reason, the COOKS seem to think all vegetarians like zucchini and mushrooms. Alas.
Deek '-microwave'
Thanks for yur replies one and all.
You are very well cared for, to be sure. I can't imagine the misery of a cold summer. Things have cooled down here.
Sorry about that. I hit 'publish' before I was done. Things have cooled down here, but not to the extent that we are miserably cold.
My Mum also places an order every now and then for some ready meals from one of two companies that she likes, they are handy to have in the freezer aren't they. My tummy literally started to rumble while I was reading your list of ordered meals, so it's time for my lunch I think.
Your carer J and her meals sound wonderful. Tasty nourishing meals are such an important part of life. I was interested in the rotation of meats for Sundays. I was also very interested in the beef gravy and all that goes into Js partners gravy. It sounds wonderful, would he share the recipe with all of us salivating across the world in bloggy land???? Jean in Winnipeg
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