Ranty rant rant!

I so can’t be bothered with cooking. 
My beautiful Valen did all the cooking. He was brilliant at concocting yummy meals. 
And now, as it gets dark earlier and colder, his soup maker would be on overdrive. I’ve not been able to put the soup maker away. I tried. But had to come straight back out as it felt wrong for some reason. 

He made some videos of him cooking some of our favourites. With the intention that I would be able to do them myself. 
But for starters I can’t bear to watch them as they were just 2 weeks before he went and he is visibly struggling.  Secondly I’m just not going to bother for just me. 

So tinned soup, baked or mashed spuds, cheese sandwiches, toast and occasionally chicken dippers in the air fryer has been my diet. Supplemented with takeaway pizza and “proper”meals round mums or out with my sister once or twice a week. 
Oh, and chocolates and cake of course. 
I hate to think what a blood test would show!

Aren't airfryers a godsend?. Your diet sounds exactly like mine Mrs VT. I tried making soup last week. I got chicken portions boiled them up then took them out and broke them up and put them back in with some lentils and carrots. It turned out ok a bit `watery` though and nothing like the soup Jay used to make but as you say MrsVT just a bit much for one person and tinned soup is just so convenient. 

I'm still on ready meals, I just can't see the point of anything else. I got a microwave a couple of weeks ago. We never had one. I like the M&S soup I know it's for two,but it fulls me up. Yes crisps and chocolate the main comfort food for us.

Anything in the freezer for me, or crisps or biscuits if not. I have managed an omelette. I'm glad I'm not alone as I feel bad that I'm not eating properly yet.

I'm getting quite good a omelettes Malengwa this was something Jay was good at too (cooking was his thing) I could never make one and  just broke up into pieces of egg in the pan but have now I think mastered it and their a quick meal as well. Ghostlove I'm still on the ready meals too and sometimes even a Pot Noodle if I can't be bothered but the airfryer is great if you want a couple of chicken nuggets and some chips and you can do both at once. I'm just recently trying to be a little bit more adventurous food wise its all just trial and error just now though. Yep and the crisps and chocolate are a wee treat now and again too.

xx

It’s ironic, but I used to nag my poor old mum terribly for not eating a proper main meal. 
If she said she’d just had a cheese sandwich and some crisps, or a sausage roll heated up, or a cupasoup and slice of bread I’d berate her for not having enough. 
Id buy her loads of stuff like quiches, sausages, mince and bags of veg. 
Just didn’t realise how her appetite had shrunk over the years and I was buying for 2 people for a week for a single teeny tiny late 80s lady!

But since my beautiful Valen was ripped from us I can’t be bothered to cook just for me. 
And now I get her. How much easier it is to do something super quick, or without cooking at that immediate moment you do actually feel like eating something. 
If I do, on the rare occasion cook, by the time it’s ready my hunger has passed and I just look at what I’ve made and chuck most of it away.

But I am lucky that I meet my sister at least once a week for lunch and I have pasta or something else cooked. And at least once a week I have a cooked lunch at our cafe before one of my clubs. So I am getting at least 3 hot, cooked, proper main meals a week.

And cake.

I am the same no appetite  can't  be bothered  Simon did all the beautiful  meals I live on toast with cheese crisp and 30 second steam pudding  in microwave  and custard.  Sunday is the only day I eat a meal Sunday lunch with my daughter it is lovely  on a Sunday being  looked after for a day again I pick at it but eat the veg lost a stone but i can't  afford  to loose weight  7st 13 not good chocolate  helps