Yes, it’s another post about work/life balance. I have it about right, I think as I earn just about enough to buy food, fuel and add to my collection. In an ideal world I would earn more and buy more for my collection, but you can’t have everything and I’m in the fortunate position of having enough money to pay for the things I want, and only wanting the things I am able to afford. It’s not a luxurious life-style but it works for us. If I suddenly developed an urge to have holidays, stay in luxury hotels or have a new car every few years we would struggle, but we don’t. It’s Micawber syndrome.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.
Last night we dined as well as any of the Royal Houses of Europe – roasted cauliflower, mustard cheese sauce, roasted leeks and sweet and sour brussels and mushrooms. You don’t need swan, truffles and caviar to live well. The basis for my menu choices I hear you ask . . .
Well, I had planned cauliflower steaks but there was an element of softness entering into some of the florets due to me not getting on with it last week, so I cut it up and roasted it. We had the remains of a bag of ready grated cheese in the fridge. We had leeks. We had too many mushrooms due to a breakdown in communication. And I found the brussels at the back of the fridge while I was getting the mushrooms.
Yes, I share your incredulity at the stuff we put in our fridge, but Julia insists on cramming it with stuff that should really be in the vegetable rack and thirty years of marriage have failed to make her see sense.
When we move she wants a bigger fridge so she can store even more random things in it and make life even more difficult for me.
Header photo is of a previous roasted cauliflower meal, with healthy veg and nut cutlets.. Last nights efforts ween’t particularly photogenic. And I was hungry by the time I’d finished. The lower picture is just random vegetables.
Edit (later in the day): See the next post for more news of our mixed day.
Stir Fry Vegetables
Anything in the fridge here that escapes the stew pot gets composted. 🙂
I still feel I could do better – during lockdown we had menus and we hd no waste. We have slipped since then.
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We are part of a blessed generation and place where ordinary people can live in comfort and eat like princes. It makes me feel very guilty sometimes.
I have, unfortunately, worked in places far worse than the UK and I’m not sure what, if anything, we can really do to help. My donations are most definitely a drop in the ocean when it comes to improving the lives of people in both the UK and the developing world.
It is not being able to to do much to help that makes me feel guilty.
Some guilt is good, as a reminder to do something, including feeling lucky with what we have.
Looks really good! We have a big refrigerator, and I don’t know how we could manage without it. I am happy to report that our food wastage is very low, but this does require constant vigilance.
Ours is not as good as it could be, which is partly down to management fo the overcrowded fridge. I always feel guilty about it.
I know. Occasionally we have to throw something out, and I feel guilty about it, too.
During lockdown food was hard to get and i took a lot more care over menus and stock control. We have become a little lax since.
A good balance. I like those stir fry veg
Something I must do more of. We ate better in lockdown and have drifted away from it.
I’m pretty happy with all of that