I love them too Georgina(pretty name- I'm going to use that unless you prefer Geo) . They really make me feel good. I can't take the credit for them really as my BIL & SIL did most of the work as a surprise while we were away. Thank you for visiting my diary G. I love it when people do.
I agree with you about a bowl of soup being so good at the end of the day. I make a delicious Pho Bo and we often just have that for our evening meal. It's time I made another one. I ate so many chicken soups on Cohen's. Try it sometime with some canned asparagus & use the juice for extra flavour. Just be careful there's no sugar in the brand you buy. I used to have a cooking blitz & weigh out about 10 soups separately. Each would be a little different. I would cook them all separately but would have 3-4 pots going at once. Some I would blitz with a hand held blender, but most I would not. Then I would freeze most of them & label them "Meal 3." If you knew that you would be having them for lunch then you could make them all "Meal 2" portions. Each would have some onion, celery, asparagus, garlic salt or fresh garlic, coriander, ginger, pepper & salt, a little of the asparagus "water" plus water of course & a splash of Balsamic added at the end of cooking. It was a great stand-by & excellent to take to work.
If you find a standby that you love I think it's worth making quite a few, even though you have to cook them separately. Casseroles for example freeze really well. I used to make it simple by making one thing in Meal 3 portions & freezing it, another thing in Meal 2 portions etc so that I never got confused. It's the old K.I.S.S. principle.(Keep it simple, stupid-LOL) You never have the excuse of not being prepared & having to eat something off plan. You sound so well prepared though Georgina that I'm sure that won't happen to you. It used to really worry me so I was super-prepared! xoxoCate
Yesterday-
Was not a good day for many reasons but today I'm fine. It's a long story & I can't be bothered. Because I feel better now & have it out of my system I won't go over it as I have a funeral to go to at 2pm. My LH is going to knock off work 4 hours early & come home & go with me. We discussed it last night & I said I thought that this funeral was one worth giving a days work away for. He agreed & tried but no-one else could work & he decided that half a day would be ok as there are sufficient people working already. It's often over-staffed during the week & then really understaffed at w/e's. He has worked 6 out of the last 7 w/e's on his own, cooking meals for about 45 people. His hours will drop soon and I think he is looking forward to it. Money is def. not everything! He has been working full-time hours now for about 18 months & he has had enough of it. They have someone new starting soon F/T. I need to ring Centrelink to see if we can get something organised for when his hours drop back to about 1-2 days a week. we can't live on that. I'll ring now & get the ball rolling I think. I've been putting it off.
We have to be home by 4pm when our OGS is being dropped off. I then take him to Taekwondo & his best friend will come home with him & stay at our place. My husband is going to make pizzas & that is a part of the reason his friend is coming. Apparently there is much envy on Friday's when our GS opens up his school lunch. I often pop something in for his best friend but they are not meant to share anything. I probably won't get back on my computer until tomorrow afternoon as they'll probably claim it tonight. They don't have school tomorrow. I'll keep track of what they are looking at.
The funeral today will be very sad as there is his lovely wife & 3 young children left behind. They have known their dad was dying for many years but the reality will hit hard. The oldest is 13 now. I'm so glad my LH is coming with me now. So many of our good friends will be there & so many of them are part of his extended family.
Time to get moving. Bye for now, Cate
Cheers for now, Cate.