22 November - uninspired

After spending an uninspired five minutes hovering in front of the supermarket fresh soup section trying to choose something for lunch, when I got my pot of soup home, I didn't really fancy it. I decided to fall back on tuna and sweetcorn mayo with pasta, but once the pasta was cooking and I'd opened the tin of tuna, I realised the jar of mayo I had in the fridge was one I'd decided I didn't really like because it was too vinegary and not very creamy... extra sweetcorn just about covered up the taste.

Equally uninspired about dinner, I went for fishfingers with mixed carrot and potato mash and some homemade beans (a tin of cannellini beans with some onion, garlic, tomato and herbs). All rather orange and okay, but it didn't really hit the spot.

10 May - tea and fishfingers

Today's foodie excitement was the arrival of tea in the post! I drink a lot of tea; about 6 cups a day on average and I like a bit of variety. That's not to say I go in for green teas or herbal teas or anything of that sort, I'm strictly a traditional, breakfast tea kind of girl. I don't even like smelly teas like Earl Grey. But there's still quite a range under the 'breakfast blend' label. I have bog-standard tea bags from Tea Direct that usually make at least my first two or three cups of the day - always made in a teapot, of course. Then, in order of strength, I have some loose-leaf ATTIC tea (a Bristol tea-shop) - quite dark with quite a strong earthy flavour. There are teapigs English breakfast teabags ... sorry 'pyramids', a bit subtler and lighter than the bog-standard teabags. Then there's Suki tea - today's delivery - another loose-leaf tea that's light and fresh and often makes my final cup of the day around about 5 o'clock. New with today's delivery were some Suki Belfast brew tea pyramids which I'd expected to be quite strong, but are actually really light and only need the tiniest dash of milk.

Dinner was fishfingers, mash and peas! The fishfingers weren't the frozen Bird's Eye kind, but fresh cod fishfingers from Waitrose - a kind of grown-up equivalent ... but just as fun. The peas were fresh, the first of the season, not quite British yet, but from Italy - lovely with plenty of butter and some chopped fresh mint.