Food Shopping

Shopping presents to me the greatest problem when it comes to being single and living alone. Living alone tends to mean small house, small kitchen, small fridge and freezer. Buying just two carrots or two potatoes etc etc is either impossible or means you have to pay twice as much and so my fridge is either empty, from the refusal to go shopping, or full of half rotten food from my inability to eat it all in time, which leaves me feeling very guilty for throwing out what was once good food.

I have tried many things over the years:
1. Bulk cooking from fresh - results in no more room in the freezer or eating the same thing for 4 days, this soon becomes very boring
2. Only eating frozen foods - gained about half a stone and felt hungry more often than not
3. Take away night every night - as 2. and a very dry bank account
4. Eating round a different friends house every night - worked well for a while, until they started catching on
5. Ready meals - buy far the easiest option until people like Jamie Oliver make you feel guilty and also expensive
6. Not eating at all - this lasted about 4 hours

I am waiting for one of these do gooder chefs to make a programme that might actually help me eat well, save money and not waste so much food.

Getting started

Well here goes, my first attempt at blogging. I am not a writer and have never even thought about writing before, but having had many discussions with a friend recently now the big 30 is closely approaching I thought I'd do a little self analysis.

So..... a little about me.... I am a single female and have lived on my own with my cat for the past 4 years. I am lucky enough to have amazing friends and family and I am far from being lonely, but find that being a single person living alone certainly has it's draw backs. Over the next however long it takes I'm going to looking into the sometimes funny, sometimes down right depressing and often frustrating aspects of my life!

This is far from being a moan, but more of a self fulfilling prophecy. I'm not really writing this for anyone to read, but just for myself to look back on when I'm happily married with 6 kids and cats so I can think to myself "life was grand".