What's for lunch today?

Today we travelled back home from a U.K. holiday so stopped at a small market town en route. We tried five places before we found something suitable to eat. The posh hotel was only doing main meals, the next was doing main meals and coffee and cake, another only did pizzas, another was fully booked, and our favourite wasn’t doing food at all. Finally I found a new Good Earth place, who had room and made us a ham roll with salad garnish, and a complimentary sweet pastry confection to taste. We drank sparkling apple / elderflower juice.£8 in total, which was the cheapest lunch of the week.

I'm very ashamed to say, a tray of chips everyone else around us was munching away on them too, and well I haven't eaten just chips for a very, very long time, that's my excuse! We were facing a beautiful expanse of sand at lovely Llansteffan beach, which somehow enhanced their flavour. They were just right for the occasion

Prawn stir-fry, using leftover roasted vegetables from yesterday, and a pot of chilli prawns.

Sardine fillets defrosting for dinner.

A veggie Cornish Pasty ( past6 in St Ives . It was delicious, very peppery.

Brie, water buscuits and green grapes.

A microwave chip butty. I’m a staunch believer in healthy eating.

Sardines on toast followed by a packet of crisps!

Cubed apple with cubes of red Leicester. I had a high carb breakfast, so this compensates.

I had a little chicken curry I’d made yesterday left over so waste not want not ate it with some crusty baguette but why do I always get indigestion when I eat rice ?

Toasted seeded bread with Brussell’s pate and fruit salad which I made yesterday.

Toasted Crumpets with lots of butter on it

Salad with 2 boiled eggs and brown bread, That's my daily routine of lunch, Sometimes mango juice

Today it’ll be a bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese. We wouldn’t normally have smoked salmon going begging but have had a guest staying so it was Nice Breakfast food.

Very nearly snap, TillyTrotter, that's what we had, apart from the fact that ours was smoked salmon slices, not pate.

Smoked salmon pate on wholemeal toast. Tomato + cucumber slices.

Went out to Coton Manor and had sandwiches, cranberry and brie, and Coronation chicken - shared with OH- and black coffee. Our for dinner at friends' tonight, so NO cooking for me at all. Hurrah.

Two pieces of peppered mackerel straight from the packet I don’t eat breakfast so I was hungry. Slice of toast with jam and a cup of tea.

I've now just eaten some isle of wight tomatoes with mrs middleton's classic vinaigrette the vinaigrette is LOVELY but we seem to be able to get it cheaper here as it is quite local

Tomatoe and Basil soup with three cheese bread.

Two toasted pikelets, slathered with butter and topped with a huge dollop of tuna, mayo & cornichon mix - and a dash of Tabasco.

I'm a newcomer to pikelets - think I first heard about them on GN a few months ago!

Homemade chicken and vegetable soup, with pearl barely. A pear for 'afters'

those bloody patties from m&s
I wolfed 2 tomato and mozzarella one followed by 2 chicken harissa ones I know they are not big but I bet they are calorific and they are so moreish

My first picked home grown tomatoes in two slices of Hovis seeded bread followed by a bowl of black grapes.
Quite delicious.

I poached myself an egg and had it on hot buttered toast. Then I had a thin slice of chocolate cake. I made it back in the dark days of the first lockdown. The recipe is from Bee’s cookbook and has buttermilk in it. I defrosted it over the weekend when my son and his family came over. He took half back with him.

Some leftover chilli from the other day in a tortilla.

Dh almost invariably has carrots, hummus, sundry other salad and a hard boiled egg. Always gets it himself.
He is a creature of habit.