Still Unravelled

My sleep is now so out of kilter that I don't know what way is up. When DH and I went to feed the crows on Saturday, I had had something like four hours sleep in three days and he had just drank a load of standard coffee after months of decaf. If we had been stopped by police, we would have been tested for everything as we were not in any sort of normal frames of mind. 

But yesterday I had a win. Tesco are doing cheap veg, so 15p for bags of carrots and parsnips and also for swedes and bunches of broccoli. It's not as good as Morrison's 5p per bag, but I'm not going to Morrisons at this time of year if I can help it and there are no delivery slots at all. When I had my standard Tesco order, I added it in. I may have gone a little overboard. Yesterday I made soup. 

I cut up a bag of carrots, a bag of parsnips, a swede, and half a bag of onions. After stirring them up with oil, tumeric and cumin, it filled quite a lot of my big pan before I even added the stock and lentils. 

I dug out some frozen garlic when I sorted out the freezer ready for the Christmas delivery. I bunged in four lumps as I thought that the quantity could stand four cloves of garlic. 

Then I checked the packaging. Each block is the equivalent of four cloves of garlic, according to the packaging. I considered my options. The soup is meant to be healthy, and garlic is good for you, but as I wasn't expecting vampires, I decided against the equivalent of sixteen cloves of garlic and removed three of the chunks. I won't be getting the frozen garlic again. I rarely cook things that need four cloves of garlic and I prefer garlic granules anyway, especially if I'm cooking chunks of potato stirred through a little oil and garlic then microwaved. 

I added stock and lentils, gave it a nice long simmer, blended, and then froze ten decent portions of healthy soup. I was trying to tot it up. It went something like, veggies total 95p, stock cubes were 30p (three of the Tesco own brand), I guess maybe 50p of lentils and goodness knows how much I should allow for the garlic and spices. I also finished off a bottle of garlic oil which had been lingering, and I've no idea how to guesstimate that. I think that it counts as a bargain, regardless. Apart from the pennies saved, it's ten lots of 'I don't have to think about what to have for lunch'.

I'm on something of a 'use it up' kick and I've got a great recipe for tonight that I'll share if it comes off. When I get back to my planner, I need to have a section where I keep track of food that I need to use up. Last night we had meatballs with tagliatelle and sauce. The sauce was because I wanted to use up the freeze dried veggies and I had a stock of passata that had been ignored, so I made those the start of a nice Sunday dinner. 

Writing stuff - this isn't flourishing due to the lack of sleep, but today's episode of The Guest is here.

Hugs and good health to all.

PS I went over this a couple of times, because lack of sleep affects my ability to use words, and I found some very strange sentences. I think I caught all the weirdness, but I apologise for any that slipped through.