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This week has been a good food week. I love to cook, and I'm a foodie, and we always menu-plan, so I can plan food shopping and the budget. Recently, we've been having vegan/vegetarian meals 4 times a week, then meat meals or fish the other 3. It's

500g minced beef. I prefer to use lean beef, though this will be dictated by personal preference/budget. Diced onion. Garlic if liked. 400g tin tomatoes or passata. Mushrooms - if using cannelonni, I chop these. If using spaghetti, I slice them. 4 or 5

This past week has been hot. It's been d*mn hot! Work hasn't been too bad, although a whole aisle of freezers has conked out so we have no ice creams except for a very small selection in an end freezer, and no pizzas. Sacre bleu! Whilst many of us are

This has been another busy week, with me working 4.5 hours overtime. My feet know it! No overtime scheduled for next week, so far, though I am working bank holiday Monday for 4 hours. The one day it was so boring. The system was down, so we had to go on

The 'trial' job did not go as planned. Friday, my manager took me to meet the staff who do the stock control. He asked the one colleague to give me some training, she declined, stating she was about to go on break. My manager asked if she could do it

In the main, an uneventful week. I managed to work 2 hours overtime. Not a lot, however I will get 4 hours overtime for working bank holiday Monday, all being well. This will be my 6th day in a row, so I'll be shattered afterwards lol. Customers were