My eats

My meals under the Commonwealth Home Support Programme are subsidised. Each meal consists of a main course, soup or a sandwich, and dessert, which includes a choice of fruit salad or tropical fruit salad.

I pay just under $11 for each three course meal and I receive three meals a week, delivered on Mondays at the most inconvenient time of noon. Some I keep in the fridge and some go into the freezer. To buy the three courses for one day from a retail premise as takeaway might cost around $30+. 

I am still learning as what works well as a microwaved meal and what needs to pulled apart, with some heated in the airfryer. Well, Phyllis is doing that for me now. 

I take the sandwiches out of their plastic packets and wrap them in cling wrap and they last well enough for about three days. 

I use the fruit on my breakfast cereal, half of one serve each breakfast. The soup and sandwiches I will eat some time in the afternoons, and the main meal is my evening meal. 

But that leaves four days without an evening meal. Phyllis will probably cook for me one night, sometimes two. The seventh night, maybe a takeaway meal, pizza or a burger or some Thai or banh mi. 

For the couple of months I was on my own, I was occasionally cooking for myself but it is too hard now as my kitchen has been taken over and very little is where I think it should be. That's fine. 

I've yet to go out on my own to a pub to dine or similar, but I will.