Me tucker

A comment on yesterday's post make me think you might like to see the menu I choose from for my  subsidised meals, for which I pay a bit over AU$11 for three courses, $34 a week. I receive three of the three courses each week.

I can choose three main courses, up to meal number 106. The roast meals are quite good, as is the meatloaf. Crumbed barramundi and salmon patties are fine. Bacon and egg quiche, and shepherds pie are ok. The Greek lamb salad is ok when Phyllis fixes it up a bit. The menu changes a little at times.

Then I can choose three from sandwiches and soups. I do love the potato, leek and bacon soup, and the pumpkin soup is nice. I usually take one soup and two sandwiches, which I divide into half and individually wrap them in cling wrap. 

I go on to choose from three desserts. I will alway select two traditional fruit salads, and halve them to put on breakfast cereal. I do love the bread and butter pudding, but I try to limit that to one per fortnight, and the alternate week choose all fruit salad. If there isn't any fruit salad for my cereal, I use half a banana. 

I haven't tried every main course but most of them, and I've gotten to know what works well and what doesn't. At times I freeze some food, but mostly it is kept in the fridge. I ignore use by dates up to a week after delivery, longer if frozen. 

The woman who delivers the food is cheery and brings the meals to my door. It is also a bit of welfare check, she noting if there seems to be something not right and making a report. I think for quite lonely or isolated people, she would stop and have a chat with them if they wanted to talk. 

I take a photo of what I've chosen, so as not to choose the same the following week. At one point I ended up with three roast pork meals before I began taking a photo.