I’ve almost gone off cooking this week. I’m just assembling the easiest food. I’ve just steamed veggies, thrown in a pot of passata and some cooked gluten free pasta, 100g of wafer thin ham at 35p, 100g of beetroot and 10g of salad cream and a few tomatoes. Also, under 300 calories and very little washing up and certainly no cooking. (I weigh as I’m watching my calories - lunch was 330)
I am going to push the boat out later, I picked up a four bird roast from Aldi for £5.99 and we’ll have a roast tonight, tomorrow night and then cold roast turkey/duck/goose/chicken with what ever I can cobble together for a few days. It’ll probably go into a risotto, or a pie. - scrap that, plated the lot up and it will be ‘ready meals’ for the next two days and work lunches too. Lazy but cheap as those meals are mainly cheap local veggies.
One of the nearby trees was damaged in the storm and we asked the owner I’ve we could have it, a tree surgeon is taking it down and logging it for us for £80, eucalyptus which will burn well after seasoning. We drove out today and trees have been felled here there and everywhere and people are helping themselves to the piles at the side of the road. It makes it cheaper for the council and people get some free fire wood.
The weather has definitely improved and it’s been a delight to dry all the laundry outside.
On a negative note, dog crate training isn’t going too well. Our big bichon gets so anxious that he pees in his crate when we leave him alone in it. We’ll talk to the vet but I think he might have to be sedated when we travel on the ferry. It doesn’t bode well. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Added later, he’s fine in his crate if we’re here he just gets distressed when we’re not here. We keep putting him in his crate and give him a treat when he’s in there.
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxxxx
Oh poor doggy, Ours would never go in a cage but our vet gave us a tablet for her to sedate her and she was ok but she also suffered from sea sickness too which didn’t help, your salad looks so nice I could eat that now but we are having Roast beef and all the trimmings, not sure if you follow this blog http://jennyandjohninbrittany.blogspot.fr/ but it is a very useful blog and they are in Huelgoat too, happy Sunday x
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You should try giving your puppy one tablet of benadryl about 45 minutes before you leave and covering the crates with a blanket so that no light can get in. This works marvelously for our bichon who not only throws up in the crate but also pees….
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I wrote a detailed suggestion about crate training, but then had to log in to WordPress (thought I was already logged in) and the comment disappeared…have to run but will check back later to see if it miraculously reappears…
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You can give dogs homeopathic tablets and there are some good ones for calming down and anxiousness. Also good for humans too.
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Sorry know not much about dogs but our cat used to be sedated with tabs from vet for her journeys to/from Devon in a cat carrier. Only prob was that they worked well but she used to poo in her deep sleep and needed a bath on arrival.
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Hi are you are aware of the different face book groups? there is one called French Focus Friends, there are lots of people on there that do the journey with dogs, also a few official dog type people
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Can’t help with the crate training - never managed it myself. We ended up buying a motor home so we could travel with three dogs (lol!) But did you know, there are some ferry companies that offer dog friendly cabins?
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That looks so healthy and yummy ☺️
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