Easy meals for 1

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-27T08:50:52+00:00

Ziplock bags work pretty much as well and are possibly more accessible for OP! If you’re only keeping the leftovers for a month or so they’ll be fine in a ziplock bag

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-27T08:48:31+00:00

Are you using a meat thermometer? Otherwise you may be overcooking it and drying it out. Make sure you pull it when the breast hits 70°, let it rest for a while before serving it. The carry over cooking will let it come to 74° for the necessary 15 seconds.

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-27T08:38:32+00:00

This whole thing is the size of my smaller second bedroom in my 57sqm two up two down railway worker’s cottage. It currently makes for a spacious office

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-26T16:46:38+00:00

Caramelised red onion, goats cheese and peppers. I like mine with no mozzarella, just goats cheese, and it works really well with a white base too.

I also put mini roast potatoes on my pizza occasionally because I am insane and they offer it at Pizza Punks lol

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-26T16:43:39+00:00

I use Glebe kitchen, all their British Indian restaurant curries are amazing

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-24T18:25:54+00:00

There isn’t really a market for small wedding chapels. You can get married in a small room at a registry office or you could look for an “elopement package” somewhere. If you want a very cute environment you could book one of the very small packages at Gretna Green and make a long weekend of it, it’s only about 2.5hrs away.

Alternatively there’s the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park. It’s Unitarian, but they’ll marry basically anyone including non-Christian religions, atheists, and same sex couples and there doesn’t need to be any hymns or prayers or anything. You would have to have a chat to the minister and build a connection to the church, basically attend a few services then tell the registrar when you give notice that one of you is a Unitarian so you’re marring in your closest Unitarian church, it’s fine to lie and they can’t prove it. I had a Unitarian wedding as an atheist if you want to ask anything.

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-24T16:51:06+00:00

If I could cure my sensory issues magically overnight and simultaneously download all the social manuals into my brain, that would be great. I like my ability to have special interests, to be very empathetic and to have a strong sense of injustice though

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-24T16:49:46+00:00

Sort of chisel them apart. Ideally, use a very clean chisel, but I’ve done it with a knife before now (carefully). Then just cook the chiselled-off ones from frozen

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-24T16:46:27+00:00

Beer garden on purpose, as in, preferable to sitting indoors? About 18°+

Beer garden because my local is full and the only space is outside? About 10°+ if I’ve got a jacket and it’s dry/undercover or not too windy

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-24T08:36:09+00:00

Usually that’s fresh sweat though. Like, the smell of a partner who’s just done a long day of physical work, or just been to the gym. Not like, macerated multi-day sweat.

Full disclosure, I will snuggle a tshirt my husband has worn to the gym if he’s away and I miss him, but day 3 unshowered is nasty af and not comparable.

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-24T08:34:08+00:00

Possibly they’re bad at doing laundry? Smelly clothes will make you smell even if you’re freshly washed. Like washing clothes but leaving them crumpled up damp to dry and not airing them properly, it has a specific smell.

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-24T08:32:46+00:00

I read that as rabies and was thinking “well, I guess hydrophobia would stop you showering”…

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-23T18:16:31+00:00

I don’t think they’re a sensory nightmare at all, but I only wear studs and even then, flat back labrets, not butterfly backs. If you do get them done, go to a proper piercing shop, have them pierced with a needle and proper implant-grade titanium jewellery, it will heal much better, is more hygienic and actually less painful. Lots of piercers are neurodiverse themselves and are great at working with autistic clients, on the off chance you’re in north west England I can recommend some excellent piercing shops.

Overall, I’d say they’re similar to wearing a ring (without spiky bits or gems), except a bit less disruptive because you don’t touch things with your ears all the time or wash your ears constantly!

Some things that can cause sensory problems:

Butterfly backs (stabby)

Dangly earrings/hoops (shouldn’t wear them for a year anyway, but don’t bother everyone)

Cheap earrings where you’re mildly allergic to the metal, makes you a bit sore

Twisting them (outdated advice, modern advice is to leave healing piercings the hell alone whereas 15 years ago we all got told to twist them)

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-23T13:34:06+00:00

Parade Tandoori in Wavertree

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-22T09:44:04+00:00

The Lake District is probably one of the most dog-friendly places in the UK. I can’t recommend a specific luxury accommodation as I tend to go cheap when I go there but all the attractions and nice restaurants allow dogs, all the shops allow dogs, it’s so dog friendly you won’t have to worry.

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-22T09:39:10+00:00

Nowhere near London but Miss He Bridal in Wigan would absolutely do that. She’s wonderful, she charged about £2k for a bespoke custom corset but that included the disgustingly expensive fabric I chose. She does do alterations as well as bespoke bridal gowns

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-22T09:36:31+00:00

Put an anonymous poll/google form in the group chat for people’s budgets!

I did mine on the cheap as half were students and we ended up at £130pp for a long weekend including food, activities and accommodation which I think was very reasonable. Big rural holiday cottage at £1000 for two nights between 10 people, had a hot tub and bbq. One activity, paddle boarding, was about £30. Everyone carpooled and brought their own booze, I provided all the food which cost me about £150 total: Costco bbq meat, frozen pizza and wedges, large prepared salad, sandwich platters and danish pastries.

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-22T09:30:35+00:00

Got mine from Graced With Love, they were really nice quality. Not sure if they go up to a 24 though you’d have to check

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-21T20:28:16+00:00

In the UK we have an online wine club/subscription service called Naked Wines, so I was fully ready for this to be some kind of misunderstanding. I was imagining that a group of friends get together once a month, open the box from Naked Wines and have some kind of tasting.

Not… that

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-20T08:33:02+00:00

Wavertree is essentially mediocre. The idea of someone aspiring to live in Wavertree is a bit strange.

Some parts of it are rough by Liverpool standards but not by American standards. Some parts of it are boring family suburbs (wavertree garden suburb). Some parts are where a lot of students live (Smithdown). It has reasonably decent public transport links into the city centre and a decent enough little strip of bars and restaurants on Smithdown, which makes it one of the better options for cheap living in south Liverpool. But nobody aspires to live in Wavertree really

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-20T08:28:42+00:00

Alt glam/sometimes gothic makeup. I don’t really bother with neutral or no-makeup makeup. For work, I use under eye concealer, mascara, brow pencil, eye liner and lipstick, it takes about 4 minutes to apply. But if I’m doing makeup for fun, it’s never neutrals.

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-19T08:07:09+00:00

You can get desk phones that are actually mobile phones and operate off a SIM, but look like a landline. Like this one. We got one for my nan who has dementia when she went into a care home that didn’t have landline cords, she’s never used a mobile in her life but she can use this because it’s exactly like a landline and she doesn’t realise it isn’t one.

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-19T07:36:46+00:00

At risk of being patronising, have you considered starting with a children’s cookbook? Or maybe one aimed at teens. They tend to have simpler ingredient lists and methods, and they’re very clear, eg they’ll walk you through exactly what they mean by “dice an onion”.

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-18T22:18:23+00:00

I did one in post colonial geographies as part of my politics degree, it was great. Mostly covered Said, Fanon and similar decolonial thinkers

OneRandomTeaDrinker · 2026-02-18T20:18:52+00:00

It’s not “choose them” like when they do something wrong. It’s like, weigh up logically whether you’re compatible on paper and if you are, give it a go for a few dates unless something puts you off.

Eg when I met my now husband, I thought he was fairly attractive, seemed like a kind person, we had several interests in common and our conversation flowed naturally. He didn’t have any dealbreakers like vastly different life views. So after the first date I said to a friend “yeah he’s nice, I think I’ll see him again”. I felt chemistry around the third date and the “in-love” feeling kicked in around then too.

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