Stirfried veg, noodles, Thai vegetable moneybags, laksa bao buns

Unsurprisingly, after being out to the hospital two days in a row doing carer-y things, I am all out of both spoons and any inclination to try and speed up their replenishment. I do wish it was as easy as in games, where you can just watch an advert to get more energy.

Thankfully mum was in an independent mood and was mostly happy to sit in the living room and watch tv while I sprawled on my bed and played said games. I did have to explain, many times, that the soreness (from the lichen sclerosis) will improve when she starts using the cream the specialist prescribed, and we’re just waiting for it to be delivered, but otherwise it was a lazy sort of day.

(And even now I know that I have a chronic illness that drains my energy, I still struggle to throw off the label of “lazy” that has been applied to me all my life. The fact that mum constantly forgets and makes little ‘jokes’ about how much I sleep and how often I drop things doesn’t exactly help. 🙄)

Dinner was the last of the Christmas party food (the moneybags and bao buns) with stirfried veg and noodles. The moneybags were surprisingly spicy, but not as surprising as that mum ate three of them. I liked the bao buns, filled with what was meant to be vegetable laksa, and ate three of those.

Now it’s ice cream and The Masked Singer. Tomorrow it will be a review of some of the goodies I got in a sale from an online specialist food company – Cornish saffron buns, anyone? 💛