I do believe that living well means eating well and luckily I have acquired the perfect cookbook. It contains recipes from the Ivy Restaurant by A.A.Gill. So now we can enjoy crispy duck and watercress salad, bang bang chicken, not to mention their salmon fishcakes any time we want. This ties in nicely with our aim to find ways of living enjoyably but more cheaply - one of the best is their recipe for Welsh Rarebit - our Sunday evenings would not be complete without it! (The only trouble is that when I actually had it at aforementioned restaurant, dare I say it, it was not as tasty as my version---)The other "problem" is that you look at the menu there and think- "had that, had that,had that---" so really you don't need to go there atall--- But it is fun to eat relatively cheaply at home and then enjoy a nice meal out. One of the first meals I cooked for Liz 34 years ago, and which we still do today, is belly pork cooked very very slowly in a tin of Campbell's concentrated celery soup - it really is delicious! (although these days we have to use mushroom soup as they don't make the celery any more- have tried everywhere but to no avail.) We often have a fetta and watercress omelette, or tuna,celery,kidney beans,parsley,and sesame-seeds salad, or tart's pasta (tomato, parsley,chilli,garlic, spaghetti)- oh dear, I guess I shouldn't have missed lunch today!-- waiting for the people to come and remove our grand piano-- the first bit of yet more downsizing before we move in ever-decreasing circles----