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  • nabowla
    nabowla Posts: 567 Forumite
    Gosh, that menu planning lark took ages last night. I think it's because I'm so out of practice that my brain went to mush as soon as I tried to think of a couple of meals to cook. Thankfully most of next week is sorted now, I've just got to come up with a couple more ideas for packed lunches.

    I surprised myself last night by discovering a bag of lettuce and a head of celery in the fridge last night. Honestly, it tells you how bad things are when I didn't even know what I had in the fridge. The celery's just about ok but probably better cooked than served with the lettuce. I was wondering about a celery soup but the only recipes I could find all had cream in them. Any other ideas?
  • r.mac_2
    r.mac_2 Posts: 4,746 Forumite
    celery is good finely chopped and fried with onion and tinned tomatoes. makes a really nice sauce that can be used as a base for lots of things.

    Not sure about celery soup, but why not give it a go!
    aless02 wrote: »
    r.mac, you are so wise and wonderful, that post was lovely and so insightful!
    I can't promise that all my replies will illicit this response :p
  • apprentice_tycoon
    apprentice_tycoon Posts: 3,300 Forumite
    Celery soup is the best soup ever....and I hate raw celery!...

    saute half an onion in marge or butter, add the celery which you've sliced pretty thinly across the grain to minimise the strings, cook for 5 minutes without colour

    add a level tablespoon of flour

    stir and cook for a minute or so

    add around 1/2 pint of chicken stock - Knorr is the nicest and 1/2 pint of milk (add less or more depending on how thick it's turning out to be)

    cook slowly for 20 mins or so until the celery is soft

    check the seasoning and add more if need be

    whizz in a blender or processor

    freezes very well.
  • Loadsabob
    Loadsabob Posts: 662 Forumite
    apprentice_tycoon wrote:
    Celery soup is the best soup ever....and I hate raw celery!...

    Well, you're post really caught my eye, as I hate raw celery too! Does celery soup really not taste like the same stuff? I always think it taskes like soap...but I find the same when it appears in lumps in cooked things...my boyfriend likes it though, so perhaps we could meet in the middle with the soup?...
  • squeaky
    squeaky Posts: 14,129 Forumite
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    apprentice_tycoon wrote:
    Celery soup is the best soup ever....and I hate raw celery!...
    Can you add this one to the rexipe thread please? Or even the recipe thread - it might be easier :)
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  • apprentice_tycoon
    apprentice_tycoon Posts: 3,300 Forumite
    Loadsabob wrote:
    Well, you're post really caught my eye, as I hate raw celery too! Does celery soup really not taste like the same stuff? I always think it taskes like soap...but I find the same when it appears in lumps in cooked things...my boyfriend likes it though, so perhaps we could meet in the middle with the soup?...

    No - trust me on this the soup tastes great, particularly if you use Knorr chicken stock.
    Out of interest did you know that raw celery has negative calories? the calories that it gives you are spent up in the tedious chewing of it...therefore zero calories!

    Squeaky - I'll tidy up by putting the recipe in the proper place.
  • Lillibet_2
    Lillibet_2 Posts: 3,364 Forumite
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    I think I need a good talking too!:o Since Spud arrived I have been increasingley spending money un-necessarily, not even thinking about my budget, not meal planning, house work seems to be just about getting done but not in any sensical fashion & I generally don't know whether I am comming or going:eek:. Now, don't say this is normal in early parenthood beacuse I already know that, but there must be a way of coping? Isn't there? Please?

    I seem to spend 20 minutes out of every 60 feeding Spud and on the odd occasions that I can get him to sleep for more than 20 minutes during the day all I can do is crash myself. I am lucky that he is fairly reliably sleeping through the night, unfortunatley I'm still not. Hubby is starting to think I have post-natal depresion beacuse I am getting wound up that I can't cope with things. I don't think it is PND, I think I just have some "adjustment issues" to my house being topsy turvey and never knowing what the next meal is going to be!!. I am seriously considering putting the washable nappies on hold as I have to change Spud hourly in these, where as he can go 3-4 hours in a disposable (can't be good for him surely but for the sake of convenience?? I really don't want to go down that road) I want to continue breast feeding for a while longer yet so switching to more of the more filling bottle feeds isn't really an option just now.

    How did old stylers cope in days gone by?

    Help please, getting desperate (and teary:o)

    Thanks all
    Lillibet x
    Post Natal Depression is the worst part of giving birth:p

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  • FrankieM
    FrankieM Posts: 2,454 Forumite
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    Hi..
    The first thing I would say is your not superwoman and really give yourself a break.
    For the first 3 mths after my 3rd and 4th children were born I concentrated purely on getting clothes washed and dried and feeding people. In fact we had frozen ready meal things just for convenience.
    Sometimes you've just got to concentrate on the things you can manage for your own sanity, even if at first that isn't very much.

    Perhaps just work on 1 or maybe 2 things that are important to you/ the running of the house and pick up doing the other stuff as and when you can manage it.

    My husband used to constantly remind me that happy mums make happy babies.....I guess the same goes for relaxed ones...
  • apprentice_tycoon
    apprentice_tycoon Posts: 3,300 Forumite
    Mine are 19 and 20 so i've forgotten a lot of what I did at the time, but I do know how you feel, everything you say is so familiar to me.

    All the plants in the house died through lack of care, it was as if I could only cope with one species of living thing at a time but the thing I remember most is that when the babies were around 3 -4 months old thngs all started to settle into place and I started to feel that the dog was wagging the tail rather than the other way around.
  • Ticklemouse
    Ticklemouse Posts: 5,030 Forumite
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    Firstly, calm down, hun, many of us have been there (even before we became OSers :))

    Ok, I don't obviously know your situation, but please don't try to be superwoman, or even 1/2 a superwoman. Do you have family around you? That help? I do know that in days of yore, people tended to live closer to their immediate family, so there was mum or granny or auntie or sister etc popping in and out each and every day, and helping. That's just the way it was. My gran used to tell everyone how she brought up my dad whilst helping grandad run a business and had both mum's living with her. In reality, my dad's gran brought him up until he was 13 :D And my gran used to boast she NEVER made an Xmas dinner in her life.

    Maybe what I'm trying to say is that in 'the olden days' there was more help around, people did what they had to because there was no other option. Let's face it, ok, they didn't have the appliances then we have today, but then their lives were a hell of a lot simpler. They didn't have the choice of foods we have today and their houses weren't as stuffed with things we 'need' and thus have to clean/repair/feel we have to use. We today get caught up in varying our diets which means more complicated shopping and trying to think of what else to eat. As a child, my diet was mundane by today's standards, but it was good wholesome food all the same.

    So, let's put it in perspective. Be positive and make a list..
    1. You have a beautiful, healthy baby
    2. You have a good partner
    3. you have a roof over your head, food to eat, clothes, heating etc.
    4. etc etc

    So what if you eat spag bol 4 times a week until you batch cook the next meal :D If using disposables will help you for a while, then use them. I also found I was changing DS2 every 2 hours max and went to disposables in the end. You can always go back. Spud will change his feeding when he's ready. I went down the feeding on demand route with both of mine and DS1 fed every hour for about 10 weeks :eek: Didn't sleep through the night until 7 months, but they do get there. If you want to get him into a better routine a la supernanny type thing, then it will take a little while and a screaming hungry baby :)

    Housework - if you have no-one else to do it, leave it, at least once in a while. A nap for you is better than worrying about mopping the floor - that will do tomorrow :)

    I don't know if I've helped or just rambled :) I wasn't aided by the fact I was interrupted by DS2 and his toilet training, but hey, that's life with kids :D Chin up chuck.

    TM
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