MSE Parent Club - Part 2

SusanC_2

I was just looking at the book Beccles recommended on Amazon and the product description has this:
"For the past 5 years, Fay Ripley has been cooking for her growing family. Spurred on by the lack of inspiration out there, she has written this cookbook full of recipes for all the family. The vital ingredient is that you only need to cook one meal. She was fed up of having to cook separately for her 1-year-old, then having to knock up something for her 5-year-old and then, with the kids in bed, finally think about cooking something to enjoy with her husband. So she started working out meals that all of them could eat together - not separate ingredients, age dependent."
Now call me dumb but why would you need to cook separate meals for a one year old, a five year old and the adults? I realise that some people may need to due to particular dietary requirements but the impression given is that this would be the normal way of doing things for most people. Have I missed something? I'm not trying to be critical I'm just genuinely curious to know why someone would be cooking all those different meals.

SusanC_2

LOL! In the breastfeeding article, someone says, "We realise in retrospect that we have probably been worrying mother unnecessarily about their baby's weight." A bit of an understatement. It's good that they're changing the charts.

nadnad

SusanC wrote: »

Now call me dumb but why would you need to cook separate meals for a one year old, a five year old and the adults? I realise that some people may need to due to particular dietary requirements but the impression given is that this would be the normal way of doing things for most people. Have I missed something? I'm not trying to be critical I'm just genuinely curious to know why someone would be cooking all those different meals.

well i cook separately for the baby and for us, but thats more to do with the fact that Oz has his dinner at 5pm and we have ours at 7.30pm. Its annoying but we get baby ready for bed from 6.30pm and OH doesnt get home til after 6pm so we couldnt really eat together unless Oz was going to bed on a full stomach. also we eat mainly stir fries with noodles and hot food - home made curries, chilli etc and i know you can feed a baby and I prob should start him on "our food" but to be honest i've been a bit lazy!

Dormouse

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

Morning all. I keep meaning to point you lot in the direction of this http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/7116664.html. Made me giggle anyway

:rotfl: That's hilarious, thanks for the link. :T Extra funny if you do it in a Stewie Griffin from Family Guy voice in your head

SusanC_2

Thanks nadnad, I can understand timings as a reason for having separate meals (and am thankful that my husband gets home early enough for us to eat together) but presumably that wasn't her (Fay Ripley's) problem as special recipes wouldn't solve that.

One think with chilli is to make sure they don't get it in their eyes. Alice did once when she was eating spicy tomato pasta with her hands and then rubbed her eye. That was awful but at least the floods of tears helped clean her eye out. I always watch her carefully now when we have spicy stuff although now she uses cutlery more often it's not so risky.

Dormouse

3onitsway wrote: »

It made me wonder - What (if any) qualifications do HV's have?

Apparently, they're actually very highly qualified and trained. A friend of mine who's a doctor said she hadn't realised just how much training HVs get until she had a baby herself and had to deal with them. My friend was quite surprised as she wasn't impressed with her HV! :cool:

Dormouse

SusanC wrote: »

I was just looking at the book Beccles recommended on Amazon and the product description has this:
"For the past 5 years, Fay Ripley has been cooking for her growing family. Spurred on by the lack of inspiration out there, she has written this cookbook full of recipes for all the family. The vital ingredient is that you only need to cook one meal. She was fed up of having to cook separately for her 1-year-old, then having to knock up something for her 5-year-old and then, with the kids in bed, finally think about cooking something to enjoy with her husband. So she started working out meals that all of them could eat together - not separate ingredients, age dependent."
Now call me dumb but why would you need to cook separate meals for a one year old, a five year old and the adults? I realise that some people may need to due to particular dietary requirements but the impression given is that this would be the normal way of doing things for most people. Have I missed something? I'm not trying to be critical I'm just genuinely curious to know why someone would be cooking all those different meals.

I usually cook the same thing for all of us, and we have a 5-year-old and a 1-year-old. It's mainly because I'm lazy though - no way am I cooking separate meals regularly! :eek::o However, judging by some families I know, I think a lot of kids can be quite fussy so it's easier to cater for different tastes, I guess.

If we're having something really spicy, the kids will get something different (although DS2 is quite adventureous in his tastes and would probably eat anything, unlike DS1 who used to eat (mild) curries as a baby, but now turns his nose up )

Once or twice a week, DH and I like to have our dinner later, in peace and quiet, though, so again we have something different. Usually accompanied by a nice glass of wine too :beer::D

astonsmummy

Hello ladies.
Not really been on much lately, dont feel I have much to add to the discussion,
I miss being pregnant and moaning on the PG thread :rotfl: I dont really have anything to moan about these days.

Ryan is doing well, Aston is poorly, got D&V so trying to keep him away from bubs as much as possible, thats the last thing I need him getting!
So he's off school for the rest of the week, well in theory he can go back friday as he's not been sick since last night but i'll play it by ear.
It's come at a bit of a mental time, as I have just found out that I'm getting double glazing windows and front door fitted tommorrow! at bloody last!

Also I might be moving to a 3 bed house, I'm in a 2 bed house at the moment, I'll literally be about 1 min walk from my house lol It's my neighbours sister in law that wants to exchange houses with me but she's got to ask her fella first, I hope he says yes!

We dont have our dog anymore either, but again she's only 1 min away with the lady who wants to swap with me, they are treating her well and have got the time to give her more attention and walks than we have, so she's well looked after.

I'm getting a bit worried about my friend, her daughter is 2 weeks old on Friday and I think she is getting PND, she does too but wont seek help as she thinks they will think she's a nut job and take the baby away, I dunno what I can do to help, we dont even live in the same town so I cant pop round there, plus OH is using the car for work now so I cant drive down there, she said she had a bit of a breakdown at the weekend and said some really terribble things, I can well imagine.

Also, what age can I start introducing a bedtime routine? I want to start now but is it too early?

Krystaltips

I tend to cook us all the same meal but 2 hours apart... Hubby very rarely gets in from work before 7 so I feed Aimee at 5, but most of the time it's something that can cook for hours (scouse, pasta sauce) or something I can cook in 2 batches, like yesterday, I made a small chicken pie for Aimee and a big one for us... I just cook the veggies seperately Will probably continue once the baby is weaned and just feed it at the same time as Aimee...

And Anabell Karmel (spelt differently probably) does family cookbooks too...

Krystaltips

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Probably 'I want my b00by'!!!

That is what he is usually thinking!

Just like all men then