If things get tougher?

sammy_kaye18

Lol can i join the 'wicked stepmother brigade'???

although at 24 i think im a pretty young step mom considering my step son is 8 years old! I have been asked if her was mine before and one gentleman in our village thinks i have 4 sons after seeing me out wiht my son, stepsona dn two nephews (one 11 and one 5)

Newlywed - i can understand where yur coming from though on the weigh - my stepsons birth mother has weight issues (dont get me wrong im no skinny minny - im a size 16 and 5'5) but his mum has been known to go out shopping and have a KFC bucket to herself come home and order 2 large pizza hut pizzas and devour one and a half by herself adn let my stepson have the other half.

I was horrified though when my stepson asked how do you make chips and what they were made of. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: If its not ordered from a takeaway, a packet mix, microwavable or chucked on a baking tray she doesnt cook it. He is getting better - he lived on toast, and smiley faces when we first met - he is marginally better - not fabulous but i am at least getting some fresh veg in him now and he has a sensible breakfast and some fruit now whereas he has none of that at his mums. She doesnt cook roasts either - she goes to her mums every sunday and christmas day and the res tof the week she serves takeaways/packet mixes and easy cook chuck on a baking sheet meals. :rolleyes:

Uniscots97

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

(dont get me wrong im no skinny minny - im a size 16 and 5'5) .

Nothing wrong with being a size 16 at that height. Kids these days need to learn that being too skinny isn't good either. Have fight at the moment as youngest (14) thinks she's fat at a size 10! Needless to say she thinks a balanced diet doesn't involve fruit or veg (I hide it in what I make ), but if given money she spends it on junk food then a bottle of water to be healthy! (Yet she won't drink tap water!). Kids today just get mixed messages from the media, no matter how hard we try at home they still want to copy their friends.

newlywed

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

I was horrified though when my stepson asked how do you make chips and what they were made of. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: If its not ordered from a takeaway, a packet mix, microwavable or chucked on a baking tray she doesnt cook it. He is getting better - he lived on toast, and smiley faces when we first met - he is marginally better - not fabulous but i am at least getting some fresh veg in him now and he has a sensible breakfast and some fruit now whereas he has none of that at his mums. She doesnt cook roasts either - she goes to her mums every sunday and christmas day and the res tof the week she serves takeaways/packet mixes and easy cook chuck on a baking sheet meals. :rolleyes:

Know what you mean - I've had "what's pork chop?", "what's an omelette?", "what are these? - stock cubes", not to mention "why don't you have any tins of meatballs and noodles in your cupboard?"

Best bit was when we made microwave flapjacks and SS1 said "I'll have to tell mum how to make these" :T :T


We have a rule - if there's a veg they don't like they have to eat one small bit of it (that's all I dish up for them). So one small branch of broccoli, or two sprouts etc. They have to eat it but can mix it in and cover up the taste. I usually only give them one veg they don't like much along with the veg they do like eg peas, sweetcorn, carrots etc. Tastes change as you grow up so we don't let them get away with the "don't like it" OH loves all veg so backs me up on that too.

elona

Sweet potaoes are half price at Sainsburys so I bought a bag and said I would make sweet potato soup tomorrow.

There was an immediate outcry of could they have the soup today and the burgers tomorrow, so I have a pan of the soup simmering.

DH has helpfully" eaten what I was going to have as a low carb tea and I can't eat the soup so have put some chicken in the small oven for myself!!!

Why whenever there is something you put aside for yourself do they eat it?

Do they have radar?!!!:mad:

bertiebots

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

No at all offended - this is just a chat forum after all, not real life

I was using that link to answer a direct question as to when the utilities were privatised, and who was responsible. I'm sure, with time and patient searching, I could have found a more recent one, but I have a life to live

This is wandering well off topic now, so I suggest that if there's further political discussion required, it be taken to Discussion Time :cool:

Penny. x

No further discussion required:rotfl: ...although I did think it was relevant to people struggling with their fuel bills;)
.......get the O/Sers in charge- we will sort em out eh !!xx
(although I would rather stick spoons in my eyes than be an mp :eek: :rolleyes: )

bertiebots

elona wrote: »

Sweet potaoes are half price at Sainsburys so I bought a bag and said I would make sweet potato soup tomorrow.

There was an immediate outcry of could they have the soup today and the burgers tomorrow, so I have a pan of the soup simmering.

DH has helpfully" eaten what I was going to have as a low carb tea and I can't eat the soup so have put some chicken in the small oven for myself!!!

Why whenever there is something you put aside for yourself do they eat it?

Do they have radar?!!!:mad:

Sweet potatoes are new to me...because mr s has started doing them in the basics range lol!! They are very nice too and I will be looking around for tips on what to do with them. This time I made a sausage casserole which was yumscriddlydumpshush...:D

katieowl_2

My 22 year old daughter made some pizza from scratch when she and her BF had the BF's younger brother for the weekend (he's 12) he was ABSOLUTELY FASCINATED by the dough in particular, and actually spent time in the kitchen not on a computer game...they couldn't believe it!!!

I think a lot of kids would be much more 'into' food if it wasn't flopped out of a packet, microwaved and put in front of them. My kids would eat almost anything from an early age, and although they had their quirks and fads, they had a pretty balanced diet. They all know how to cook - none of them will starve, and none of them will touch a ready meal with a barge pole.

Not something I have conciously instructed them in either. Because they see it done as a matter of course, they assume that cooking process IS how food arrives on a plate.

Regards

Kate

Gigervamp

I love sweet potatoes. I always do them with the roast, cut into chunks, drizzled with olive oil and grated nutmeg. They go all sweet and carmelised. Lovely!

is anyone else not seeing smilies on the forum today??

I'm also not getting the smilies.

bertiebots

Gigervamp wrote: »

I love sweet potatoes. I always do them with the roast, cut into chunks, drizzled with olive oil and grated nutmeg. They go all sweet and carmelised. Lovely!


I'm also not getting the smilies.

ooh that sounds yummy! thanks for that one:D (smilie smilie) I am not getting smilies either (thats the shrugging smilie!!lol)

newlywed

Gigervamp wrote: »

I love sweet potatoes. I always do them with the roast, cut into chunks, drizzled with olive oil and grated nutmeg. They go all sweet and carmelised. Lovely!


I'm also not getting the smilies.

I love them chopped into 1 inch cubes (ish) with chopped red onion, chopped red pepper drizzled with olive oil and roasted - yum!

No smilies either