MSE Parents Club Part 5

elle_gee

Ta lots Looks like the microwave is being confined to the loft.. I'll just have to keep remaking tea rather than nuking it once cold

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

.. Edit - you are supposed to be careful with strawberries...as I remembered as Benjamin was sucking on one the other day - oops!!!

Rhys will be 6mths in November.. and I ain't paying November prices for strawberries - he can damn well wait til.. oh.. February!

Btw, this all started with a conversation about the use of the microwave, I'm not thinking about actually doing anything about weaning now! :eek: Well, except maybe making use of the veg from FIL's allotment and bargain hunting on food pots but that's just MSE surely!

ETA: Another question (from OH this time, who just told me to "ask the girls!").. what does everyone use to make purees? Food processor, fork, special baby food maker

Krystaltips

I often order aimee a side salad when we're out, does my nut when childrens menus contain nothing but yellow food and beans... Up until a few months ago aimee wouldn't eat anything processed and even now prefers a good stew or roast dinner...

When I weaned her I used to go to the trouble of peeling, coring and slicing her pears... Left her in my mum's lounge for a second once and when I went back in she'd helped herself to a pear out of the fruit bowl and was halfway down it... I never peeled another piece of fruit after that!

Elle, I used to used a hand blender... The big blender never got it all, I'd still find huge lumps in it... Could of just been my shoddy technique though...

searching_me

back again had to get philip to feed mister as im feeling alittle tipsy i cant believe how liightweight i am due to having kids ... oh supose im a cheap date :rotfl: x

My_Fathers_Daughter

Krystaltips wrote: »

I often order aimee a side salad when we're out, does my nut when childrens menus contain nothing but yellow food and beans... Up until a few months ago aimee wouldn't eat anything processed and even now prefers a good stew or roast dinner...

When I weaned her I used to go to the trouble of peeling, coring and slicing her pears... Left her in my mum's lounge for a second and when I went back in she'd helped herself to a pear out of the fruit bowl and was halfway down it... I never peeled another piece of fruit after that!

LOL - Benjamin threw himself at my plum the other day!! Was holding him in one arm and eating with the other hand - he nearly took a tumble



Have decided where we want to go on holiday. Have found it within budget (or only £60 over) but can I book it? Can I b00gery!! I need to spend the next 2 days scouring the internet to see if I can get a fiver off before I go back to the first site I found it on because I won't use a site that I don't know!!!

Hubby hates it! He has agreed on the hotel and is now waiting patiently to swat me around the head in a couple of days time!!!



Edit - Elle I was using the hand blender, which was fine but a bit faffy...but I have a kenwood food processor in the cupboard which is appreciating a bit of time in the sunshine I am using the smoothie maker bit IYSWIM.

money_maker_3

elle, we used a hand blender too, it was much easier than the large food processer and the baby specific ones are a waste of money !!

MadDogWoman_2

Elle - I just used my hand blender or goblet thing that came with it to puree DD's - I also bought Annabel Karmels food mill but I found it too much of a faff and made a very big mess.

Alchol lightweightedness - I have maybe one drink a YEAR, I don't like wine and never developed a taste or liking for it. Can only drink very dilute Tia Maria and Coke! Beer/lager hate the smell, wine tastes like vinegar to me. I'm a very cheap date as it's either lemonade, diet coke or water. At least it means we avoid the who's drinking and who's driving discussion whenever we go out - I drive he drinks! I also like to have at least one of us sober in case DD needs something. I'm seen as very odd in my husbands family, they all drink like fish.

Swearing - I hate it especially as DD is such a parrot at the moment, but can I get the message through to DH's family? Means all visits are off. They refuse to visit us due to distance! But that's a whole moan.

MDW

P.S. You can now grow Aloe Vera!

searching_me

my mate gave me a baby blender but im not sure what to blend iynwim x

Sami_Bee

Hubby is home! He just got in bed but I've kicked him out lol he's in the shower now- I could see and smell he was unclean!
Elle I used a stick blender for mine I think tesco do one that's sub £5

elle_gee

Thanks for all the hand blender recommendations. I do believe my dad got one for making soup (I think!) and it now lives in the back of the cupboard so I may have to offer to give it a good home

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Hubby is home! He just got in bed but I've kicked him out lol he's in the shower now- I could see and smell he was unclean!

Using the Lush stuff?

Sami_Bee

Oh and you don't need to worry about strawbs 'they' told me :A