MSE Parents Club Part 6

tarajayne

Have you tried Boots own a different make Sami?

Becles

Have you tried Parapeed Sami? You get it from chemists. James said it tastes nicer than Calpol and it's a bit cheaper too :money:

Had a lovely morning. It's warm and sunny here, so we went to see the horses and fed them some carrots. Then we went to the park and fed the ducks and swans, then Charlotte had a good play in the play park.

Glamazon

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Talking to people is easy....it is remembering their real names that is the problem!!! I still can't remember what Glam is called and I asked her!!!

it's Vicki :shhh:

money_maker wrote: »

Liverpool is THE cheapest airport for me to fly to anywhere cuz all our airlines fly there !!

if u want to fly over I can pick u up from liverpool or manc - room for u, Jas & Dylan but ud need to bring car seats.

I'd LOVE TO meet up with u all and so would Jack

SusanC_2

searching_me wrote: »

ive seen people with loads x

I just right click on "quote" and then click on "open in new tab" as I'm reading and then when I've written a reply, I copy and paste it into the next tab and so on until I have them all in one window to post.

carlamagee wrote: »

went and bought myself a slow cooker on sunday -- £7 from Asda. monday went and got 2 lamb shanks then started looking for recipes, so today I have:

Browned lamb shanks in a little oil
sliced carrot, leek, onion and mushrooms
made lamb stock from stock cube, threw everything in the slow cooker.
Added 2 tablespoons of tomato puree, about 50g of barley, and a bouquet garni.....now ive left it on low.

does anyone have an idea hoow long it should take on low (ideally would like to sit down to meal around 5pmish) - should i turn it to the high setting? and also, does what i have done sound ok?? :S

It probably varies slightly from brand to brand but a rough guide is that on low things should take 4x the usual length of time and on high they should take double.

Krystaltips wrote: »

Sami, Choppy and all those with minky cookers that aren't admitting to it... Magic sponge scores about a 3.5... I found it kept draging over the greasy parts but the plain burnt on came off quite easily considering... I used a bit of washing up liquid to cut through the grease in the end...

Isn't that what husbands are for?

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I wanted to ask Weezl what she did with the egg white when she made Fergie a scrambled egg yolk? Not that I could ever be fussed separating them out for scramble!!

When I have lone yolks or whites, I usually make omlette or scrambled eggs with it. (Or rather OH does - he's the chief egg cooker.)

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Yesterday when I picked up Keira from nursery, she was putting on her trainers as she had been prancing around in the dress up shoes, and the assistant was amazed she could put on her own shoes - They are velcro !!!!!!! Surely the other kids must be able to put on their own shoes? I wonder if it's because half the parents don't give a !!!!!!, so never teach them?

I bet a lot of them can but just don't if they know someone will do it for them. When I worked on a special needs playscheme there was one child who was perfectly capable of putting her shoes ad socks on (just couldn't tie the laces) so we used to make her do it herself but if her parents arrived before she's done it she would instantly stop because she knew her mum would do them for her.

3onitsway

Glamazon wrote: »

it's Vicki :shhh:

I remembered Glam

(But only because it rhymes with mine, Sparkles, chopsticks, MDW's & ickles - ooh, aren't we common! :rolleyes:)

3onitsway

SusanC wrote: »

I bet a lot of them can but just don't if they know someone will do it for them. When I worked on a special needs playscheme there was one child who was perfectly capable of putting her shoes ad socks on (just couldn't tie the laces) so we used to make her do it herself but if her parents arrived before she's done it she would instantly stop because she knew her mum would do them for her.

I agree with that Susan. MY DS can do hundreds of things in school that he 'can't' do at home! :mad: He doesn't seem to realise that school keep me informed of what he's up to!

Years ago, when he was almost four, he was still refusing to feed himself. He used to sit on his hands at meal times!
DD1 was a baby and I was sitting between them, trying to feed both, when DS1 took his hands from under his butt, and started to feed himself perfectly with his spoon.
I put a big excited note in his school chat book to tell his teachers what he'd done - and they replied that he'd been feeding himself at school for 6 months!

r.mac_2

searching_me wrote: »

rmac i make my own curry sauce queens is too much faffing around for my liking x

I think it tastes amazing. DH says the finished articles are better than take away/curry house so that pleases me - however, I'm always up for trying anything that is less faff - pretty please can I have your recipe???

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I wanted to ask Weezl what she did with the egg white when she made Fergie a scrambled egg yolk? Not that I could ever be fussed separating them out for scramble!!

I save egg whites in the freezer then use them up to make meringues - or a big pavolva

I am having a domesticated day too!! It is about time. No comment, but I hear you've fallen behind in ironing your muslins

We have a Michelin recommended Indian here in Wolverhampton and the very lovely owner has given me the recipe for their special curry sauce. The menu says once you have eaten this you won't ever want another curry again and it is right Pretty please may I have the recipe

Any ideas for bulking our purees other than pasta? I worry that Benjamins food is getting a little samey. Rice is okay isn't it? And maybe cous cous (trying to think of things I have in my pantry!)
We are using pasta, rice, mashed potato and toast. To make things creamy I'm using full fat soft cheese and when I'm not adding a carb like pasta, then we are mashing rather than pureeing IYKWIM.

Sami - Ananbel doesn't like calpol etc very much. Nurofen is a much bigger hit, but it's a smaller dose and is from 3 months onwards (is edgar that old yet, it seems like he's been here forever :rotfl:?) The syringe and spoons are a waste of time, it's not very :money: but the easiest way for her to take it is from a sachet - she'll open her mouth and smile when it's presented that way:rotfl::rolleyes: I think she's inherited her mothers expensive taste!:rolleyes::D her poor Daddy:rotfl:

Buttonmoons

I just got the 3 mascaras for £12 quid too, was thinking about making my sister a hamper thingy for Xmas, so one of those can get lobbed in!

searching_me

rmac ..... what i do is ..... i dice up some red onion (prefer it but it work with normal) fry it up, then i use chicken drumsticks or thigh as chicken is jucier on the bone, i skin them and throw in the frying pan (forgot to say make it a large on) fry for a few minutes so its just browning then add seasoning i add, all purpose, curry powder, tumermic, chilli well any basic spice really, then a minutes or two turning them in it ....... then make a stock cube (or real if you have it) boil for a few minutes ........ take the chicken out of the sauce (it make look watery but bare with me) and stick the chicken in a roasting/cassarole dish .. then to the sauce add a couple of squirts of tom puree, raisins and kidney (raisin and kidney beans are optional i just like the taste) and to thicken it add a couple of spoons of plain flour ..... mix together then pour on the chicken and shove in the oven for 20/30 mins til chickens cooked ... chicken curry ... done! x

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just caught up on the pages and pages since 10 pm, my word you lot just jabber away! i think of a reply and then dont bother as someone else has answered perfectly well before me. never mind.

an average day here, molly in bed asleep, will wake her soon and then me and the kids toddling down to tesco "for some bits". have promised jack a little treat if he drinks his prune juice. the poor lad is now not pooing in his nappy and just holds it in. gimme girls any day.

lovely sunny day here, t-shirt weather still, hope it holds. we got jack a bike for £3 at a car boot and he loves it, don't think it will be long before the stabilisers are off. there is a unused carpark about a min walk from here and we push molly in her coope car and spend ages over there. hoping molly will be tall enough next year for a bike, she can sit on it but can't quite reach the pedals.

jack is currently looking through the tesco direct catalogue and seems very intrigued by the toy and baby pages. can't believe my little boy will be 3 in less than 2 months.