It's STILL tough and not getting better - so how are we coping?

jackieglasgow

I had to Google that!

Primrose

seasalt wrote: »

Hope it's delish, gailey.

If anyone has any hints on best way to cook pork belly strips, I'd be very grateful. ?

I've found another way cooking them if you like you meat well done and the fat crispy is to cut them into one inch chunks and fry them in a hot frying pan. I know frying meat is not supposed to be the healthiest option but you can always drain the fat off afterwards . We tend to use this way when we want to include some cheap meat in dishes like paella - we add the pork chunks in at the end to keep them nice and crispy.

Kitcaboodle

seasalt wrote: »

...and the second time was when he held up a picture of a sheep and asked DS and DD2's class who were quite young at the time, "Who knows what this is?" Only to be told by one small boy, "It's a texel cross"!

Thanks for brightening up my morning! :rotfl:

When I was at secondary school our headmaster gave exactly the same assembly two weeks running. I wonder to this day whether he did it on purpose or not! (He was the kind of guy who might have just had a filing cabinet full that he'd been doing for the last twenty years.)

rosieben

seasalt wrote: »

... Only to be told by one small boy, "It's a texel cross"!

:rotfl:

I had to google it too!

jackieglasgow

Thank goodness for that! I had a good idea, but......

Bobbykins

...shame on you Rosieben when you have that avatar!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

(I'll get my coat and go back to the dark side of lurkdom!)

gailey_2

Morning guys

not raining , sunny but cold.

trying to get motivated to do stuff but failing since being pregnant wrote off most mornings had little lie in as no school runs, think early nite did me good.

off to corner shop and maybe park will see.

jaimies food revolution is ven more shocking that uk that their nutritionalk guidlines count fys and yiu have to have cab overload.
annoyed me when he kep calling aubergine and egg plant!

sammy k I dident ean my 2nd until 6months.
1st was 5months and turned into pureiing phycho however found meat hard to puree.

This time round bid baby led eaning just finger foods started with bananas, ricecakes and toast. Roast dinner long think strips of chicken, vegetables, mashed potato and yorkie pud and she managed it fine.
Its because of this change in approach 2nd eats more meat as will have spag bol yes makes a mess , she will eat sausages whole as eay to hold.
shepards pie and fish pie agood one as qwuite soft and used to cook in mini pie dishes for child size portion, cauli/broc chese wasy one too.

At 12months my 1st would gag on lumpy purees and was very fussy eater.
2nd will eat anything often more than sister cant think anything shes not liked.

Got scan appointment through 3pm wed so may have to go by myself as clases with school run.

Ahh still no more word on hubbys 2nd stage job interveiw they really dragging it out, hes losing hope.

Nothing else in pipeline all eggs were in one basket
recruitment agencies rubbish gid nows how they survive if they work on commision.
too late to apply for food retail now so just waiting and hoping 2nd intereviw happens and he does well its very odd.

mardatha

like my kids when they came down here at first. My son said "yes ok there's tups & hogs & gimmers but where's the SHEEP ?":rotfl:
And the other son, the one who became a falconer, once mortified us at a duck pond in front of other parents... he was about 2ft high and maybe two & a half years old, and gave me a row when I told him to come and see the wee ducks. He said snootily "that's not a duck, mother, that's a coot "

seasalt_2

OK, while we're on stories of small children embarrassing us, I was a mature student when DD1 (now30) was little, living in a university city then. I had to hand in an essay and was late and parked her with her favourite nativity story book on college doorstep while I frantically scribbled the last few sentences. Party of tourists plus guide paused in front of chapel just as DD "read" aloud to herself in piercing tones, "And Mary said to baby jesus, I don't want to hear another word!" I was mortified.

Fruball

seasalt wrote: »

Your post about JO reminded me of two assemblies at school - both times when the local minister had gone in. First was DD1 who was asked what her favourite food was and said cauliflower (I know!) which rather scuppered the poor man's talk about needing fruit and veg as well as chips etc (metaphor for something or other) and the second time was when he held up a picture of a sheep and asked DS and DD2's class who were quite young at the time, "Who knows what this is?" Only to be told by one small boy, "It's a texel cross"!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Brilliant!!!


SammyK - I weaned my twins at 12 weeks on advice of GP - she said she didn't have to adhere to what the HVs said about 6month weaning and since it started, she has had so many upset mums coming in to the surgery because their babies won't eat She said they had missed the boat where weaning was concerned and it was having a real negative effect on babies and Mums :eek: