The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

hex2

Dusty - huge hugs for you.
Clairewop - I agree on explaining the situation and letting them choose. Otherwise what happens in this house is that someone gets the munchies and eats half a pound of cheese and a packet of cold meat as a snack! What do you have in the cupboards? What baking materials do you have? Tinned stuff? You can do a scarily long stretch with tuna sweetcorn and pasta for lunch salads for example. I would start by making a list of what you have - always worth posting that list as a thread on OS, they come up with some great suggestions.

Hovel_lady

As many of you know I'm dealing with a huge amount of changes in my life at the moment and tomorow is a big birthday (40 shh, don't tell anyone) as well.

So with that in mind I'm having a re-birthday party tomorrow and you're all invited

There are plans for jelly & ice cream, cheese & pineapple on sticks, pass the parcel, french fancies, balloons, musical chairs, chocolate fingers, tiny triangle sandwiches and a very sweet, possibly pink cake.

So do come over, it'll be great fum :j

MrsMoo2U

Fantasia. I have no idea about eating disorders but what I can say is that for best part of my life I weighed 7.5 stones. For a few years my weight went up to 10.5 stones (I am 5.5) and I hated it. I am now down to 9.2 and still think sometimes that I would love to be 7.5 again but then I look at the models and realise that I actually love my curves. I then discovered that it is the flab I dont like (as GB says) so I started to exercise. I have never dieted. So if the dieting is about the control as it does seem to be then you need to get that urge to control sorted out in some way. So a dietician is not the way to go. It is a different kind of help that you need. Have you tried reading any of the Paul McKenna books which is all about mindfulness. Mindfulness is a form of control I guess but in a healthy way. Go back to the DRs but ask to see a different doctor. Print out your post that you did and take that along with you. That will explain to him/her what you are feeling within a few seconds (after all I bet they have a timer going). Say nothing give him the post and ask him what he thinks.

Now a second dane? Hmm me thinks that will help you to lose some of that weight with the exercise. Speaking of which I am off with Moo now.

clairewop

Memory_Girl wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

WE don't just eat lentils hon - we eat loads of cheap lunches too. DS1's menu for next week is:

HM Wholemeal roll with filing (usually a bit of what we have for Sunday dinner), Apple, muffin for snack,

Pasta with tomato sauce, salad bowl, banana bread for snack.

Pancake wraps, carrot and turnip sticks, piece of gingerbread.

Indian dal, rice, chaptti and steamed broccoli. Banana and nectarine (if they are ripe by then). Flapjack for snack.

HM Pitta bread, hummus, carrot, turnip and pepper sticks. Weetabix cake. Apple and nectarine.


A the beginning of each term i make a freezer box full of snacks to pluck fromthe freezer in the morning and bung in his box.

Fairly high in starchy stuff as he is in the middle of a growth spurt and has "hollow-legs" at the moment.

Or................Let the boys know that there is ONLY the food in the house to eat from till Thursday and ask them to come up with their suggestions.

MG


Oooh forgot to say that due to computer acting up yesterday I now have a beautiful skirt made from my old cord trousers. I'm trying to write a tutorial now but I am really pleased and Make do and Mend Magic

LOL I didn't mean to suggest you only eat lentils, I meant eeking out food to make more with lentils I have tried and they won't eat it

As much as I would eat what your DS1 is taking to school next week my boys won't eat HM bread they don't like the texture. It could be I'm making it wrong mind.

They would eat the pasta bowl and salad, the muffin and flap jack but thats it

clairewop

hex2 wrote: »

Dusty - huge hugs for you.
Clairewop - I agree on explaining the situation and letting them choose. Otherwise what happens in this house is that someone gets the munchies and eats half a pound of cheese and a packet of cold meat as a snack! What do you have in the cupboards? What baking materials do you have? Tinned stuff? You can do a scarily long stretch with tuna sweetcorn and pasta for lunch salads for example. I would start by making a list of what you have - always worth posting that list as a thread on OS, they come up with some great suggestions.

we do have 3 tins of tuna here not sure about sweetcorn, will have to look. Only problem is ds1 will not eat tuna.

Beginning to think my boys are a nightmare to feed cheaply lol.

I need to get butter for sarnies so will that be ok to make flapjacks and hob nobs?

Dustykitten

Trip out successful, trainers purchased, more expensive than I wanted but DS3 (in fact all of us) has tricky feet to fit and is sport mad. The annoying thing is that they don't do much PE so they don't get much use but I can't be doing with taking them in and out of school.

Thank you so much for all your kind words. With two of mine being teenagers summer holidays are not as full on as they used to be so it's not that really. This is about doubting yourself, doubting your core values, feeling things you tried to avoid happening are doing so and dragging up pain from the past. Sorry if that sounds cryptic but I'm not one for airing too much on an open forum. It does really help though to have you all sending support so thank you.

Time for a cuppa now and then a bit of hoovering. Cloudy here and rain just starting so garden jobs will be done between the showers I think.

Dustykitten

clairewop wrote: »

we do have 3 tins of tuna here not sure about sweetcorn, will have to look. Only problem is ds1 will not eat tuna.

Beginning to think my boys are a nightmare to feed cheaply lol.

I need to get butter for sarnies so will that be ok to make flapjacks and hob nobs?

I only use butter for all baking but have never made twinks so I can't advise.

My boys are on the fussier side too but I find as they get older they get less fussy. How old are yours?

Bitsy_Beans

clairewop wrote: »

we do have 3 tins of tuna here not sure about sweetcorn, will have to look. Only problem is ds1 will not eat tuna.

Beginning to think my boys are a nightmare to feed cheaply lol.

I need to get butter for sarnies so will that be ok to make flapjacks and hob nobs?

So what do they normally have for lunch? Perhaps rather than trying to feed them something different can we feed them similar but for less?

I use normal cooking marg for my twinks hobnobs and works fine for me

Hovel Lady - I only just discovered your thread this morning (needed something to do at 5am this morning!) and I was away on hols when many of the lovely Matrix-ers headed over so can I gatecrash tomorrow? I'll bring jammie dodgers if it helps grease the wheels :rotfl:

clairewop

Dustykitten wrote: »

I only use butter for all baking but have never made twinks so I can't advise.

My boys are on the fussier side too but I find as they get older they get less fussy. How old are yours?

ds1 is 17 ds2 is 14 so meal potions are adult sizes too

Dustykitten

clairewop wrote: »

ds1 is 17 ds2 is 14 so meal potions are adult sizes too

Same as here then 17,15 and 9 but the 9 year old eats an adult portion too:rotfl:

so are we talking lunches, dinners - cheap as possible I am guessing?