MSE Pregnancy Club 25

Aida_2

Bamama Hugs. I'm glad that you're better now

Rups: I'm alright. I didn't sleep well last night as my little one was kicking me every minute. Not sure why she moved so much but I couldn't sleep at all. Saying that I love when she moves as I know she's alright

Any news from our boldies???

scottishchick27

I'm feeling a wee bit emotional today which isn't like me. I'm worried how my DD is really going to react to the baby coming. She has been an only child for nearly 11 years and is used to all the attention from me and all her grandparents. We've spent the day together going to the cinema and we are going out for a meal for the last time as a family of three soon. She'll probably breeze through it all and it's just me being hormonal!

savageHK

We have a breadmaker and it's brilliant. Got it ages ago now and still going strong (we are on our 2nd or 3rd pan for the thing though). We have a Morphy Richards Fastbake. I read "what really goes onto the food on your plate" I think and that put me off of supermarket/"standard" bread for life!

Saffagal

Hi ladies, although I'm mostly still in the 12 - 24 week thread, I do read along here too (first, yellow, baby though 3rd pregnancy, due 20th Apr).

Re the bread maker and slow cooker; I have a bread maker and a couple of slow cookers (different sizes) and would recommend both as essential kitchen items.
With the bread maker, depending on the type of bread you make, takes an hour to a few hours for the loaf to be ready (and fills your house with the smell of fresh baking bread). I tend to make up a number of packs (in ziploc bags) of the dry ingredients for the different breads I make and then it literally takes me 2 min to pop the wet and dry ingredients in and turn it on. You also know exactly what is in it.
With the slow cookers; there are loads of things you can make in them including roasts, stews, soups and baking. I've used mine loads over the past few years, especially in the winter - pop the ingredients in in the morning, turn it on, go to work and come home in the evening to dinner. Similarly at weekends/visitors staying, pop everything into the slow cooker, turn it on and go out for the day and dinner's ready when you get back. It doesn't use much electricity even though it's on for a long time; it uses less than if I use my stove to cook a 30 min dinner from scratch in the evening.

Well, that's my 2 cents worth on the subject

Hope you've all had a great weekend,
Saf

missbunbury

Re: slow cooker - I love mine. Mostly I use it for soups and stews and casseroles but they are very versatile, I've read loads online about lasagne and cake and all sorts! A tip - our American friends are big into them but call them crockpots so if you Google crockpots you get some really exciting sites.

martafdz

Thank you very much for the comments on slow cookers and breadmakers, I think I will put them in my Christmas list or save a bit and get one of each. I read great reviews about the Panasonic breadmakers but they are on the expensive side (£70-£120). I think I will get first a slow cooker, I have seen a few for under £50, I read morphy Richards are good, Any recommendation?

Nephthys

Hi Marta. I have both. I have a Panasonic SD255 breadmaker which is still going after 5 years and a lot of use! The only thing is the amount of weight you put on as fresh homemade bread is yummy! I also have 2 slow cookers, one at 6.5litres and one at 3.5. Both are Morphy Richards and I'm happy with them. In the run up to Christmas there are usually some good offers (got our big one on offer before Christmas). I usually use it for stews, casseroles, curries, etc but they can be used for much more. I'm just not overly adventurous with food! I did use both of mine before I had DS to batch cook a whole load of food for the freezer. I had both cookers going for 4 days (overnight as well) with a variety of different foods which were all portioned up and put in the freezer. Meant DH or I had only to decide what to put with it for dinner. it was brilliant. Plus we didn't resort to takeaways very much!

I want some nice freshbread now!:rotfl: You don't have to get the newest Panasonic models. The older ones work just as well. I have to admit - I will replace ours when it gives up the ghost!

morocha

Marta, i bought my first slow cooker last winter and it is great ! I went for a small one and regretted, i hope i can buy a bigger one this winter cos DH and me absolutely love it ( never satisfy with our small SC portions )and it is a great way of batch cooking and then freezing once baby is born;).

I dont eat much bread, although i adore baguettes, bread does not fill me up and if it is up to me i would eat lots of slices every single day.My Mil has a breadmaker, apparently Panasonic is the brand to go for... i adooooooooore her bread mind u i would not buy a breadmaker myself because i can tell you i would put on 3 stones the first month having it, i am sure !

LittleMoog

Evening ladies

Lunch at MIL's wasn't too bad after all, though I would still rather have stayed on the sofa think that's just me being antisocial though. DH's dad is arranging a meal out for BIL's birthday before he and his gf go to Japan & NZ for another year. He's invited MIL but looks like she won't come

no idea what we're going to do about the baptism if she won't even sit in a restaurant with FIL and DH's stepmum she did come to our wedding after much protest, and that was 6 years ago, I hoped that she might have mellowed so that we didn't have to beg/negotiate etc for every family event we want the grandparents to come to. Doesn't look like it though. Stupid woman.

alamaya

sorry ladies jumped the queue lol.

Matthew Stuart born 4/11/2012 at 10.45am. Unexpected homebirth - 1hr labour including the first contractions. Unexpected footling breach with cord 3xround neck. was sooo lucky hes fine. 6lb 13oz xx