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  • skipsmum
    skipsmum Posts: 707 Forumite
    Some really helpful advice here, thankyou. Especially with side dishes, am going to do that.
    Jumblejack, I'm also going to start on Saturday lunchtime, with pizza because I'm home alone all morning and when the boys get back from karate they will hopefully be really hungry and just eat!

    Emm-in_a -pickles advice about doing a meal for me and DH and just doing DS sandwiches is actually really reassuring, he may want to try something if hes not included or offered! DS is 13, so not a little-un, but he has mild cerebral palsy and can't move soft food round his palate, and aspergers so all the weird texture issues that can come with that. He has been hospitalised for not eating and I've got into the habit of giving him anything he wants to eat (not junk, but a very narrow diet). Getting him involved in cooking is hard but we do make packet-mix cakes together, so maybe we can make some proper cakes from scratch.

    All the roast advice sounds lovely but is just too much for me at the moment. I'd like to come back to it when I've had a go at a few simpler things. I could maybe do roast chicken and chips? Making the chips myself?


    Wik, we have lots of sure-start and adult ed round here (very deprived area) but its only available to families with under 5s or on income support. I did go to a mums and kids cookery thing with my older son a few years ago but it was just horrible. I should go and shadow my friends really.
    With Sparkles! :happylove And Shiny Things!
  • skipsmum
    skipsmum Posts: 707 Forumite
    Iammumtoone, thankyou so much!

    Right, I now have a rough mealplan.

    Saturday - lunch - homemade pizza (or ham sarnies if pizza fails)
    dinner - we are going to a barbeque so not a problem

    Sunday - dinner - going to MILs for family dinner, we don't go out all the time, honest!

    Monday - Spag bol (bought - I will try and make it myself next week)

    Tuesday - I work late, so DH has offered to make tuna pasta bake - this is a first!

    Wednesday - Chicken and home made wedgies

    Thursday - I work late so something out of the freezer with chips probably

    Friday - DSs choice of pasta bake from the change-4-life website (hes going to look after Scouts)

    Which means I will cook 3 meals/parts of meals, and DH will cook 1, so will only be 3 days that we don't cook! Wow!
    With Sparkles! :happylove And Shiny Things!
  • FairyPrincessk
    FairyPrincessk Posts: 2,439 Forumite
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    :T This looks like a great start, Skipsmum! Please let us know how you get on!
  • poppyjane
    poppyjane Posts: 45 Forumite
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saving-Dinner-Basics-Cook-Even/dp/0345485432/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1372408155&sr=8-3&keywords=saving+dinner

    This is great :) Note: it is American, so if you haven't heard of any of the ingredients she mentions, it isn't necessarily you! LOL

    I love cooking, always have, but I was never taught at home and it's the silliest things that trip me upt :mad:

    xxx
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