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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Anyway, today is the day! James is off to university and I am both excited and a little scared...my first born is going on the next step of the journey of his life!
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Good luck to James! I'm sure he will do very well. How are the younger two feeling about big bro going? It must be a big deal for them as well as you.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Anyway, today is the day! James is off to university and I am both excited and a little scared...my first born is going on the next step of the journey of his life!
I am so so proud of him (sorry for the twee post), but just prior to his GCSEs, actually even in his first year of GCSEs, it was not looking very likely at all and now he is a man with a plan...he wants to be a teacher of philosophy as a back up plan if his main career aim fails.
Justifiably proud.
Is this freshers week?
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »I'm not sure I've ever eaten wheatabix - we didn't really do breakfast cereals at home when I was a child.
Isaac eats either bran flakes or rice crispies, both without milk. Which seems pretty revolting to me, but it's his breakfast, I suppose <shrug>
He eats lots of things most 8 year olds wouldn't - olives, gherkins, curry, anchovies, mushrooms, sushi, seaweed; I reckon we're all allowed the odd dietry foible.
isn't it odd what "children" eat in this country? At home, all children eat everything the parents eat. Food is served in the middle of the table and you eat everything or else it's plain rice with broth :rotfl:
It shouldn't be unusual for an 8-yer old to eat curry, sushi, seaweed nor mushrooms although I have to say olives are a bit of an acquired taste and gherkins you get in a mass-produced burger often0 -
IIRC both me and Chewie studied Biotechnology and I'm not sure we'd be worried about fermentations.
Weetabix isn't bad but it feels like it's some kind of a wartime food.
As if you could live forever on it and even if you didn't it would feel like forever while you ate it. :eek:
Most people enjoy a bit of fermented food. (e.g. beer, wine)
although the japanese do take it to a whole new level with natto0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Is that, "great minds think alike", or, "fools seldom differ".......?
I have a weird queasy feeling that I'm putting down to Zag and Chewy's descriptions of eating the same food for several days at a time, including "fermentation".
Ooh - Issac will be very excited...PasturesNew wrote: »Double check the sofa size (diagonals etc) and the doorways and watch for awkward turns.... some people have been known to buy sofas that won't fit into a house.
We had a new sofa which we decided should go in the bedroom,despite measuring carefully we weren't sure if it would go in. Of course we got it all the way to the last door and it wouldn't go through but after the struggle to get it that far there was no way we were taking it back so the door and part of the door frame came off and it is in. If we ever move the removal men will be scratching their heads...PasturesNew wrote: »We never had breakfast, but I dc remember cereals being in the house and me eating them, I know the school called my parents in once as I wasn't having breakfast and the school told them I should. They'd said at the time that I wouldn't eat it.
It wasn't until recently that my sibling said to me "she was a bad mother - think about it - would you really refuse to eat food if you were given it?" and I had to admit, no, I was always a hungry/greedy child (and adult). See food, eat it. My sibling said that she'd never got out of bed in the mornings, or got us ready for school - stuff I hadn't really remembered.
I do remember desperately waiting for school dinners, as I was starving. I loved school dinners. Usually had it and then always had leftovers/seconds when available.
Maybe the cereals were a common lunch meal during holidays/Saturdays.
We grew up with the kids arguing over who got the scraps of seconds (and that was despite my mum's some what limited culinary skills) whereas DW was always forced to eat up as she was always given more than she wanted. The world has changed though and now the challenge is making sure the kids don't have too many calories and that the ones they do have are the healthy ones.I think....0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Dogs are a pita with LOs IMO. Too much in the food that's potentially bad or them.. Garlic, onions in so much savoury food for example.
We use what we can for meals. LOs here work that they get them after big gatherings when there is too much to clear on the day or dog safe plate scrapings.
Also, I will give questionable safety scrapings to old dog. ( or any old dogs, but old dog is now in the ' I'm allowed a bit of onions' territory in our house. I'm not going to feed her onion soup or anything, but the odd bit of onion is now IMO ok, because she's now declining and anything that shortens her life is ok if its making it better. If she were a human I'd be letting her have a tot of gin each night and seconds of pudding.
Thanks for the warning - we didn't know about onions being so bad. DS won't touch them and we have other things we know to avoid
I remember there used to be a video about what was dangerous in your garden for toddlers/pets to accidentaly eat. Can't track it down now.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Thanks for the warning - we didn't know about onions being so bad. DS won't touch them and we have other things we know to avoid
I remember there used to be a video about what was dangerous in your garden for toddlers/pets to accidentaly eat. Can't track it down now.
There must be loads of things in the garden that would be dangerous to eat. The lawnmower, for example.
There's always one .... Sorry!No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Isaac eats either bran flakes or rice crispies, both without milk. Which seems pretty revolting to me, but it's his breakfast, I suppose <shrug>
Mine both like their cereal without milk too.Anyway, today is the day! James is off to university and I am both excited and a little scared...my first born is going on the next step of the journey of his life!
I am so so proud of him (sorry for the twee post), but just prior to his GCSEs, actually even in his first year of GCSEs, it was not looking very likely at all and now he is a man with a plan...he wants to be a teacher of philosophy as a back up plan if his main career aim fails.
I think most of the NP are vicariously proud of him too. :T:):beer:lostinrates wrote: »Well, that's even better.
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fruit-recipes/blackberry-tart-torta-di-more
The sunshine kid could do this btw, you could just do the pastry case for her (or even buy one) and it took less than ten minutes actual cooking time. You could do it with ready made pastry.
Personally I'd up the fruit and lower the mascarpone for a family meal. Much less unhealthy with less of the creamy stuff and more fruit. and frankly, less rich and probably more tasty with other family adaptation; it has grappa or vin santo in it, which I know not every one likes children having.. It would be fine (if pink) with a little syrop des mures or cassis instead. Or just a little more vanilla.
Ooh, even better if it's easy. I'll do it with DD some time, and I'll also do it next time I need to do pudding for that group I go to on Wednesdays. Thanks.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Thanks for the warning - we didn't know about onions being so bad. DS won't touch them and we have other things we know to avoid
I remember there used to be a video about what was dangerous in your garden for toddlers/pets to accidentaly eat. Can't track it down now.
The ridiculous thing about onions and garlic is they are often used to colour the jelly in commercial cat and dog food. (Where is that roll eyes smilie!)
IMO its a balance. Like I say, it gives big dog a thrill to have lo, so if she has them and they shorten her life now by six months.....so what. Her life will have been richer.
There is lots dogs shouldn't have...the well knows like chocolate and dried fruit...well, they weren't well known years ago. My childhood dog used to get a kitkat (I was jealous of her) and grapes when she was on a diet, she lived longer than many of the same breed. We have one of the record holding oldest for the breed. He ate green tripe with regular lo including onions and garlic, chocolate and fruit cake every Christmas.....
I don't think its wise to go out of your way to feed food that poisonous or bad for them to animals but I think sometimes its possible to be a little histerical. We put effort into choosing good food for them, and mixing that with raw feeding and tripe (I would pretty much exclusively raw feed if it were practical, its simply not for me these days sadly). We feed dry to the big dogs for convenience though its a compromise I am extremely uncomfortable with its one we've had to make. Its much easier with work in the house etc and big dog. When we're back to two dogs I can't see me being content with that compromise for much longer.
Similarly, I'll feed the ferals dry, because its a compromise that makes since, but I will not feed dry to mauve squeaker and pink whistley. Compromise too far, when decent wet food is easily buy able online. (This summer and the flies was almost the breaking point for me with wet food and cats though!)0
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