Family of 5 'shop from home'food storage challenge...

CRANKY40

How much do I love you lot? Loads!!!! I have a "challenging" eater, but I was worse when I was little, so I don't get stressed. However, after all your recommendations I thought the doughnut maker may be worth a try (well I could always ebay it if he didn't like them, right?).

He loves them. Little cakes perfect for a little appetite with no yukky e numbers. Thankyou to Dee for the recipe too. I love that "climbed to a top of a mountain" feeling that you get when they accept something new.

cheerfulness4

Oh I'm in seventh heaven. I've just discovered this website linked on the mega index.

http://www.bakingmad.com/

I'm fearing for my housework now. :rolleyes:

Yategirl

arghhhh!!! do I thank you or throw a cushion at you for that link?! :rotfl: mmhhhhh... I can see some baking happening... I can see my diet going out of the window... and I can see me having to find some bigger clothes... :rotfl:

Claire [[[[{hugs}}}}} for you and ds... sounds a very stressful time for you

cheerfulness4

NoahsPennilessMummy wrote: »

he is a lovely intelligent loving and funny boy who happens to have autism...they only see the autism unfortunately. I have spent most of this week in hopeless tears.
claire
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Oh Claire :grouphug: for you and your DS.
I'm not sure who it was but I remember reading the signature of someone on MSE whose son had SN's and it read, ' I wouldn't change my son for the world, but I would change the world for me son.' It brought a lump to my throat. I hope something gets sorted for you soon and he can get settled.

Yategirl

I so agree with that quote... sometimes think our world has things rather wrong...........

NoahsPennilessMummy

Thanks everyone

I am hoping it will get sorted soon....i so wish i had the money to pay privately for full time support to get him through mainstream school but can`t see that happening unless the lottery comes up trumps:rolleyes: .

Most days you just get on with it but as people on here with SN kids will know you sometimes just get exhausted by the constant filling in of forms and fighting with people just for day to day rights for your child.

anyway enough of me moaning....am being really naughty now and not having lunch, just cup of tea and a slice of swiss roll.....and its not even home made so shoot me now!:p .
I have big plans for next year tho...including making my own jams and pickles, making my own bread( have a breadmaker but not produced edible results yet..will need help), and growing as much fruit and veg as i can in pots as i have a big yard but no garden.

so glad I have come on this site and "met" lots of like minded people:T

mummysaver

Good afternoon! Yategirl, thanks so much for letting us know what you've included in your baking kit for your little one, it's all on my list for shopping on Saturday! Been volunteered to take dd2 and several of her friends to a bowling party 20 miles away! Seems that the parents of the girl holding the party can get them all back okay though, hope so cos they're all meant to be sleeping over with her Anyway, after dropping them I'm heading for the shops with my lists of the final bits and bobs needed, almost there though. Got to chase up ds's pressie in a bit, apparently it was lost in transit! Hopefully it'll be sorted out quickly, otherwise I'll have to go buy one from a shop, and possibly do without a discount, it'll kill me

Well the panny has exceeded my expectations, the loaf was fab! Kids even left some for me for when I got back from work this morning :j Everyone at work now thinks I'm dottier than normal, having spent the night raving about my breadmaker!

Slow cooker did it's thing nicely too, plenty of bol sauce for freezer. Now need to make up a huge veggie batch, dd2 has decided she's going to be a vegetarian, her last effort at it was for about 12 hours, basically overnight until ds offered to make her a bacon sarnie in the morning! Not a prob tho as I'm veggie, so it'll be nice to have some company! Messed up my meal plans a bit though, don't think she's likely to want chops for dinner now, lol :rolleyes: Got a couple of big stirfry packs reduced to 15p each in Sainsbury, so we'll be having that instead, prob with quorn, for everyone. Chops'll have to go in the freezer if I can squeeze them in, unless anyone can think of a quick way of doing them that'll work with stir fry? Seems a shame to take the pork off the bone though, cos they're nice thick farm chops.

I'm really excited, friend at work told me about a place where you can choose your own tree and help cut it down, so we're off to do that at the weekend Last year I was only off for 2 days and slept most of them, so want this year to be really lovely for the kids, hence the tree going up a whole lot earlier than usual for us - usually Chrimbo eve! I even found a really sweet train with Santa on to go round the bottom of it this year, reduced in Homebase - had gone to sign up for the homebase loyalty card, sure there was something about getting a £10 voucher in Jan if you did, seems like they've got their money back from me already

I love reading all your stories on here, they always make me smile, well the happy ones do I never cease to be impressed by how everyone copes with all the things life throws at them. Thanks to all of you for sharing them - how corny does that sound

mandy_moo_1

JAMIEDODGER wrote: »

have just made the microwave meringues!!! yay pudding for tonight:D

i can't seem to find the recipe for these meringues ANYWHERE on the thread :mad:

and i wanna make some too!!
can anyone help me out pleese? x

mummysaver

Hi Noahspennilessmummy! Good luck with your fight, I've several friends who've had to fight for the right education and help for their children, and it's simply wrong that it isn't freely available without making everyone jump through hoops. My ds has a good friend who has Aspergers, his parents fought for his first four years of school to get him help, he finally got a couple of hours a week in year 4, then they fought to get him into a local specialist school for Aspergers, meanwhile he was only getting 4hrs teaching per week. But amazingly they kept going and got him in, and now after three years in the specialist school, he's moved back into mainstream education, so has started upper school with all the friends he had before. He has a full time helper now, but it's so nice to see that it has all worked out. I don't know if that gives you any hope, or makes you want to scream cos of all them time he didn't get help and how hard his parents fought, but at least at the end of the day their fight was worthwhile and achieved what they wanted eventually, that he could be educated in a mainstream school with specialist help when needed.

mummysaver

mandy_moo_1 wrote: »

i can't seem to find the recipe for these meringues ANYWHERE on the thread :mad:

and i wanna make some too!!
can anyone help me out pleese? x

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