Can you help me, help my daughter....

arkonite_babe

Pink, as an after thought, if your daughter doesn't add the soup mix to her veg soup, she could puree it and add a swirl of cream or creme fraiche as an extra flavour. Will also appear as a very nice decorative touch.

HTH

Curry_Queen

Lillibet wrote:

Anything with tinned tuna or tinned salmon was highly recommended as it contained LOTS of calcium. ?

Thinking along the lines of this, how about fish cakes? Very simple to prepare and cook and serve with a selection of steamed veg - maybe baby carrots, mange tout, sweetcorn - so the presentation looks good as well as providing a balanced meal, and with baby veg there's very little prep work


Edit: for starters there's a lovely broccoli and apple soup in the index, which again takes very little time to prepare and cook, and what about rice pudding for afters?

I have a lovely quick recipe for a delicious one (a James Martin special of course :whistle: ) so I'll post it up if you fancy it


Edit 2: I'll link to the rice pudding recipe here rather than type it all out

elona

Find out what is regarded as a higher level skill in the exam- it used to be meriengues- sorry about the spelling.

Try to work around the system and "play it".

Debt_Free_Chick

OK, I'm about to be very controversial here ... but your daughter really should do the research on this one (sorry). I accept that this is part of the research, but part of the exam is to establish that she's understood what's been covered in the syllabus so far.

So ... what did they cover as part of a diet for a pregnant mum? We can guess, but we might not cover all the essential parts. Did the course establish some "must include" ingredients?

I agree that the preparation for a minestrone soup could be time-consuming. A blended veg soup would allow her to skimp on the preparation and rely more on blending to deal with the veg.

Fish pie - sounds lovely. St Delia has some lovely recipes here. A potato topping would be quicker & easier, but a pastry topping might get more points. Here's a Delia potato topping and a pastry one ....

It's difficult without knowing the syllabus or the pointers that the examiners use

I really don't want to be a kill-joy, but I firmly believe that she needs to have done the work and understood the syllabus. Having done that, google will supply all she needs to know.

Another really good source for recipes is the BBC site. All the recipes from all your favourite (TV) chefs and favourite (TV) programmes

This really isn't a rant ... more a .... encourage your D to help herself. As her mum, you can't be around to give her a fix, whenever she needs it in future. Yes, support her .. but don't do the work she needs to do for herself.

If she passes on the basis of your hard work, how would you both feel?

Make her think ... help her to pass. Just don't do the work for her .....

Kind regards

Debt_Free_Chick

Pink-winged

It's always lovely to see someone thank everyone who posts a reply - thank you :j

I should have said that it's lovely to see a mum care so much as to help her D - just don't over do it, eh

With your help, I'm sure she'll pass. Even if she doesn't, she'll be a well-rounded and capable young woman

Good luck!

Pink.

Debt_Free_Chick,

If you look at my original post you will see that I have posted my daughters ideas (not mine) in order to run them by others for help.

I certainly don't intend to do the work or research for her. As far as I can tell, sound nutritional knowledge will gain more marks than a perfectly cooked meal, although I imagine that it has to be edible.

Pink.

I really do appreciate everyone taking the time to reply with so many helpful suggestions.

I will sit down with my daughter later and show her this thread so that she can take all your ideas on board.

Thanks again,

Pink


Note to DFC: She's already a well rounded and capable young woman.....there is absolutely no chance of me being able to take over her project!

MATH

Does she get extra points for making a meal designed to prepare parents for their meal times after buba is born?

If so serve something pre-cut up so that it can be eaten with one hand, this is an important skill to be learnt for all mums/dads to be. Split the plate down the middle the first half of which can be eaten while it is still warm the other half has to be left until cold and congealed and then eaten followed by baby left over rusk/wheetabix that you eat because it is quicker and easier than scraping the bin.:p

Pink.

MATH wrote:

Does she get extra points for making a meal designed to prepare parents for their meal times after buba is born?

If so serve something pre-cut up so that it can be eaten with one hand, this is an important skill to be learnt for all mums/dads to be. Split the plate down the middle the first half of which can be eaten while it is still warm the other half has to be left until cold and congealed and then eaten followed by baby left over rusk/wheetabix that you eat because it is quicker and easier than scraping the bin.:p

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MATH,

It seems like only yesterday that I was breastfeeding her while eating a chopped up roast dinner with a spoon.

Savvy_Sue

I'd just like to offer my sympathy, my son did GCSE Food Technology and it was a NIGHTMARE! He had to design a main course for the cafe at our local zoo, and as he's a very fussy eater and wasn't prepared to cook anything he personally wouldn't eat we were a bit limited to begin with. When he then told me late one night that he needed to cook something the next day which needed to be a 'development' of what he'd cooked two weeks earlier, and he claimed to have no idea what a 'development' might look like, and anyway he could only cook something for which I happened to have the ingredients ...

well let's just say I'm astonished he passed!