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if you can help with my various problems

1, I need meal ideas for school, AS boy 11 has food issues, school helpfully suggested cooking lessons, so now I have an extra meal to plan

2, how to set up a website, I helpfully suggested a website would be a good idea, so now I have to design one

3, how to cope with cutting my mother off, I have helped myself by cutting her out of my life, how do I deal with the rest of my family

TIA

What sort of food issues does your ds have?
And how old is he?
Generally, for meals, people recommend the "Jamie's school dinners" book, and John Lewis have a good "Lunchbox" book. School should probably purchase them, though, rather than you, because they are surely for a lesson, not your personal use.
They may not be utterly helpful, though, depending on the specific issues you ds has??

Ds has cooked from the Jamie book, and the lunchbox book is child do-able largely.

The "Moosewood Cafe" people produced a rather famous "Cooking for Children" book - I'll see if I can google it.

1. I can't help with 3. I'd have to give some thought to.

Are you OK? Sounds as though you have a lot on your shoulders at the moment.

Thank you animula, I am ok thanks

I have the Jamies school dinners book and will look at the other ones

My DS is 11, he has Aspergers and has always had food issues, they are now saying it might be a food disorder - oh really

He likes chicken, red peppers and mushrooms and yogurts

ffs this AIBU

flame me

You can use a web design packaged for website there are many free online.

Offing family is easy, you just ignore then fuckers.

Sorry cannot help with the food issues.

Who is the website for and what sort of content are you planning to use.

It might be that you could use some other blogging/hosting site (posterous or similar) to achieve your ends without developing a website from scratch.

P.S. you may want to try practising the art of delegation, and saying no occasionally .

For website, use googlesites - it is free and easy. You create your website in your browser and don't need to worry about software or hosting or anything.

Wrt family - I'd recommend building up good relationships with friends (if you haven't already done so ) - feed and water them with love and care, like a garden. Friends can be family-of -choosing, giving the love, warmth, care that perhaps you didn;t get in your given-family. Obviously, you have to give likewise.

Family will recede in importance as friends become close.

Be aware that many people don't feel that way about friendship, and respect those that don't - it's a valid way to feel, and they will take and give accordingly, and you can still gain much from those friendships. But many others do, and friendship can give very great things.

Given-families aren;t everything.

As to the rest of your family: well, it depends on how they behave. I suppose you'll have to sort out those that brign positive things to your life, and those that seem to do harm. In an ideal world, families are wonderful, and a source of comfort, but obviously it's not an ideal world. So you'll just have to be quite strong, and fairly determined to welcome intimacy with those who do actually value you.

Apparently the Moosewood Children's Cookbook is this one.

Hmm. That appears not to work.

It's "Pretend Soup" and is available through Amazon.uk.