WIBU to serve chicken kiev with garlic bread and salad?

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Backstory: I've got a six month old DS who sleeps really badly, so I'm permanently shattered. I've just put him to bed, and my partner is on a call for work. We usually cook together, or he cooks while I get the baby to bed.

We were planning enchiladas for dinner, which DP usually cooks. I really can't face doing it myself, so I was going to stick chicken kievs in the oven and serve them with potato wedges and salad. But the potatoes I had in the cupboard have gone bad. So would I be unreasonable to serve the chicken kievs with garlic bread and salad instead? Or should I suck it up and go and buy more potatoes? The shop is a ten minute drive away. Bear in mind that DS is likely to wake up at least once before 9pm and then possibly even 45 minutes after that for the rest if the night.

Sounds yum

Why on earth wouldn't you? You're tired, but still serving a decent meal. Give yourself a break.

The baby is resettled (for NOW) and the chicken is in the oven....

MrsJayy, the potatoes are this bad.

Greenstone, I feel your pain. If DP invited someone to stay, I think I'd dissolve into tears. We live way out in the stick and nowhere delivers round here, so takeaway isn't an option.

YABU to think there's any such thing as too much garlic go for it, sounds yummy!

And you do sound shattered. I might gently suggest that you could maybe at least turn the baby monitor off while you eat your dinner. If he's in his bed he'll come to no harm whatsoever for 15 or 20 minutes, and you need to take a bit of time to look after yourself. Best of luck for the night ahead!

Drip feed ahoy! I have PND and crippling anxiety so I find it impossible to leave him to cry. Or I find it impossible to leave him to cry so I have PND, possibly.

No wine allowed because if he's having a particularly bad night, I'll have to take him into bed for any of us to get any sleep, and I can't have him in bed if I've had a drink.

Another with a sleepless 6mo. DP is attempting to get her to sleep right now. And losing.

Chicken kiev, garlic bread and salad sounds like you are winning at nutritional choices. If I were left to cook tonight we would be having toast with spaghetti hoops. (fortunately for me, DP was at home today while I was out with the baby, so we're having shepherd's pie and )

Well maybe when you've had your garlic-athon, you could breathe on him, that'll probably put him to sleep for a week!

Enjoy without garlic guilt!

(and have one of these too)

Oh god I remember those days !

Tea sounds lovely

You know what you need ? Cake . Lots of chocolate cake. And then a foot rub.

Sweetheart can your DP sit with you, listening to music, whilst the baby learns to cry himself to sleep. He's six months, not a newborn and you need your rest to get through the PND.

Ah, I see. that sounds really tough. You're doing even more brilliantly, then - I think in your shoes, I'd just be eating lemon curd straight out of the jar

Yanbu, that sounds delicious op.

starling I know. Luckily guest is the best kind - old mate who has now been sent on pizza run and doesn't notice messy house.

I'm up settling my own little darling right now. Leaving her to cry won't work as she's got bad wind and reflux still so often in discomfort. Also she would wake the 3 year old. Going to attempt a putdown soon.
Definitely not a time in our lives to be worrying about suitability of meals

X post. Sorry about the pnd. Some days I'm not far from it but would be grand with some sleep I know x

There's no such thing as too much garlic.

No such thing as too much garlic ( in anything ) see Soho's Garlic & Shots www.garlicandshots.com, they even add it to beer.

Beau - I wouldn't let mine cry alone to sleep at any age, even now at 5 and 4 years! Many people won't.

I know, I know. Only a suggestion but it did work, only took four nights and mine have reached young adult hood unscathed. I know things have changed.

Garlic is good for the heart!
(don't ask me to explain it in medical terms but i ' m sure i have read this).

You are serving a healthy dinner:P

Learn to cry to sleep at 6 months how cruel.

Anyway, carry on OP. Are you getting support? Are you in London? I can point you to an amazing support group that do mother and baby days if so.

FYI Waitrose essentials garlic and cheese tear-and-share is disappointingly ungarlicky. Daily Mail sadface time :(

Thanks, Fugghet, but I live in the wilds of the countryside, far from London. I do have a wonderful DP and a HomeStart worker, plus mental health support. What I really need is a night nanny though!

I hope dinner was delicious, starling and hope, even more that you all sleep OK, tonight.

You need to try to remember, in future, that your first priority is fuel on evenings like this.

If you have space, it might be worth keeping a bag of oven chips to hand. Perfect for these sort of evenings.

starling Burn your potatoes send them to hell

On nights dd1 didnt sleep i used to take her out in her pram 10pm somenights so she would sleep ORjust leave her in her bouncy chair shushing her sometimes there is no comforting them and they need to be just left to CIO i know that isnt for everybody though

DS is 8.5 months & I'm still not doing much cooking so kudos to you!

FWIW tonight I have had kale crisps & melon, DH is going for a KFC. DS has croup so I think I've done well under the circumstances!

Hope you get some sleep OP & enjoy the garlic feast.

a day nanny is cheaper and you just become nocturnal...

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well done... food is food at this stage...