The PESH Deli - No ESH left behind

[PerfectDromedary]

I have opened the virtual gin, found the Desperate Romantics and am about to start playing I've Never. Who's with me?

Slimming world chips are made with your own potatoes moo. Tis just a recipe. They're oven baked with a bit of spray oil on - Gordon Ramsey did something very similar on his cook along programme from eons back. They are especially good when shaken with marmite for extra marmitey goodness.

Here you all are. Welcome Rocketronnie and Gin I hope pains have subsided. FWIW I get them quiet a lot needing me to take sharp intakes of breath. Glad IM was like a Florence Nightingale type.

Jealous of FB activity. Have just checked t'other place and I have no new friends . I am friends with Moo, Muse, Meds, Curls, Cunts, Ski etc and I am the one in the white dress carrying red flowers.

Right, I have the parents here so I need to give them jobs to do entertain them. Parent visits at 34 diffed are excellent.

honey - you've never made slimmers world chips? They are lovely. Par boiled chipped spuds oven baked in spray oil. Suprisingly nice, even the FC likes them!

All Bar One. I MISS VODKA. And flirting with city types.

Off to find chip recipe now.

I miss Vodka. Nice big bottle of Grey Goose in the larder as well. The only time I've used it in 9 months was so clean scent of dog wee wee off the floor. Only problem with city types is that I hate ralph lauren and loafers. Oh yes and I'm married now.

okie my dad's out the back painting now...:) Only slight fuck up was when my mum managed to delete a load of photos off my camera last night. Need IT geek to urgently recover.

Hello PESH pretties. Good menkulling, keep it up.

vag The hags in the spa keep scoffing the cheese that we put out for you. Better hurry or it will be gone. The more more smelly it gets, the more we like it.

scorps I am near York, but not probably not stylish enuf for you I fear (I own trackie bottoms and smell of BESH baby vomit most of the time). Clyde makes more of a fashion statement than I do at present, with his fancy Pumpkin Patch ensembles, so if you want to meet up with him send me a message.

Re bedside cot conversation - think carefully before spending big moolah. I have one but have only used it as a normal cot as there is always a scary gap between cot and bed mattress that none of the designs seem to fix - unless I'm missing something. Moses basket next to bed nearly as good in the early days - pick up, lie next you for feed, put back in basket, etc.

Greetings rocketship. Are you just 'pretending' to be here atm?

Ahem. Come and visit the Palais. It's lovely.

Yes yes, you must all come to the Palais toute suite! Tis vey exciting!!!

I am sat here trying not to vom on my laptop and that monster Muser thinks it's acceptable to mention MARMITE? What is wrong with you? Huh? HUH? Why do you haaaate me, you sick freak?

Am a fan of marmite, in case anyone hadn't guessed.

Everyone's food suggestions are v nice but make me super-depressed. As I have food allergies, I can't have monster munch (not that I would if I could, bleeurgh), sausage rolls, none of that. There's nothing I can grab to snack on whilst 'out and about'. Well, I can have plain old ready salted crisps but I don't like crispy food.

Also, am already bigger than I should be at 9 months pregnant if I followed sensible preggo weight gain guidelines, so I daren't eat just anything. Part of my weight prob is due to metabolic issues from a medical condition that has made me pile on weight if I eat stuff that wouldn't make other people put on weight like potatoes (even a few boiled new potatoes), so am stuck in weight-nausea hell. I already can't eat sugar, wheat, dairy, caffeine, yeast and various other things and I cook everything myself and have never been able to eat large portions and yet I still piled weight on, whilst going to the gym regularly, so am freaked out at needing to eat all the time, not only cos my food bills are already incredibly high due to the special requirements and me being jobless now too doesn't help with costs Okay, I did comfort eat this summer and that gain was my fault, but am still worried about putting on too much pg weight.

I'd like to point out that I don't actually look massive, it's just that a scrawny shortarse can put on a lot of weight and still look only a wee bit chubs

Blahblahblah, MeMeMe. Will just keep following me Low-GL regime and womanfully working through the bleeeurghs. Sorry for droning on!

Fanny, cheers for the offer! Will have to see what me and TYF are going to get up to in that there York and when (he is cripplingly shy and doesn't like meeting 'strangers', mind) :)

Scorps please don't think too much about weight gain. You are going to gain what you gain. Of course it's a good idea to eat healthily, just as you would if not pregnant. BUT, if you are feeling very sick is a good idea to do whatever makes you feel better.

It's easy for me to say I know, because eating didn't make me feel better and at 18 weeks I still weigh less than I did pre-pregnancy. So I've not had to face the weight gain thing, although persistent weight loss is not much fun either.

I'm sure you know this, but carry stuff around with you so you don't have to worry about finding food you can eat. It is fine to have a bag stuffed with snacks, good practice for when you have a toddler who needs topping up every 5 minutes. You don't need to eat masses at any time. Take what you'd normally eat and spread it out over the day more. Even if you don't eat massive portions, eat even smaller ones but do it a lot. You don't have to consume more calories that way.

God this is an essay and I know you already know all this stuff and I'm teaching you to suck eggs. But I really want you not to focus on weight gain and worry about it. I want you to feel as good as you can do, because pregnancy is a bloody long time otherwise.

scorps are you allergic to nuts? make great snack instead of carbs if you go for unsalted versions. handy to carry round and more satisfying that wheat products i think.

Sorry scorps me and my big keyboard fingers. I think Muse is right, less worry about weight gain and more about you feeling ok. How about popcorn? Or nice spelt bread with honey? What's the condition? Does it affect your pregnancy?

I just fancied meat at the beginning - had lots of chicken drumsticks and stuff like that in the fridge in office.

Scropes I second the nuts thing (as long as you are not 'lergic). I ate loads of halva and loads of cashew nuts - I had to keep a little tupperware pot hidden in the cupboard at work and sneak off to stuff my face every half hour. Kept the nausea at bay though. Don't worry about the weight - I gained loads in the first couple of months through constant snacking, then lost it again in the two months after - but Muse is right, you will put on what you will put on. Read about a woman recently ate for two through her first pregnancy, totally indulged herself. She put on two and a half stone. With her second pregnancy, she ate ultra healthy low GI foods, went to the gym and still put on two and half a stone.

The important thing is the ickle baybee inside your tum, not the akshul tum itself. You can run it off later when baybee starts walking - I swear you just don't sit down!

Nursing chairs: Did not, and would not bother in future. Sofa far superior with room to place laptop/book/remote/cheese sandwich/coffee/bib/wipes/etc/. etc.

Curtains/noise: Did not bother with black-out curtains. Baby sleeps when he is tired. Have made no special concessions and certainly no tip-toeing around going "shhh the baybee is sleeping". Hence he slept through most of his first outings and I can hoover around his chair when he's sleeping.

Honey, you've not upset me in the slightest. I don't expect people to know or remember I have allergies or all the details. Apart from the given examples, all was good advice - same goes for the rest of you. I like the idea about chicken drumsticks and cashews (not nec. together!) I've just had about 10 oven chips (the 5% fat McCain ones) and they've perked me up no end and I can't see me putting loads of weight on from a handful of virtually fatless chips every now and then.

I have adrenal problems ('Adrenal Insufficiency') which gives me a cluster of smaller problems: Chronic Fatigue, low blood sugar, digestive and metabolic issues, allergies and intolerances, candidiasis (hence no sugar, no yeast), insulin resistance (is why every fucking thing makes me fat), etc., and has worsened my existing insomnia. Brilliantly, being pregnant can actually ameliorate those sorts of probs, but pg + chronic fatigue (CFS) = quite preposterous fatigue at the mo!

Am going to rethink food and think up some nice things that aren't really fattening that I can have in just to pick at. Thanks for all the advice, gorgeous PESHies I hope I haven't given the impression that I'm trying to not eat enough - you'll never have to worry about that with me

(No-one can stop me worrying about my weight though, sorry)

Back now from a very dull trip to Westfield - watching the FC look for jeans & suits and having to let the boy child play on my iPhone - which literally HURTS. I am a bad Mommy, but honestly, my iPhone is precious.

score - how about bananas? They helped me. Filling and carby. Also a friend of mine swore by dried apricots. And I agree with pol, I was in tears about gaining over a stone in the first trimester but having to constantly eat to stop feeling sick, but my weight gain has slowed right down now.

apollo, how is your day going? Have you managed not to spill yet?

Never mention the yellow fruit of Satan in my presence, MrsFC. I despise them so badly as to almost have a phobia about them! I actually gagged just reading the word

Mind you, most fruit is making me feel bleurgh right now. Defo craving stodge, salt and meat.

Then you definitely have to try slimmers world chips.

The are de biznizz.

www.slimmingworld.com/healthy_eating/recipe_chips.asp

The other fruit I liked was watermelon cold from the fridge.

Other than that - peanut butter sandwiches...

peanut butter on celery is my all time favourite, fat and protein in the PB and water and fibre in the celery so your mouth doesn't get clogged up and you can pretend its healthy because it VEGE. They all thought I was WEIRD when I started my new job, got em to try it and have converted em all (those that dont hate nuts that is) Mind you not so portable for days out.

ski I KNEW there was a reason we bought a leather, wipe clean :o

MadamFC Nope haven't spilled. Feel REALLY guilty for lying by omission to my dad. Am tempted as he is feeling so poorly, he's caught a cold which is bad for him as he can't take asprin or ibuprofen and only very litte paracetamol. (hes on warfarin) hes not sleeping well and cant take any herbal remedies as they interfer with his other medication. So is feeling pretty mis. I don't know if it would cheer him up but now I wouldnt know how to expalin not telling him last night. So am biting my tongue.

*um that should ready leather SOFA! is it too early to blame baby brain?

I have just remembered the thing that did help for me. Ice lollies. You could make your own with juice if you can't have shop bought ones.

OMG rocket, you weren't kidding, that's bloody lovely! Can't believe I'm 39 and have never tried it before!!

ok so i am now crochet, cocktail AND nut based snack guru? ;-)

scorpette I am fricking he-uge so I share your worries, but I'm trying to comfort myself with stories of how woman of substantial size often put on less during pregnancy as long as they don't just think 'fuck it, I'll eat a lorry a day'. Which I would, um, never do. I'm currently pretty uninterested in food, but eating lots of crisps (which I normally barely eat or want) and drinking tonic water by the litre. I realise crisps aren't an option for you - it's not meant as a recommendation but more an example of weird eating that is getting me through.

casper I have nothing in common with anyone famous, I don't think. I was born on the exact same day as Cat Deeley but she hasn't sprogged to my knowledge.

muser, my initials are CL. We went can't-singing together many moons ago. I hope that doesn't make you want to unfriend me!

Thanks for the welcomes!

OHMYGOD! I didn't realise you'd namechanged. I thought you didn't post in t'other place at all anymore. So although I knew you're new name I hadn't made the connection. I am grinning like a loon now. What lovely, lovely news.

I don't know who you are, StiffyByng, but I just wanted to drop by and say "Gussie Fink-Nottle".

As you were.