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If you'd just given birth, What home cooked food would you like your friends to bring over?

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LittleMissBliss · 29/05/2008 22:11

Sujestions please. I really appreciated food from visitors when i had ds. But i'm vege. So some meat ideas or puds please. Recipes too if you have any Fab ones.

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JackieNo · 29/05/2008 22:13

Need to be able to be eaten with one hand/fork or spoon only, in case you have to be holding a baby with the other.

pavlovthecat · 29/05/2008 22:13

spaghetti bolognaise - leftovers can be frozen

You know, if people brought me food, I would appreciate anything that meant I or DH did not have to cook!

NigellaTheUndomesticGoddess · 29/05/2008 22:14

placenta pate

pavlovthecat · 29/05/2008 22:14

spaghetti bolognaise might not be able to be eaten easily with one hand!

Pizza - home made with yummy toppings!

sleepycat · 29/05/2008 22:14

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chunkychips · 29/05/2008 22:14

stew of any kind with mash

2sugars · 29/05/2008 22:16

Fruit salad.

onepieceoflollipop · 29/05/2008 22:16

If you make things like cakes/flapjack in lieu of puddings, they make handy day time snacks as well.

Also ditto for a large home made salad, people always make a bit too much so you have some handy for sandwiches etc the next day.

Veggie or meat chilli/bolognese/lasagne. Most of these freeze well if your friends are too generous with portion sizes and/or you have too much food arriving. The recipient can easily prepare some fresh rice/pasta/jacket potato to go with these things.

When I had dd1 we had meals from church friends for 2 whole weeks - have never eaten so well in my life.

onepieceoflollipop · 29/05/2008 22:17

Oh yes definitely shepherd's pie. And pizza but really nice pizza, home made if you can do that.

Drinks might be appreciated too - fresh fruit juice, smoothies, nice cordial. Smoothies are a good snack for knackered new mummies and daddies.

PictureThis · 29/05/2008 22:18

soup
lasagne
macaroni cheese
quiche
or even some nice scones or similar yummy biscuity snacky things for when you are feeding

stitch · 29/05/2008 22:20

anything comfortable. nothing fancy. nothing requiring more than one hand to eat.

weeonion · 29/05/2008 22:23

i would go for my fav comfort dish - rice pudding with cream and cinammon.

2sugars · 29/05/2008 22:23

Is this the bit after you've actually given birth, or the bit before? 'Cos there's a biiiiiiig difference!

piggysneed · 29/05/2008 22:27

big solid loaf cake so she can slice bits off. Needs to be dense so she can eat without it crumbling all over her breasts and baby's head.

Stew with dumplings.

bolognese sauce but use penne instead of spag

nice bread

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LittleMissBliss · 29/05/2008 22:29

Thankyou! Think i'll make them both some soup. mini Cottage pies. So that some can be frozen. flap jacks sound like agreat idea. lovely bf snack.

Also some nice juice or cordial.

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LittleMissBliss · 29/05/2008 22:31

fruit cake sounds good too. like banana maybe?. and bread. Does anyone have a really lovely soup recipe. Mine tend to taste a bit blaa never enough kick to them.

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onepieceoflollipop · 29/05/2008 22:36

Spicy parsnip soup (recipe from memory but probably ok as I haven't had wine tonight)

Gently fry one chopped onion. Add approximately 6 chopped parsnips and fry for a few minutes. Add stock (this is where I am hazy - 1 litre/1.5 litres?) Add cayenne pepper and cumin to taste.

Cook for approx 15 minutes until all veg tender. Blend. Stir in some natural yogurt to make it creamy.

pickie · 29/05/2008 22:42

Best food I had was when my parents came over and my dad fried me the perfect egg with Old Amsterdam cheese on a slice of buttered toast! If he would read this he would be horrified as he is a superb cook and cooked the most lovely food when they were here helping uot the first few weeks!

chunkychips · 29/05/2008 22:42

is soup a bit tricky if you're holding a baby? Although hopefully she will have a few minutes to eat, in which case:

leek and potato soup

spanish chorizo,tomato and potato soup
dry fry chorizo to render off a little bit of the fat to fry the onions/garlic in, add tins of tomatoes and some good stock (some sugar or tomato ketchup to sweeten up tinned toms), add potato cubes, put chorizo back in cook until potato done. Drizzle extra virgin over when serving.

CapricaSix · 29/05/2008 22:47

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onepieceoflollipop · 29/05/2008 22:47

Ask if she would prefer the soup not quite so thick so she can heat it in a mug?

CapricaSix · 29/05/2008 22:47

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DKMA · 29/05/2008 22:48

Anything you can eat with one hand that is not sloppy and wont be found 2 days later all crusty in baby's ear hole

PeachyWontLieToYou · 29/05/2008 22:48

youre a good friend- this knackered new (ish- 7 weeks) would have loved it .

home made pasties would be nice, and things like apricot crumble that stay on the spoon- i keep ruining ds4's babygro's by splling food on them

home made cereal bars, anything ike that

but really anything would be appreciated

Califrau · 29/05/2008 22:50

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