November 2012 - Any words yet?

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Generic fridge soup

Sounds deeeeeeelish!!

Off to Ikea shortly! Eeek!

I lost a lot of weight a few years ago by just having homemade veg soup (tomato, pepper, leek, cabbage and veg stock based rather than creamy soup) for lunch everyday at work. No bread just heaps of filling soup and not carb heavy so no potatoes in the soup either. I farted like a guernsey cow but it did the trick (along with cutting out complex carbs, reducing dairy, quitting crisps and chocolate and school night drinking) Poor colleagues I really was a farting machine. DH did it too. You can imagine our romantic nights in together!!!!!

Chasing on drinks we are down to 1-2 BF during the day, plus 1 first thing in the morning and 1 at bedtime. Sometimes a night feed too. Equally some days when he goes to nursery he just has a BF in the morning and at bedtime. He has other drinks (coco-milk and water - I've not tried him on squash yet as I have a feeling he could be a soft drink fiend like his Dad and he doesn't need shit like aspartame in his life just yet) in a sippy cup, or in an open beaker if he's drinking with food. I find if he has a sippy cup with food he ends up getting loads of food inside it somehow and it is just grim clogging up the nozzle and floating round - hence he gets a beaker as its easier to top up and replace the contents if it looks a bit murky!!! He can take a bottle but given they usually contain nutramigen he's not a fan unless he's absolutely desperate. I tend to leave a sippy cup in reach when he's playing and he has a beaker of water with each meal. He doesn't seem to drink too much though. He's a bit of a camel!

Flouncy hope you're feeling better. I hate the sick calls - it is an advantage of freelance that I don't have to do that. But equally, when I am sick, I don't get a penny so that's not so good .

I have done soup for lunch for years. I lost three stone and have kept it off using this alone I reckon. As you said yw no bread but I have whatever soup takes my fancy. I have a big systema soup mug that is water tight and goes straight in the microwave.

My face hurts

Every time I've tried to make soup it turns out really watery. They are always slimming world recipes though so that might be why. I was thinking of buying the morphy Richards soup maker, do any of you have one?

I want a soup maker! FIL got us a generous Amazon voucher for Christmas, you may have just solved the 'what on earth do we spend it on?' Dilemma :)

Also, how on earth have you conquered open beakers?

The morphy Richards one is supposed to be really good, it doesn't take long to make soup in it, the only thing is it doesn't make very big portions as far as I know so you'd have to make them fresh instead of a big batch on a Sunday. Think it's £50/£60 on amazon.

I've always just used my £12 tesco value stick blender in the pan to blend soup I'm clearly very behind the times - these soup makers of which you speak sound a bit spiffy and I'm not going to google them or else I will want one!!!!

Open beakers have just been something I've tried for 3-4 months given he can handle drinking bathwater out of a stacking cup just fine! If it's full and he's wearing clothes I'm not about to stick in the wash - he needs a little helping hand from me not to tip it right over himself but increasingly he wants to do it himself now.

S is also and expert at drinking bath water from a stacking cup, I hadn't even thought to try her with a proper cup, might give it a go later and see how she does.

So, now that breaking bad has finished does anyone have any recommendations? I've had a flick through on netflix and nothing jumps out at me. What was the other thing you all used to watch, was it dexter?

C is down to one bottle of milk a day just before bedtime which he has in a bottle. Prior to this when he was still having two-three a day, the day time ones were in a sippy cup and night time one in a bottle.

pass your soups sound delish. I keep meaning to make my own with my hand blender but don't get around to it. Beef broth is one of C's favourites. Do I need a soup maker?

Any tips for encouraging LO's to drink milk from a sippy cup. He drinks water from sippy cups all the time and lots of it! but when it comes to milk it seems he only wants the bottle

Also if you have a long night waking, or lots of night wakings and therefore LO sleeps later in the morning do you let them sleep in or wake them at a certain time?
F's sleep is rubbish at the moment. When he was sleeping through he would be up between 5.50 and 6.30 each day. Sometimes when he has a bad night now, such as last night when he woke at 4 and went back to sleep at 5.40, he then slept late in the morning and I ended up waking him at 7.30am. Should I be letting him sleep in or getting him up at say 7am so he doesn't get used to waking in the night and then making up for it with a lie-in? Any thoughts?

I don't have a fancy soup maker just a stick blender but I did google and now I want one but they're expensive! The new Covent garden website that sophia linked too is fab. I've got a bunch from that I intend to try.

We can't get j to take any liquid apart from a 3pm and a 'bedtime' bottle. That's it. He just throws a beaker, cup, anything or pours out the water. I am starting to worry about it but asking HV for advice they just tell me he'll get it in his own time like he did with solids! Helpful...not!

I am fuming. Remember I had to buy a new car seat for my sis in law car? She fucking bought one for £10 and refusing to take mine for O. I am refusing going in their car. Ever. She wants to take O to the zoo tmrw, lovely idea but not in that car seat. I am so angry.

ditsy even now DD1 prefers her milk in a bottle. She's 3 in a couple of months. I think it is comfort thing and we will just have to go cold turkey.

You know that split second of silence when you just know something awful is going to happen ? LO just fell on the edge of the coffee table and hit her mouth. Masses more blood than necessary and she was over it in a few minutes but I was very worried for her teeth at first. She actually gagged slightly on the blood the poor thing (combined with teething drool and cold crap was a lot of liquid).

The Indian summer soup is lovely off that website, we really love the butternut squash and sweet potato. A soup that went down a storm was a goulash soup, I just got that off bbc good food. I just use a Bamix stick blender for my soups.

Oh poor thing pr has she recovered?

Yeah she's fine and her teeth are intact as far as I can see.

Oh my word pr! Poor wee soul.

We just use a stick blender. Can't see any need for anything else. Roasted sweet potato and squash is lovely as well. I rarely use soup recipes but just make it up. Costs pennies and very good for you!

lily that sounds like a proper stalemate. Why won't she just take yours?

P drinks water very well from her sippy cup. She can use a normal cup but needs help or she drowns. I have tried putting milk in a sippy cup but she looks disgusted. I have decided I don't care. We have halved her morning bottle to focus more on breakfast and she quite often doesn't have a lunch bottle.

I heard today that an ex-colleague was diagnosed with cancer just days ago and died two days later. Life is just too short for angst

Very sad to hear that Pass. It does make you realise what's important in life.

Ouch PR, glad she was ok in the end! What a disaster though.

Have thoroughly enjoyed my long weekend, will be sad to drop F off at nursery tomorrow.

pass that is very sad, I'm so sorry.

Bedtimes are becoming a battle here. Both girls winding each other up and as soon as bedtime signals are sent they are just refusing. The noise is awful. Might just be their colds and teeth but it is not fun.

Glad she's ok pr
Gosh pass that's awful. The poor family.

Operation get S to sleep in her cot and stay there is in place.
It has taken 2 hours, but S was put into her cot awake, I didn't cuddle her to sleep and she's asleep! I couldn't leave the room without her going ape shit so sat on a chair next to her cot so she could see me..... That's ok isn't it for the first night? She got hysterical a couple of times so I had to pick her up and give her a cuddle, more for me than her I think but anyway, the long and short of it is, she's asleep in her cot.
Normally she has her bottle on my bed and then I cuddle her to sleep still on my bed and then transfer her. She ends up back in our bed by 10pm at the latest. She is definitely not coming in our bed tonight.
This is progress right?!
Please please tell me it will get easier?

Oh no PR on bedtime and smashing the mouth up is awful. l has done it 3 time now and it still makes me freak.

Pass that is very sad

We have sippy cup and normal cup and any other cup he can steal for water. He has a bedtime huge bottle which is the 11oz advent ones! But just a sippy cup of milk at nursery at 10ish. However at home he doesn't drink it as well as at nursery