Feb 06 - Dr Horrible is Fabulous and I don't care what you say because I have power!

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Ha!

Could you use soya milk in the scrambled egg?
No pork, chicken, or beef... or dairy?
Eek!

Potato croquettes with fish, or vegetable fingers
What veggies does she like?
Does she like curry at all, or stew?
Tomato pasta is lovely... but she wouldn't want it every meal... or would she?
Does she like tuna? (though that is often with cheese)
Does she like oatcakes? Beans on oatcakes... erm.

Oh, I meant to ask if you had seen the amby hammocks.... just wondered what you thought, and if that would suit DS, and give you some rest?

DS would live on plain pasta and bread and butter if I let him!
Oddly, he only eats fruit in the buggy. When out and about he will take loads, but the rest of the time refuses to even take it from me Just as well I walk alot.

I do rice and roasted veg for me and dp, and the girls (who will eat the same veg raw but not cooked) get the rice with fried pork/chicken and frozen peas.

Umm
Homemade pizza, no cheese.
butter bean loaf? (nicer than it sounds)
Veg curry
Does she eat nuts?

No spitting here, but I get told to shut up To be fair it is only when if I am shouting/upset.

DD2 still gets up 1/2 way through most meals for a wee. Sigh.

I will use soya or rice milk in scrambled egg, but it just isn't the same!
She will eat beef or lamb mince if the mood takes her, so would prob eat chicken mince if turned into something nice too.
And she'll eat lamb as those 'minted lamb kebabs' that Tesco do.
She ate a faggot last week too (think they poss have dairy in though).
And Ikea meatballs sometimes get eaten.
Veggie wise she likes beetroot, cucumber, carrot, babycorn, sweetcorn, asparagus, broccoli (favours the stalks), cauliflower (again favours the stalks), sprouts, fine green beans, red kidney beans (when in chilli), peas... Sure there are more. She categorically won't eat spinach, courgette, mushrooms lettuce and peppers.
Doesn't like tuna, no.
She doesn't really like tomatoes, but will eat a bolognese style sauce if they are well blended. She would prob eat this happily about 3 or 4 times a week!
Does anyone actually like oatcakes?!
Curry and stew are no-nos as they are 'wet' food which she seems to have an aversion to.

Lew has plain pasta, dry bread, cereal without milk all the time . He loves sweetcorn (cold straight from the tin), raw or cooked carrots, raw pepper. Won't eat potatoes in any form (including chips ). He loves apples, grapes, raisins and occasionally bananas, so he doesn't do too bad with fruit and veg. He eats meat when it suits him

Amby hammocks have always interested me, but he won't lie on his back even in a buggy, so don't think he'd go for it.

Recipe for butter bean loaf? Am happy to give it a go.

Homemade pizza generally a no-no, as too bread like for bread averse dd, but I think she may very slowly be coming round to it.

I'd just give her a variation on a theme of the things she likes, and cook proper food for yourself.
Could you bulk cook and freeze things for you and dh?

at no chips. Am glad I got the actifry for my b'day, as dd loves them and at least this way they are healthy.

And we all said it was just another waste of time gadget!

I'll go find the recipe.

Ah no - that's where the plan falls down - I am expected to eat the same as her or else she seems to assume that there's something wrong with what she's been given, and therefore won't eat it. Although I expect she might as long as it's pasta.

I was looking at the ambys, and the baby can be at 30degrees, which wouldn't be flat n his back...
am seriously thinking about getting one, as DD was such a nightmare, between colic, reflux and plagio.... and getting some sleep- they almost seem worth it!

Does DD like pastry? Just thinking there are the elements of several different pies in there, amongst her veg list.... though how you make sauce/gravy without butter, I don't know- but I'm sure someone does.

Oatcakes would be a nice dry food!!!!
Is she still really dairy intolerant, or has it improved and its just the flavours she doesn't like now?

Between the dairy-free thing and the GD... I have no idea how you manage to eat anything in your house! I would have starved by now I think. You have my commiserations, especially as 3 weeks into bf, I was so ravenous, I was eating more than DH (and trust me, some days it's hard to keep him fed)

Oh and ds has to have dip dip (ketchup, mayo, salad cream) on every meal

Dd isn't dairy intolerant any more EPPM, so I didn't have to avoid dairy at the same time as the GD problem! She loves milk, but doesn't like cheese etc - don't know why, esp as she'll eat cheese muffins!
Can use Pure spread instead of butter in cooking, so that's not a problem (just not as yummy).

30 degrees wouldn't cut it here. Ds prefers a good 90 .

Sorry, but I'm crying with laughter at beans on oatcakes
I like oatcakes csws!

I'm on a prexmas detox/push to stop my weightloss plateau.. 1 proteinandcarb meal a day, and 2 or 3 juiced things. Just had a pint of juiced celery and cucumber And the odd ryvita when I fall off the wagon Its actually all alot nicer than it sounds. And I feel really good cos its stopped me eating crap, totally. But I'm getting through so much fruit and veg!

Oh how awful to indulge in a ryvita when you're supposed to be on a diet .

Copy and pasting this from other pn thread, as can't be bothered haven't time to precis for you..

Well ds has gained 3lbs in a month, and now weighs 11lbs 4oz. At least my milk is doing some good as well as the harm!

H/v was great. Was upset by another patient who was seeing the nurse just before I went in, as he told her that he wasn't waiting in the waiting room because it was too noisy for him. The only sound in there was from ds crying . H/v has made appt for me to see GP (not the one who believes that there's nothing wrong with a baby if it's gaining weight) tomorrow, and is coming out to see me at home a week on Monday to see how we are doing. She reckons GP will prescribe gaviscon and give a paed/dietician referral if I ask for it.

Osteopath then did what she could, but reckons we need to sort food intolerances/reflux before she can assess whether there's any point in another appointment or not. She does now have a homeopath working with her, who she thought it might be worth seeing, so I have an appt with her next Tues. No idea if homeopathy works, but not prepared to rule out any options at the moment.

Gave ds some gaviscon when I got home, as he'd been refluxy and crying all morning, and he just zonked out on his tummy in basket for 40 mins (long enough to make and eat lunch) and he's now just had a feed and is crashed out on my lap (will prob only last for a few mins until he's sick or acidy again, but nice nonetheless).

On an entirely different subject, I just had a mouse charge across my kitchen and disappear down the side of the fridge in the utility room. I told dh, who set a trap using one of dd's choc coins as bait. 5 mins later the same mouse strolled across the kitchen with the choc in his mouth . Dh now found where he got in (due to ongoing building works) and has hopefully blocked it off, but we still need to catch any that are in already!

CSWS_ was this a CO?

eek [squeak?] for mou7se though!
They are nearly always dislodged by building works I'm afraid. Try peanut butter or fruit and nut on the traps- apparently they love the stuff!

Yes a CO EPPM. We saw her last week too, and when dd was 6 weeks old.

Have put a couple of pics on my profile of the front and back gardens as of yesterday...

OMG!! They're gardens you say?

I love that picture of ds in the bath. He does not look impressed

Have we any ideas for new thread titles? I'll do it but have no imagination for titles

@ your "gardens" csws, and @ poor ds (and you). Glad the hv was ok, and hoping you get some help with him soon.
Homeopath at least won't do any harm, and you never know, she may be able to help.

When I read about problems like you are having csws, I wonder more about dd2. She was so miserable as a baby, but like a fool, I assumed it was just her and never hassled anyone to look into it. She perked up no end when I stopped bf
Mind you she is still definitely different.

No ideas about thread titles. There are so few of us posting now, maybe
Feb 2006, the 2009 thread
or
Feb 2006, Come back Flame, we need you!!

Our back garden looks that crap all the time due to the boys messing about in the veggie patch And it will def look like that after having 22kids in it on Tues evening for ds1's birthday!

Huh! My entire house and garden would fit on your front driveway!!!

And I know I'm not the best house-keeper... but it is tidier than that

umm CSWS- what type of sling is a closer? Is it a ringsling?

Lol @ "come back Flame" It is a semi-flounce. I have hidden all topics bar SN, nappies (need the business ), this thread, my diet thread and my supernatural thread. Means I can keep the MN things that keep me sane, but hide the rest of the crap.

I may have to do a search on kerrymum occasionally just to hurl abuse.

It does mean though that you lot get the full force of my whinges as I can't start fresh threads for em

for your miserable man CSWS (I think of him as Des in my head ). You look so pissed off in that sling pic . for your gardens!

22 kids MRM??? Oh and you whinge about my flouncing, but didn't reply to my email did ya??

I have forgotten everything else. My feet hurt. Have been working at school all day - with my lunch break that was meant to be grab dude from nursery and drop him back to DH, then spend the rest of the hour sitting/eating, but noooooooooo, the child who normally wants to leave immediately made me spend 15 mins with the end of a spoon up a small bottle trying to free the pasta spirals he had put in there - couldn't possibly leave it apparently, he was VERY insistent that he would scweam until sick if we just left it, and I couldn't be arsed to deal with it.

Parent's evening tonight... should be interesting!