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50ftChristmasTree · 12/12/2009 21:58

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz
28th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
CantSleepWontSleep · 21/12/2009 08:53

Forgot tin foil and stuffing mix, but may have both in already - will check. Can always make stuffing from scratch if needs be (always used to pre dc). I bought gravy granules .

Waitrose deliver operates from store, and only a few of their stores do it. You can only buy what that store stocks, and may get out of stocks and substitutions. Delivery is free.

Ocado sell Waitrose products and a few others, but do so from a warehouse, so there is no loose fruit and veg. Stock levels are better predicted up front, so you know if you can't get something. Delivery is chargeable.

aubergenie · 21/12/2009 08:58

Funny you should say that about Asda diet drinks CSWS, because I noticed that quite a few of their own brand products were much lower in salt than the branded equivalent.

Taking S for a settling in session at the childminder today.

HMM - I felt like that on my first day back at work. By the following week I was back to my knackered-looking, no make up self!

StarExpat · 21/12/2009 09:09

nteresting about asda. May have to order online. My local one is not a pleasant experience to go into... but online order would be ok

jenwa · 21/12/2009 16:28

hi star I have been a little absent but my dog has been keeping me occupied. I have ordered online from asda before and it has been ok actually, we dont have one close enough they are all a llittle distance and I cant be bothered to waste a day travelling and shopping!

My shopping arrived last night and all there so that was good however I do need to go and get afew bits like cheese and crackers as not much of that in. I will do it after work wed when have no kids

Got to sort dinner for kids and even though the shopping came last night I am not sure I have anything other than xmas party food

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/12/2009 17:57

How did S get on Aubergenie?

Went to look at the C4 Grand Picasso this afternoon 50ft. We're taking it for a test drive on 27th.

Ekka · 21/12/2009 17:58

Hmmm, all this talk about online shopping. Ocado are supposed to be delivering to us in the next hour, but dh just got the train home from work (normally a 15-20 min drive) as 'its like a parking lot out there' . Been snowing since about 1pm. Not sure that Ocado will get here, which leaves me wondering whether we are going to have to brave the shops tomorrow... We spent £250, and that doesn't even include the goose as we are getting that from a local farm shop (if we can get there!) but it does include a turkey crown for Xmas Eve and a ham for either Boxing Day or New Years Day.

myjobismum · 21/12/2009 19:44

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aubergenie · 21/12/2009 20:13

We try and eat cheaply too Myjob - I find that cooking things in bulk and from scratch helps to keep the costs down. We don't eat much meat either, so that helps.

Star - It's a good job you don't live with me. I seem to start almost everything off with an onion and some garlic!

CSWS - I keep thinking about your diet conundrum (sp?). What veggies do you particularly like?

S got on fine at the childminder. It was good to see her again, as I booked his place with her ages ago and haven't seen her for a while. Fortunately she has three lovely daughters who were very keen to play with S and keep him occupied. My friend sends her ds there one day a week and says that he always sleeps really well that night because she completely wears him out. I was reminded of why I chose her - she has a very similar approach to children that I do (although she is much more experienced than me!).

Jenwa - how is your dog now?

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/12/2009 20:15

Well done N!

Ekka - let us know what happens re Ocado. We are due a delivery late tomorrow night, and I'm quite worried about them getting to us (our road is the worst in the area!).

ronshar - if you're about, what year is your XC90 from? Do you know if they've always had the built in rear seat booster, or if it's a new thing? Hoping to go and look at them tomorrow, but chances are that we'll buy a used one if we do go for one.

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/12/2009 20:18

aubergenie - I love most veg tbh, but particularly like parsnips (high GI sadly) and sweetcorn. I also like aubergines, but they don't go down so well with the dc (dd refuses to eat these, mushrooms which I also love, courgettes, spinach and peppers). I think that celery is the probably the only veg that I don't like (of those that I've tried obv), but I'll still eat celery soup and chop it up small into bolognese etc!

StarExpat · 21/12/2009 20:47

celery - same as onions to me since pregnancy I can't even be int he same room with one without feeling nauseous.

Our food bill per week is usually about 40 pounds from tesco for dh, me and Q. When it was just dh and I it was only 30!
We do little shops during the week for things we might want in addition, probably spending no more than 10 pounds total. We eat no meat. if DH wants meat, he buys it on his own - no clue how often or how much that costs.. not very often though.

I did get him a simply cook turkey and me a nut roast for xmas and we got some other out of the ordinary things, so this week's shop was around 55 pounds.

I love parsnips, too csws A friend of mine made a delicious veggie stew a couple weeks ago. So thick and yummy! I'll have to see if she has the recipe... it had potatoes in it. Are those ok for you?

Clever N! She'll be walking in no time!

Q has been crashing into things so much and taking so many tumbles tripping over stuff on the ground... he has so many bruises...

It's so nice to be home for 2 weeks! Yay! I love holidays!

PistachiosRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 21/12/2009 21:03

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jenwa · 21/12/2009 21:12

Ah thanks for asking about my dog, she is doing really well, she had chemo today and seems to be ok just tired. Had a crappy appt though as was meant to be there at 12 but got there early but they were running late so did not get seen til nearly 1 and then I was told I could not wait even though we had been told previously we could, I said it was too far to go home and back again unless DH picked her up later but then she said they would have her ready by 2 but it was not until 2:45 we left. Was a pain but it has to be done. The tumour is out although there may be some tissue left attach to rib cage which is why they giving chemo. She is the 2nd dog to have this type of cancer, usually it starts in bones but hers has been in lung.

star wow at your shopping bill, I never get enough to last the week with that but then I eat rubbish anyway although our xmas shop was about £130 and that shocked me as we still dont appear to have much normal stuff!

aubergenie glad you pleased with childminder. When does he start there?

pistachio LOL at your dd being a pirate, I think my dd would be a princess all the way and then be gutted when it came to the puddles as she loves jumping in them!

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/12/2009 21:18

I'm not very good/adventurous with spicing pistachio (mum allegedly hates all spice, so we never had anything remotely spiced when growing up), so will need some guidance in that arena. What would I use in a dhal? I would have to have rice with wet food like that, but I like brown rice and it's ok in sensible amounts, so that wouldn't be a problem.

I can make yummy veg stew star, or beef/lamb stew, and thicken mine by adding pearly barley or lentils or Tesco soup and broth mix which is a mixture of lots of yummy things like that. Potatoes are ok in small quantities, but I don't think that a stew needs masses of them anyway - lots of carrots and baked beans and peas and leeks (do you eat leeks or are they as bad as onions for you?) soon bulk it out.

StarExpat · 21/12/2009 21:24

pistachio - I am an incredibly finicky eater. I have a healthy diet because I have a menu of things that I like and will eat that are healthy and well balanced and give me the nutrients I require as a vegetarian, but I'm not very adventurous. I'm getting better at trying new things, though . I'm going to try making that paella (with onion powder, though - not real onions). And, could I put tofu in that?
DH is even pickier than I am (hence why he sometimes still eats meat. I eat all veg except celery and onion... he has a limited list of veg he eats... though he'd never admit it!)

Trying not to make Q this way. I give him all sorts of stuff. But all he seems to want lately is bread.

StarExpat · 21/12/2009 21:26

Oh I love leeks! I recently found that out -

I'm ok with spring onions, too... I know that makes no sense.

That sounds yummy csws. I'm going to try it. with barley sounds really yum to me

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/12/2009 21:44

Just reread my message and am ing at 'pearly barley'!

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/12/2009 21:44

Oh and def put parsnips in your stew star - they add lots of flavour .

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/12/2009 21:48

Oh and my secret santa arrived today! Whoever sent it will be delighted to know that I couldn't look at the postmark, as there wasn't one on it at all!!!!!

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aubergenie · 21/12/2009 21:59

I often make a dahl with either red lentils or channa dahl boiled until tender with a knob of ginger and some turmeric and, if I've got it, half a lemon/and or a cinnamon stick. Then for flavour fry up and onion, thinly sliced (sorry Star) and lots of garlic (about 5 cloves), then add some mustard seeds, a couple of cloves, a piece of cinnamon and a chilli (optional). Pour it over the lentil mixture. If you limit the amount of oil you use to fry the bits and bobs then it's a very low fat dish. Even more delicious the next day and very cheap too. You can add spinach or cabbage to it as well.

CSWS - You could have that with some tandoori chicken (I make mine in the slow cooker) and a little brown rice and pretend you've ordered a take away.

aubergenie · 21/12/2009 22:04

Mmm tagine. Yum.

I mean to say - well done N!

Also, Jenwa the chemo sounds awful How long will it carry on for?

S starts on 4th Jan when I go back to school. I'm doing some more settling in before that, but they're away so we had to start early.

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/12/2009 22:05

Oh frittata is sooooo much better with cheese though. I actually grate my courgette when making frittata. I don't think that I'd get these past dd tbh, but I can do for lunchtimes when she's at school. I worry about having too many eggs though, as I'll end up having one every day for breakfast too.

Dd doesn't really go for 'wet' food - prefers stuff that she can pick up individually and eat with her fingers . She loves rice and pasta and cous cous, is so so with potatoes (likes little new ones roasted though), isn't interested in meat unless it's highly processed (sausages, chicken nuggets, minted lamb kebabs etc) although will occasionally eat a little chicken. Hates fruit except lychees and sometimes bananas, grapes and apples (but these have to be peeled, cored and wedged . Likes most veg (except those mentioned earlier) - esp cucumber and beetroot and sweetcorn. Doesn't often do bread well, though will sometimes ask for a sandwich. Didn't like parsnips but the last 2 weeks she apparently does (although didn't eat them when served last night) .

Dh will eat anything as long as there's lots of it and he can add cheese or meat as necessary . He's allergic to chocolate and goats cheese, so those are off the menu for him, but they are for me too, so not really a problem.

Ds doesn't appear to be fussy yet. Loves fruit more than veg but will eat both. Limited interest in bread/toast.

We all like fish - dh and I like pretty much all kinds. Dc like sole and seabass. (Can you see why our food bill is so high?!)

Both dc will eat quorn, as will dh and I, although dh would moan if served too often.

Phew, that was a bit mammmouth!