Oh I had my 20 week scan yesterday at we found out we are having a girl!! This is our first bub - very excited. She was moving around a lot, opening and closing her mouth and waving her arms. She apparently has long legs which I thought was amusing xx So so happy today!
Fuzzy - Congrats on a little girl. That's great that you had a good scan. Woudl have been great for you two to see her moving around in there. at her long legs. Make sure that daddy gets ready to fend off all the boys when they start knocking down the door
AFM - I'm off to the shops to buy some stuff for the pomegranite salad and to make more pasta (it was super yummy the other night and I think I want some more!)
Audax that's very generous of you hon, I'll give dh's machine a go 1st and see how it turns out, re pasta with no egg, I've sure I made some spelt pasta without egg? I will check the mixture and get back to you. And there's nothing wrong with eating 2 lunches, I have 2 breakfasts most days
AFM I've just had a yum banana smoothie for lunch and am thinking I will be needing something more in an hour so need to get my shopping list together and head down to the shops. I'm a little challenged this week as I am cutting out the foods which give me eczema so that means no eggs (not that we really eat them), no oranges (and I really feel like them!) no wheat no tofu which we eat a couple times a week and the list goes on... I might have to get creative!
Alrighty I found that pasta with no egg but it's gnocchi so you don't need a pasta maker anyway for that, I figure you've made heaps of gnocchi in your time Audax I made this dish ages ago and it was yum.
Parsnip gnocchi
500g cooked parsnip mushed 1 1/2 cups plain flour (I used seplt flour)
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
Method, mix together roll in to a long sausage shape and cut into bite sized bits, flatten with folk, cooks in salted boiling water in about 2 minutes
Garlic herb butter (not very healthy with so much butter!)
100g butter
2 garlic cloved crushed
3 tablespoons lemon thyme
1 tablespoon grated lime zest
Method, melt butter and add the rest.
I put way more garlic and lime zest in mine and used regular thyme. The lime makes it really tangy, I think I may have even added some lemon juice?
Fuzzy - yay for a bubba girl!!! Good work Mr stork!
So sorry i have been MIA and for lack of personals and replys! i have been busy with Uni and assignments! but i must say your ladies sure do crack me up!
comming in here and reading whats going on definatly put a on my face!
Ohhh, I love gnocchi. We are going round to a friends' place tomorrow night for a big batch. Can't wait.
Tonight we had borlotti bean and corn burritos. The old staple in this house! I managed two of them. Now guilting up for a dessert of apple and pear crumble. Gluten free, just cos I felt like it
Borlotti bean and corn burritos
1 onion, chopped
1 capsicum, chopped
1 corn cob, kernels off
1 cup borlotti beans, cooked
2 tomatoes, chopped
juice of 1 lime
as much chilli as you fancy
tortilla wraps.
To a frypan over high heat, add onion, stir for a minute til it starts to blacken a little. Add capsicum and lime juice, stir another minute. Add corn, stir. Keep the heat high, to make it nice and smoky. Add the tomatoes, then the beans. Chilli if you're using it.
Wrap up a bit of mix in each tortilla. We have it with tofutti betterthan cream cheese, but sour cream would certainly work.
Apple and pear crumble
1 apple, peeled and chopped
1 pear, peeled and chopped.
Dump these in your small baking dish.
1/4 cup margarine or butter
2 tbsp raw sugar
2 tbsp coconut
the remainder of a packet of GF flour (!) didn't measure, just used what was left
It was about 1/2 cup - I topped up with rice flour, makes it nice and crumbly.
Stir it up and crumble over your crumble.
WOO! weighed myself at the gym after BodyBalance tonight & I haven't put on extra weight since the start of March. I'm not in the slightest dieting, but going to the gym a few times a week is raising my metabolism. I looked at photos of myself from our Baby-Moon in February, and my face was really chubby. I feel so much more energetic now, and my face isn't as chubby. Oh, FYI, I was 84kg at 'conception', and am now 93.3kg.
Strange how it wasn't this easy to loose weight before I was pg... must have been the chocolate fridge at work.
I have to admit, I haven't yet tried the delicious recipes everyone has posted, but hopefully sunday I will cook that pumpkin soup & freeze it for after the baby's born. Some how I doubt I will be in a cooking mood in the first month!
ETA: I plotted the weights (forever the scientist) every month from conception to now & there's a massive leap over february (about 7kgs!)... did I mention I went on a 3-week-long Babymoon in feb...
Last edited by entreat; April 30th, 2010 at 09:45 PM.
: added weights
oooh quiet in here.
I've been feeling rotten for quite a few days, feel pretty good today - I did some lavender stalk stripping today and it looks like the lavender has made me feel all better...yay.
I just got back from the supermarket (did a wander around and buy things I feel like eating type shop) this is what I bought (I am SO pregnant)
1 packet sea salt red rock chips
1 packet sea salt and balsamic vinegar red rock chips
1 lemon
5 mandarines
bunch of dutch carrots
Packet of saladas
And I feel like eating all of them now...but I got home and remembered my mum bought me a haighs dark choc covered nougat bar, so I ate that instead. I'll be chomping into those raw carrots very soon. YUM.
I have a poo vomit story, DS dd a poo in his night nappy this morning and when I was changing it, I had to run to the toilet and did a lot of loud heaving but no results....!! DAmn kid poo! it's even ranker when you feel awful.
Hey I want to know who designed pregnancy - who decided it would be a good idea to give you extreme sense of smell (I can smell a dog poo at 50 paces) combined with the ability to heave when you smell something unpleasant??????? DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME.
Hey, Kirsten, I am SO with you one the supermarket shop! I went on Saturday and bought
2L soda water
1.5L cranberry juice
1L vanilla soy milk
1 packet rooibos tea bags
1 pkt fruity type tea bags
4 packets of vanilla soy yoghurt
2 bottles powerade
1 jar powerade powder concentrate
I think I might have been a little dehydrated! Everything except the yoghurt was a drink!
I am chowing down on digestive bickies and tea right now. I'm starting to feel better, but I just want crackers. And yoghurt.
Ha ha ha ha Audax: that's awesome...I am wanting juicey fruit and veg too....I would have bought mineral water to go with my lemon, but I know we have 6 bottles already - yum. lemon squeezed into mineral water
kirsten & Audax you girls are reminding me of my shopping in the 1st tri, I'd go down and come back with the most random things and then look to see what to make and I couldn't put anything together! I tell you what though I wish I'd get some real strong cravings for 'something' just so that I can satisfy it!!! KWIM But alas... nothing!
I've been pretty healthy I must say I made those little bliss ball things but this time put coco in and left out the dried fruit then rolled them in coconut at the end... YUM I've also been making my organic spelt breads and they are just so delicious and feel great eating them. Tonight I'm making a thai red curry and rice which I need to go and stir!
Cherished: I love organic spelt bread, I make it all the time, I also use the dough to make crackers for DS, so he doesn't have to eat stuff full of preservatives I hope i will have energy this week to make those yummy balls.
Kirst - had to laugh at your poo vomit story. I don't know how I'd manage with a toddler AND my M/S so I completely sympathise with you.
Cherished - Really must try making some of your bliss balls. They really do sound yummy. I got a craving for my pasta over the weekend and made HEAPS and HEAPS of that and froze it.
Audax - Your apple and pear crumble sounds really yummy! I don't know when I am going to find all the time to try out all the recipes from on here that I want to!
I also read my pasta manaul for the first time ever on the weekend (not entirely sure why, but I did) and it had in there a recipe for pasta and it said you could repace the eggs with soda water I just remembered you asked for a pasta recipe without eggs. I'll have to try to remember to post it for you tonight.
Entreat - wow, sounds like you're being super good with all your exercise!
HJ - What are you studying at uni?
AFM - Welded some gates with DH on Saturday. Wore a whole heap of protection so I didn't get arc burn, but apparently not enough. My belly must have stretched the two shirts I had on too much and got arc burn all over my belly OUCH! It's like a really bad sunburn. Was SO SORE on Sunday but it's starting to get better now. Then on sunday I did some concreting with DH. He's helping me fix up my quail cage a bit better so it's easier to keep clean Then I just did my usual fish tank cleans, weeding and house cleaning.
lol was laughing at the shopping lists, I had some shops like that too. And I'm still so suggestible, I want chippies now! (mental note to self: must not derail thread).
Kirsten - you poor thing! That was one thing that oddly enough didn't make me feeling like vomiting thank good. Between cat, dog & toddler poo I seem to be surrounded!
AFM well I had an AWESOME week last week - was feeling great, walking every day. My mum is still here helping out and we've been rushing around getting stuff done (she loves gardening OMG what a blessing for me as it was all so overgrown). But today I've come down with a streaming headcold bah. So I just feel like comfort food. Was at work yesterday and didn't eat very well either. Plus i'm petrified that DS will get the cold too... at least mum is staying on for a bit (she feels so sorry for me with the cold - which I actually caught from her!).
On the bright side (a bit off track, but oh well), I have my 20wk scan tomorrow and we're finding out the gender (and telling too). I am SO SO SO SO SO EXCITED! 1 sleep to go!! I really hope bubba cooperates. Oh and my DH felt bubba moving last week (at 18.5 weeks) so that was great fun.
Fuzzy - aren't you just the sweetest stalker! It's a GIRL!!!! I couldn't be more thrilled - our little family will be complete with my son & daughter. I'm feeling SO lucky.
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at her long legs. Make sure that daddy gets ready to fend off all the boys when they start knocking down the door
no tofu which we eat a couple times a week and the list goes on... I might have to get creative!
I made this dish ages ago and it was yum.
yay for a bubba girl!!! Good work Mr stork!
on my face!
Then I just did my usual fish tank cleans, weeding and house cleaning.
bah. So I just feel like comfort food. Was at work yesterday and didn't eat very well either. Plus i'm petrified that DS will get the cold too... at least mum is staying on for a bit (she feels so sorry for me with the cold - which I actually caught from her!).
1 sleep to go!! I really hope bubba cooperates. Oh and my DH felt bubba moving last week (at 18.5 weeks) so that was great fun.
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