Healthy Pregnancy

IT's so great this thread has kicked off! SO many wonderful posts girls and so many healthy pregnant mummies :D

I have a question... What food processor do you have? I don't have one and I tend to mash up what I can by hand and other stuff in the blender but I'd like to purchase a food processor with the mothers day sales on etc. I have a great blender already (I know some food processors come with one) and I'd love to buy a food procesor which also comes with a mini one for smaller stuff like dips etc. Any suggestions?

I've been pretty good with my eating, still getting lots of fruit, vegies and salads along with my protein in yogurt, oat milk and beans. I'm feeling pretty good so my goal is still to increase my exercise! Today I am making some healthy treats, not sure what they are called but they have puffed millet in them, maple syrup and other stuff so if they taste good I will post the details.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and try to stay away from the drunken crowds :shakehead:

Hello healthy ladies

Cherished: good on you for starting such a great thread. On the food processor question, before I got my thermomix we had a Braun, it has the double thingy, like you said and I used to use both of them, small one for dips like you said, and the big one for all sorts of things. It was used heaps when DS was a baby, but now I never use it.

Belfie: Hooray for all that eating and going outside, mums are so great to have around when you're sick aren't they?

Hey fuzzy - I remember you from TTC thread, you were only in there for a few days weren't you before your BFP?

Entreat: I like your balance theory :)

AFM: man I've been tired, and I have a cold...however I am currently making ice cream - this is how I make the ice cream, just waiting for it too cool so I can put it in the freezer, just trying to decide what flavour to make. Went to see Tex Perkins as The Man in Black last night and it was great, but I am TIRED! Not used to being awake at 11pm! :D

:D Thanks Kirsten, I'm really enjoying this thread too, and I will look into a Braun.

I made my healthy treats yesterday and OMG they are great, I'm sure they will be a healthy winner for everyone and again they were so quick and easy to make. I used whatever I had in the pantry but really you can add anything and the concept is the same.

Linseed (freshly ground)
Pumpkin seeds
sunflower seeds
cup of mixed nuts

Dried fruit cut up, I used prunes and figs
couple of cups of puffed millet

Rice syrup about 50-70grams
Tahini hulled around 2-3 tablespoons

Put all dry ingredients in blender and blend to the consistency you want ( I left the seeds and nuts a little chunky). Put in a bowl and add dried fruit, millet and then rice syrup and Tahini, I used as much as I thought, you want it to be sticky so you can roll into balls that wont fall apart. To make into balls wet you hands and roll about a tablespoon of mixture into a ball. They will keep for ages in an airtight container. I put mine in the fridge. A variation I thought of which I will try next time is to use goji berries as the dried fruit and add coco to the mix than once the balls are rolled dip them in coconut YUMMMM they will be like really healthy cherry ripe kinda chocolate balls <insert drool icon>

I must come in here to confess my sins :shakehead:

I had pizza for dinner last night!!! BUT wait it gets worse....... I than had left overs for breakfast! :o

HJ: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha :clap: I love it! For breakfast!
cherished: I am loving the sound of those, yum yum

hj1981 :rofl: ok, ok, ok, I don't know if it's just me or maybe it's because pizza is dh's and I FAV meal but I happen to think it's ok even when you aren't pregnant! :D I haven't had it from the shops in aaaages but I have honestly some how made pizza OK in my mind :lol: I try not to eat too much and I will always have the left overs for morning tea or lunch the next day. I don't see how if you get a regular base pizza it's any different to eating toast every day and than a sandwhich for lunch in bread/carb consumption and most people consider that ok and I don't eat 'that' much bread daily so if I have pizza for dinner I usually have cereal for breakfast and something else which isn't bread based for lunch. Plus pizza has VEGIES and salad items on it so in your case whoooohoooo if you ate one which did too ;) as for the cheese well we are vego so any dairy (fat in cheese included) is OK in my mind too... See I told you I'd done lots of justifying of pizza over the years... hehehehe

Kirsten the treats are honestly really yummy I can't stop eating them, I've had 7 today already! I've been feeling pretty emotional today, hormones probably and i could feel myself searching for comfort food, well these ball taste like caramel with nuts and the texture is like biting into a soft squishy chocolate bar so they have done the trick beautifully!

Kirsten - what flavour ice cream did u make? i sure hope it was a healthy flavour! LOL

C1 - Your a crack up! u certainly have made eating pizza justifiable - now can u make eating the caramel kit kat i just had justifiable also? :redface:

Hi ladies,

Yes thanks for starting this thread Cherished! I especially like the fact that we are all at different stages in our pregnancies.

Kirsten - yum - homemade icecream! Might have to try that one. yer I was in the 6-12 TTC thread for ages before venturing to the 12 month but only last a couple of days before a BFP. I hope some of the other girls get their BFPs so so soon.

HJ1981- lucky for me I am not a fan of pizza.. just everything else that is bad for me!

entreat - I will look into the Bodyvive class. Yep I do like to work-out to the extent that I sweat lots and have sore muscles. Otherwise I dont really feel like I have done much. I agree its great for minimising weight gain. So far I have only added 2-3 kg which is a little scary actually. But I hardly have a tummy yet.

Belfie - glad you are up and about! Its weird with the meal sizes. I can eat lots during the day but come dinner time I have no appetite. Which isnt normal for me at all. Maybe it is a general pregnancy thing

Hi everyone else!

Back to work. yep stupid office does not recognise this as a public holiday because technically Anzac day was yesterday. tight a*^$@^ses

Fuzzy - My work place did that with one of the holidays last year (can't remember which one though) and 3/4 of the people ended up calling in sick so they decided to scrap it. THANKFULLY!

HJ - I'm with Cherished on the pizza thing. And for pretty much all of the same reasons. I especially agree that the cheese on the pizza is SUPER healthy. Lots and lots and lots of calcium (I'm not a big fan of milK) and lots of other healthy vitamins and minerals. Only I'm worse as far as eating it. I always make sure that "oops I ordered too much" so that I can have it for dinner, then breakfast, lunch AND dinner the next day. I can't wait until I can have it cold for breakfast again. Cold pizza is THE BEST (insert drool icon like Cherished's one here)

As for the kitkat....when did that start making carmel ones??!!! I LOVE carmel. It's so my downfall to healthyness :shakehead: as for a kitkat being healthy. Chocolate makes your body release endorphins which make you happy. And if you are in a particularly hormonal and mood-swingy (that's a technical term) mood it would make you (and most likely your DH) feel better :D

Cherished - Those treats of yours do sound pretty yummy. They may have to be my cooking project next weekend!

And I'm on the SO SO SO GLAD that you started this thread bandwagon as well :leap: you're THE BEST!!! :horray:

Kirsten - Made your cake recipe over the weekend. It was super yummy. It was SIL's b-day. (Oh the joy of it, I can hardly contain my excitement). DH and I were told that we were taking everyone (as in us, MIL, SIL and nephew) out to tea and pay for it all, becasue since we both have jobs apparently we're made of money :o We were also told that we had to buy the cake. So it was going to be a cold day in h#$L before we spend that much on the money grubbing so and so. SO it was dinner a la Chez Dr. Tal. Of course that earned us many foul looks at got us dubbed cheap skates, but do I really care?? ummmmm No. So I made the pumpkin and coconut cake for her birthday cake and decorated it with a lot fat philly cheese icing. I even made the icing coloured and got out all my fany tips and decorated it with flowers and whatnot. Took me ages. Aparently it was 'horrible' but that didn't stop them from each having seconds and then taking the left overs home with them. So I'll have to make one for DH and I next week.

Belfie - WOOHOO on you eating! I certainly hope that you continue to improve and feel better!

Entreat - :rofl: about your body balance. I LOVE it.

AFM - like I said earlier I cooked for SIL's birthday. I certainly hope that some day soon DH decides that he's okay about breaking ties with them becasue I don't know how much more of their selfishness I can put up with :wall:

It rained Saturday morning just as I was about to start mowing the lawn. So I went and did a whole bunch of shopping and cooking instead. Spent WAY too much money :redface: But most of the cookin g was healthy recipes from here :dance: On Sunday I mowed the lawn, did some painting and cleaned my fish tanks and bird cages. Then today I did a whole heap of gardening, washing, housework (vaccuuming and mopping and dusting) and then almost finished paiting the baby's room.

Hope the rest of you all had a good weekend!

Oh Dr Tal: I've missed the hilariously told stories about your DH's family. I can't believe they are still at it!!! It sucks that you have to deal with them but the stories sure do make me laugh in the way you tell them. They should feel privileged to be baked such a delicious cake rather than a nasty dry bought one. DId they really say it was horrible??????? Freakin' rude!

I think you did do enough exercise to cover me, but I went for a nice big walk this afternoon...

Fuzzy: I can't believe you had to work on a public holiday! That is tight!

Cherished: I will have to make them tomorrow...mmmmmm they sound delicious.

HJ: I made lovely vanilla, I could decide what else to put in so just left it as vanilla, it's VERY nice.

:rofl: this whole thread is just cracking me up - there's too many funnies to repeat them all... but just :rofl:

Well my new achievements for today - got back to a proper 30 min walk & felt fine. Actually ate a whole dinner, also felt fine. Had my first "normal" #2 in a week (you needed to know that :p) and felt fine. Ate some chocolate - FELT FINE! Woo hoo I love eating food again. Had a lovely healthy salad sandwich for lunch (ignore the KFC chips at shops before - but felt fine!)

So now I've just gotta remember to be healthy. I wanna make Cherished's biccies next, just gotta wait for my bananas to ripen.

Tomorrow I'm thinking - walk, porridge with blueberries, salad sandwich, le rice for a snack. Yum yum.

Dr. Tal - omg DH's family :o geez you poor thing!

Morning all you yummy mummies (to be..)

So you will all be extremely proud of me..DP took the car to work yesterday and i had a craving for curry so i WALKED the 2km to the shops & back to get the ingredients i needed...over hills and all...almost died but i did it! :lol:

I know 4km isnt much but from the nothing i have been doing to that..woah! LOL

Am off to get my GD test now...be good!

Belfie - DH's mother and sister are complete nut cases. That's probably the nicest thing that I could say about them. His father is absolutely lovely (probably the reason that the two of them are now divorced) but we don't get to see him anywhere near as much as either one of us would like.

Also WOOHOOO :leap: at the feeling fine! Although I have to say tsk tsk about you mentioning the KFC chips....now you've started me craving them....and there is a shop just down the road from work. It is going to take some serious will power now not to detour through there on my daily fruit run to the supermarket!

Kirsten - I think what they actually said was "Pumkin cake??!! Are you kidding me. You made a pumpkin birthday cake. What a load of C#$P. You don't actually expect us to like this do you" (insert the om nom nom eating sounds of the two of them stuffing their faces with my pumpkin cake here) "this is the most gross and disgustingly horribly birhday cake we've ever had" (insert more om nom nom eating sounds here followed by more insults I couldn't understand because they had too much cake stuffed in their mouths while saying them to hear clearly)

You keep making my mouth wate with all this talk of ice cream! :o I SO NEED to buy a thermomix!

Ammaki: oh yuk! I hated the GD test! Hope it goes ok for you. And 4kms is impressive - good on you!!!

Belfie: excellent work on the eating and walking and (sneaking in KFC chips) :rofl:

Dr Tal: Oh my F#%@*g gawd! did they honestly say that, how can they be real people?????? Who would give insults to someone who had gone to the effort of making them a delicious pumpkin cake! Surely they are characters from a tv show about how horrible people would be if you surgically removed their manners and tact!! I would be feeding them dog poo cake from now on!!!....and locking them in a cage when they come over.....and poking them with sticks while they are in the cage...grrrrrr

and yes, you NEED a thermomix :)

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Ammaki: oh yuk! I hated the GD test! Hope it goes ok for you. And 4kms is impressive - good on you!!!

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I jsut read somewhere else that its gross too :o i cant drink gross things..i will vomit. Literally. Ahh this should be fun...

Ammaki - You must have posted while I was writing mine up.

WOOHOO for your walk! And 4km is quite a bit, especially considering you hadn't been doing any walking before that.

Good luck with your GD test. The stuff you have to drink is REALLY and I do mean REALLY sweet. I like my sweets but I just found it almost sickly!

Kirst - yes, they actually did say that. And a lot of other choice things too. Realistically I only tolerate them becasue of my DH. For whatever reason he's not ready yet to cut the ties and they know all the strings to pull to make him feel horrible and put the guilt trip on him, so I pull out all the strings and whistels so they can't make him feel guilty....although I have to give them credit, they certainly put in a good effort trying. I really enjoy cooking, so at least it wasn't too much of an impost to cook what I did. But it took me most of the day and I know DH was less them impressed with the way they insulted my food after all the time and effort I put in preparing it (which meant they weren't able to make him feel guilty :dance: ) I made all her favourite foods which included a lamb roast and both DH and I HATE lamb so they couldn't say that I only cooked it becasue one of us wanted it. I just look at it as they digging their own grave, so to speak. DH is finally seeing them for who they are, and the more they insult, act out and show their real colours the more they keep pushing him away. He might be able to take a lot, but everyone has a breaking point and they'll find his eventually.

Arg..how much of it is there?

Pretty sure it's about 300ml or so. I didn't find the taste bad. It just got too sweet for me. At fisrt it was okay, but by the end it was just really sweet. They give you about 10 minutes to drink it all though, so as long as you pace yourself you should be ok.

I coulnd't beleive how many calories it had either :o it was probably more then double the calories that are in a can of soft drink!

Ammaki: the drink was not toooooo bad itself, it was sweet and I don't really like sweet things. The place I went to gave it to me VERY cold, so some of the sweet edge was taken off. I didn't feel lovely after drinking it, it's like a massive sugar high and then afterwards I got the sugar come down, I didn't like it at all.

It tasted to me like a super charged lucozade. and is about 300mls as Dr Tal said.

Dr Tal: when your baby comes along, I think there might be opportunities for breaking points. Hopefully they keep pushing and being awful then. How awful for you to have to go through...I still think you need to install a cage for their visits!

Dr Tal - omg ILs from hell truly. I think Kirsten's remedy sounds excellent :rofl: It does remind me of the time we cooked MIL brunch (mother's day) and she declared how BIL was so much a better cook and how it would have been better at his place... and I bothered why exactly?!?!?! I like your plan to let your DH slowly come to his senses, very smart.

Ammaki - GL with the test, i agree with the others - the drink is just sickly sweet but not that gross per se. I'll tell you what happened in mine AFTER you've had yours ;).

Well my porridge with cinnamon & blueberries was lovely, am planning my walk and lots of yummy great food today (and forget I ever mentioned that evil franchise food - it was disgusting and just tasted like stale fat)

Ok. Im back. Yep was 300ml tal. Tasted like lemonade to me although by the end of it i felt like i was going to vomit, then having to sit there for an hour..the aircon was broken so i was all hott and ew. Then a lady came in with her little baby and we got to chatting, so time went a bit quicker.

Probably didnt help all id eaten was a mandarine & apple. Am now eating wheetbix as i feel i need something to soak up the sugar LOL not sure if it will work but darn it im trying!

What happened to you belfie? Im glad you waited! Haha

haha Ammaki - glad it all went well. When I did the 2 hr fasting test, I sat there for an hour & a half then spewed the drink up EVERYWHERE in a waiting room full of ppl. I stuffed up the test. And then cos I felt so sick after fasting, I sat waiting for hubby in the waiting room full of ppl (with big gaps on either side of me) and promptly ate a muesli bar. The looks on their faces were priceless! She spewed and now she's eating MORE!!??!!

Then I ended up having BSL monitoring anyway (cos the results they managed to get weren't great) and turned out to have GD. My endocrinologist said he'd never had anyone spew so late in the test (apparently if you're not gonna tolerate it, you usually spew straight away, but that's not common). They think it's to do with my fructose malabsorption maybe too, so thank goodness they didn't make me do it again. I'm petrified of doing it this time lol!

Geez I do nothing but talk about vomiting! Ok gotta run, hope everyone's having a great day.

LOL i have to say i dont think i was far off vomiting! But how embarassing. I was scanning the room for somewhere to do it tho...it was either the garbage bin or a dash out the door to the garden!

Ammaki: sounds like you did ok, did you get all shaky and freaked out? I did! afterwards I ate a toasted cheese sandwich because I was starving and I wanted something not sweet to soak up sweetness too :)

Belfie: That sounds awful, are they going to try the test again on you this time? (tasted like stale fat because it is made from stale fat - gross!!) I like that you talk about vomiting - someone's gotta be the vomit talker, just like someone has to be the poo talker (usually me :rofl:)

Well I went for an even bigger walk this morning, about an hour, and had 2 boiled eggs and home made bread and left over pumpkin soup for lunch, I am now all full and sleepy.

I only got shaky when the needles came out! Lol i hate having blood taken! I still cant shake the feeling of sick tho, so im eating a lot of carbs at the moment trying to soak up all the sweetness, is that crazy? made sense in my head!

It's exactly what I did with carbs! I hate needles too, I avoid them as much as I can!!!

Belfie - I'll join you on the vomit talk. I didn't say it before because I didn't want to scare Ammiki. I held it down long enough for them to take my bloods (1 hour) then made a made dash from the collection room and NEARLY made it to the bathroom. Nearly doesn't seem to count much when vomit is involved though. I managed to projectile it all over the door into the toilets and pretty much halfway down the hallway as well. I was very proud of myself for holding it in until after my blood test though (insert proud icon here) I have to say it was a rather impressive vomit as well....even for me! I've been getting a lot of practice with my M/S...which incidentally seems to have come on in full force today...haven't been able to keep a thing down for more then twenty minutes yet today :shakehead:

Ammaki - :rofl: at you soaking up the sweetness with carbs

Kirst - I had left soup for lunch today as well, but mine was the sweet potato and garlic....yum! And I think I can add an extra yum vote to it becasue :tmi: I got to eat it twice and it tasted the same going out as it did going in....which is quite a bonus. A good majority of my meals revolve around, not only what the food tastes like going in, but how horrible it ends up tasting on the inevitable exit. Curries are a DEFINITE no go...they turn SUPER SUPER acidic VERY VERY quickly. Banana mango smooties on the other hand...made with organic all natural yoghurt and sweetened with a bit of honey or maple syrup...YUM...both ways!

:rofl: at tasting food going in and out :rofl: I am so loving this thread 3 cheers for cherished Hip hip - HOORAY, hip hip HOORAY hip hip HOORAY!

So what are everyone's plans for dinner tonight?

I am thinking of making some homemade wholegrain pasta (maybe ravioli with a roasted or chargrilled vegetable filling) with a tomato sauce. I'm pretty sure I have tomatoes, mushrooms, capsicum and onions at home in the fridge for the sauce and I have a never ending supply of fresh herbs from my garden...yum yum!

Sounds good Tal, you put my cooking skills to shame haha. Im so drained DP will either cook or we will buy something that im sure wont be healthy :redface: ... i plan on going to bed ASAP.

I had stuff out for dinner but now CBF :shhh:

I'll try to remember to post the recipe for the pasta tomorrow (after I decide how to make it :lol: )

DH bought me a pasta making machine a couple of years ago for Christmas and I keep meaning to use it, but then I never do. I found it AGAIN on the weekend when I was cleaning and purposly left it out on the counter with all the pasta ingredients so I make something with it...finally!

Dr Tal, when you get a good wholemeal pasta recipe please can I have it, I haven't found one that works really well. We make our own pasta a lot, but have had trouble with a good wholemeal recipe.

We had a split yellow pea, potato, pumpkin dahl (made in the thermomix of course) and basmati rice. I ground & roasted the spices from seeds :)

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:rofl: at tasting food going in and out :rofl: I am so loving this thread 3 cheers for cherished Hip hip - HOORAY, hip hip HOORAY hip hip HOORAY!

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Awwwww thanks honey!!!!! :grouphug: I just love warm fuzzies!

Dr. Tal so wish most of my herbs didn't die :( I really need to plant some more cause we just loved them and used them all the time. For din dins tonight we are having vegies, garlic bread and I am having a vegetarian schnitzel, dh doesn't like them so he's having a vegie pastie.

belfie holly molly hon that sounds like a horrible spew story :sick:

AFM I REALLY REALLY REALLY need to get walking this weekend! I was also thinking about making my own pasta cause i need to cut out wheat again as it's giving me eczema :( So now on my list of things to get in teh mothers day sales are a wok, food processor and a pasta maker! heheheh

Kirsten - The pasta recipe I usually use is pretty simple
Ingredients
450 g wholemeal flour
1 tsp salt
4 eggs
2 tbsp olive oil

Method
Stir the flour and salt together in a large bowl and make a well in the centre.
Break in the eggs and add the oil.
Gradually draw in the flour and work together to make a dough.
Knead well until dough becomes shiny and is no longer sticky.
Wrap in cling film or foil and leave to rest for 1 hour.

The most important part, I find, is to make sure you work the dough enough. Sometimes it can take up to 30 minutes until I am satisfied that it's been properly worked. If you don't kneed it enough, that's when I find the pasta does not work (gets soggy, falls apart)

Then comes the rolling part, and again it's all about how much you roll it. I have a pasta machine, so that makes it easier. I'll roll the dough through the first setting, click it down, roll it through that setting. Fold the dough in half or quarters. Put the machine back up to the first setting and roll it through again. I'll do that half a dozen to a dozen times. You'll feel the dough change. It gets almost a silky consistency. Don't be afraid to dust the dough with more flour at this point if it sticks to the machine at all. It's not like normal dough where you have to worry about it becoming leathery if you work it too much or add too much extra flour. Once it feels like silk THEN I'll roll it out properly.

When you start to roll it out properly lightly dust both sides of your sheet after each time you pass it through the machine.

Cherished - I keep forgetting to answer your question from ages ago about a food processor. I don't actually have a proper one. I need to get one though. I just use one of those food wand thingos. I've only ever really used it for soup, so that seems to work well. For pesto and things like that I actually still use the old mortor and pestle :o

1/2 hour of kneading? Holy Moly, I will put it in the thermomix and be done with it in about 30 seconds :) (if I had some wheat or it was a market day I could go buy some - then I could make my own wholemeal flour - I love freshly ground flour...mmmmmm)

I have a pasta machine too, yay for pasta machines!! DP is half italian and has been making pasta for ever, we just haven't found a decent wholemeal pasta recipe, I'll be giving this one a burl for sure :) Thank you!

The big difference with this one is that you rest the dough, do you rest it in the fridge or just on the bench?

You are a champion, thanks Dr Tal :)

Mmmm pasta, now I'm inspired to make some for dinner, although feel a bit blergh today....so we'll see how I go :)

Cherished: you have quite a list there for the sales :) good luck!

Loving all the vomit talk ladies! It's kinda been on my mind lately as I'm pretty certain I'll spend a good part of my labour driving the ol' porcelain bus! I have been craving things like eggs, curries and baked beans lately and every time I mention it, DH looks at me sideways and reminds me that there's a good chance it's gonna come out again in a very public way, from one end or the other! (And Belfie, that leads into the poo talk too, lol!) The midwives suggest you eat 'plain food that's easy to digest'; any suggestions?

Dr Tal - Banana smoothies are definitely a winner both ways! Do you always put egg in your pasta?

Hi and keep up the great work!

I forgot to tell you what I put in my pasta last night :doh:

I went with a roasted veggie mix. I had this cooking in the oven while I made my pasta.

Roasted Veggie Mix Ingredients
1 sweet potato
Approx 250 g Kent pumpkin
3 small onions
2 large carrots
2 cloves of garlic
¼ c olive oil
2 Tablespoons Balsamic Vinegar
A dash of salt
A dash of pepper
3 sprigs of thyme (I used three different varieties, but that’s only because I’m a freak with a thyme garden of about a gazillion varieties, last night I used the normal thyme, BBQ thyme and tabor thyme)
1 sage leaf
A small bunch of mushroom herb

Method
Put the oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper into a large bowl. Then I mashed the herbs and garlic in my trusty old mortor and pestle and added that to the oil. Gave that a bit of a mix.

Chop the veggies up into largish pieces (to a size where they cook through in about 30 minutes). Put into bowl and toss with oil mix.

Place veggies into a lined baking tray (I usually use baking paper).

Cook at 180 degrees for approximately 30-40 minutes.

Remove from oven and allow to cool the put all the veggies (and oil and all the yummy crunchy herby bits) back into the original oil bowl. Mash with a potato masher (could probably use a food processor too).

Cut pasta sheet into rectangles about 10cm X 5cm. Place a ‘dollop’ of veggie mix in the middle of each rectangle. Wet edges of rectangle and fold in half pressing to secure the edges.

Then you can cook the pasta straight away or freeze for later use…or both!


Kirsten - hehehe made it big and a different colour so you'd notice it down here at the bottom :lol:

yeah, about half an hour give or take. It seems to be different each time I do it. Sometimes I wonder if the humidity of the day has anything to do with it. I had a friend who's mother was from Sicly and she taught me how to make pasta. She did it all by hand....even the rolling :o

I rest the dough in the fridge. But you have to make sure it's completely wrapped up, or it goes crusty around the edges and doesn't roll properly.

JLeigh - Yeah, I've always put egg in it. That having been said I imagine there are some non-egg recipes (for those who are vegan) but I don't know any :redface: I imagine the recipe (and need to kneed the dough) would would be similar.

:spit: :rofl: about your DH reminding you that the food you eat is likely to come out in a very public way!

As for plain food that's easy to digest. hmmmm.....I don't know if it's easy to digest, but I've REALLY been enjoying my oatmeal of late! It's fairly plain assuming you don't add any maple syrup to it :hide: like I always seem to HAVE to :wall:

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Yes I have one of those that cost around $80 and we never use it... but it looks REALLY good on the kitchen bench :D Your pasta looks so amazing and healthy!

Kirsten I also forgot to add that I would love a sewing machine and ummmm somethign else that my baby brain can't remember right now :shakehead: Your thermomix and 30 second pasta sounds so great! I'll be making spelt pasta when I get into it cause I dont' do the wheat thing and if I'm gonna make it myself I may aswell use Spelt flour. our juicer actually makes pasta but we have never used it. I forgot about that, maybe i should try that out before buying a pasta maker :doh:

JLeigh plain food sounds like a good idea ;) I have no ideas though! maybe stick to regular stuff like pastas, salads, vegie bakes, casserols and stirfrys with rice.

JLeigh: ah the joys of vomiting during labour! I had a bit of a puke on a towel on the floor of the delivery suite, I was crawling around looking for a spot to get comfy - like a dog and puked :D but only the once, the pooing is waaaay worse :rofl: here comes some more poo talk. I can't believe you're so close - it's so exciting - I LOVED my labour! It was totally amazing!

Easily digested food - things that are well cooked are easy to digest, like nanna boiled veggeis :) The night I went into labour I ate a bean and lentil curry - might have been why the vomit the next day was yellow - ahhh mystery solved!

Dr Tal: that sounds delicious yum yum (drooling face), I love the old italian nonna's who do it all by hand, DP's Nonna does that, although not so much anymore, she's 85 now.

Cherished: ahhh sewing machine, I have an old crap one, I want a new one, and I also want a room that I can sew in, an art studio would do I will squeeze the machine in there. I've been learning how to knit stuff at DS's playgroup, it's awesome, I am a rabbit knitting maniac, and I have even learnt how to make little felt chickens. I am such a mum!

AFM : well I feel gross today so a good sign, I nearly puked today twice, once at DS's music class and once when wiping DS's bum - holy moly, the stench hit me and I almost had to puke in the bath....GROSS. (howzat for poo and vomit talk in the once sentence :rofl:)