Munchies

Glad to see all the posts. I just came home from lit festival. It has been a good weekend. My son is out and about.

I was a naughty girl and grabbed a 4 pack of ego magnums at the supermarktet, scoffed 2 on the drive home, but hadnt eaten all day. There are 2 in the freezer for my boy.

Maz soup sounds good but we all need to break out sometimes.

Thank you @Former-Member

I think i will keep my visit to see her to every few weeks. My husband does twice a week after work. And we now keep our visit to her to about 30-45 mins because my husband can't take anymore than that. It probably sounds terrible but that is all he can handle.

We know it's her dementia that is talking and not really her - but it is still hard to see.

Trying to stay okay tonight; it is draining.

@Angels333

I will try and be gentle as today has been hard seeing MIL.

I hope this week is better than last week.

I also hope that you have a good week too 🙂

Its natural your hub wants to visit his mum more often than you. Hope he is a big enough boy to see that and still appreciate that you make the effort every few weeks.

I made the lentil soup for the first time at home tonight (only made it once before in the cooking class). Turned out really tasty and heaps left over for reheating and variations through the week. But I think I'll do it without barley next time as it took a lot longer to cook with that in it. The optional onion is a yes for me though. What a miracle, me cooking. It's thanks to writing out the recipe here that I got motivated enough to do it tonight. Thanks for starting this, @Appleblossom (and partner says yay too).

Thats like I was reminded to try offering hot choc again to my son becasue of the thread in carers forum

I am frying chicken up in coconut oil at the moment to throw in the slow cooker.

They are easy and yummy to work with too.

But also reflecting on social change ... as coconut jars are very prominent at the supermarket but were not when I was growing up. Once my dad bought us a coconut .. it was a weird enough food for me to remember it before we went in orphanages ... it was another sigh of his normalcy and love.

Hi everyone

I am so much comfort eating right now. Cheese and onion chips. And the quicker I eat them the more I stuff in my mouth. This is so bad. But yummy!!!!

oh yeah, the munchies, great thread idea @Appleblossom.

My munchie favorites in winter are rason toast (and if I am feeling particualalry hedonistic) with blackberry jam on top. Whittikers Peanut Butter chocolate. OMG!

and ... I am in a flare up at the moment bad one, everything hurst and I reckon it mught be my huge sugar habit so I am rying to cut back on the amounts I stuff. Wish me luck! 😛

The Red Dahl Soup sounds super @Mazarita, I have copied the recipe, to the 'must cook file'. The cooking class sounds interesting, hope you are enjoying it?

I discovered past few weeks I have a massive intolerance to Barley, I made up a huge pot of yumm veggoie soup a few weeks ago, ate that over a few days for lunch and felt pretty icky but thought it was stress. Made another huge pot up a few days ago - and ended up being really, really ill. So no Barley soup for me, dammit! I loved the taste and texture, just not the result!