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Sometimes I think I lead a charmed life or something -- I was shopping for groceries yesterday and went over to have a wee nosy in the tray of the guy who marks down produce and he marked down 2 packs of bok choi and 2 packs of salad onions (like green onions with big juicy bulbs) to 10p each for me!! I also got a 20p green cabbage and 3 bell peppers (2 red, 1 green) for 20p and a bag of oranges for 25p from the reduced shelf -- the bounty was plentiful! The dude basically dropped everything to help me pick out cheap veg and was beaming when I thanked him and called him a sweetheart. I saved over £8 on veg! And made tabbouleh last night. 2 comments | post a comment
Have a butcher's: 9 May parsley-hummous 2 wild garlic pancakes, blackberry pancake tofu broccoli-buckwheat banana tropical porridge 1-1/2 rich tea biscuits (my husband Mark likes to share biscuits with him -- it is probably the only "naughty" food I let him have) 10 May avocado, shallot, and nutritional yeast flakes sandwich on w/w bread broccoli-buckwheat 1/2 digestive biscuit 1/2 small potato banana rye bread a few spoonfuls of my organic puffed brown rice (cereal) and soymilk 11 May tropical porridge banana beetroot-potato-tofu-shallot salad (w/ flaxseed oil) 1/2 digestive biscuit rice 12 May banana miso soup w/ rice rice w/ tomato sauce toasted rye w/ margarine (I use Sunflower Pure -- it's not hydrogenated) and treacle nibble of malt loaf spicy garbanzos (chick peas) w/ onion, wild garlic greens, carrot, & w/w couscous 1-1/2 digestive biscuits rye bread 13 May 1-1/2 bananas wild garlic & walnut pesto w/ nutritional yeast flakes on rye cucumber with a dab of olive oil broccoli hot pot toasted rye w/ marg and treacle a wee bit more broccoli hot pot w/ tomato sauce a few spoonfuls of my organic puffed brown rice (cereal) and soymilk 1/2 digestive biscuit oatmeal & raisins 14 May kiwi fruit banana w/w (whole wheat) couscous & tomato sauce broccoli hot pot soy yoghurt w/w pasta w/ spinach, shallot, garlic, olive oil, and wild garlic & walnut pesto 16 May 1-1/2 bananas (a TON of) tropical porridge and flaxseed oil (a TON of) spicy rice, curried dahl (red lentils) with tomatoes, onion, and olive oil digestive biscuit 24 May banana rice & tomato dahl cury sweet potato potato-pea-pesto mash 26 May pea-potato mash tofu (Bert is wild about tofu, so I give cubes of it to him as a snack) rye bread w/ marg and treacle broccoli-tomato rice apricot-peach-apple sauce soya yoghurt 27 May rye bread w/ marg broccoli-tomato rice tofu and brussel sprouts baked beans pear 28 May oatmeal-w/w bread banana tofu curried potatoes miso soup w/ rice and wakame seaweed spicy okra in tomato sauce pear oatcake 29 May banana mini whole wheat date scone (I made healthy scones for his birthday) tofu oatmeal-w/w bread spice soup (chili, tomato, onion, carrot, celery, courgette -- more of a thick stew, really) rice 30 May (his first birthday) pear banana blueberries & soya yoghurt 2 mini w/w scones spice soup and rice tofu gazpacho soup (thick -- like the way they do it in Seville) with w/w bread 31 May mini w/w scone 2 bananas blueberries gazpacho soup with w/w bread w/w toast & all-fruit raspberry jam (unsweetened/no sugar or sweeteners) tofu 1 June mini w/w scone tofu banana avocado hummous (mmm!) gazpacho soup & w/w bread cucumber smoothie (banana-blueberry-tofu-soya yoghurt) pear small potato 2 June avocado hummous on w/w bread 2 wee potatoes 1-1/2 bananas more avocado hummous stewed okra & tomatoes apricot-peach-apple sauce organic brown puffed rice & a dab of soya milk 3 June avocado hummous & nutritional yeast flakes on w/w bread banana borscht veggies (beet carrot, celery, onion) w/ olive oil, dill, and black pepper organic brown puffed rice & soya milk rice & tomato sauce pear 5 June avocado hummous on w/w bread banana beet & potato salad (w/ cider vinegar, olive oil, and ground coriander) <--this is a northern African recipe I recently discovered broccoli-rice with a smidge of tomato sauce tofu 7 June quinoa with tomatoes, carrot, mushroom, celery, cabbage, and onion w/w toast with all-fruit jam w/w toast with marg and marmite sweet potato banana garlic-ginger-chili millet with shallots and cilantro (fresh coriander) roasted beets with olive oil, lemon, shallot, rosemary, garlic, and black pepper tofu digestive biscuit 10 June w/w toast with all-fruit jam w/w toast with marg and marmite banana tofu broccoli-rice with a dab of tomato sauce smoothie (banana, soya yoghurt, kiwi, mixed frozen berries) digestive biscuit 11 June w/w toast with all-fruit jam w/w toast with marg and marmite banana tofu broccoli-rice with a dab of curried dahl Aloo Bhajia (curried fried potatoes) smoothie (banana, soya yoghurt, kiwi, mixed frozen berries) 9 comments | post a comment
P.S. Last night I had a dream that Ben from LOST picked a huge basket of strawberries for me. Mmmmmm. I like strawberries. 8 comments | post a comment
 Um.. Wow. Bert had a vaccination today and the health visitor (the one who had been worried he was anaemic) started off by asking me about rice milk -- she gave me a pamphlet that says it contains levels of arsenic that are too high for kids. Well, anyway, she has done a total 180 on the Bert-food thing! I've been writing down what I feed Bert each day and she was really impressed ("ooh, wild garlic pancakes!"). THEN she asked if I'd mind talking to some sort of student who needs to give a presentation on young children in Scotland who actually eat healthy food because Bert is a great example of a healthy well-fed kid. She said it is so hard to get people to feed their kids well and to breastfeed and that we are in the middle of a childhood obesity epidemic in this country and maybe I could talk to that student and the nutritionist about what I feed Bert so that they could pass that information along to other parents. I said if she was interested (and she was), I'd be happy to type up my baby food recipes and even try to note down "cheat" (simpler) versions for people who can't cook or don't fancy making absolutely everything from scratch. Since the country bus only comes once an hour and we had time to kill, I took Bert to a different bus stop in Kilcreggan where there was a tree and a patch of grass. I used the wrap I carry him in as a makeshift picnic blanket and we sat in the shade on the grass and shared a banana. I was worried he might high-tail it and crawl away or something, but Bert was very well behaved. Also, I am treating my mild toe fungus with tea tree oil (seems to be working, but it's a long slow process growing out a big toenail). And, as you can see, I taught myself how to knit socks. This one is from my second pair. I dyed the mostly-purple yarn myself. I made some avocado hummous yesterday (and served it in little endive/chicory boats with cucumber) and I still have some leftover. I am going to make a beet, potato, and red onion salad (with olive oil, dill, and cider vinegar) this afternoon. Hmmm, maybe I'll make a carrot-onion-beet salad with a mustard dressing, too. Or I could cook some barley and make a barley-celery salad. So many choices. Bert is being super cute, I gotta go! 9 comments | post a comment
 Happy first birthday, Bert! 16 comments | post a comment
me: I've been a vegetarian for years, I always prepared to defend myself and my diet. health visitor: good. me: :| :/ >:o I've already started compiling a book of recipes and have started a diary of what I feed him. I am kind of enraged at the moment because no one has bothered to ask me what I feed him and I am being judged on what I'm not feeding him. 19 comments | post a comment
Anyway, the other day, I went out and picked wild garlic and stinging nettle tips. I got about a carrier bag of each of them. I've made wild garlic and walnut pesto, nettle soup, nettle and wild garlic soup, pasta with wild garlic and mushrooms, and wild garlic pancakes. Stinging nettle tastes like spinach, although a little more metallic (possibly due to it's high mineral content?). Wild garlic greens taste like green onion crossed with chives crossed with garlic crossed with onion. So, oniony, in a green way. The bulbs, which are so small, I didn't bother to pick many, taste like green onions crossed with garlic. Or maybe chivey. All the food tastes pretty fantastic, except for the nettle soup, which was rather plain. I had a couple of the pancakes with margarine, but most of them were eaten in soup. I just learned about pancake soup. It's a German-thing and it is a very tasty German thing. I am all out of nettles, but I froze a whole medium-sized ziplock bag crammed full of wild garlic and I still have about a handful of fresh ones leftover for something tomorrow. Fried with rice, perhaps? I am going to eat more nettle-wild garlic soup now. OM NOM NOM. 5 comments | post a comment
I took Bert in for a check-up on Tuesday and because I jokingly mentioned he likes to eat paper, the lady flipped out and thinks because he's vegetarian that he has iron deficiency and she told me I should not only get him iron drops, but also start feeding him rice crispies or corn flakes because they are fortified. When I told her I don't approve of cereals that add salt and sugar unnecessarily, she told me it's okay for babies to eat sugar and fat, like I'm raising Bert with some eating disorder and putting him on a grapefruit diet or something. Anyway, I told her I would feed him some fucking rice crispies, but when I went to the store, I kind of flipped out reading the ingredients and couldn't do it. I am not comfortable feeding Bert something I wouldn't eat myself. I looked for the health-food equivalent in the store and they had "crisped rice" with no sugar or salt, but it wasn't fortified. Mark says I am getting unnecessarily worked up about all of this. Anyway, I am compiling babyfood recipes to bring to his next appointment so when they try to get all cranky on me, I can whip out the book and show them how well he eats. I can't believe that with all the crap people around here feed their kids these days, that I am getting flack for refusing to feed Bert meat and dairy. (She also said as an alternative, I could supplement with formula and I said absolutely no way.) She was nice about the whole thing, but I could tell she secretly is all worried he's going to get rickets and scurvy and anaemia and stuff. You know how some people have obsessive-compulsion about cleaning? Obviously, I don't have that, but I am totally OCD about healthy food. I don't know anyone short of celebrities with personal chefs who eat better than I do, even if I do indulge on a few too many digestives. ;p 21 comments | post a comment
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The Morrisons in Partick has a Polish food shelf and on that shelf is this fantastic dark rye-wheat 50-50. I usually don't make it to Partick because it's nearly a 2-hour trip, but I was there twice last week (and got 2 loaves of rye). Rye is impossibly hard to find in this part of Scotland. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that, like pretzels, Rye is not a big thing in the UK and thus is not found in most shops.
If someone can draw a high-res cartoon of me in the style of Bewitched, I will update Galvanic Mag ASAP. Otherwise, we will all have to wait until I get the cartoon done myself and who knows how long that will take. I'm not drawing until I get another legwarmer and a quarter finished. ;p post a comment
 kim jong il wondering why everyone is fussing about a power cut Originally uploaded by chloe & mark nightingale I also scared the shit out of him with a balloon yesterday. I got one in a "goodie bag" or promo stuff at the Nearly New Baby Sale in Partick yesterday. Anyway, I blew it up and deflated it and he freaked out. Now it's blown up and tied and he won't go near it and flips out if you try to show it to him. Bert and I were out for 8 hours yesterday and although he was very tired (in a probable-growth-spurt kind of way), he was so well-behaved and sweet! He was giving me these big tonguey kisses in this one charity shop (and these 2 ladies were laughing) and laughing when I went mwah-mwah-mwah-mwah-mwah in his ear while walking to the grocery store. And then we went home (I missed a train by a couple minutes and so it took 3 hours to get home instead of 2) and had strawberries, which he also loved! Okay, he is eating breakfast in his high chair and seems to need my attention now -- bye! 6 comments | post a comment
Clappin' (Extended version) Originally uploaded by chloe & mark nightingale I awoke this morning to li'l Bert poking me with his feet. It was obvious from his expression that he was pleased his poking and prodding efforts succeeded and when I sat up, he leaned over to my right boob, mock-sucked at the nipple through my shirt, and then looked at me very intently. I hadn't put a packet of digestives (tea biscuits) away (from my shopping yesterday) and after "breakfast," he crawled over to the packet and had nibbled a hole in it to munch some crumbs before I had the chance to stop him. While most kids enjoy children's television theme songs, nursery rhymes, and playing with toys, Bert enjoys the theme songs from Voyager and Enterprise, rap, and digging through my handbag. He likes magazines, too, although he equally likes his kid's books. He likes playing with my yarn, although he doesn't usually make too much of a mess with it). And he LOVES it when I brush his teeth. He is a bottomless pit when it comes to bananas and broccoli and he loves my hummous and spicy curries. Okay, he is really not picky about food and will pretty much eat anything I give him except for avocado, which I have to disguise in little sandwiches (I sprinkle it with nutritional yeast in the wee sammiches and sometimes add my homemade pesto or soya yoghurt -- mmmmm). I can also get him to clap and gimmie-five on command. Having a little baby slap you some skin is just about the awesomest most fun thing ever. 10 comments | post a comment
In the spirit of this:
Two things happened yesterday.
Bert is now crawling around the room squeaking happily. My stomach is too full for squeaking. Bert was really sick with a cold this past week or so. I knew he was ill when he fell asleep eating breakfast in his high chair. Although his nose is still running, he seems a LOT better today. He just crawled onto my sleeping bag and is starting to fall asleep. Self-imposed naps, I like that. I taught myself to knit socks. It's not nearly as hard as it looks. I've knitted two pairs of socks, but I have to stop knitting them for a moment and finish up a wrap I started knitting about a month ago. 10 comments | post a comment
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