Following on from the boredom and restless post, S has also been busying herself with snacks — problem is we don’t have that many.
This results in umpteen situations where S spends a good half an hour in the kitchen with the fridge door open (the penguins have their papers in at immigration as I type), randomly opening and closing cupboard doors and moving the fruit in the fruit bowl around in ever-diminishing piles.
At the end of a kitchen circuit, S comes and sits at the end of the dining room table (where I’m working at the moment) and says;
“Hmughghg. We’ve got nothing to eat.”
Now the main problem with that statement is that we have loads of stuff to eat, but it all needs to be prepared. Food prep isn’t really an option apparently, but S is distressed that every time she opens the fridge there isn’t a huge Ham boiled in coke, a leg of lam or a slab of lasagna that she can just pick up and eat.
Of course we could just go and buy loads of prepackaged stuff like chips and jelly babies, but we’ve never been huge on that kinda food, so there’s little point starting now. So instead I need to think of more things to make to stick in the fridge from S — any suggestions much appreciated.
Mum was a life saver in this department. For both pregnancies there were cooking bees and the freezer was filled with individual servings (some for maddie, some for me and kel) of things to eat when one couldnt be bothered lifting their body off the couch.
Things like tuna mornay, macaroni cheese, chicken and honey mustard sauce, bolognaise sauce, ham and mushroom pasta sauce, minetrone, pumpkin soupe, lasagne, chocolate cake, blueberry muffins, lemon cream cheese cake, chocolate muffins etc.
An absolute scurvy saver. Otherwise it was pizza one night, thai one night, chinese one night, can soup one night, you get the idea!
Also was great just after babies were born and I was exhausted and sometimes needed a muffin at 2am!