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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL, ANOTHER OUTFIT ….

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT …

Chloe is rocking today a casual look in this printed jumpsuit from LINEX. Look is finished with this cute headband from River Island Mini.

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL ….

AUBERGINE CURRY

Ingredients:

– 1 aubergine (sliced)

– 1 small carrot (sliced)

– 1/2 a red pepper (sliced)

– 1 onion

– 1 chicken/turkey breast (sliced or cut in to a small cubes if you don’t give your baby blended food)

– 1 tsp of mild chicken curry

– 100g of rice

– 400ml of coconut milk

– 1 garlick cove

Cooking instruction

Cook your rice fallowing cooking instructions.

Fry aubergine till soft and leave it to the side. Fry onion until gold then the add chicken and curry powder and garlic. Fry for a minute or two then add coconut milk.

Add you aubergine pepper and carrot and simmer fora round 15 minutes (making sure your chicken and carrot is cooked).

If you still introducing texture to your babes main meals blend your curry together and add your cooked rice for texture. If your baby eats solids make sure that all of your veg are cut in to small pieces (cut aubergine after frying it).

What is great about this recipie is that you can eat it as well ! For a grow up version don’t add carrot or pepper, add salt and season depending on how space you like it 🙂

DESSERT :

Fresh fruit selection, today grapes and blueberries . If your baby is smal remember to cut grapes in half as they are chocking hazard.

YOU ALL NEED ONE !

BABY STUFF - DO WE NEED ALL OF IT ?

I must say before I got pregnant I didn’t know that nappy bins existed 😂 I have to say they are briliant ! I will advance everyone to get one ! They are handy, look good and what’s the most important locks all of the smelly smells away ! You can gret one in white, pink or blue !

I have the Tommee Tippee Sangenic Nappy Disposal System – Pink. It individually seals each nappy away in seconds offering anti-bacterial protection from germs and odours.

Thank god for Coffeeshops !! 😊

MY BABY EXPERIENCE

I have never spend so much time in a coffeeshop as I do while on maternity leave. They bring normality in to my life! On the beginning before I meet my Mums gang I would go to one to be round people and so I cant see all of the stuff which need to be done at home. I would buy lots of magasines have a cake (we all deserve it !!!!!) and my decafe (breastfeeding) coffee (lots of it) while Chloe was sleeping (they do sleep a lot of the beginning) .

You know the time when they are still quite small (3 months or so) and you are trying to establish a routine and they don’t want to sleep … Of we went in the pram for a walk and as soon as she would fall asleep I would head to a coffeeshop, we all know that you can’t go home because as soon as you open the door baby is wide awake !!!

Now is all about socialising.Yummy mummies with our perfect prams pushing our perfect baby stroll in to a coffee shop and take it over moving all of the tables and chairs so we can park 8 prams, and fit 8 highchairs on top of all of the space that we mums need – the customers and the owners hate us !

LUNCH TIME ! Some great accesories which I love !

MY BABY EXPERIENCE

Weaning is so much fun and I love going out for lunch with Chloe; I recon Chloe enjoyed it more as she has food, lots of distraction and a lot of attention (the 3 things that she can’t live without). But you need so much stuff : wipes, antibacterial wipes, pot with main meal, pot with a dessert, pot with snacks, bib, water, spoon, lunch bag, some toys etc…..

I found lots of very good items out there which make the whole proved a bit easier or just a bum more fun.

1. MAM spoon.

What is great about this spoon is that it comes with a cover! It’s such a smal but genius idea! You know that your spoon is clean and ready for your baby to use it, and once your lunch is over you don’t need to worry about cleaning it or the spoon staining your lunch bag. It comes in few different colours.

2. MAM bowl.

What is great about this bowl is that it’s separated in two so you can have your dinner and a dessert in one container. The way is seperated is very good as it doesn’t let one food lik in to the other part of the container. Saves a lot of space !

3. Lunch bag

There is so many amazing lunch bags out ther, choice is very big. My favourite one will be the one made by SKIP HOP. They do an animal range which is the cuttest ever. We have two now: a zebra one and unicorn one. They are beautiful and so much fun for kids. Chloe loves to play with her bag!

There is a very big choice depending on what you like or what animal your baby loves😊

Do you have any great lunch gadgets or items that you cannot live without or just love ? Please share with me and others!

Work 😫😫😫

MY BABY EXPERIENCE

I had to slowly start thinking about work. Needing to organise meeting with work to talk about returning after maternity; organise some keep in touch days so I know what was happening while I was gone (fashion never sleeps as we say where I work-lots to catch up on) and the worst of all needing to start to leave my little precious girl with other people.

Unfortunately due to my work I won’t be able to go back part time … This makes it harder, especially that all of the other mums are going back back part time.

I started to make small steps by having grandparents over for few hours observing how I do things with Chloe. Then leaving Chloe for an hour, then for 3 hours (it was the longest I could do).

First of my keep in touch days Chloe’s grandad was looking after her … With my husband who I made to work from home so he can keep an eye on everything. Not that there is anything to worry about, Grandad is amazing withChloe, and he knows what he is doing but I just can’t bring myself to leave her for more than few hours with anyone other than my husband. I have done 2 keep in touch days so far and because my husband was working from home it wasn’t too bad… I just don’t know how will I be able to go back full time to work???!!!!! Right now I don’t know how I will do it… I will have to somehow… Everyone else is doing it so it can’t be that bad???? My friend just went back to work and she is loving it ???? Just thinking about it is stressing me out !!!!

MUSHROOM PASTA

DINNER RECIPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL…

MUSHROOM PASTA
Ingredients:

– 100g baby pasta

– 1 onion (finely chopped)

– 100g brown mushrooms (finely chopped)

– 150ml chicken stock

– 50g cooked chicken (optional)

– 2tbsp of double cream

– 20g parmesan

– 1 garlic

Cooking instructions:

Cook your pasta according to instruction. Fry onion till soft and golden. Add mushrooms and fry for around 4-5 min then add garlic. Add chicken stock and cooked chicken, then a double cream.

Add pasta in to the mix then parmesan and it’s ready to serve!

SALMON NUGGETS

DINNER RECIPE, YUMMY BABY & KIDS RECIPES

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

Today I have made Salmon nuggets accompanied by sweet potato and great bins. This will be Chloe’s first dinner made only of finger food.

Ingredients:

– 150g of Salmon

– 30g of breadcrumbs

– 15g of Parmesan

– 1/2 tsp of Lemon zest

– 1 egg beaten

Cooking method :

Heat your oven to 200 C.

Make sure that Salmon has no bones or skin. Cut in to a bit size pieces. Combine parmesan with breadcrumbs and lemon zest.

Put salmon in to the bowl with egg then coat it in your breadcrumb mix.

Bake for 15 min (until golden) on a non sticking baking paper.

You can serve it with whatever you want or just as a snack. I served it with boiled sweet potato (sweet potato wedges are great alternative), steamed green beans and peas.

DESSERT:

A bowl of fresh fruits

NURSING CHAIR good buy or waist of money????

BABY STUFF - DO WE NEED ALL OF IT ?

When you look at photos of nurseries, or set up rooms in the baby shops they always have nursing chair/ feeding chair.

This automatically makes you think that you need one … But they aren’t the pretties things and they are very expensive.

My werdict is that it’s a waste of money. Why? If you fallow the NHS guidance on how to look after your new born it will mean that you will have your baby sleeping next to you in your bedroom. When you get up 10 times in the middle of the night to feed, trust me you don’t pick up your baby then move to sit on the chair, you just do it on your bed (I am breastfeeding so not sure if this same applies to bottle feeding).

Also at 6 months when you move your baby to its room you don’t feed them that often, and if you are lucky enough your baby will be sleeping through the night all together!

But when you are a first time mum to be you think that it makes sense so you buy one, so did I. Difference is that I bought a lovely armchair which I will be using for much longer than feeding baby. So my advice is use an armchair/chair which you already have or buy one which you love and can use after in your house!

What is your experience ? What is your opinion? Please share.

Winter Jacket which one to choose ??!!!

YUMMY BABY & KIDS FASHION

Yes it is already this time of the year. I know that you are thinking: it’s still hot, I don’t need to buy it for another couple of months. You are wrong! Remember that fashion world works on average one season in advance, and trust me those beauties won’t be round for long. And with baby getting dirty so quickly and so often you will need more than one … Which is a great news right? 😊

For a bit older babies :

Green parka by H&M (we already own one😊) Beige coat by H&M, Leather jacket by River Island and Pink parka by ZARA

Few more fabulous coats to choose from. Grey coat from Mamas & Papas, Leopard print coat from River Island, Beige coat from NEXT.

For small babies / newborn

There is a very cute selection for the tinies babies, practical doesn’t mean boring !

Both of those are from GAP. This quilted velvet all in one is such a great winter choice for a boy.

This Brown bear all In one is from H&M (come also In white) And this beatyfull pink one is from Mamas & Papas.

VEGETABLES WITH RICE

DINNER RECIPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

Vegetables with rice

Ingrediants:

– 1 broccoli (I used frozen)

– 1 small sweet potatoe

– handful of young broad beans (I used frozen)

– 60g of peas

– vegetable stock (around 100ml but it depends what consistency you want)

– 100g of rice

Cooking:

Steam sweet potato an broccoli for 8min.

Then add peas and beans for another 5 minutes.

While steaming vegetables cook your rice and prepare the vegetable stock.

Because my princess is still at the stage 2 of weaning I blend all of the ingediance (except the rice). Add vegetable stock while doing so, if you want it more runny add more, if you want it to be quite thick add less.

Once blended add rice, and it’s ready to serve. You can ado add cooked chicken in to it.

DESSERT : Yogurt and blueberries pancakes

Ingrediants:

– yogurt 200ml

– flower

– 1 tsp baking powder

– 150g blueberries

Cooking:

Comine all of the ingrediants together except blueberries. Mix until smooth then add blueberries.

Fry for a minute or two (until golden) on each side. Great as a snack or when introducing finger food.