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« on: May 07, 2011, 04:38:53 am »
IN regard Migranes, the natural chemical Amines can be a culprit (found in chocolate, some fruits and vegetables, and nuts).
We are loving thermie for being failsafe. My Full steam ahead cookbook has a heap of post it notes on it to show where the recipes are that we can eat (or easily convert).
I've had my thermomix since October last year.
We tolerate Sals so somethings we eat wont suit all but thought I'd write a list for you to see anyway.
Dim Sums (Use 300grams Chicken and 30grams shallots and 1tsp salt, mix speed 6-7 until a minced consistency about 10 seconds maximum for the filling). Full Steam Ahead.
Apricot Chicken Rissotto. I have been tempted to try it with pears instead too, however as yet have not got there.
I have made failsafe stock concentrate too, and now we adda zuchinni in as well, but it works well with just the failsafe veggies.
We have the everyday cookbook rice pudding minus the spices regularly. I puree pears to go with it and its delicious, kids love it.
I do the Mushroom risotto with carrots and zuchinni instead of mushrooms.
Spag Bol, EDC, just substitute the tomato puree with equal weight of pear ketchup. (Add in any safe veggies).
I use the spag bol with the EDC mashed potaot to make shepherds Pie.
The bread from EDC is made 4-5 times a week.
I modiefied the hot cross buns to suit us (although still used the spices not really sure how they would go without the cinemon).
There must be more, I only cook with thermie now, with the exception of lemon butter which I just cant get thermy to do like I want.
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« on: January 29, 2011, 11:16:07 am »
We all work to the best of our ability. And some days we try and push ourselves way too far, LOL.
Life cant be easy with kids on the Autisitic spectrum, although very rewarding at times too from what I am told. Life with kids in general certainly has moments both ways.
Dh and I are doing a plan for ourselves at the moment. I need to let him cook some nights, and I need to accept that thermie wont be used those nights and that is ok.
Leaving kids home with Dad's for a weekend is sometimes a great reprive, but it does also generally come with catching up consequences. I have two weekends away in March, and while I am desperately looking forward to some kiddie free time, the results will be me playing catch up for a month. But that's the way it goes.
It's often easy to look at someone elses life and say "Gee they do a lot" or "Wow, I could never do that" but its hard to turn back and look at all we acheive in a day too.
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« on: January 28, 2011, 08:22:20 pm »
The trouble is I like making everything from scratch!! I'm going to have to work out how much of what I like I can do .... I did a load of bread making yesterday which should keep us going to at least Tuesday (its mostly in the freezer).
I did have all three children sleep through the night last night and if that keeps up I might actually be able to go to bed later (and may even have a little more energy during the day!)
Thanks again 
Nik
Life does get much better with a full nights sleep or two a week. (Says me who was woken by 3/4 children twice each last night and dragged out of bed at 6am, YAWN!!). You will need to just add cooking into your routines and see how it fits, work out what is actually feasable to do by scratch for the week and do that, or like you did with the bread do a few bulk lots fo things and freeze. Oh and try and lose the guilt about not managing to do it all. 3 kids is a lot of work, and even not working outside the home can create a lot of work too. For instance if you worked 5 days a week and the kids wer in daycare then the house would be left empty for many hours a week and therefore less mess would be created. Staying home creates lots of mess on its own. Best of luck at finding the balance. :-) . Amy (Who is trying hard to find the balance herself).
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« on: January 28, 2011, 08:17:42 pm »
OMG, I couldn't bear the Flylady! The emails drove me crazy! Maybe it's changed....
I haven't got the emails in forever, however still use some of her principes. It doesn't need to be an all or nothing thing. She is also on facebook now and I get the messages there, far less of them there though. I don't shine my sink, but do use the routines as a basis, 4 small kids means mine needs to be adjusted.
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« on: January 28, 2011, 06:37:09 am »
You've got that last sentance the wrong way round Cookie, It should read:
If I had a computor I would need to lock the children away.
Disclaimer: this is said very tongue in cheek, I wouldn't lock my kids away so I could use the computer.
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« on: January 28, 2011, 12:11:35 am »
Watermelon Jam needs added pectin in large quantities or gelatin. It wont set on its own. I gave up trying to get ours to set adn decided I would make roll ups with the failed batch, but that didn't work either, so it then went in the bin. But I didn't add anything else to it to make it roll ups.
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« on: January 27, 2011, 11:50:56 pm »
It is a balance thing. For me I was cooking everything from scratch pre thermomix so bringing it into my kitchen reduced my time in the kitchen significantly. However you cant tell that by the state of my house at the moment.  I too use Flylady. But not a lot of it, I have picked the bits that do work for me, and I ignore the rest. I have 4 children, 3 boys 6,4 and 8 months and one girl about to be 2. So they tend to keep me pretty busy as well. Just find the balance that works for you. If cooking everything from scratch isn't working due to the time, prioritise those that are most important to you and make healthy choices in buying prepackaged things. So for instance you dont need to make bread everyday, you can buy bread from the supermarket and just make sure you choose one without the bad additives (normally the cheap ones are fine). For us we cant eat vinegar, and so the buying bread is not an option, so I make it. Make sure you make it work for your family and don't let yourself feel guilty for not managing it all. We can only do what we can do. :-)
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« on: November 19, 2010, 04:12:53 am »
I have a batch of these cooling in Thermie as I type. Wish they would cool faster, have a ton of jobs to do today.
In regards to how long they keep, the traditional ones I used to put in an airtight container and they would keep for about 2-3 weeks, or rather they were fine for at least 2-3 weeks, we have normally eaten them all by then, so they may well last longer.
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« on: November 04, 2010, 09:25:20 am »
We actually did this at my demo, as strict failsafers we dont have cocoa, and my consultant wanted 'flavoured' custard. LOL.
I found when I made it again that just 15gms of carob powder is much easier to inhale. :-)
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« on: November 04, 2010, 09:08:11 am »
The lowest setting on my oven is 120C, any idea's on how I can do this??
generally you can have the oven on at between the Off & lowest setting and it will come somewhere around the 70 or 80.
Do you have an oven thermometer to check?
I just went and had a play, and if I push the oven back to before 120 the flame goes out, I have a gas oven. I dont have an oven thermometer. I will tyr the tea towel theory tomorrow. No kids at home so it will not be a risk to them.
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« on: October 22, 2010, 11:50:36 am »
Hi All,
I just recieved my TMX today. :-)
I am a SAHM to 4 kids under 6. 3/4 are amine intolerant, and we avoid all artificial additives, colours, flavours, preservatives as recomended by the Failsafe diet. 3/4 kids are also A1 Cow milk protien intolerant.
Looking forward to trying my own cream and we already had ice-cream today :-) Both my boys were thrilled to get icecream, its something we haven't had in a while.
I see so much potential for our cooking :-)
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« on: October 22, 2010, 11:47:04 am »
The lowest setting on my oven is 120C, any idea's on how I can do this??
Thanks for posting the recipe.
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