24 June 2009

Bye-bye Alma. We will miss you!

My awesome grammie died. She had 7 kids and was a domestic and crafting goddess. Rumour has it, she made EVERY SINGLE RECIPE in the Joy of Cooking cookbook.

18 June 2009

towards the end of a long day


Bompkins woke up in the middle of the night last night, so I let him sleep with me and this morning, I could tell he was awake, but I was tired and was pretending to still be asleep in case he decided to have mercy on me and fall back asleep, too. He didn't, but he crawled on top of me and gave me a big wet open-mouthed kiss. It was so sweet, I could have cried. It absolutely made my morning. I really love that kid.

11 June 2009

Bompkins's food diary...


I've typed up some of Bompkins's food diary. Basically, I let him eat as much or as little as he wants and don't force him to eat anything he doesn't like. He is not a picky eater at all and he usually eats a ton. On top of this, I give him diluted apple juice and breastfeed him 2-3 times a day. I like to try to give him a protein, a grain, and fruit or veg at every meal. Certain grains like millet, buckwheat, and quinoa, are actually seeds, so they have a lot of protein & amino acids in them already.
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)