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Ba Ba Ba Food Recipes

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This was the most suitable picture I had hahaahahahahaa

2nd post for the day, hooray! Some people seem interested in the recipes I use for O's food. This week he has roasted vegetables, macaroni and a fruit mix. We will add meat/chicken when appropriate. He mostly has a vegetarian diet to be honest. The recipes are below. With the roast vegetables you could easily add some curry spices and make little curry puffs or add some chicken stock and make a soup or pasta sauce or chuck it into some ravioli. It would also work well as a pizza base topping thingy if it had a dash of water or stock added to it to make it more wet. The fruit mix would be awesome frozen into cubes and then blended up to make a slushy with ginger ale and VODKA! Or you could not mash it not so much and use it as a pie filling or what not. I added it to natural yogurt for O.

Roast Vegetables:
This week we used, eggplant, sweet potato, potato, pumpkin, carrot, asparagus, 1/2 clove of garlic. Chop, give them a light mist with olive oil. Roast then whizz up till mashed or pureed, add some water if required. To serve you can add spices, cheese or lemon zest or whatever.

Fruit Mash:
Today I did 2 apples, 1 nashi pear and 2 handfuls of raspberries with some grated ginger and a couple of taps of All Spice. Whizzed it up.

With both of them I freeze down in 80ml containers. The fruit I put in a little less than half so around 30mls or so.

Sorry if this is boring for some of you!!!!

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Hey Fatty

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I've been thinking a lot lately about Orlando's body image and how I want him to grow up in regards to his perception of his physical self. When I think about my own childhood I clearly remember talking about how fat we were as early back as grade 4. We would have been 8/9/10 years old then. Recently I started clearing out boxes in the garage and came across diaries, SO many diaries with the usual trials and tribulations of being a teenager. There were the "I hate my brother because he did this" entries the "I'm running away from home" entries and the "I LOVE him" entries with the love calculations of our names together - 32% IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE. Then there were the lists of what I'd eaten, if I'd thrown up that day. The earliest I found of these troubling entries was in year 8. So sad. I was never super skinny, never looked "sick". I highly doubt most people would have known about my secret activity. But it was going on. Absolutely pointless at the end of the day but never the less it happened. I wish I could go back to my 15 year old self and tell her to stop being so stupid, enjoy the "turkey and cranberry roll from the tuckshop". It's not a bad thing to eat a roll for lunch! I've got to admit much of this naive, desperate behaviour occurred around times when mum was very sick. Perhaps it was my way of controlling my world? Who knows.

There is talk now with Orlando's eating habits. People have told me he eats "too much" and not to feed him anymore - note I have never, ever been told this by his child and maternal nurse. She thinks his development is fantastic. I have tried to cut out breastfeeds, he wakes up during the night crying for a feed and consequently gets 2 or 3 more than usual. So I stopped that. I have tried feeding him less solids, then the same night waking happens. So I'll just keep on going on and ignore what people say. He is thriving, he isn't "fat" or abnormally huge. I say he will be huge like his father but I literally mean he will be a huge almost 200cm like his father. He will tower over me one day.

The last thing I want is for Orlando to go through body image issues (they have been documented to be on the rise for males). I want him to look at people as a person not as fat, skinny, ugly, pretty, black, white, purple polka dot. He needs to make decisions about people based on their personalities - are they kind, respectful, honest. Do they make him happy or sad, scared or comfortable. 

To this end I'm thinking of banning fat talk, fatty talk, "I wish I was skinny" talk from the house. Crazy? Perhaps. But isn't it better to talk about how fantastic vegetables are and how they make your body happy and glow. Don't we all remember that carrots make you see in the dark? I want him to have a comfortable, honest, healthy relationship with food. Not to be scared of a turkey and cranberry roll.

It might sound somewhat silly to already be thinking about these things but it's no more silly (in my books) than introducing a plethora of other growing up tools from respecting his own body to learning a second language. Why wait, when the foundations are being built now.

Just some thoughts for today.

xox

When To Stop

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I'm making this blog public again (it was on private for a spell). A few people have said they want to access recipes and pregnancy stories/lists so it just seems easier to leave it public. That said, I won't be blogging in the foreseeable future. I think that for now I want to focus on my family and life beyond the glow of a computer screen. Blogging has never been and will never be a money making venture for me and neither is it a career. There are very few who can climb to those heights and sustain the readership, honesty and creative control along the way. I admire them, but it's not for me. I'm focusing on my career now with study and it's making me happy and somewhat proud of myself for adding to my resume and making myself more valuable in the workforce. I will of course keep "micro blogging" I guess it is called that?! Via the blog Facebook page and keep tweeting and  instagramming. (Links are on the side!) At the end of the day I want to condense what I put out in public, protect Orlando's future. No face photos have been in the public arena since he turned one, he is his own person, with his rights. I also want to protect myself from future employment or ventures on the high seas. 

So thank you amazing, honest, gregarious readers! You have honestly made my day with your comments and interaction over and over again. I've truly relished the ride.


Here's to the future and what a beautiful future it is!

xox

If anyone wants to drop me a line my email is: blithelyunaware@hotmail.com otherwise feel free to DM me on FB through the FB page. 

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Blogger is so easy to use… but it's also dang ugly and restrictive. So I've moved the old bloggy blog to Wordpress, given her a shiny brand new name and hopefully breathed new life in her. There may be a blogging future yet! It's not all sorted out but it's coming along. Please change blog links as this will be deleted soon.

www.mamacitatime.com

xox
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