Hi everyone,
Just wanted to introduce myself as a new person to thermomix and to this forum!  We have had our TMX for just over a month now, and it has changed my life!  I sent an email to Jo (Quirky Cooking) about our TMX experiences, and she suggested I post it here too - so here it is!  I am SOOO looking forward to getting inspiration and advice from this forum too - now that I have found it!

I have 2 little boys (3 ½ and 1) and have a full-time job that involves lots of on-call and out of hours work.  My husband has taken extended leave without pay from his job to stay home and care for the kids (I am very lucky), rather than having them in fulltime childcare.  And whilst he is a FABULOUS father and looks after them so well, he is not much for planning and preparing food.  And having good, wholesome, nutritious food for the family is really important to me.  So I used to work long hours all week, and then spend my evenings and weekends planning food, shopping, preparing food for the week and cleaning up afterwards.  I ended up exhausted and resentful and having a real love-hate relationship with food, not to mention missing out on important time with the kids and with DH.  DH used to tell me to give myself a break and to take “short cuts” in the kitchen to make life easier, but everytime I looked at something that was a shortcut, it seemed to compromise the quality of the food, or have heaps of artificial additives in it, and I just couldn’t bring myself to serve up most of the “quick’n’easy” pre-prepared options that I could find in the supermarket. 

And then one day a friend invited me to a TMX demo – and it all changed!  Now I can whip up fabulous, tasty, nutritious meals in minutes and with minimal mess in the kitchen.  And finding your blog has opened up a whole new world of cooking for me, using far more wholefoods that I would have previously, introducing me to new ingredients and making so many things from scratch ourselves!  And an added bonus is that DH obviously loves a “gadget” and has taken to the TMX like a duck to water, and when I get home from work now he has whipped up all sorts of things in it during the day (the other day I got home to find a new batch of vege stock concentrate in the fridge, homemade milo powder, a cake cooling on the bench, stewed rhubarb and apple cooling down and tuna pasta made for dinner for the kids 

So between the TMX and your blog, I am far more relaxed, enjoy cooking again, have far more time with the kids and have a much better relationship with DH – and still serving up wonderful healthy food!

I cannot thank you enough …….