Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Bubbles on April 28, 2012, 11:44:29 pm
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Hi everyone,
I have had my TMX for about 3 months now, after 4-5 months of discussions with my DH. The day we purchased it I discovered I was pregnant and things went rapidly down hill from there! I have been extremely sick with no energy and my poor brand new TMX has sat on the bench collecting dust! Thankfully I am coming through the worst of it now, and feel as excited and enthusiastic as I should have when we first got it! I work 3 days, and have a DD4, and DS2, so am mainly at this stage looking for easy quick recipes that feed the whole family, with any kind of veggies and meat in it. So far I have cooked Tuna Mornay, Chilli Con Carne, Chow Mien & Mushroom Risotto, all delicious!
I'm excited to be part of this forum.
Regards, Bubbles.
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Welcome to the forum bubbles, you poor thing being so sick. I was lucky with all my pregnancies not to suffer morning sickness. Yuck.
I hope you get a chance to make the most of your TM now your starting to feel a bit better. :)
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Hello and welcome to the forum Bubbles. I am glad the morning sickness has subsided for you. The TMX will make life easy for you. Make some some meals you can freeze for those not so good days.
Take Care
DG xxx
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Hi and welcome to the forum bubbles. Oh I can relate to morning sickness (I was sick all day for months with both of mine), who wants to cook food when you feel like that. Sounds as if things are looking up and some nice meals are being prepared in your TMX. By the time bubby comes along, you will be an old hand at it so with your hands full then, it will be easy to whip the family up a quick meal.
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Hi and welcome to the forum bubbles, i am glad you are feeling better, take care.
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Welcome to the forum and glad you're feeling better. I'll never forget the morning sickness I had when I was pregnant with my twins. I never thought it was going to end! Enjoy finally getting to use your TM.
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Hi Bubbles - glad you're feeling a bit better now. Having a thermomix will certainly help when baby is born and you feel like you need two sets of arms. Whipping up quick meals is easy, and having a stash of frozen meals for THOSE days saves a lot of tears!
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Hi Bubbles and welcome. I can sympathise with you over the morning sickness, mine lasted 7 months and then a prem baby.
I'm very glad you're feeling a little better and can use your wonderful TMX.
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Cookie- sounds like you've done an amazing job. My twins were 27 weeks when they were born and one spent 3 months in hospital and the other 4 months. I think my morning sickness ended about 1 month before they were born!
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welcome bubbles and best of luck with the pregnancy - I am about to purchase my TMX and am interested in finding out what popular meals/snacks people prepare for their children. I would love some ideas on snack options to get my kids through the days and stop pestering me with "mum I'm hungry"
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Have you seen our Babies & Kids (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?board=16.0) section grapesy?
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Well bubbles and grapesy, I think we should encourage each other through these mind boggling first few meals! I only got my TMX last week so am very much a virgin to it all. I'm loving using it and have had great success with breads etc but desperately need inspiration for good nutritious meals for two little boys aged three and eighteen months. I've only made two main meals in it so far and have found that despite doing everything as the recipe states, the chicken seems to disappear and be replaced by LOTS of sauce (delicious but not filling!). It would be great if we have a particular success with a meal to suggest it to each other!
Glad you're over the morning sickness bubbles. I was so lucky with both of my pregnacies not to suffer too badly.
Now, let's get cooking!!!!!!!!! ;D
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Congratulations Madeleine on your pregnancy and arrival of the TMX. enjoy both.
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Disappearing chicken - not good. what were those meals as a matter of interest.
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Butter chicken from the indian cook book and a chicken stroganoff from the official thermomix recipe thingamy. I've since read reviews that people add more than the 500g stated which I will do next time. It didn't all disappear, there just seemed to be a lot less than I had imagined. Or perhaps there was just sooooo much sauce it looked like it had disappeared! Anyway, a learning curve! The butter chicken was divine, way too spicy for kids if you made your own paste. I'd leave out the chillies in the curry next time and just use them in the paste. I'd normally take the heat out by adding yogurt but I couldn't really add any more liquid. My kids are messy at the best of times without that much liquid to throw around!
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Welcome to the forum Bubbles :)
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Welcome to the forum.. Also know how you feel re morning sickness.. With dd who is now 3 i spent almost all of my pregnancy very ill to the point of not supporting someone opening the fridge or dh wering any deodorant.. Hyper sensitive and drove dh a bit bonkers but dont think i will ever forget how ill i felt..
Good to hear your getting back into it.. There are some great meals.. Hav you seen creampuff's list of favourites (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=6470.0).. Its a good place to start. Someone will link it im sure just i dont know how via tapatalk..
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Thankyou 😊
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Hi Bubbles and a very warm welcome to the forum! You'll love it here!! So glad you're finally getting over the morning sickness. With my first it was the other way around . . . fine in the morning . . . but around 4pm or so it would start. Living in New York at that time and I remember leaving work at around 5pm and walking back to the apartment from my subway stop - past several Indian (and other) restaurants who were cooking up a storm in preparation for the evening's customer onslaught. Normally, those wonderful heady aromas just heightened the hunger pangs - but during those months it was enough to propel me through the door, into the bathroom . . . and into bed! ??? (On the brighter side - at least I could get to work quite happily in the morning! ;D) Isn't it great when it finally settles down ;D
Enjoy your adventures with your TMX - you'll have a ball!!! ;D
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Welcome to the forum Bubbles. Hopefully the TMX will make preparing meals quick and easy for you.
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Wow thank you all for your lovely welcoming messages! I've never joined a forum before (although read many) and am so glad to have joined such a friendly helpful group of people! Also, I don't know anybody else personally who has a TMX (apart from my consultant) so I am excited to be able to chat with people about it, and already I am getting some great advice!
Thank you Judydawn for the Babies and Kids section recommendation, I hadn't looked at that yet, and now have so many inspirations for healthy snacks! I thought I was just going to get healthy dinners at this stage, but a lot of those lunchbox ideas look super easy :)
Also thank you Frozzie for the link to cream puff's list of favourites, I can't wait to have a good look through all of those as well.
I agree Brumington that it is mind boggling! My kids (4 & 2) both enjoyed the two risottos I have made, and you can put in any veggies that you want, and I added chicken as well, it is in the Everyday Cooking book and is super easy. I have NEVER had success with risotto before, always feeling too exhausted to eat it after standing at the stove for what felt like 3 hours stirring!!! When I made the Tuna Mornay my DD4 actually said it was 'too tasty' which is quite embarrassing really, -obviously she is just used to the bland packet stuff I have been serving her up for the past 4 years lol! But the second time she liked it, so I can recommend that at this early stage Brumington & grapesy83 (I am just going for simple quick nutritious meals for the whole family at the moment).
Thanks everyone for the sympathy re the morning sickness, it is nice to actually be able to enjoy the aromas coming from the TMX, rather than running from them straight to the bathroom!
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Bubbles so glad to see the TMX helping you out. Tuna Mornay is one of our staples. We had it for dinner last night. So quick and easy. Whilst the pasta is cooking on the stove I make the cheese sauce. There is always leftovers to freeze for those times I don't feel like cooking.
DG xxx
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This forum is the best thing invented since sliced bread ;D
Oh and of course the TM. ;D
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Good to see you have found some recipes and snacks for the kids. Happy thermomixing.
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Hi Bubbles (and bub-2-be!!! ;) ) and welcome to the forum.
Morning sickness is seriously the pits - I had it for 3/5 of my pregnancys, the 2 I didn't have it for ended in misscarriage, so while it is gross, hang in there and remember it's all for the best!!!!!!!! :P
You will LOVE your TM once you get into the way of it - I think I'd feel like I had my arms cut off if I lost my TM now!!! Also I'm sure you will love it for baby food (once bub arrives and gets to that stage) and I also found it AWESOME for steam steralizing breast pumps, bottles, teats and the odd dummy - which meant another appliance I could get rid of! :D :D
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Oh I didn't even think of the steam sterilising mcmich! It just gets better and better! And yes, I can't wait to see how long it takes me to cook and puree fruit, compared to previously using my saucepan and mouli, that will be worth the $s investment just in itself I think!
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I also found it AWESOME for steam steralizing breast pumps, bottles, teats and the odd dummy - which meant another appliance I could get rid of! :D :D
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i will need this tip soon ;D how long do you need to leave the bottles, teats and dummys in for?
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I think from memory it was about 15-20 minutes to steam steralize the baby stuff.... it was very handy to be able to fit so many in at a time as well.
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Hi Bubbles, and welcome to the forum.
Robyn :)
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I wasn't sure where to put this, so have put it here. I was looking at my first post about cooking fast easy and economical meals for the whole family. And I just wanted to say how I can't believe how easily I'm doing that :D after only 6 weeks of using the TMX, I'm cooking such a super variety of healthy, easy but cheap meals for all our family :D :D I'm over the moon! Down here in the south west of Vic the weather is rubbish and we all get sick this time of year (this time last year my DD3 had the flu) and touch wood none of us have been sick yet, and I think its the healthy cooking, and the huge difference in spare time I have now that I cook using the TMX. I'm just so much more happier with the TMX than I thought I would be, and feel like telling everyone I know to buy one!!
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Go on Bubbles... tell everyone about it! ;) Think you will find alot of us do!!!!! I got told I should sell them as I sing TM praises whenever anyone asks about them!! Think they just do that to ya! :D
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lol Bubbles, it's so nice to hear from newer TM members how much difference a TM is making in their lives. Well done sounds like your loving your TM :)