Parenting
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Can you old farts remember what your first meal as an independent adult was? I bet you it was beer and KFC/fish and chips or spaghetti bolognese/lasagne on the flatmate cooking roster.
Those heat and eat pork n apple snitzels with a ready mix pasta snack and frozen mixed vege. Better living everyone. With a couple of beer to wash it down of course.
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Did someone say Noodles?
Cooked some mean mi goreng the other day. Great stuff but certainly a million miles away from a meal.
Trying to convert my kids from maggi 2 min noodles to mi goreng. Slow going so far but one of them is sold. The lad still reckons maggi is better....cant understand him
You mean the dry noodles?
Well they start dry but you “cook” them in boiling water. Can even boil the jug then chuck em in with the lid off for a bit
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@taniwharugby said in Parenting:
with some fresh white bread to carb-load for the win
Poach some eggs in the msg soup. Delicious
I've never heard of that, sounds outrageously good! We tried to poach eggs in our deep fryer at Uni - they weren't very delicious at all.
I'm not sure you know what these words mean.
the eggs were floating so they was poached...
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Did someone say Noodles?
Cooked some mean mi goreng the other day. Great stuff but certainly a million miles away from a meal.
Trying to convert my kids from maggi 2 min noodles to mi goreng. Slow going so far but one of them is sold. The lad still reckons maggi is better....cant understand him
You mean the dry noodles?
Well they start dry but you “cook” them in boiling water. Can even boil the jug then chuck em in with the lid off for a bit
I like indomie which is basically the same. Crack raw egg in at end and stir to self sauce it
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Back to "Parenting" for a minute - went camping with the boy on the weekend. He's got 70 days left of being a minor at this point, but it is always a risk as he's lazy as fuck and likes to quit on anything except a computer game... he only rage-quits those.
Anyway, he was fairly useful at setting up for the night but still has strength issues with getting his swag done. He's still got low muscle tone and finds lifting things hard, which I was hoping his night shifts at Coles had sorted out by now. Oh well.
The moment of achievement was the hike we undertook - from the campsite to a nearby waterfall, it was probably not unexpected it would involve a significant elevation change, given the campsite was on top of a mountain.
Precision not 100% as the Garmin watch was doing its best against a cliff face, but it paints the picture.
Anyway, despite needing a bunch of rest stops on the way back (half of which I was grateful for), he did it, didn't whinge too much, and thoroughly enjoyed his dinner of scrambled eggs and bacon. That was all despite doing most of the driving that day as well, racking up some hours on his L plates.
Maybe he's finally starting to get it.
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@paekakboyz said in Parenting:
@canefan we are 100% team indomie Blue in our whare. Kids love em.
My Cambodian MIL calls msg Asian salt
MSG rocks.
I have a long-standing plan to get a nice classy personal salt-shaker, to fill with MSG and carry around with me. My goddamn laziness and forgetfulness keeps thwarting me. -
@paekakboyz said in Parenting:
@canefan we are 100% team indomie Blue in our whare. Kids love em.
My Cambodian MIL calls msg Asian salt
MSG rocks.
I have a long-standing plan to get a nice classy personal salt-shaker, to fill with MSG and carry around with me. My goddamn laziness and forgetfulness keeps thwarting me.It's totally worth the follow up thirst & headache.
WE don't cook with it in our house though. Generally use chicken powder for Chinese dishes. Which is much much better, apparently.
Mainly because it contains MSG.
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@mariner4life said in Parenting:
...I honestly don't know what to do next. How the fuck do you discipline kids who don't seem to give a fuck about anything?
Apparently you give them MSG.
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I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
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@no-quarter said in Parenting:
I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
They are still a guilty pleasure for me. Like Cherrios!!! (Especially in a pub in Wellington!!! @Smudge )
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@no-quarter said in Parenting:
I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
Another relic of the 80s and 90s best left there
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@no-quarter said in Parenting:
I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
They are still a guilty pleasure for me. Like Cherrios!!! (Especially in a pub in Wellington!!! @Smudge )
I'm with you on cheerios. I'll fight the kids off at parties to get a few before they've handled them all
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First couple of weeks of flatting at uni is a really great way of identifying whose mum did everything for them at home.
I think my flatmates first meal for us was like, rice, potatoes, tinned spaghetti and sizzlers. gross.