My first week of Hello Fresh

Welcome back! That is what i am imagining you all saying right now as i continue the bloggers journey.

This month i decided our family needed something more than our go to recipes and for once i needed to not be making the choice of whats for dinner!

Welcome to Hello Fresh was the most wonderful email i received after taking the leap and removing the long drawn out decision making process that dinner time had become.

I was even more excited when the following week i heard the box land on my door step and scurried to see what was inside.

Hello Fresh Cold box!

Almost like Christmas!

Four recipe cards

 It was fantastic, 99% of the food inside was in perfect condition, the 1% unfortunately being two cucumbers that were a little overripe and not edible.
 Day one consisted of chicken noodle stir-fry with an amazingly flavourful marinate turned sauce.

This meal was super easy to cook and only took 25 mins between prepping and having it on plates. Only two of the kids wouldn't eat the veg, but they ate their fair share of the noodles which kept their tummies happy.

 The second night we ate garlic chicken, mash potato and veggies. I admit, I used bacon wrapped around my chicken to keep it more moist since it was being placed in the oven and i didn't want it to dry out! Every member of the household ate this meal, it was soo loved that little miss 2 was asking for it for nearly a week after we ate it.

Day three of our trial we had these amazing steak and salad burgers. They had a beetroot relish and marinated steak that melted in our mouths. This was the first time all my kids had been given a whole piece of steak each, cut into strips and not a single piece was left when dinner came to an end. I was super impressed with this meal because it made my teen realise that steak is not a bad word. lol





I did not get around to taking a picture of night number four, but it was the least amazing of all the meals. It was a bacon and Parmesan risotto, but it came out fairly bland and did not look anywhere near as appetizing as the rest. It took lots of energy to get my kids to eat it all but im sure there is always going to be a meal that just doesn't stick.

Overall it was a very pleasant experience, and for the reduced price we got it at, $20 cheaper than normal, it was cost efficient, however until the price comes down again i probably would prefer to download the recipes from the Hello Fresh website and order the food from Coles..

Hope to see you all again soon for our next adventure!

Trins

Tongue Tied

Have you ever had a child that isn't satisfied, whether it was being fed from a breast or a bottle?
Well i did. When i brought the problem up to the midwife at a clinic for baby check ups, i was told i must be doing something wrong. If she had put her finger in his mouth she would have found a small membrane connecting the underside of the tongue to the floor of his mouth.

Many people assume that being tongue tied is just an expression, but the truth is it is a problem that can affect a small amount of infants and children.
My son could not lick an ice cream, could not suck on a bottle properly and when he started to talk it sounded like he had a lisp.

When i took my son to my local doctor at fourteen months old and insisted he check my son’s mouth and tongue, he referred me to the hospital to get the problem resolved surgically.
I never made it to the hospital for his appointment due to a previous engagement my mother had with a skin clinic. Inside, moments before we were leaving for our hospital appointment we got talking to a couple whose child had also been tongue tied and like me, had an appointment at the hospital. After chatting with the couple i found out that they would refuse to fix the problem until he reached the age of four, and that by then he would need large amounts of speech therapy to help him catch up with other children his age.

When i looked down to their child i realised that she was licking a lolly pop without any problems. When i asked how old she was i was informed that she was now fifteen months old, and had already had her tongue fixed by a clinic in the city whom specialised in this particular condition and also circumcision.

I made an appointment with the same clinic the couple had used, and two weeks later we went and had the problem fixed. It took two minutes, no surgery. The smallest amount of pain and within ten minutes he was back to his normal self. He is now four has a better speech pattern then most children his age now and will never have any long term effects.
I am very, very thankful that I had that encounter, as all of my children so far have been tongue tied now and I have managed to get the rest of them all fixed up within a week of them being born and have not had any problems with development or feeding outside of the first month(when they need to relearn to suckle due to increased milk flow).

It can all be diagnosed with one check of their mouth, ask your gp or paediatrician if you have any worries that your child might be tongue tied. 

Thank you for reading, I am trying to update a little more often now!

Trins