I had to take my son Daryl to the hospital yesterday (Monday 18th July). He was booked in to have his toe nails on his big toes on both feet removed. The Podiatrist said that it wouldn’t take long so I could sit in the room with him. He sat in the large chair and they started injecting the chemical which would numb his toes into them. He was cringing and closed his eyes so I was making a joke of it all and in the end I couldn’t help myself but laugh. So instead of him concentrating on the pain he was telling me to shut up and not laugh, but he ended up laughing in the end. They pulled off the Nail with a tool which looked like pliers. Then put a chemical on the bed where the nail was, to stop the nail from re-growing and then some bandages to protect from infection.
Afterwards, we went into Penrith and had a latte at The Lounge, and did a little shopping. Daryl was struggling to walk around Penrith so we got back into the car and came home. Back at home he went and lay on his bed with his feet up so that it would help his toes to stop bleeding. I then got on with sorting out The Summer Activities for Bailey bop and filling in a mountain of application forms and mountain of letters for clubs and stuff.
I made lamb and mint steaks with big fat chips and medley of vegetables and lamb gravy for dinner. I only ate half the steak, 4 chips and 2 tblspns of veg, but I loved every mouthful of it. I love the fact that I can still eat any of the foods which I used to eat but just in far smaller amounts, which was the whole point of the surgery. I have a load of low fat recipes, which I shall start posting here, when I do a new blog.
So the recipe for today is:-
Mediterranean Chicken & Vegetable Ring
Ingredients
2 pkts Ready Rolled Puff Pastry 1 Courgette
1 Carrot 1 Small Red Onion
4oz Broccoli 1 Red Pepper
1 Medium Chicken Breast 2 Garlic Cloves
4oz Wensleydale or Low fat cheese 100g Low Fat Philladelphia
3 tbsp mayonnaise (Fat Free/Low Fat) 2 tbsp Sundried Tomato Paste
Beaten Egg to glaze
Method
Preheat oven 200°c/400°f/Gas Mark 6
1. Place your Chicken Breast into the Small Micro-Cooker, place in the microwave and cook on full power for approximately 4 min. Check and if required place back into the Microwave for a further few min. When cooked leave at the side to cool and continue on with the recipe.
2. Take your Large Grooved Cutting Board and place grooved side upwards. Take the Food Chopper and chop all the vegetables. Pre cut the vegetables in smaller portions with the 9-cm Paring Forged Cutlery. Place in the Classic Batter Bowl.
3. Using the Microplane Adjustable Grater, grate the cheese into the Classic Batter Bowl.
4. Using the Garlic Press, press the garlic and place into the Classic Batter Bowl.
5. Using the Measure All Cup, measure the sundried tomato paste, mayonnaise and the Philadelphia, then place into the Classic Batter Bowl.
6. Take your Mix ‘N Scrape and mix all the ingredients in your Classic Batter Bowl.
7. Using your 9-cm Paring Forged Cutlery, slice the chicken breast into several slices. Next, take the Food chopper and chop. Place into the Classic Batter Bowl and mix.
8. Turn your Large Grooved Cutting Board over and place your pastry onto the board and cut into 3 even sections. Then cut each section diagonally from corner to corner to give you 6 triangles.
9. Arrange pastry triangles in a circle on the Classic Round Stone & Medium Rack with wide end of triangles overlapping in the centre and pointed ends towards the outside. Press overlapping edges together to seal.
10. Using the Large Scoop place the mixture onto the widest end of triangle. Bring outside points of the pastry up and over the filling. Tuck under the dough at the centre of the ring.
11. Using the Chef’s Silicone Basting, brush the pastry with beaten egg.
Bake 25-30 min.
Cut into portions with the Pizza Cutter & serve using the Mini-Serving Spatula. If you do not eat meat then you can just omit the chicken stage from the menu and you have a vegetarian option.
If you are interested in any of the utensils mentioned in the blog then please message me on khtraining@aol.com and I can let you know.
Today, Tuesday 19th July, I went for my 4 weekly weight check up. I had a really busy morning with a meeting for the Learning to Change Cumbria Parent Steering Group. This is what Learning to Change is all about:
Learning to Change in Cumbria
Is a group of parents/carers in Cumbria who have children with disabilities. These parents/carers are particularly keen that their views are heard and understood and inform and influence the development of all services for their children- as first recommended by the previous government in "Aiming high for disabled children: better support for families" - May 2007.
Parents & carers of children with disabilities meeting and working together for support and change.
The group has gone from strength to strength over the past 3 years and continues to develop the 5 local Learning to Change Parent Forums; organised and delivered 5 Learning to Change Conferences for parents and invited professional guests - as well as appointing members from each of the local parent forums to be members of the county wide Learning to Change Steering Group.
Please find attached the most recent version of the Learning to Change Parent Participation model, used in Cumbria
“Parent Participation – What does it mean?
The purpose of parent participation is to enable parents to get involved in service planning and decision making so that services meet the needs of families with disabled children and resources are not wasted on services which parents and families do not take up.
Effective parent participation happens when parents have conversations with and work alongside professionals, in order to design, develop and improve services. This conversation benefits everyone. Working with parents helps professionals to understand what needs to happen to develop services that meet families’ needs.
Working with professionals helps parents understand the complexity involved and the challenges faced by the professionals who have to bring about that change. Working together and sharing knowledge enables parents and professionals to find solutions that work.
There are three essential ingredients for successful parent participation:
• good information
• honest consultation
• effective participation
As parent participation develops, all three elements should be present and
complement each other.”
Taken from - Together for Disabled Children – The How to Guide on Parent Participation - March 2010 Version 2.
I have joined this group as I feel that I need to help to make a difference for all the children in Cumbria and if along the way it helps my son Bailey in the future then I’ve done my job as a mum and an advocate to raise awareness of disability.
I left the meeting halfway through as I had to be at my weigh-in class for 1:45pm. I got to the clinic with 5 mins to spare. I popped to the loo then went through with Wendy for my weight check. I got on the scales and closed my eyes, then I tried to stretch to see the weight details and couldn’t. When I sat down Wendy said that I had lost 8lbs, 7lbs of fat and 1lb of muscle. I’m so chuffed. I love the fact that I am now into a size 14/16 bottoms and 16/18 top. So to date I have lost the following:
2 Weeks Pre Op – 7 lbsSurgery – Week 4 – 20lbs (11lbs of fat)
Week 4 – Week 8 – 9lbs (9lbs of fat)
Week 8 – Week 12 – 8lbs (7lbs of fat)
Total of 44lbs in 14 weeks or 3st 2lbs
When I got back home, Mike was already making dinner for him and the boys so I had Jacket Potato with coronation chicken & beetroot for my dinner. It was really lovely and very filling.
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