{"id":4349,"date":"2012-09-06T07:55:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T05:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2012-09-06T07:55:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T05:55:52","slug":"dear-fairy-godmother-please-grant-me-one-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=4349","title":{"rendered":"Dear Fairy Godmother, please grant me one wish….."},"content":{"rendered":"

As things stand, if I was to get my one wish today, here’s what I’d wish for……someone to come in daily and cook healthy (and calorie-free) varied meals (including shopping for the ingredients) which would be loved by parents and teenagers alike.<\/p>\n

That’s all.<\/p>\n

Nothing too difficult about that really.<\/p>\n

In fact it would only be taking over one of the multitudinous roles that I’m expected to carry out every day.<\/p>\n

Not too much to ask for….but unfortunately, as you’ve probably guessed, it isn’t going to happen.<\/p>\n

The trouble is, I’ve lost my mojo…..it’s gone, fled to the hills and as a result disaster is looming. I’ve already been told that it was about time that there was a bit more variety (when I served lasagne for the second time in 3 weeks – lasagne is a lot of work, right and it’s my guaranteed ‘everybody loves it’ menu….what the heck!!!). Last night’s dinner was a complete disaster – the meat was so inedible that I threw it in the bin before we’d even started and told everyone to make do with mash, veg and what was, if I say so myself, a spectacularly delicious gravy. I won’t be taking an unidentifiable slab of meat out of the back of the freezer and trying to wing a Brassato again \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

So what would you do?<\/p>\n

I have a husband who eats out a lot in nice restaurants and has high standards, so fish fingers and the like are a no-no. He’s also a bit anti-British (what’s that about?). None of the children will eat fish or any of the things that I love (aubergines, anchovies, hummus etc), one of them barely eats enough to fill a fly and I’m always surreptitiously on the lookout for eating disorders (although I suspect she consumed enough junk food outside the house to keep her going for a very long time). All have long days and have to find their own lunches in the city and I do move mountains to try to make sure that we eat a family dinner together, even if there is a shift system on some evenings when people are out doing sport.<\/p>\n

It’s all left me feeling deeply,deeply uninspired and every day I just rake around in the freezer trying to find something that will do for dinner with the minimum of effort and preferably no shopping involved.<\/p>\n

It’s not good.<\/p>\n

This morning at 6.15 am, this was the sight at the breakfast table….<\/p>\n

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I’m now filled with dread at the thought of trying to write a shopping list and head down to Migros.<\/p>\n

What would you do? No, what do<\/strong> you do when this feeling strikes, because I’m sure that there isn’t a woman out there who doesn’t feel like this sometimes?<\/p>\n

I need your help….failing that, please send your fairy godmother my way!
\nHelen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As things stand, if I was to get my one wish today, here’s what I’d wish for……someone to come in daily and cook healthy (and calorie-free) varied meals (including shopping for the ingredients) which would be loved by parents and teenagers alike. That’s all. Nothing too difficult about that really. In fact it would only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-189","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}