Mods: I’m confused to if this goes in this section of parenting so put it here!
So a friend of mine is expecting-she’s in the early days but she is constantly tired, and feels sick pretty much all the time.
I thought I would offer my help but I know she is house proud and doesn’t like taking help off others. She works too, so doesn’t have loads of time on her hands either.
She is always nice about my cooking-so I thought I would batch cook some food for her. Mum was saying I should more towards her due date, and cook enough to keep her going for a week after the baby is due.Her other half is a lovely gentleman, but cannot cook to save his life.
So ladies, would you accept the assistance of a friend if you were expecting and what food freezes well? I was thinking aloo palak-as spinach is good for you but thought the spuds may not freeze well?
Any ideas welcome, or any advice on how to be nice and practical in the current situation.
ETA: I’ve noticed that I’ve put ‘help’ twice in the title-can’t you tell I’m confused!
Re: Pregnant friend-how to help with household tasks?
princess, what you need are tips on how to make it easy for her in the kitchen …
My recomendations are as follows :
1- slice onions and freeze half of them , and turn the rest into a paste and divide them into cubes and freeze them. Do the same with ginger garlic paste
2- you can make the basic masala , like fry the onions , add ginger garlic, spices , tomatoes … and when done , divide into chunks and freeze them… that way she can take them out of the freezer and into the pan and when it defrosts she can add the vegetable/chicken and wont take her more then 20 minutes …
3- make meat balls (koftay) and freeze them … she can take out the frozen masala and add the koftay and will be done in 10 minutes
Re: Pregnant friend-how to help with household tasks?
as someone who a lot of times lives on frozen food, i can tell you a whole bunch of things that freeze well: spinach salan, koftay, nihari, karahi, haleem, kadoo gosht, chicken salan, even bhindi. and yeah i think you can't freeze aloo that well. something happens to the consistency =/
rice i've found is much better if it's cooked fresh. that includes pulaos and biryanis. however if the masala for the biryani is prepared in advance, that can then be frozen and the whole biryani can be assembled.
you can also put masala on chicken or something, freeze that, and that can then be baked.
Re: Pregnant friend-how to help with household tasks?
i think it's great that you're considering helping a friend out. it depends on how close you two are as well. does she mind that you help her out with the cooking?
maybe if you have time, you can go over to her place and cook for her there? that way it may not seem like such a big thing to her, that you're cooking the food and bringing it only for her.
the previous suggestions on frozen food is great. she can take it out anytime, and make it in a jiffy.
Re: Pregnant friend-how to help with household tasks?
You are a good friend...:)
I agree with the above posters that it will be nice if you can drop by at her place sometimes and help her around with the daily chores or cooking etc...whatever help she needs,depending on how comfortable she is...
If I were in her place,I know for sure I am just too formal when it comes to something like this...even though I might know that I need help,I just wont ask...I wont even ask my bestest friend or even my sister...I am silly like that...:(
Re: Pregnant friend-how to help with household tasks?
Thank you guys!
She doesn't mind the help with cooking at all-I've helped out before when she has had family around or she has had to cook for her nieces birthday party.
I joked about hoovering for her and she took that well-she said she could do with a hand once in a while. She doesn't feel uncomfortable with me doing things for her-I just don't want her to feel like she isn't capable of doing things. We just want her to take it easy.
