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Post by auntieannie on Oct 9, 2012 21:06:42 GMT
can Mr R help with the shopping?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2012 21:19:14 GMT
In Paris, most of the supermarkets deliver free of charge for any pregnant woman, any handicapped person or for any purchase above 50 euros. Don't they do that in Berlin?
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 9, 2012 22:41:50 GMT
you could also buy non fresh stuff online and get it delivered and "just go to the actual supermarket for fresh stuff as you may pick better than what they bring?
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Post by onlymark on Oct 10, 2012 4:38:10 GMT
I never thought rikita about your shopping restrictions. I should have knowing what it was like when I lived in an apartment there. I shopped then every day on returning from work. It can't make sense for you to weekly shop when you have to do it the way you do. You need to move to a different country like here where I can order everything over the phone, or go to the supermarket, fill up my trolley, pay for it, leave it there and then it is delivered half an hour or so later with a couple of men running up the stairs, arms full of bags and putting it all on the kitchen table. I just put it all away.
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Post by rikita on Oct 10, 2012 6:20:48 GMT
Oh, dear, carrying heavy things is not going to be good for you at this point. I certainly wasn't thinking through the logistical part of your shopping process, and didn't think about an issue with stairs either. How many flights of stairs do you have to deal with? Will you have to haul your pram up and down the stairs, or will you be able to store it downstairs? i live on the fourth floor... there is no space for prams in the house downstairs, but for now my plan is to keep the pram frame outside in the courtyard (with a cover on it) and just carry the inside part of it (not sure how that is called, the part the baby actually lies in when it is small) upstairs... that part i'd have to take up either way, because the hallway is cold too, and if i kept it downstairs i'd put the baby into a cold bed...
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Post by rikita on Oct 10, 2012 6:22:05 GMT
can Mr R help with the shopping? he does already, he buys all the really heavy stuff like water bottles and juice, and other things...
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Post by rikita on Oct 10, 2012 6:22:34 GMT
In Paris, most of the supermarkets deliver free of charge for any pregnant woman, any handicapped person or for any purchase above 50 euros. Don't they do that in Berlin? that has never occured to me, i kind of doubt they do it, but will try to find out...
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Post by rikita on Oct 10, 2012 6:23:07 GMT
you could also buy non fresh stuff online and get it delivered and "just go to the actual supermarket for fresh stuff as you may pick better than what they bring? that might be an option too, will research that...
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Post by rikita on Oct 10, 2012 6:24:15 GMT
I never thought rikita about your shopping restrictions. I should have knowing what it was like when I lived in an apartment there. I shopped then every day on returning from work. It can't make sense for you to weekly shop when you have to do it the way you do. You need to move to a different country like here where I can order everything over the phone, or go to the supermarket, fill up my trolley, pay for it, leave it there and then it is delivered half an hour or so later with a couple of men running up the stairs, arms full of bags and putting it all on the kitchen table. I just put it all away. i think moving country would be best... somewhere where it is warm, and where i could pay someone to do the cooking for me! that would solve all problems...
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Post by onlymark on Oct 10, 2012 8:00:55 GMT
Why do you think I left Germany/UK/Europe?!
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Post by Don Cuevas on Oct 10, 2012 11:57:37 GMT
"i think moving country would be best... somewhere where it is warm, and where i could pay someone to do the cooking for me! that would solve all problems..."
Aquí te espera tu casa. ¿Hablas Español?
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Post by htmb on Oct 10, 2012 12:12:12 GMT
Hauling up water bottles and juice! That has to be the worst part of it. I had to do that for several months, but only had two flights of stairs and the children (three at the time) were mobile.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2012 17:16:34 GMT
The "free delivery" rules in Paris mention a limit on the number of liters of liquids that can be delivered -- usually no more than eight or twelve 1.5 liter bottles.
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Post by rikita on Oct 10, 2012 17:53:48 GMT
don - si, un poco... pues quizá vamos a México... (Ojalá que fuera así, pero supongo que no es tan facil...)
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Post by rikita on Oct 13, 2012 19:25:23 GMT
went shopping together with mr. r. today, so now i have almost all the ingredients for the meals that i plan until next weekend (will be my turn to cook three times in that time frame, as we also plan to go out at least one evening) - one thing they didn't have at the shop but i can get that one item after work i suppose...
ah and i made one of the meals from the link onlymark gave me today and it was really nice...
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Post by onlymark on Oct 13, 2012 19:58:16 GMT
Jeez rikita, you'll end up too organised and start yearning for your old life.
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Post by rikita on Oct 13, 2012 20:01:47 GMT
hehe, yeah, i can just see myself, all organized, like a real german...
(anyone who has a look around my apartment will realize that will never happen...)
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Post by rikita on Nov 3, 2012 12:22:02 GMT
by the way, made a huge pot of chicken and vegetable soup the other day, so i could freeze most of it... will probably make either a curry or a chili today (and the other then on monday) and again freeze part of it... so the freezer will be full of meals soon...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2012 18:00:47 GMT
I am wondering if I am going to cook tonight or run down to the Chinese deli across the street.
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Post by bjd on Nov 11, 2012 19:27:36 GMT
Rikita, when my children were small we lived on a 5th floor with no elevator. I used to do the shopping but left all the heavy stuff in the cellar and my husband carried it up when he got home from work.
But I never bought water except for mixing formula when the babies were very small. So that was less to carry.
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Post by rikita on Nov 16, 2012 7:09:45 GMT
well i am planning to breastfeed, so if that works out, i won't need to mix formula either... wouldn't feel comfortable leaving food in the cellar though - i think i saw a rat there once... but i guess i could try to find some place to leave it... or if the neighbours are home, bring up the baby first, ask them if they can watch her for a few minutes, and then go get the stuff i bought... i will see that then (my mom says that as long as she can't turn by herself, i could just bring her upstairs and leave her unattended a few minutes while i get the stuff i bought - i will have to see how i'll feel about that though...)
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Post by Don Cuevas on Nov 17, 2012 2:39:19 GMT
Dead tired after a really long day in Morelia.
No prob finding stuff to eat; the leftover ribeye steak from lunch, sliced and piled onna crusty bolillo
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2012 6:16:04 GMT
I tried one of the Maggi baking bags for dinner, and the result was not unpleasant at all. You just throw chicken in their bag, throw in the spice mix and shake it up, add two spoons of water and dump it in the oven for about an hour -- nothing else to do.
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Post by htmb on Nov 17, 2012 14:03:59 GMT
I tried one of the Maggi baking bags for dinner, and the result was not unpleasant at all. You just throw chicken in their bag, throw in the spice mix and shake it up, add two spoons of water and dump it in the oven for about an hour -- nothing else to do. in the U.S. it's called Shake n Bake. Perhaps you'd already left when this commercial was first aired in the 70s, Kerouac (or maybe it was yet another reason TO leave ;D ). This was before the commercial advent of baking "inside" a plastic bag.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2012 16:14:13 GMT
Yes, I knew Shake'n'Bake but the result does not remotely resemble the Maggi product.
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Post by htmb on Nov 17, 2012 18:48:01 GMT
Yes, I knew Shake'n'Bake but the result does not remotely resemble the Maggi product. Thank goodness!!!
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Post by Don Cuevas on Nov 17, 2012 19:27:45 GMT
Still dead tired, but now home.
Opened a jar of marinated herring, threw on some chopped onion, spooned on some crema. Sliced and toasted some frozen homemade challah = lunch.
Plus several generous shots of Polish vodka. Bed.
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