Masha Richart

A bean soup with with wilted kale/spinach stirred in at the end should hit the spot — I don’t like chard but love kale, but you could use whichever green your daughter likes best:

http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2011/01/chard-and-white-bean-stew/

How lovely of you to cook for her! A quick google advises taking vitamin C with it to help…[Read more]

My favourite was to cook a steak to medium rare and whist it was resting, make a green salad with baby spinach and sliced mushrooms and then slice the steak in strips and stir through the salad dressing with a mango puree (sometimes a little sweet chilli).

Lucky girl to have a doting mum.

Linda, another little one for you to sew for! In both my pregnancies I had low iron during and after birth. I loved sweet potato mashed with ginger and then fried up with steamed broccoli and wilted spinach and steak with soy sauce with a half of guinness on the side. Yumyumyum. Also chilli tofu with noodles, I *think tofu has plenty of iron in it…[Read more]

Linda, another little one for you to sew for! In both my pregnancies I had low iron during and after birth. I loved sweet potato mashed with ginger and then fried up with steamed broccoli and wilted spinach and steak with spot sauce with a half of guinness on the side. Yumyumyum. Also chilli tofu with noodles, I *think tofu had plenty of iron in…[Read more]

Dates are a power packed source of iron. I used to snack on those when I was pregnant. Dried beans, dark green leafy….

Oh a real mixture! Series like Homeland, Broadchurch, Great British Bake Off, old films that no one else in my house wants to watch(!). Also if watching with my husband, things like Mad Men, which we love. Those clothes!!! I love Peggy and Joan is so curvaceous I can’t take my eyes off her! If I’m knitting something complex, I watch lighthearted…[Read more]