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My grandparents (and now my uncle) lived in a house in which a famous Belgian murder happened, one of a series of linked murders. A TV series has been made about it. As a child I have stayed very often at this house, and I was always intrigued by this fact. But never bothered. Now I live in a house in which it seems the first owner tried to kill his wife by running her over with his car. I think any old house has some history. Tragedy is part of life. Death in the form of disease, murder, accident...But really why should this stop you? It's not your life! You make of it what you want. You bring in this house your new spirits. Don't dwell over the past. If you really like the house, go for it. Have a great housewarming party to bring joy to it.

jme718, I understand the poster was asking advice because she is feeling very nauseous, and is not looking for an excuse to eat junk food. But what children eat has not much to do with what you have eaten during your pregnancy. It is what you serve them on a daily basis. My kids have always had fresh vegetables, lots of fresh fish, lots of fruit, a mainly Mediterranean diet because that was where I was living. I know kids who eat nothing but pasta and sauce, or only sausages, kids who'll never eat vegetables and the only fish they know is fish sticks. That is because they have never been served anything else. So what counts is: eat as healthy as you can while pregnant, don't worry if nausea limits your diet, give yourself a treat once in a while. The real work starts when your child is born! A trick for serving veggies that they do not like (and it's normal, as long as you keep on presenting the vegetable they will like it one day) like zucchini: put it through the mixer, season and serve with pasta. Lots of vegetables you can "hide" in mashed potatoes. Add carrots, onions, cabbage, spinach, cauliflower,... (combi of 2 or 3) and mash. Add some cream or butter for extra flavour. You can even mix fish in the potatoes :-) For my former stepkids, I used to make tuna salad and tell them it was chicken, haha. Sometimes it's just in the head that they don't like certain foods.

I remind jme718 again of my story higher up. I lived mostly on toast and bouillon for the first 2 months of both my kids' pregnancies. They are 14 and 16 now, and very healthy teenagers (daughter 5'7" and son 6'). My son has a global IQ of 139, my daughter has never been tested but is a very good student too. They were both born at a normal weight. And even as children were hardly ever sick. So don't scare this woman she'll have unhealthy children, because she won't. I took my daily pregnancy vitamins, and I started eating more normal at 3 months pregnancy. The healthy food of course. Though I certainly didn't say no to a delicious piece of pie :-D Oh, and my kids are not picky eaters. They just about everything, because of course I gave them a healthy diet from the day they were born.

Yummy. But I never add salt to this type of dressing (with half mayo and half yoghourt). The mayonaise has already plenty in it. In Belgium we use this as a base for many dressings, adding all kinds of flavourings like fresh herbs, mustards seeds, chopped onion. Whatever you fancy that day!