hoto nabe-slash-煮込み udon

Have one packet of hoto noodles left, and a pumpkin....so it is a hot nabe night. Also gets to use up the last of the CABBAGE!!!! (no more caplocks for a while I hope, haha). But since only one packet of hoto noodles, have to beef the nabe up with regular udon. Am just waiting for the call from J to say he is on his way home to get everything 煮込む-ing. K will prob have to have regular udon noodles first, esp if I don't hear from J in the next 5 mins or so, means he will be later than 7 so better give the kid some food before she eats her arm off.

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I think I have done pretty well with clearing out the freezer recently for a costco run this weekend.....I am actually hoping to buy up big in the meat lines, so that I don't have to be running off to the shop so often searching out meats for the next few months - J can get pretty good veges at the supermarket at his train station on way home from work, but looking for good meat can mean a bit of a run around, so I figure if I can cut at least one thing off the list it is gonna help for the last few weeks of pregnancy, and when TJ-baby arrives. Also with my parents arriving soon, I want to have some stuff readily available. I have asked (begged) J to bring up the deep freezer from his parent's house (they don't use it) so we can shove it in K's playroom and fill it up with all sorts of goodies - hoping to do that this weekend before we hit costcos! yay!