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How to make the perfect Toad in Hole every Time is a paid collaborative post with Richmond Sausages. With two growing teens, there is one thing I know is that hungry teens are unhappy teens and that my army marches on a full and satisfied tummy. This is never more important than on a cold dark winter night after a full day at school and college. Learning is hard work!
These simple lunch ideas are perfect for family lockdown lunches. One of the most monotonous, but essential things about parenting is the constant feeding and adding lunches to the menu means it has become even more of a challenge.
What We Cooked At Home During Lock-Down is a paid collaborative post with Simply Cook. Food has been one of our constants during lockdown. Initially, the worry that the world and his wife were stockpiling and with me shielding we couldn’t get our regular order, and then it gave us something to look forward to. A home-cooked meal, with set meals on certain days of the week helping to delineate and define what day it was.
These Homemade edible gifts are perfect for friends, family, neighbours, teachers or any food lover in your life! They can be made last minute or if you are a better planner than me make them in advance!
My boys are bottomless. They are both really active kids and eat pretty healthily most of the time and these mini pizza bites are a delicious after school snack or lunchbox treat.
Do you eat together as a family? We do, but I am not polishing my halo. I am well aware of just how hard it can be to keep everyone happy and at the table at mealtimes. I have had a fair few battles behind me, but decided that family mealtimes were worth the challenge.
One of the great things about getting your kids in the kitchen is the wonderful flavours and recipes it opens up to them. I find that both my boys are much more adventurous if they have helped cook the food and this is one of the main reasons I love cooking with kids.
We have been trialing the BacoFoil Non stick for the last month and this post from cooking with kids in brought to you on conjuction with them. We have used it to line our trays when making out M&M Cookies and also for this delicious Tandoori chicken tray bake
We have been making the most of a fabulous week of weather here in the North Yorkshire for the second week of the school Easter holidays (hence the lack of posting this week)! Holidays for us mean lots of family activities and lots of cooking and eating together. With two boys aged ten and nearly nine I have to make my food stretch and with these hacks for leftover food you will never throw any food away again!
Yes I know it is a big things to say, but this really is the best carrot cake in the whole wide world. We have tried others and nothing comes close and other people have made out best carrot cake in the world and agree with us. We do to even peel the carrots, just wash them and top and tail them. This is a beautifully moist cake that is delicious and if you have kids that refuse carrots this will really turn them round. This recipe is great for making with kids as you do it all the mixing by hand.
One of the highlights of my days as the boys get older is afternoon tea. Once they get home from school we sit down to after school snacks and a pot of tea. I don’t take sugar, however, the MIL always sugared the boys tea and they love adding a sugar lump, so we have mad fun making our own heart shaped sugar cubes. Even better I love the fact that we have my mum’s sugar tongs and bowl and it makes it such an experience. How to make heart shaped sugar cubes
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, yet one in six kids in the UK do not eat breakfast. I have two very different kids in this house, Maxi will not leave the house without breakfast and Mini would skip it given the chance. So we jumped at the chance to become representatives for Weetabix and help promote their Weetabuddies campaign and have a go at creating our own Weetabuddy. Weetabix have created the ‘Weetabuddies’ to encourage families to get creative at breakfast whilst having a healthy start to the day. So what is a Weetabuddy? They are a range of characters to make breakfast a little more fun! You can meet all […]
My boys seem to have hollow legs they are always eating. They both have school lunch and then we eat together as a family at six pm each evening during the week. So I need to find them an after school snack that satisfies their hunger, but doesn’t overfill them. They also have Judo, cubs and football, so it is all about balancing their needs and wants, which isn’t easy when you are 8 and 9! Healthy after school snack ideas
Just because my kids eat school dinners doesn’t mean that they don’t need a packed lunch occasionally and I have been a fan of Grace at Easts Amazing for a long time. Her lunches looks fantastic and really aspirational, however, as you can see from the fab post from Grace below they are easily achievable with some planning using what you have in your home. Allow me to introduce myself – I’m Grace, mum of two boys, and I usually blog over at Eats Amazing, where I share ideas and inspiration for presenting healthy children’s food in new and exciting ways. I’m probably most well-known for the creative bento-style lunches that […]
My boys march on their stomach. They are at that age where they are bottomless and food is an important part of their day. They get ratty when they are hungry (we call it hangry) and also have adverse reactions to certain foods.
As adults, we’ll often rush out of the house in a flurry – if we’re lucky – with a slice of toast in hand. As role models to our children, it’s important to envision a healthy and balanced diet and one that involves sitting down to breakfast on a daily basis. Why is breakfast so important? Kid’s who eat breakfast tend to eat healthier on a whole. Breakfast is a great way to kick-start the body into action and is especially needed by little ones who spend their days running around the playground, studying and exercising. Those who eat breakfast will be more likely to partake in a number of physical […]
It was parents evening at the school this week. Safe to say we walked out of the school with the biggest grins on our faces. Mini’s conference was exceptional and he is coming on in leaps and bounds and his English work is fab (probably down to all the reading he does). Maxi is too steaming ahead, but we are going to have to have a conversation about effort as at the moment he is applying minimum effort to get the desired outcome (Hey I guess that is a typical eight year old boys thing).
I know what we will be doing this Bonfire night. We will be spending it with family as they put on their own annual fireworks show. It is something we look forward to every year and it would be the perfect time to have a winter BBQ and the people at Country Valley Foods have some brilliant meat hampers at the moment. There is nothing better than some lovely warm food whilst watching fireworks and it makes for a great evening for everyone. I particularly like the Meat Hampers from Country Valley and think they are really great value. Even better for me they are a local company and have sites not far from […]
As part of the Tefal innovation panel I was asked if I would take the fresh week pledge to commit to giving up processed food from Monday 13 May – Sunday 19 May 2013 in favour of fresh, unprocessed food. For me this is a bit of a no brainer as I cook from scratch most days.
Since getting cancer I have been wary of processed foods. I know that not everything processed is bad, but I make the effort to give myself and my family the best food I can and for me this means cooking from scratch.
As a perk of being a Tefal Innovator they sent me a Fresh Express and a riverford food box this week, so kick starting my menu planning for next week. So I am going to share with you my menu for this week and see if you would be willing to take the pledge. If you do there is a chance that you too could win a Fresh Express and a Vegetable Box.
Bank holiday Monday
Homemade pancakes and fruit
Salad Sandwiches with homemade bread
BBQ with Fish, fennel, salad and homemade flatbreads
Tuesday
Scrambled egg with chopped tomato
The boys are back at school so school lunch for them.
Lentil bolognese (diced peppers, onions, passata, herbs)
Wednesday
Dippy eggs
Spelt pizza bases with lentil sauce topping and vegetables, served with salad
Thursday
Banana Muffins
Chickpea daah and homemade naan bread
Friday
Fruit and yogurt
Boys are at a party, but me and MadDad will be having homemade fish and chips
Saturday
Pancakes with fruit and yogurt
Poached eggs with smoked haddock
Sunday
Breakfast Muffins
Roast Chicken with yorkshire puddings and vegetables
Homemade roast vegetables soup and homemade bread
