So last week I mentioned how I was working on my baking skills. I thought long and hard and realised that more than the birthdays which festoon the Spring for us, I wanted to celebrate something else. I wanted to celebrate the hard work towards AS levels, GCSEs, exams, dancing shows and gym competitions that […]
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I’ve only recently discovered the delights of baking; I’ve tended to avoid it in the past, given I can’t manage not to eat the proceeds and I more or less put on weight by looking at calories. But lately I’ve had an urge to send my children out of the house with something filled with […]
Review: Discovering great meals with Marley Spoon.
It’s fair to say that our meals tend to come in at the budget, simple and quick end of the scale. When you have a houseful of variously young and/or picky eaters and a limited spend per head, exotic eating does not tend to be high on the list of priorities – filling tummies is […]
Cobbled step and sandwiches.
When I am old, (older) And you are grown, (more so) I’ll remember the day we sat on cobbled step, (warm but crowded) And ate sandwiches while killing time (how much time is left, I wonder?) The man on the tightrope, (balancing) Had a microphone and I thought, (musing) That back in my day they […]
Fudge Muffins!
I’ve been working on a set of muffin recipes that are easy to do and I can’t get wrong to make lunch boxes cheaper and healthier. My first attempt at healthy banana and sultana muffins have become pretty well liked and so I branched out. It’s not wildly different but these are pretty yummy and […]
Cooking up an Irish Feast.
A few years ago one of the girls dreamed about making ‘potato cakes’ in such detail that Max followed their recipe the next day and made them for her. This year I will yet again be kicking my heels while the chief cook and bottle washer of the house partakes of that delight which is […]
Nearly 3.
The boy will be 3 next week. Hard to believe that the bump that felt like it would never be born, who became Marmite and who was that terrifying, ever sleeping, jaundiced scrap of a baby for so long, is now a wild, walking, talking, dustbin lorry loving little boy. My Timehop from a year […]
Festive Food Treats with Tesco.
A couple of weeks ago I got the most fantastic (and unexpected!) hamper of gifts through the post from Tesco Food. Since budget really don’t leave much money for foodie treats, I think it is safe to say we were all pretty thrilled. The kids did a quick audit to make sure Max and I […]
Almost 3.
He’s almost three. It’s hard to believe there was ever a time when he wasn’t firmly at the centre of the family. He talks ALL the time now. When he doesn’t know the word he find a way round it. When he can’t get us to do his […]
Merry's Perfect Prairie Muffin Moment.
A couple of weeks ago I got totally and utterly sick of packed lunches, specifically the fact that the girls have ended up hurriedly making sandwiches and grabbing a snack bar, snack bars that are expensive and neither healthy or particularly satisfying. I decided i would try baking, something I absolutely never do, and see […]
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