How often do you eat dinner together as a family? Or a proper, sit-down put-some-effort-in meal with your partner, or yourself, when you have small children? As I write this I’m having flashbacks to the early baby days when you grab whatever food you can and eat it as fast as you can, while either…
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How to make really easy breakfast muffins (with children)
Read moreCooking with children…making mini breakfast muffins on camera…all the ingredients for fun or a recipe for disaster?! Both came to mind when Schwartz asked us to make a ‘how to’ video of the two of us cooking.
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Tefal Cuisine Companion review – the mother of all kitchen gadgets?
Read moreA Tefal Cuisine Companion review…Have you heard of the Tefal Cuisine Companion? It’s a new breed of kitchen gadget that can replace up to ten things in the kitchen, including a food processor, blender and slow cooker. It’ll even make you tea and do the dishes (joke – now that really would be amazing). We…
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Marley Spoon food delivery service; good for families?
Read moreHave you heard of Marley Spoon? It’s one of the new generation of food delivery services, along the lines of Hello Fresh and Gousto, where you order meals online and are sent recipes and ingredients to prepare and cook at home. We were offered a review of a Marley Spoon box, so what did we…
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Inspiring ideas to liven up lunchtime
Read moreWhat did you have for lunch today? Here’s a couple of ‘highlights’ from mine from the past few days: hummus, pitta and olives, something vaguely uninspiring on toast, leftover pasta, and half a pack of Haribo and an innocent smoothie. Buying lunch was always one of the the best thing about the working day in…
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Use the fork, Luke: The Star Wars cookbook for kids
Read moreFancy making some Wookie Cookies? Yoda Soda? Obi-Wan Kebabs? Han-burgers? Well the Star Wars children’s cookbook should be right up your…galaxy, far, far away. The book belonged to a mini Alex and is a concoction of pun-tastic recipe names and brilliantly creative toy model and food photos. I completely forgot we had it; I found…
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Tasty, easy meals for new parents – a review of the Morphy Richards Slow Cooker
Read moreHere’s our Morphy Richards slow cooker review… We have been reviewing the Morphy Richards slow cooker (thanks, Littlewoods!) It is, I am surprised to say, great; useful, practical, easy, makes tasty food, saves loads of time and is perfect for new parents and that tired old advertising cliche of the ‘busy mum.’ Here’s how we got…
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