Category: Cooking with Kids
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Zuccotto Panettone and Ricotta Cake
Festive Food Swap Baking is not my strong point and for anyone who knows me baking with kids stresses me out; flour everywhere, egg shells in the batter and sugar on the floor. So, when we were asked to take part in Tesco’s Festive Food Swap, which encourages people to try different tastes from around…
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40+ Meal Ideas for Busy Mums
Planning my weekly meals is one of my least favourite things to do. I spend ages trolling the internet looking for inspiration for child-friendly recipes. However, I do find that planning our weekly meals saves us time, money, waste and ensures we eat a little better. I recently asked a rather large group of local…
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Mini Toad in the Hole Recipe
Easy Mid Week Meal Idea for Kids Planning our weekly meals is the bane of my life! This week I was inspired by an image that I saw on Pinterest of these Mini Toads in a hole. I’m not normally one for ‘Cute Food’ but it looked relatively easy and I was fairly confident my…
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The Loss of Innocence at Halloween
We were just baking some Halloween Biscuits? It such a shame that as adults we lose our sense of innocence as we’re sharpened by experience and shaped by reality. I was baking with my daughter this afternoon, a sure sign that Half-term has broken me, as I find baking incredibly stressful. ‘Don’t get shells in…
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Tears and laughter!
At what age do children show empathy? To give myself a bit of a break on the weekend, I’d checked the weather report and it looked grim, so I booked my daughter and hubby into the Cinema to see How to Train Your Dragon 2. She’d watched the first one and has also watched How…