This section on family food puts the focus firmly on planning healthy family meals that will save you time and money.
FAMILY MEAL PLANNING MADE EASY: HOW I MEAL PLAN AND WHY IT WORKS! There is nothing worse than arriving exhausted in the kitchen after a long day and not knowing what you are going to cook for a family meal. It’s the many moments like these that switched me on to meal planning and I …
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Need to be more organised with family meals, but don’t know how? Here are some simple meal planning tips to help you get on track with planning family meals. EASY MEAL PLANNING TIPS Meal planning is a fantastic concept. I first got into meal planning a couple of years ago, when I reached peak ‘what …
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In this post, I tell you how to make a master grocery list of the basic essentials you need for your weekly or monthly family food shop. I show you my basic grocery shopping list as an example, to give you tips on how to make your own master grocery list and ideas for what …
This post rounds up 9 simple ways you can change the way you and your family eat so you can start eating more healthily. 9 Ways to eat more healthily It’s relatively easy to go on a healthy eating mission for your family and yourself. But it’s harder to change the way you and your family …
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School day breakfast is a big thing in our house. Mainly because I’m obsessed with my daughter going to school with a well balanced meal inside her tummy. To my mind a healthy breakfast involves a good mix of protein and carbs – and is super low on sugar. In short, brain-food. Because brain-food is what …
This is the ultimate list of pancake topping ideas for both savoury pancakes and sweet pancakes. There are 100 ideas and recipes for making delicious pancakes for Shrove Tuesday A.K.A Pancake Day and for every other day you want to eat pancakes! 100 delicious pancake toppings ideas and recipes Pancake Day, otherwise known …
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Boy is sugar addictive! But you can cut down and even quit eating sugar. You just need to know how. This post gives you 13 things you can start doing today to quit sugar and detox it from your diet and your family’s diet. How to stop eating sugar Sugar. We crave it. We love …
This is my family’s smoked mackerel pâté recipe. It’s a family tradition to serve this pâté as an appetiser at Christmas. But it is delicious any time of the year. Smoked mackerel pâté recipe This recipe is adapted from a recipe passed down through my husband’s mother’s side of the family. With their …
Here’s a list of delicious recipes for homemade burgers, there’s recipes for beef, turkey, lamb and vegetarian burgers. faHomemade burger recipes Who doesn’t love a burger? There are times when nothing but a great burger will hit the spot. And if you’re a tad worried about what might lurk within some bought varieties … …
Hidden vegetable soup is a great way to get kids who are picky eaters to eat large quantities of vegetables. I know some mums think hiding veggies is a bad idea and I agree picky eaters need to get used to the texture of vegetables. But, if it’s a trade off between one tiny …
How to get kids to eat vegetables… it’s a thing! Not for all kids, some will wolf down vegetables and not bat an eyelid, but most kids I know aren’t so keen. So how do we get kids to eat vegetables? I wasn’t big on vegetables myself as a child, boiled new potatoes with their skin …
Like most moms, I have a bunch of must-haves for our family freezer. I bet you do too. And like me, I bet yours include chicken breasts, sausages, fish fingers, peas and ice cream 🙂 But the last few years I changed how I plan meals … OK, so I didn’t use to plan at …
Loads of our fave family recipes involve lovely, creamy mashed potatoes. Shepherds pie, fish pie and fish cakes are some of my daughter’s top meals, whilst I love gnocchi, homemade from mashed potatoes and slathered in cheese sauce. Of course the brilliant thing about mashed potatoes is that it is SO easy to make. So, perfect …
Pasta Sauce with Hidden Vegetables Pasta sauce with hidden vegetables is a brilliant way to get kids who are fussy eaters to have some of their five-a-day. And as a mother of a child who will not touch a whole vegetable, I have discovered a slow cooked pasta sauce is even better because it lets …
My 3 year old is a frustratingly picky eater. Give her her due, she loves meat … she can devour the biggest steak! … fish, cheese, pasta, rice, potato, noodles, cake and ice-cream. But she never knowingly eats fruit or veg. The fruit and veg she does consume is mushed within an inch of it’s …
I just need to make clear – again – in case of any doubt – that I am NOT a domestic goddess! And no this is not false modesty with an expectation that you will immediately jump in and assure me that my house “is always spotless” – it really isn’t. And I can’t even …
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