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My 2-and-a-half-year-old son has an olive obsession. He adores them. They will always be the first thing to disappear off his plate, and he will happily munch his way through as many as you let him have. Given his love for them (one shared only ever-so-slightly less enthusiastically by his sister and my husband and…
This is my back-pocket biscuit recipe. It is what I make when we are craving biscuits and fancy a weekend treat without all of the sugar. Strangely enough, there isn’t a huge amount I miss from my sugar-laden diet days. I thought I’d seriously struggle without ice cream or jam or hot chocolate or fruit…
I love leftovers meals. Seriously. They are often my favourite meals of the week. Most of our lunches are leftovers. Last night’s dinner often gets popped in my husband’s lunchbox for work, and my kids scoff down any extra, or leftover lunches or dinners from earlier in the week. Saturdays we often end up having…
We eat quite a bit of homemade curry in our house. Not the complex, multi-layered curries that take hours to make and are truly delicious, but time-consuming. I make those occasionally (oh the smells they create in the house!), but mostly leave that to the experts and enjoy it as a treat takeaway or meal…
Part of making veggies more exciting for kids is playing with cooking method, preparation method, texture, shape and colour. Colour is by far my favourite way of doing this. We are hard-wired as humans to crave bright colours and variety. We know it is our best hope of health and wellbeing. The problem is, in…
I’ve been trying to get better at batch cooking and freezer cooking. It saves me so much in time, money and energy that I know it is worth it. But it does take some forward thinking and I’m often slow to plan it. When I do though, it is a lifesaver. I can batch cook…