My favourite dinners to feed my family are healthy(ish) ones that everyone eats. If they’re quick that’s a bonus. This isn’t a recipe, it would be cheeky to call it that, it’s more a meal idea, or a way to ensure that everyone eats. Some might say it’s pandering to…
After the excesses of the bank holiday weekend and the realisation that my brother’s wedding is now next month, a healthy eating regime has been introduced with vigour! As the week went on the plan relaxed as you’ll see but on the whole this was a “good” week. (That roundup…
If you check out the recipes here on Bumbles of Rice you may notice that there are a few themes. One major thing about food in this house, is that as a rule, it’s quick. Hopefully tasty too, but quick wins here. The second key characteristic of a Bumbles of…
As promised in my review (including a giveaway of a copy) of “Life in the Fast Lane” by Derval O’Rourke yesterday in the week here’s a dinner recipe from it that’s established itself as a favourite at our table. My usually fussy four-year-old ate every scrap of the recipe below, asked for…
I persist with trying to get the kids to eat curry. I also struggle to get stew into them. This meant that this dish, a curry, was a big risk. I ran out of some of the ingredients halfway through but I kept going. The boys saw the dinner and…
I’ve been on a mission to keep the kids eating healthily, but getting frustrated that they weren’t eating new dishes that I’d slaved over. I even sat with them and we wrote a list of 21 dinners that they would actually eat. I had a revelation then, I could make…
Every now and then we have a dinnertable crisis in our house. When I say we, I mean I. I get fed up of cooking what feels like the same five dishes over and over again, and I get frustrated when I cook something different and then the kids won’t…
Remember my week in dinners? It’s been a while. I’m back to work and life is a bit chaotic. I still haven’t gotten into the swing of meal planning so it’s all a but random, and truth be told my evening meal often consists of cheese and crackers. (I also…
It’s no secret that I like to cook and that I adore my food, so people often turn to me for ideas- I get asked “what will I make for _____?”. Despite producing food every day to feed ourselves and our families, everyone seems to have a blank when it…
I’m being encouraged to keep sharing our real life meals, so here’s another post about them Due to an incident involving a splash, a toilet and a box of rice I didn’t get to photograph this week’s meals, or the ones that I did are on the big complicated camera,…
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