With Back to School almost upon us Zazzle UK let us personalise a yubo lunchbox on their site to review Since Cathal is starting school I thought it would be nice for him to try, but I let the personalisation be a surprise as I didn’t want to rub his…
It’s back to school time, it has been since the week before the school holidays. The time of year where the food section of every magazine and newspaper is filled with lunchbox ideas. “Healthy back to school snacks” “variety in the lunchbox”, “kids will love these healthy somethings”. Lads, it’s…
I’m always on the lookout for things that I can make to put in the kids’ lunchboxes that go to their minder, or for school on “treat” Fridays. These carrot and courgette muffins have gone down great here, and are a good one to get the kids to help out…
Like any parent of young children I get very bored of putting lunchboxes together with the same old bits and pieces- sandwich, fruit, yogurt (if it’s near the end of the week or the spare uniform is clean), breadsticks. Acceptable but boring. So when we were offered a new healthy…
Butternut squash reminds me of introducing my kids to solids, both boys loved it and it destroyed many’s the bib. For some reason I rarely cook it these days, but all that will change soon as Miss L is about to enter the world of “real food” consumption. The motivation…
Flapjacks I do like flapjacks, they feel healthier than biscuits thanks to all those “good for you” “bursting with energy” oats and that means there’s no mammyguilt about putting them in lunchboxes. I’ve tried loads of different recipes and a lot are hit and miss, too crumbly, too crunchy, too…
Banana bread to me is comfort food. I had a bad time with my tummy a few years ago which meant I had to go off dairy, chocolate, anything fatty, red meat, alcohol, you name it, it hurt me, it had to go. As is my way, I did lots…
I have a thing about flapjacks. Even though they are laden with sugar and are sticky and full of butter I still consider them a healthy addition to the boys’ lunchboxes. Must be the porridge, sure the fibre must do some good. My three and a half year old is…
It’s not often that the egg whites are the leftovers, but after a carbonara dinner I was left with two lonely whites in a mug begging to be used. I’m a pavlova veteran but 2 egg whites wouldn’t make much of a pavlova so I thought of their close family…
I’ve followed Wholesome Ireland’s blog for a while now and have tried a number of Caitriona’s recipes successfully. I saw one today that ticked my current boxes, i.e. I had the ingredients in the cupboard already and it sounded both easy and tasty, so I gave it a try. Caitriona calls the recipe,…
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