From dining out to baking, making healthy food and drink choices to teaching the children to cook, you’ll find it all in here.
When Munch Bunch Squashums first hit the shelves, I breathed a sigh of relief. Finally I could stop sending spoons in Curly’s school pack-up with no hope of them ever returning. He loved yoghurt, but the plain and simple idea of putting the spoon that you have just eaten from, back into your lunch box … Read more
With Sport the hot topic on everyone’s lips this Summer it’s time to get the kids in on the action too. Family-friendly restaurant TGI Fridays has launched its Summer Sports Challenge especially for children. When you visit TGI Fridays with your children they will be given a game show-style spinner with ten sporty challenges on … Read more
The first week of the Summer holidays saw myself, my Mum and the three younger Beans heading off for our first camping trip of 2016 to Cabbage Moor campsite in Cambridge (I shall tell you more about that soon). We wanted to go somewhere not too far away but still somewhere that we hadn’t explored … Read more
PizzaExpress is celebrating the arrival of the new film Ice Age Collision Course this month (12th July), by inviting Sid and his Ice Age friends to take over the Piccolo menu. Little pizza-lovers visiting PizzaExpress from this week will find a fun-packed Ice Age Collision Course activity sheet included with their Piccolo menu, featuring lots … Read more
Now that I have two of the Beans in Primary school the school holidays seem all the more important as the house feels very quiet (sometimes pleasantly so) without them there. I like to celebrate the start of the holidays and so for most of this school year we have enjoyed a family meal out … Read more
If you have clicked on this post hoping to find stories of Anna and Elsa then I’m afraid you will be sorely disappointed. I’m talking about the Power of Frozen food. I was recently invited to work with Iceland to see if they could show me the benefits of frozen foods and we were happy … Read more
At school sport really wasn’t my thing at all, I did it because I had to, not because I enjoyed it although I did enjoy Cross Country and I got pretty good at it. I was even chosen to represent the school in a Regional Cross Country competition, I didn’t win it but I came … Read more
We have been regularly enjoying #FamilyFilmNight for a few years now. It’s a great way to relax as a family at the end of a busy week. Apart from taking the odd photograph of us chilling out, all technology is banned (apart from the TV/DVD/Netflix of course). We usually snuggle up on the sofas, beanbags … Read more
It’s been a fun couple of weeks for the Mummy Matters family since we were asked to team up with a group of lovely family bloggers to show just how amazing Pizza Express are at providing excellent service and entertainment for families visiting their restaurants. It all began with a scrumptious meal at our local … Read more