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5 essential meals for students
Continue ReadingWhoever said that your school days are the best days of your life was clearly never a student! Student life is full to bursting with excitement, new people, fun experiences, mad nights out and the odd bit of work. Learning to fend for yourself for the first time is an important rite of passage – […]
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Pizza Express, Peterborough – our family’s favourite restaurant!
Continue ReadingWhen you consider how many blog posts I have written about our fussy eater Little Bean and the stress she can cause at mealtimes you’d probably think that we avoid eating out at all costs but last year sometime whilst out shopping in Peterborough we realised we needed to get some lunch as we still […]
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What’s your #BreakfastSurvival Guide?
Continue ReadingBreakfast – it’s my favourite meal of the day! FACT! I NEVER miss a breakfast, I might not always get it at the time that I would like to but I never miss it. For me, breakfast has always been about cereals, the crunchier the better (I hate it when they get soggy) and my […]
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My Q&A with Amanda Lamb
Continue ReadingAmanda Lamb is working with Mission Deli Wraps to launch The Lunchtime Revolution survey and the new Lunchtime Less Ordinary on pack competition. Go to MissionwrapsUK on Facebook for more information. I was given the opportunity to interview Amanda; I have an extremely fussy eater in the form of my 5 year old daughter. Her […]
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Tonight can be your night off!
Continue ReadingIt’s been a hard day, things didn’t go your way at work, you got stuck in traffic, missed your train, the children have driven you potty – we have all been there and on days like that the last thing that you want is to slave over a hot stove four hours. You just want […]
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Frankie & Bennys Special Menu
Continue ReadingBefore our family holiday, Hubby and I got the chance to don our glad rags and leave the tiddlers at home with my Mum for a ‘date night’ at Frankie & Benny’s. We had been invited by Frankie & Benny’s to try out their Specials Menu so we chose to visit the restaurant at Springfields […]
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Dining out at Butlins
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to family holidays I have the same fear wherever we go “what will the children eat?” and so Butlins wasn’t going to be any different at all. At home I know how to work my way around mealtimes to keep Little Bean and Beanie Boy happy, for the most part Beanie Boy […]
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- Juniors
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Fed up with soggy sandwiches??
Continue ReadingI hated having a packed lunch when i was at school, everything just seemed warm and squashed and not how food should be. Recently Little Bean has been complaining that her sandwiches weren’t nice. When i asked her why she would say “they keep getting wet!”. That was when i realised there was a problem […]
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Our first ‘pleasant’ meal out as a family of 6!
Continue ReadingEating out as a family should be a pleasurable experience, I’ve no doubt that many families take it for granted when they take their children out to a nice restaurant and order their food from the menu. On Friday we made our way into Peterborough so that Hubby could have his eyes tested and we […]
