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Pancakes and Pumpkins
Continue ReadingMealtimes have always been a pretty stressful affair in our house with the Little Bean’s fussy eating and her younger brothers beginning to follow suit so a little over a month ago I made a stand. I drew up a meal plan for the Beans so that I would know what to cook each night […]
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Carpet Picnic and Movie Treat
Continue ReadingFor the past couple of weeks I have been trialling a new Reward System with the Beans in an effort to encourage more favorable behavior from them. Initially it worked perfectly but last week was pretty much a write-off as they didn’t seem interested in even trying to move forwards on their charts. All of […]
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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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Saving money the #MorrisonsMum way!
Continue ReadingLast week I was over the moon to be selected as a #MorrisonsMum by BritMums, we had a busy family Bank Holiday weekend ahead of us with a visit from my sister and her family. Both my Mum and I were celebrating our birthdays so it was going to be a weekend of celebrations. As […]
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Our first time to see Disney On Ice
Continue ReadingThere are so many things which we would like to take our children to see and to experience, many of which we will never be able to afford with four children but sometimes the opportunity comes knocking on our door thanks to my blog so who are we to turn them down. Just after Christmas […]
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Slow Cooker: Family meals made easy for new Mums
Continue ReadingOne thing that I have found which has family meals easier for me and to take the stress out of cooking as a new Mum is my slow cooker.
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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 […]
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Room for change?!
Continue ReadingWe have been living in our house for 2 years now and there is one room, in particular, that has never really worked and that’s our dining room. When we planned each room there were two rooms left downstairs, one which is designed to be a study and the other larger room as the dining […]
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Just call me Chef!
Continue ReadingAfter writing “can cook, won’t cook” in a few too many posts for my liking I decided to actually giving REAL cooking a go this week and I have been quite impressed with my efforts and even more impressed with the results. I have been cooking the family meals Monday to Friday for quite some […]
