Making Frobscottles Inspired by the BFG

You would have to have been living under a rock to not know about the new BFG movie being released in a matter of days time! With the nation going BFG mad me and Maisy recreated our own Frobscottle drink. If you remember from the book a frobscottle is the green coloured fizzy drink the giants all love, the bubbles go down instead of up  which causes a serious case of Whizzpoppers! We decided to create a strawberries and cream frobscottle it was really experimental we just went around the shop picking up bits that sounded good and threw it all together! Ingredients: Fresh…

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Hidden Vegetables Burger with Iceland Food #PowerOfFrozen

Burger’s and cheese cake; if I eat out and their on the menu they are mine. Today I have been getting busy in the kitchen recreating two of my all time favourite foods with a little help from Iceland. I have worked with Iceland on their #PowerOfFrozen campaign in the past, since doing so I have been a complete convert I love the frozen ready sliced veg and herbs they are just so handy and you get a lot more for your money. So on with today’s challenge, Iceland asked me to create a healthy, quality meal whist cutting the hassle…

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Iceland & The #PowerOfFrozen

When my girls started going off to school and nursery I thought to myself ‘great I will have so much more time on my hands, to get the things I want to done.’ Little did I know with school & nursery comes things like school runs, after school activities, playdates, parties – on top of any clubs they’re already a part of. Some days I literally feel like I spend the whole day in the car carting everyone around to where they need to be. One thing that has always been so important to me is providing my children with…

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3 delicious ice lolly recipes for children

My girls do enjoy an ice lolly come rain or shine it doesn’t matter to them, we always have a stash in the freeze. Whilst I don’t mind the odd treat they are full of sugar so I made some healthy alternative ice lollies for them to try and see how they match up to the usual favourites. They went down a treat so I thought I would share these three super simple recipes I used to give you some inspiration for a nice cool refreshing ice lolly treat for the kids to enjoy this summer.  Fruit and coconut water Thinly slice…

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Big Milk Smoothies!

If your anything like me you’ll find it really satisfying to watch your children eat a good healthy meal or gobble down a bowl of fruit, I would love to be able to say that every evening my girls eat up all the veg on their plate but the truth is they don’t always, sometimes it can feel like a bit of a battle. You have to of been hidden under a rock if you’ve missed all the media coverage on childhood obesity – it’s scary. On the whole I do like to think my girls eat a pretty good…

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Healthy Banana Loaf

This weekend me and Maisy got up to a little bit of baking we had a few banana’s that were on their last legs so the plan was to make some banana muffins two problems though we didn’t have enough butter and I had run out of muffin cases FAIL! If you purchase xanax online, you will receive a tablet case as a gift. The promotion is valid for a week and only when buying online. So after a quick google search I found a banana loaf recipe using rapeseed oil instead we have a load of this so went…

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Horlicks Recipes & Giveaway

When you think Horlicks you think of a lovely warm milky drink perfect for bed time however its now been reported that Horlicks is actually a bit of a secret ingredient with lots of chefs and I have had ago at recreating a Horlicks white chocolate croissant pudding which is a twist on the traditional bread-and-butter pudding! The Recipe Ingredients: 6 large butter croissants (preferably stale) 400ml milk 400ml double cream 1 tsp vanilla extract 3 medium free range eggs 4 medium free range egg yolks 150 grams of caster sugar 50g (5 tbsp) Horlicks traditional powder 150g white cooking chocolate…

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