Like most people I know I can’t look in a full length mirror without sucking in my belly and dreaming of a svelte body in a one piece swimsuit with high cut legs. Then I shake my head and move on.
But I have been looking lately at the Quorn range, particularly as ingredients rather than [...]
I consider myself lucky that my octogenarian mother is still alive and well, my own daughter has not yet left home and my husband’s little girl visits so I can have my family around me on Mother’s Day. And what better way to show how much you love and appreciate your family than with a [...]
School lunches – what a nightmare for the mother of a vegetarian. Not only do you have to balance the nutritional needs but then there’s the question of variety, peer pressure and not least, freshness and durability in the depths of the school bag.
The last two are somewhat easier for primary school kids. It’s OK [...]
If there’s one thing we can thank the credit crunch for it’s the end of the fad of eating out of season food.
I can’t think of anything worse than eating the same old food week in and week out. Flavourless strawberries, beans shipped from Kenya and asparagus from Peru are just a few of my [...]
The family that plays together stays together – so the saying goes. With this family it’s difficult– what with teenagers and grand parents all under the same roof our interests rarely coincide. So we like to sit down together at the end of the day and share a meal and our thoughts.
Easy, do you think?
Not [...]