You know how important your health is, yet sometimes in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it can be easy to neglect some of the essential things you need to do to stay fit and healthy. If you’re looking to make a change and don’t know where to start – you’ve come to the… Continue reading Five Ways to Make 2024 Your Healthiest Year Yet
Guess what? We have our oven fixed…over two weeks without an oven and I can honestly say it’s not been good. I was so pleased when the technician turned up this morning and fixed it. I can finally start cooking things in my oven again. Last week went okay. We didn’t get our toad-in-the-hole thanks… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan, Back in the Oven!
I haven’t done a meal plan in a while. Cooking has become such a chore. It doesn’t help that we have been without a proper oven for over a week and don’t know when it will be fixed. (We are waiting for a part, I hope it’s not much longer.) The kids are at home… Continue reading Back to Weekly Meal Plans because Cooking is a Chore.
Four years ago my Little Girl made a lovely Valentines Cake. She did it mostly by herself after receiving some cake decorations in the post. She was nine years old at the time and I think she did a really good job. Valentines Cake Valentines Cake Recipe INGREDIENTS: 8oz self-raising flour8oz unsalted butter8oz caster sugar4… Continue reading An Easy to Make Valentines Cake
I recently posted about my Christmas cake over on my other blog, Raisiebay, and I had so many questions I decided to do a dedicated post here in my cake series. This post contains affiliate links which if you click through and purchase something I may earn a little money. It will cost you no… Continue reading My Christmas Cake Recipe
My Cakes I used to write a blog about cakes. I made a lot of cakes for many people, some I was more proud of than others but I really enjoyed making them. I find it difficult to make cakes now as it is a lot of work for me, but I’ve decided to re-visit… Continue reading My Little Pony Cake
So much of what we do in life is all about mindset. For some people, jumping out of an aeroplane is fun – for others, it’s a nightmare. The same variations in attitude occur concerning cooking. For many people, getting out all the crockery to make a meal from scratch is a massive chore, especially after… Continue reading Why Cooking Is Your Secret Relaxation Weapon
When Cooking Becomes a Chore I didn’t write a menu last week. I was just so fed up of cooking. I winged it and we ended up having two take outs! The first was planned as it was Star’s birthday and she wanted a pizza from Dominoes. I always use Top Cash Back* (referral link)… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan – When Cooking Becomes a Chore
Trying Something New I’m a bit late with my menu this week. We are trying something new. We’ve been having issues with food, being totally fed up of the regular meals we were having and the cupboards and freezers were stacked up with food we don’t really want to eat. So, I’ve been trying to… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan – Trying something New
Hot or Not? Last week we decided to fit in our BBQ. We had the hottest day of the year and the boys had spent the whole day in the pool in the garden keeping cool. We got all the BBQ food ready and just as we were about to take it all outside, there… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan – Hot or Not?
