How many meals per week are you eating away from home? Over the last few decades, more and more people have been ordering takeaways. However, research published by the John Hopkins School of Public Health has claimed that people who frequently cook meals at home eat healthier and consume fewer calories.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET) have partnered up with Mondelēz International to launch a competition for kids to engineer the ‘Chocolate Bar of the Future’. The competition aims to engage kids in the joy of engineering and innovation while nurturing their curiosity through the medium of chocolate.
Roo and Tigger had been flicking through recipe books and recipes I’d printed off from other bloggers that I saw throughout the year. There was one particular recipe that Roo wanted to make chocolate orange fudge. Now, this is the part where I have to confess to buying a Terry’s chocolate orange in preparation for our epic baking session, however, I appear to have eaten it whilst watching Game of Thrones earlier in the week… Bad mummy alert!
Food is much more than the substance we eat to give us energy. It is the essence of our lives that we consume for love and fun. A meal will bring people together and give them an opportunity to talk, laugh, cry and share their lives with the ones they love. Whether you have meals with your friends and family regularly or if it’s a rare occasion, you will still enjoy the moments they can bring.
Ensuring that a child eats safe food is easy when they are at home. Unfortunately, the time they spend at home begins to reduce when they start schooling. If you are like other parents, you must be concerned about what your eats when he or she is away from them. This concern drives many parents to pack lunch or snacks for their children to bring to schools because keeping children safe is a priority. Parents who want to ensure their children eat lunch that is safe everyday need to start by instilling safe habits in their children. Though this might sound like a challenge, there are simple ways to go about it and ensure that kids enjoy clean, safe food away from home.
It’s funny to think how much effort we put into making sure that our lunches and evening meals are exciting….
Summertime is a great time of year for finding and using produce found in your own back garden. Now in mid-summer, there are a variety of wild and cultivated vegetables which are great for salads and other healthy recipes.
A few weeks ago a special invitation appeared in my inbox, inviting myself and Roo to a baking masterclass with Belvoir Fruit Farms. With Roo’s love of baking, I knew it was something that she would love to take part in. With the extra special bonus of Lisa Faulkner being the celebrity chef showing us how to create some yummy treats.
Replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats such as rapeseed oil in the diet contributes to the maintenance of normal cholesterol levels, which may reduce the risk of heart disease. Rapeseed oil is widely available and public health advice encourages its use as a substitute for saturated fats as UK diet and nutrition surveys reveal we’re eating too much.
When we become parents biologically, or through adoption or marriage, we want to give them the best odds at being healthy, well-adjusted, and strong people. It is an awesome responsibility. A child is a blank slate. The activities we expose them to, the habits we instill in them, and the foods we teach them to eat are the tools we equip them with that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
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