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Looking for something different to make a change to kids meal times?

Any time of year turkey is bootiful. Low-fat, tasty, great value, incredibly versatile – you’ll find a delicious recipe for all seasons at Bernard Matthew Farms.

Try a summer barbecue with turkey instead of chicken – or a salad, light soup, or a traditional Sunday roast with all the trimmings. Or make a yummy sandwich with turkey . . . → Read More: Looking for something different to make a change to kids meal times?

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Save money and the environment with My Friendly Lunchbox

Easy Lunch Box System

Lunchboxes often includes cartons, plastic bottles, sandwich bags, yoghurt pots, crisp bags, biscuit and bar wrappers, dip containers, cling film and sandwich bags. Multiply this with the number of lunches you prepare in a year and you start to see how much you are contributing to landfill. Packing a waste free lunch . . . → Read More: Save money and the environment with My Friendly Lunchbox

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Pink Fish Macaroni Recipe Video

We all know what it’s like when it comes to tea time with toddlers – it can be hard enough getting them to sit still at the table let alone anything else! Between the ages of one and three years it can be difficult to get them to eat the right foods particularly as some toddlers . . . → Read More: Pink Fish Macaroni Recipe Video

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Antony Worrall Thompson challenges kids to make him the perfect breakfast

As part of Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2010, Antony Worrall Thompson challenges three teams of children to make him the perfect, healthy breakfast. This was in resposse to a survey that found:

• One third of children don’t know that oats make porridge
• 20% of kids think bacon comes from sheep
• 17% thought eggs were the main . . . → Read More: Antony Worrall Thompson challenges kids to make him the perfect breakfast

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Vitamin K2 can amerliorate problems of weak bones in dieting teenagers

The risk to dieting teenage girls of weak bones was recently reported in the Daily Mail – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1240859/Size-zero-pressure-girls-leads-weak-bones-say-scientists.html

“Dieting by teenage girls desperate to reach ‘size zero’ could be putting their bones at risk, say British researchers. A team from Bristol University looked at more than 4,000 young people aged 15, scanning their bones to calculate their . . . → Read More: Vitamin K2 can amerliorate problems of weak bones in dieting teenagers

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Dark Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache Recipe

Here is an easy recipe that children can make as a Christmas treat.

Dark Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache

Dark chocolate cake is the perfect recipe for any chocoholic to get stuck into. With layers of dark chocolate ganache, this is sure to get your mouth watering, just try and save the chocolate for the . . . → Read More: Dark Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache Recipe

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Fussy Eating in Children – Top Tips

It’s an age old problem that has plagued well-meaning parents throughout the ages – how to get the kids to eat up their greens and other healthy foods.

But a snapshot of modern family life shows that the mums and dads of today are losing the mealtime war as kids use a sophisticated mix of old and . . . → Read More: Fussy Eating in Children – Top Tips

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Kid’s Learn New Skills with Fruit Shoot!

Fruit Shoot’s have started a campaign with real kids who’ve ‘got the juice’ (or who’ve got cool new skills to you and me). As the weeks go by you can see them perform their amazing skills (which we call the ‘wow’), and then learn how to do it for themselves (the ‘how’). Watch and listen . . . → Read More: Kid’s Learn New Skills with Fruit Shoot!

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5 per cent of children eat no fruit and veg all day according to survey

A recently published survey on behalf of Green Giant, the sweet corn brance, has revealed that around 5% of children are eating no fruit and veg at all and that three out of five are eating just three portions a day or less.

British children are falling woefully short of the government’s five-a-day targets on fruit and . . . → Read More: 5 per cent of children eat no fruit and veg all day according to survey

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YAZOO milkshakes get a makeover.

YAZOO has just made the nation’s favourite milkshake even healthier and tastier for kids by launching a new and improved recipe containing natural flavours and for the banana and strawberry shakes now containing real fruit juice.

Yazoo Strawberry Milkshake

Not only is YAZOO low in fat, it also contains less than 5% added sugar and is free . . . → Read More: YAZOO milkshakes get a makeover.

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