Spiced Pumpkin Muffins with Primula Creamy Frosting (Makes 12 muffins) Ingredients 225g Plain Flour 1tsp Bicarbonate of Soda 1tsp Ground Ginger 1tsp Mixed Spice 150ml Vegetable Oil 150ml Soured Cream 225g Caster Sugar 2 Large Eggs 125g Pureed Pumpkin (either tinned or boiled fresh pumpkin blended until pureed) 1 Tube Primula Original 400g Icing Sugar […]
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Boost your child’s immune system ready for winter
With winter knocking on our doors, it’s that time of year again when your child’s immune system may be dwindling. How can you prepare your child for the cold winter weather? With only a few small tweaks to their daily diet, you can get your little one ready for winter. Your child’s immune system protects […]
How to Teach Your Kids to Cook – and Make it Fun!
Are you looking for an enjoyable way for your and your kids to spend more time together? Fun kids activities you can do range from science projects to woodland adventures, but if you don’t have much time to spare, there’s another activity you might consider introducing your kids to: cooking. Admittedly, getting busy in the […]
Martha Collison’s Bake Off for Children in Need
Great British Bake Off Quarter Finalist Martha Collison has teamed with her school catering company Cucina Restaurants to raise money for Children In Need in 47 schools across the UK. The Year 13 student from Charters School in Sunningdale Berkshire has designed five of her own cakes and goodies which will be baked and served […]
Average Child in UK Has Only 5 Meal Types
New research from vouchercloud.com has found that most UK children are not eating a diet full of variety, but instead are only eating one of five different meal types. Children under ten tend to only eat these five meals and only 19% of children have vegetables with their dinner. The money savings brand contends that […]
More Than Words creates the perfect family heirloom
More Than Words, the award winning online boutique specialising in the art of typography, can create you the ultimate family heirloom by taking a favourite family recipe and reproduce it on reclaimed timber using printed, hand written typography. Whether its Grandmas banana cake, Mums special soup or Granddad’s yummy Yorkshire Pud you can capture the […]
Tesco and Great British Chefs team up for new kids app to get them in the kitchen this Xmas
A free Christmas app called Cooking with Kids comes courtesy of Tesco and the award winning recipe website Great British Chefs, and is launching this month just in time to get the kids into the kitchen this Christmas. With 105 wonderful winter and Christmas recipes, there has never been a better time to encourage your […]
The summer break needn’t be stressful
While kids look forward all year to their 6 weeks summer holidays, it is quite the opposite for their parents. Energetic, lively children are easy enough to deal with in the evening and at weekends, but with 6 weeks stretching ahead, and no guarantee of decent weather, it is little wonder parents dread this break […]
Foresters UK Wallace & Gromit’s Big Breakfast
As studies suggest that people who typically eat breakfast have lower levels of stress and higher levels of concentration than people who skip breakfast, the nation’s citizens are invited to pay attention to their health and be a part of raising important funds that will help children with illnesses all over the UK through ‘Wallace […]
New kids cook book courts controversy with crazy cooking challenges
There is a new cookbook that just hit the shelves that is being hailed as the most controversial yet important cookbook that has ever been written for children, and their families. The name of the book is Mission: Explore Food is an activity cook book that challenges kids to do a whole manner of things. […]