My boys definitely take after their Mummy & Daddy – they love food and barely ever stop eating. Despite them snacking through the day – usually on fruit – we have a set snack time falling between 10am & 10.30am where they will sit down together and share a small plate of various snacks; it also gives me a chance to get a few jobs done as they rarely fight when they are eating! J often asks for treats (sweets or chocolate!) but I prefer to give them something such as fruit, rice cakes, crackers, bread sticks or small cubes of …
Slimming World weigh in #11 – the one with another certificate!
After last week’s weigh in and an expected gain from J’s birthday festivities, I decided to knuckle down, go back to basics, and get right back on plan – all of which I (nearly) managed to do. As I gained 2lb last week I decided I wanted to lose that plus an extra pound so I made sure I ate lots of speed food. I had nothing to knock me off track – well, apart from chocolate fudge brownies and ice cream at the weekend, but that was the only ‘naughty’ I had all week that was out of my syns. But …
Inside the boys’ Easter basket
Last year was the first year that we were a family of four. N was only a few weeks old, but I made an Easter basket – well, actually a papier mache chicken – for J, so I thought I would carry on the tradition and do another one this year. I have left it rather late, though, so the boys have one between them, as I don’t think N will really be interested – I’m not sure how well that will go in theory, though!
Our Easter Plans – Family, Chocolate, and Crafts!
Before we had children, hubby & I didn’t really celebrate Easter or do anything for it – apart from buy each other lots of chocolate and stuff ourselves silly with it! When J arrived in the world, he was only a few weeks old when his first Easter came around, so yet again we didn’t really ‘celebrate’. It was only last year that I decided to make our own celebration of it, and I prepared him an Easter basket; N had arrived in the world a few weeks before too, so we had to dress him as a bunny, of …
Recipe – Peanut butter & white chocolate blondies
This is a recipe I did for our last bake club meeting at the beginning of the month. The theme was tray bakes and I thought, well, I’ve made brownies plenty of times but never blondies, and I had some Reese’s peanut butter left from my cupcakes from last month’s bake club… So these were born! As the peanut butter is smooth there wouldn’t have been any crunch to them so I added banana chips as an alternative (peanut butter and banana is one of my favourite combinations!). You could always use crunchy peanut butter instead and leave the banana chips …