This recipe makes a quick easy midweek meal for the whole family. It can be eaten as a main course or as a smaller side dish. I used whatever veg we had in but you can change it to suit you. Ingredients (serves 4 as a main dish) 2 bags of boil in bag rice (the cheats option) 1 tbsp oil (or you can use spray oil. none is needed if you use a ceramic or stone pan) 2 chicken breasts, diced 200 g mushrooms, sliced or quartered 4 large spring onions 100 g garden peas (tinned or frozen) 2 …
{Guest post} Sarah – Surviving with two under two
Today’s guest post comes from a fellow blogger who I ‘met’ on Twitter. Sarah is mum to Daniel and Emma – both are under two years old (a 16 month age gap). She blogs at Let them be small about life with two under two and shares some of the activities they do. She can also be found on twitter – @MsSBurns Surviving with two under two…. Having two children is challenging, no matter the age gap, but having two under two presents its own challenges. There’s 16 months between Daniel and Emma, and it’s hard sometimes to remember that Daniel …
Breastfeeding Made Easy | Book review & giveaway (CLOSED)
I know it’s a little odd me writing about this book as I’m not breastfeeding any more, but I received the Breastfeeding Made Easy book just as I was switching to the bottle – it would have been so handy for me beforehand but I thought it would still be great to review it as I could maybe help someone in the future, even if only on something small, and I could recommend it to people in the future too. Obviously it’s also taken me a long time to get through it, as it is a long book; but in turn that means …
{Guest post} Louise – Cleft palate
Today’s guest post comes from one of my online friends, Louise. We always knew that when we started our family, we didn’t want a huge gap between the children so were thrilled when we found out we were expecting number 2 (D2) when Will was 13 months old. The pregnancy progressed exactly like my first but was under consultant lead care as I delivered via emergency section the last time. We have no serious health issues in our families and I don’t know about anyone else but you don’t go into the scan expecting to be told anything apart from …
The depressing truth | In the media
I recently came across an article that a couple of friends posted on social media recently. The headline caught my eye simply because I related to it – The depressing truth behind mums ‘unable’ to breastfeed. I put together three of the words – depressing, unable, breastfeed – and immediately thought of myself. If you have read my blog before you will know that I really struggled to breastfeed both J & N. The months after J was born were some of the worst of my life because I was unable to breastfeed. I blamed myself, my body didn’t work properly, I couldn’t provide for …