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February 2021

Children, Food, Recipes

Bounty style bars

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The kids absolutely love making (and eating!) these. They are not only easy to make, but they also needs very few ingredients and the result its always delicious. I don’t usually follow a recipe but because we did an Instagram Live cooking session with @triplets_in_my_kitchen I actually wrote the measures down so I though it would be good to share it here. You will need a large bowl to mix all the ingredients it, a pan and metal bowl for melting chocolate bain marie style, and a spoon for mixing. Ingredients100gr shredded coconut1 tablespoon date paste* or maple syrup1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted1/4 tsp saltChocolate of choice for melting. I make our own or use Raw Halo or Pico. In a bowl, mix the shredded coconut with the date paste and coconut oil. shape with your hands into logs or press the mixture into a tray. Place in the freezer for 20-30 minutes. Melt the chocolate using the bain marie method and dip the frozen logs until covered in chocolate. Let the chocolate set by placing them onto a parchment paper sheet after dipping. To watch our videos on how to make these, click here *date paste can be made…

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26 February, 2021
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Vegan Fluffy Spelt pancakes recipe

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I don’t know if your kids are the same, but Ariana and Oliver love making requests for special breakfasts (other that the usual sugar free cereal I give them daily) and one of their all time favourites is pancakes! As you know traditional pancakes are made with white flour, eggs, milk and sugar so not really the type of thing I would make for my kids but luckily they are pretty easy to make vegan and, in my opinion, way more delicious as well. My recipe uses spelt flour, but I have also made them gluten free using buckwheat flour and the recipe works too. I personally love using spelt for the slightly nutty flavour they bring to the end result. I tend to eat my pancakes plain, so using spelt flour is important to me. The other reason I love this recipe is because, although I am giving you measures, I make it without measuring anything so its really a one bowl to clean kind of breakfast recipe- less mess, less cleaning makes it easier for me to say yes to requests for special breakfasts in the house. It is simply a very forgiving recipe and one that I…

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16 February, 2021
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Children, Food, Recipes

Heart bagels- perfect for a quick lunch!

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We are so excited to have started our half term holiday. I think this time around, the most excited one is mum as I don’t have to be a Primary School teacher for the next week and trust me, it was hard work 🙂 So, now we have full 10 days ahead of us to fill with adventures and of course, we are limited on what we can do. No traveling, not mixing with other families etc, but we won’t let this bring us down! We are going riding this weekend as the horses still need to be exercised and cared for regardless of lockdowns so at least we have that to look forward to for tomorrow. We have decided to bring our lunch along and make a day out of it and thats why these bagels were made. Just to keep the kids busy I decided to make our own sandwich bread. I usually buy the pita style bread from @farinalondon because its soft easy to eat for kids while being big enough to make a good sandwich size even for the adults. Plus as they deliver it every morning, we always have it freshly baked. But for this…

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14 February, 2021
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Food, Recipes

Valentines inspired cinnamon rolls

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When I started thinking about what to do with the kids this year to celebrate ‘love’ at Valentine’s Day the first thing that came to mind was to make something heart shaped. So far, in previous years, we have made many different cakes with heart shapes and it was fun, but wanted to do something different this time around. This is when heart shaped cinnamon rolls, a household favourite, became a thing for me. We have been making cinnamon rolls for ages because of my husband Eric Swedish roots, and when the kids were very little, we used to make heart shaped rolls using puff pastry and vegan cheese as a quick snack. So the recipe was decided and all we had to do was making the rolls and hope that shape will remain after baking! The first thing you need to know before making cinnamon rolls if that they require time. Not so much for ‘making’ them as such, but time for the raising of the dough. And there is two proving periods of at least 1 hour each, so the sooner you would be able to have the rolls in front of you is 2.5 hours from the…

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10 February, 2021
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Children, Food, Inspiration

Allotment life with kids

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Some of you might know that we have an allotment as I share snippets of our time there on our IG grid. Many times I have been asked how we manage the kids while we are there and what do the kids help with so I thought I would share some of the things the kids enjoy doing and what do I do to ensure we have a pleasant time at our veggie garden. We have had the allotment since four years now and we share the site with another lovely family (the founders of our all time favourite lollies Lickalix) and between us all we have four children in between 0-7 years old. Very early we discovered that the key to kids enjoying the allotment is to make sure they have their own set of easy tasks to complete (and plenty of snacks!). They do not like to do everything, so we try and allocate them considering what each child likes most. For example, Oliver loves digging while Ariana enjoys planting more. All the kids absolutely LOVE picking strawberries and raspberries and these never make it home with us 🙂 So my tips for a successful allotments day are:…

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9 February, 2021
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