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So here's a funny story: my kids are generally quite good about eating vegetables, but they prefer them raw not cooked, with a few exceptions. They claim not to like cooke carrots, and categorically won't touch mushrooms. But when I

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Summer holidays mean children begging for snacks all hours of the day. We try to keep it healthy with things like fruit, carrot stick with hummus, oatcakes with peanut butter etc but every now and then they'll want a cookie

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My kids are pretty good when it comes to eating vegetables. Most vegetables they like outright, some though they only like in certain ways e.g. only raw or only as soup (I think it's a texture thing). Spinach is one

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We've been trying to cut down on our consumption of refined sugar lately, and while we're doing okay with snacks and baking (lots of excuses to try new sugar free cookie & cake recipes!), one thing we've struggled with is

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We've gotten in to a really bad habit recently of packing ready made snacks in to my son's school bag in the mornings - oat bars, yogurt raisins, fruit leather, that kind of thing. It was meant to be a

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Do you know what tastes better than a nice bowl of crunchy granola for breakfast? A nice bowl of home made crunchy granola! We love granola in our house, but many of the store bought brands are loaded with sugar

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There's been loads of rhubarb popping up in our local fruit & veg shops. Last year we totally missed rhubarb season, so this year we jumped at the first sign of rhubarb and I made a big batch of yummy

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