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My parents love to remind me of the time, as a child of four, I insisted that the waiter at a restaurant in Italy brought me fresh strawberries and cream for pudding in December. I could be quite bossy forceful determined at that age…ahem…ok, maybe still now… While I may still stubbornly dig my heels…
When summertime rolls around, salads are a go-to for me. If you use fresh, flavour-packed good-quality ingredients, they can taste genuinely amazing. The thing is, more traditional salads made with mostly crisp lettuce leaves are not going to go down well with my kids. They don’t mind salad leaves. In fact, they are usually willing…
With a heatwave hitting the UK at the moment, I’ve been stocking our freezer with our favourite ice creams for indulgent (and not so indulgent) treats. I have two types I rely on for different times in the heat: my sugar free vanilla ice cream (or variations on it) for more decadent, soft-scoop traditional ice…
Eating out can be tough when you are trying to keep your sugar intake low. Now, don’t get me wrong, since we don’t eat out that often, we generally don’t get too worried about a little sugar in our meal – after all, it’s a treat. But sometimes I crave a restaurant or takeout night,…
My 2-and-a-half-year-old son has an olive obsession. He adores them. They will always be the first thing to disappear off his plate, and he will happily munch his way through as many as you let him have. Given his love for them (one shared only ever-so-slightly less enthusiastically by his sister and my husband and…
We had a pretty great food day on Father’s Day. Lunch on days like Mother’s or Father’s Day in our house is usually a pretty big affair. Sometimes we’ll head out for a delicious brunch somewhere. But occasionally, you just cannot beat an amazing home-cooked meal. And last Sunday’s was just that. Amazing. I had…