So, what have you got planned for your kids this half term? The weather isn’t too bad oop North at the moment so I’m taking full advantage of that for my plan - to embrace the great outdoors! It can’t do me any harm and Kian loves being out in the sun - I just hope the weather holds out!
Autumn half term
We’re entering Halloween territory now so I thought it was time to do a few themed recipes. And I don’t mean peeled grapes pretending to be eye balls or spaghetti marquerading as guts!! I know we don’t celebrate (is that the right word?) Halloween like our American friends, but I still think it’s nice to get a few decorations and have a themed meal, and it’s fun to get the kids dressed up. If, like most families, you carve a pumpkin at halloween, these recipes are great because they make use of the pulp and seeds.
The first recipe is from a brill website called Domestic Sluttery. If you haven’t already visited it you really should!
Kids these days have access to so many things that my generation did not. I routinely think “I wish they did that when I was younger!” but alas, I can’t go back in time. The next best thing for me to do is get Kian involved in some interesting activites. Also I’m constantly reading about how kids these days are overweight and hardly do any exercise and I don’t want Kian falling into that statistic!
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I was reading a blog post the other day over at Niche Delights and i was shocked to discover that some baby products (Johnsons included eeek!) are packed full of toxins!
Research shows that often the toxicology levels of some baby products from big brands are off the chart. Infact, scientists now believe that our children are exposed to over 80,000 toxic chemicals a day. Now that’s one statistic that scares me.
We’ve already featured a cottage pie recipe, but I absolutely love shepherd’s pie too. It’s great comfort food, especially as we wander into the colder months, and I like being able to add any random vegetables that I have lying around. Mmmm just writing this is making me want to go home and cook one right now! This recipe is actually to make use of leftover Christmas turkey, but you can use chicken or just plain old lamb. Either way it’s delicious. The great website I found this recipe on is American and so the measurements are in cups, sorry!
Turkey and leek shepherd’s pie
