I am having a Hungry Caterpillar day (the kind where you keep wandering in and out the kitchen, snack on stuff, but are STILL HUNGRY!).
This is being slightly hampered by the fact that we’re down to the last rotting banana and random stuff in the fridge that looks as if it might walk [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I received a selection of NÖM Naturally yoghurts for review. (For the record, I always like to be sent free stuff – especially if that free stuff is edible!)
Unfortunately, the week they arrived I was still recovering from a nasty cold with an evil sore throat and completely deactivated [...]

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Akra broke my food processor on Tuesday.
Well, okay, I’d broken the catch on the locking mechanism a few months before and it had just been limping along the best it could, but the bowl did shatter rather spectacularly when Akra dropped it while washing up.
I half-heartedly looked for spare parts resellers, as [...]

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I haven’t baked anything for a long time – made plans to a few times, but then not quite got around to it. However, once the kids had got off to school this morning I felt the sudden urge to get all the non-healthy recipe books out and spend a morning pottering about the [...]

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Is it just me, or have other people noticed a sudden spike in grocery prices?
Normally our weekly shop for the four of us comes in at around £55-75 … pushing £80 if I’ve been a bit extravagant (or had every household cleaner run out at the same time).
Over the last month it has suddenly shifted [...]

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As regular readers will know, I have never been one to refuse free chocolate and it was with much anticipation that I received one of this year’s Extra Thick Egg creations from Hotel Chocolat.
Last year’s Signature Egg was absolutely divine, so expectations were running high on opening the parcel, and I have to [...]

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I think it’s no secret by now, that Hotel Chocolat are possibly my favourite chocolate producer of all time. I was completely won over by their Signature Egg they sent me for review last year.
The best thing about a Hotel Chocolat Easter egg is that the shell is so substantial – completely unlike the [...]

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And the result is in…
[Insert drum roll here]
AND THE WINNER IS…
Pat from Stourbridge!!!
Congratulations, Pat. You should be receiving your prize in the next few days.
Many thanks to all who entered. Keep coming back, because you never quite know when the next competition might be just around the corner…

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I’m officially renaming the last meal of the day to “Idon’tlikethis Time”.
Though I did nearly fall off my chair when Akra Jr ate a single sprout. Shame he prefaced it with “I’m eating this first cos I HATE sprouts… THEY STINK” thus putting off his brother even trying it.

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Every now and then, I get an email offering me some free stuff in exchange for a bit of promo or a review. (I promise to always be transparent when this is the case, and always give an honest review regardless of whether an item is free or whether I went out and bought [...]

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