Cooking a meal that can keep the whole family happy is a minefield, especially when you have two children under four. Every meal time, we run the gauntlet. Will they eat? Will I be covered in food at the end? Obviously, we all want our children to eat healthily. We want them to eat vegetables,… Read More
Goodlife have been making vegetables the star of the show for over 25 years. Their frozen vegetarian sausages, burgers and kievs are packed full of your favourite veg. They also have no artificial additives, preservatives or colours. Although we are not a vegetarian family, we do eat meat-free meals fairly often. There are many reasons to… Read More
To win FIVE boxes of the Goupies flavours of your choice, plus a bonus box of new Goupies Minis, see the Rafflecopter below. Now that Someone’s mum is getting bigger, I regularly get emails from companies, asking me to try their products, old and new. Unfortunately, I have limited time to work and so I… Read More
Introducing Daddy Cooks Food My husband, Matt, does a great deal of cooking in our household. He also has a very successful Instagram account, daddy_cooks_food, where he shares his own recipes, food products and recipes from others. For a while now, I have been thinking that he should guest post on Someone’s Mum, as I… Read More
Valentine’s Day is often tainted by the idea that it is an unnecessary and commercial holiday. Therefore, it is a particularly nice time to share a home-crafted or personalised gifts that can really show your significant others how much they mean to you. These iced heart cookies are extremely easy to make and the decoration… Read More
Tesco Cypriot New potatoes are an incredibly versatile and flavoursome vegetable that are only available in Tesco stores until March. I am sharing one of our favourite dishes for new potatoes below – a gorgeous chicken and artichoke bake that includes bacon and garlic. It is the perfect comfort food for those gloomy mid-winter days.… Read More
I adore Christmas. I adore the decorations, the food and the atmosphere. We are already in full festive baking mode in our house and this weekend I got Biggest and Littlest involved in the making of our festive fruit cake. If you love Christmas fruit cake but aren’t a big fan of thick layers of… Read More
On Tuesday, gorgeous boy turned four. He is absolutely obsessed with Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom, and so he requested a birthday cake made to look like ‘a jelly flood on the moon’. This was no small task but, knowing how delighted he would be, I set to work in order to create the Ben… Read More
We were recently invited to try out the new menu at the Cross Hands Beefeater, Chetenham. The Cross Hands is celebrating a new refurbishment and recent donation towards the restoration of a piece of Cheltenham’s history – a portrait of the infamous Mr. Whittern, local greengrocer. The recent makeover at the Cross Hands was immediately… Read More