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Cooking with kids: Potatoes and Spinach aka Saag Aloo

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The Saag Aloo is a family love and hate. I mean, how many kids really like spinach? Mine aren't fans! By blending spinach into meals and adding a lot of (warming, like cinnamon and nutmeg) spices, we get away with eating it fairly regularly. Interestingly, the kids love to nibble fresh baby spinach off the plant in the garden... but we digress. Saga Aloo, curried … [Read more...] about Cooking with kids: Potatoes and Spinach aka Saag Aloo

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Teaching Kids to Cook: Masoor Dhal, Red Lentil & Tofu Curry

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Pulses, especially red lentils (as they cook so quickly) are a fantastic vegetable protein. They are super easy to make with kids too. This Red Lentil and Tofu Curry is a quick dish- 15-20 minute, even with kids making it. It's a suitable dish for ages 7-8 years and above to prepare, depending on their maturity. The dish is a balanced, vegetarian protein dish, that can be … [Read more...] about Teaching Kids to Cook: Masoor Dhal, Red Lentil & Tofu Curry

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Cooking with kids: Raita or Tzatziki

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Do you have some cucumbers hanging around? We LOVE the humble cucumber as a side dish for different cuisines or a dip! It's one of the first dishes my kids made, as it's so simple. The beauty of this is that the children learn how different spices added to the same base mixture changes the flavour of a dish so much. What ingredients do you need? 1-2 … [Read more...] about Cooking with kids: Raita or Tzatziki

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Hygge Family Routine for Working from Home with the Kids

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tiny home office with exercise ball as seat

Working from home with is nothing new to me. I've been doing it for the past 8 years. Over that time, like most parents, I've been the main carer for any of our kids when they were struck down with illness. (Not too often, thankfully!) Along the way, I've learned how to deal with getting work done while having kids at home. With the current social distancing, and often … [Read more...] about Hygge Family Routine for Working from Home with the Kids

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Self- quarantine in a tiny family apartment

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TIny home bedroom

Perhaps booking a cruise with 50 other nationalities from all over the world wasn't our best plan just as a pandemic was emerging! We transited one of the busiest airports in the world and mingled in the thick of it with lots of people in 3 countries. We took precautions, washed our hands a lot more, sanitised and used hand gel. How much we touched our faces, we don't … [Read more...] about Self- quarantine in a tiny family apartment

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