Recipes

Recipe: Fudgy Chocolate Brownies

Baking with kids is fun especially now that we are in quarantine. I have received this delicious recipe for Fudgy Chocolate Brownies donated by Holy Moly and will be making them over Easter weekend to sweeten our confined lives. Image Credit: Holy Moly Dips Makes 18 Ingredients: 120g Holy Moly Smashed Avocado 240ml plant-based milk 70g maple syrup 50g coconut sugar 150g plain flour 1…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 2 Sonic The Hedgehog plushes

To celebrate the release of live action Sonic The Hedgehog movie, London Mums are giving away 2 Sonic plushes. Enter this amazing competition NOW!Get ready for epic fun and super-sonic action when everyone’s favourite hedgehog races home in the blockbuster hit Sonic The Hedgehog, debuting for Download and Keep on 10 April, 2020 from Paramount Home Entertainment. Bringing Sonic the Hedgehog…
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Books

Chatting to author Jessica Sanders about body image and her new book Love your Body

Throughout my career I have met lots of extraordinary women. One of these is new author Jessica Sanders (Love Your Body)who is on a mission to empower young girls and women to love their bodies. Sheis a 26-year-old self-love advocate and social worker and has studied gender at a postgraduate level. Reading a magazine article about girls undergoing labiaplasty surgery for purely…
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Fitness & Health

10 ways to boost our physical health while in self-isolation

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is extremely important to keeping a good quality of life, but it’s not just about hitting the gym; we need to care of our whole body, from the inside and outside. I have talked to the cold therapy experts at www.Biofreeze.co.ukwho have come up with cool ways (excuse the pun … giggle) to keep our body happy and healthy in a bid to boost our physical…
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Fitness & Health

London Mums launch a Love Coach column to support couples and help singletons gain vital relationship skills

Life is incomplete when our important relationships suffer or crumble because we don’t know how to fix unresolved issues. London Mums have now a love coach, who is to going help us tackle all couple dilemmas or teach single people skills that they can use when entering a new relationship. Love coach Thomas Westenholz, founder ofwww.zensensa.com, is a serial entrepreneur who has…
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Movies

Film review: Storm Boy

New movie Storm Boybased on the international best-selling book, is a timeless story of unconditional friendship that brought joyful tears to my eyes. Storm Boy is available from today (6th April 2020) across all major Digital Download platforms – including Sky Store, Virgin Media, Apple TV, Amazon and Google Play – and on DVD later in the year. Order ithere! The story When…
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Shopping Guides

Home edutainment with Match a Mummy: The Ancient Egypt Game

Dear London Mums Are you are running out of ideas to keep the kids entertained during lockdown? Or tired of the same educational activities?Match a Mummy: The Ancient Egypt Game is a fun, educational game that the whole family to play! Out now! Travel back in time to Ancient Egypt with this new children’s matching game, Match a Mummy, out now! Developed in partnership with the British…
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Schooling

How to help Your child choose the right University course

One of the most important aspects of parenting is ensuring that your child develops a strong sense of independence at an early age. Much of this comes from giving them free rein to make the decisions they feel are best for them. However, a certain degree of intervention is sometimes necessary. If your child is undecided about what they want to study after high school, it’s up to you to guide…
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Movies

Film review: Trolls World Tour

In these weird times of self-isolation we all need cheering up and the perfect movie to that effect isTrolls World Tour, an exhilarating animation perfect to connect the kids generation with their parents through a cool story, quirky characters and amazing music. As an extra treat, check out my interview with film director Walt Dohrn I caught up with before the pandemic…
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Pregnancy & Birth

Women feel pressure to 'get back to normal' post birth yet self care is key during the 4th trimester

A new survey conducted by Multi-Gyn and Multi-Mam finds that over a third of women (39%) felt pressure to lose their post pregnancy baby weight. Additionally, nearly a fifth (20%) felt pressure to get back into a fitness regime. In reality, with the body adjusting to very little sleep and the demands of a newborn baby, for some women the challenges of this fourth trimester can be difficult…
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