‘How our family moved to France, cured picky eating, banned snacking, and discovered 10 simple rules for raising happy, healthy eaters’ Karen Le Billon.
In this wry, self-deprecating memoir, Karen Le Billon shares her personal account of the (at first unwelcome) food education she receives after moving with her husband and two young daughters to a small village in northern France…
Dear London Mums
This month we have 2 bank holidays, Jubilee celebrations and another half term… WOW! Which exactly means that for us mums it’s going to be a busy and tiring month. But we have lots of resources here on the London Mums website to help you cope.
At the end of May we will publish our print LONDON MUMS MAGAZINE (issue 6) with a special section dedicated to the Olympics…
The dining table is only the fifth most popular place to eat breakfast, a study revealed yesterday. Despite being the traditional place to start your day, the dining table was beaten by our desks, the sofa and even the commute to work.
Researchers found a third of Brits say that they never sit down and eat breakfast at a table and those that do are unlikely to do it at any point other than at the…
Having lived in London for over 17 years it has always amazed me when I come across people whose parents or grandparents are from a different country and they don’t speak anything other than English. Often they say ‘I understand it but I can’t speak it’. I always thought their parents did something wrong! Now that I have children of my own I realise that it is easier than I…
You will not believe how easy it is to make churros!
My aunt Tete taught me a few Christmases ago and I can tell you she makes the best churros I have ever tasted!
As always the simplest recipes are the hardest to get right but ever since we learnt we keep trying and almost get there!
So, although she says the recipe must be very exact in terms of measuring, as every Spanish cook I know…
We all want to be in the best possible health – and we certainly want the best for our children. Most of us can get enough vitamins from a healthy balanced diet – but some of us need a little extra help.
Vitamins can be divided up into two main groups. The fat soluble vitamins – A, D, E and K – are mostly found in fatty foods like dairy foods, oily fish, liver and oils, margarine and…
Here is an amazing recipe for Pancake Rapids. Get creative while making a yummy pancake this Shrove Tuesday.
Ingredients
Crepe pancakes (see recipe below)
Lyle’s Squeezy Chocolate Syrup
Lyle’s Golden Syrup
Strawberries
Yoghurt
Blue food colouring
Equipment:
Frying pan
Spatula
Foil
Method:
1. Make up crepe pancake mix as per instructions. Add Lyle’s Chocolate Syrup to the mix and…
If you think the annual pancake toss is flipping boring, then we’ll show you a new way to play on Pancake Day by creating a new series of edible three-dimensional ‘panscapes’ that turn the humble pancake into an edible art form that you can enjoy simply and easily at home. Leading experimental food experts Polly Betton and Andrew Stellitano have built a series of beautiful 3D landscapes…
Meatballs are a great way to feed kids as you can hide all kinds of goodies inside them that they’ll never even know about! Making them really small makes them easy to eat and to mix with Garofalo Motori pasta. You can make a huge batch of these and freeze them for later use.
2 to 3 tablespoons richly flavoured Extra Virgin olive oil
1 cloves garlic, unpeeled and lightly crushed
200g/7 oz…
Cars and little trucks feature amongst the shapes in Pazzielle, so I thought a traffic light theme might be quite fun. Involving children in the cooking process not only teaches the a valuable life skill, but it also encourages them to want to eat the food they have helped to make, so for this recipe you can all get cracking on the job of de-seeding and cubing the tomatoes. To make this more…