Archive
2016
May 2016
- Baby friendly oat nibbles: Today’s flavours are basic banana & cherry
- Cherry porridge: catering for different tastes
- Lunch for the beach
June 2016
- Sweet potato & aduki bean hash with mackerel & fresh peas
- Mummy & girls picnic; making the most of the sunshine ☀️
- Quick snack out walking
- A berry good start to the day
- Mediterranean chicken pasta with ‘turnip’ (swede to those of you beyond the Tamar & below Scotland!)
- Easy beansy tea
- A new must for watermelon lovers
- You don’t have to be on holiday to have watermelon for breakfast!
- Simple snacks #1
- Mummy snack #1
- Table booster seat gap hack
- Apple and peach oaty bites
- A baby friendly & healthy twist on moussaka
- Simple pleasures: tomato flowers
- Berry porridge
- Strawberry porridge: Pick your own yumminess
- Packaged for the road: Avocado
- Balancing Breakfast
- A day’s intake
- Beef version of my ‘moussaka’
- Let the harvest begin
- Enjoying the first broad beans of the season
- Salmon sandwiches with cucumber, cherry tomatoes, watermelon & grapes
- Aunty Jen’s multi mash croquettes
- A healthier twist on lasagne for the whole family.
- Beef stew
- Claire’s Baby Tuna Niçoise.
July 2016
- Dietitian Becky’s take on KFC
- Honeydew Melon ☀️
- A quick vibrant lunch
- Minty pea and broad bean humous
- Pineapple porridge with a dollop of Greek yoghurt
- Herby cauliflower & macaroni with crispy cheese top
- Can you eat a rainbow?
- Eating today’s rainbow
- Simple tuna pasta
- Blueberry oaty bites (baby friendly flapjack)
- A rainbow 1st birthday party
- My newsletter is now working!
- Julienned carrot & cucumber with lunch
- Ham with parsley sauce
- Banana love – sensory play & a snack 💖🍌
- Two ways tuna & potato
- Grass: Sensory play in the garden
- Gooseberry & strawberry porridge
- Celebratory lobster macaroni cheese!
- Squash and black eye bean hash, served with avocado
- Cornish pasty
- Blackcurrants, blueberries & red grapes
- Omega 3s & the BBQ
- Healthy cherry Icecream 😍☀️🍨
- Tip of the day: to improve portion control use a smaller plate!
- Vitamin D & Breastfeeding or giving less than 500ml of formula?
- Picnic lunch
- Fun with fabric sensory play
- The Rose petals. Great for sensory play (touch / smell / visual / taste!)
- Sunset yellow cauli pasta
- Responsive feeding
- Loving rhubarb’s sourness
- Pea, ham, chicken & carrot risotto
- Magic carpets for our finger food picnic
- Sensory and developmental play for playgroup friends
- Use it up / freezer soup made in the pressure cooker
- Out of the house all day
August 2016
- Mini me deconstructed pitta.
- Deep fill ham and mega veg quiche & salad
- Pork schnitzel
- Life’s shortcuts
- Pink porridge
- Ham sandwich with a twist
- Pink tomatoes!
- Carrot cake porridge
- Balancing life with a swim
- Eating in action (9 months old)
- The truth about ‘no added sugar’ & my Baby banana bread recipe
- Baby shower centre piece
- Nancy’s cheese tartlets
- Spiced plum porridge
- Lunch idea 🌦
- Free-from ‘icecream’
- Sardines & calcium
- How to reduce evening snacking…
- Thank you chickens
- Do your plastics struggle to dry in the dishwasher?
- Blackberries on toast
- Does your little one get at least 3 hours per day of active play?
- How do you know when a fig is ready to eat?
September 2016
- If you don’t want to loose the best, pick it first!
- Stay hydrated without the sugar
- More than your daily vitamin C requirement in just one kiwi!
- It’s a wrap
- Almond butter corn cake
- Summer berry Oaty bites for GBBO biscuit week
- Egg-citement 🐔
- Colourful lunch 🌈
- Here it is 😍 Deep filled smoked salmon and Romanesco quiche
- Carrot cake overnight oats. Verdict = we prefer the fine grate 😀
- Minimal prep herby spag bol
- Maria’s Spanakorizo
- Peacock themed early birthday tea party
- Vitamin D can reduce asthma attacks (oily fish are a good source of dietary Vitamin D)
- Ham and potato balls with peas and parsley sauce
- Salmon paste and cucumber sandwiches
- Beef, peppers and peas with wholemeal fusilli pasta
- Squash and sundried tomato frittata
- Different eating styles…
- For the packed lunch box: Sundried tomato and basil scotch pancakes
- Miranda’s fish pie
October 2016
- It’s Published!
- Roasted veg tortellini
- Back to work, please bare with me
- Sunday Roast Lamb
- Saturday’s steak night 😍
- Getting ahead with overnight oats
- Piglets 😍
- Pork and bean wrap
- Enjoying Autumn 🍂
- Sweet potato humous
- Box fun: play house
- Portion distortion..!
- Spag Bol – great for the freezer
- Roast mini pumpkins and chicken for a Halloween weekend 🎃
- Trying to loose fewer beakers..!
- Happy Halloween 🎃
- Happy Halloween 🎃
- Pumpkin and tuna pasta
November 2016
- Black bean masala, pumpkin & avocado wrap
- Celeriac humous
- Can you guess what it is?
- Looking for some first food inspiration?
- Balancing breakfast post bonfire night
- Imagination. What do you see?
- Incorporating activity into your day
- A healthier twist on egg on toast
- Exploring the craft box
- Blowing away the cobwebs!
- Kitchen helper
- Courgette and ham risotto
- Which are the ‘superfoods’?
- Courgette carbonara
- I can share
- Fruity lamb & veggie packed stew
- Penguin feeding time 😍
December 2016
- Happy decorating 🎄
- Spaghetti Bolognaise
- Baby paint
- Spaghetti eating 😋
- How’s your rainbow today?
- Nuts about nuts?
- Keeping up-to-date
- Keeping hydrated
- Star of lunch
- Festive play 🐧
- A world of discovery
- Food refusal
- Christmas reduced fat savoury biscuits
- Herby Cauli Mac for tea
- Balancing the festivities
- Sprout tops… & salty facts
- Move away from the nibbles 😂
- Looking for inspiration for your remaining sprouts and carrots?
- Do you stop when you’re full?
- Family fun over food shopping 😋
- Last lunch of 2016: omelette packed full of veggies
2017
January 2017
- Happy New Year! A year for enjoying every moment
- Mega salad for tea 😍
- Spiced apple oaty bite making
- Could you double the veggies you roast this weekend?
- Wrap up and go out
- Baking time
- Let it snow ⛄️️
- Pink grapefruit and Greek yoghurt
- Quick food but not ready meals
- My ‘sticker’
- How do you show your appreciation?
- Bringing a bit of the ‘fresh summer’ feeling to lunch on this cold but beautifully sunny January day
- Cosy Spanish Beans
- Leftovers. Don’t you just love them?!
- Why one monitoring method never tells you the truth
February 2017
- Why bother to take the stairs?
- Use what you’ve got (Spanish Beans)
- National carrot cake day!
- Happy Burns night from the haunted house
- Iron boosting bolognaise
- Yummy lasagna
- Ham and parsley sauce with spiced red cabbage
- Sunday Stir Fry
- The psychology of food…
- When can I give my child an apple?
- Family (& waist!) friendly Friday fish and chips
- Mum’s cottage pie
- When the oven is on..!
- Should we eat more fruit and veg? Don’t be disheartened…
- It’s ok not to finish your plate
- Need a nap?
- DeChox for March?
March 2017
- Lunch doesn’t need to be complicated to be balanced (inc portion info)
- Encouraging sour and bitter tastes linked to improved taste preferences longer term
- Animal pasta
- Showing appreciation & the DeChox
- We’re going on a bear hunt…
- Lasagne doesn’t need to be a carb fest
- Daisy picking
- Beany roasted squash soup
- Tired? Don’t let it be due to dehydration…
- A balanced family-friendly meal ready in 5 minutes…
- Living remotely doesn’t mean you can’t get involved!
- Keep that smile healthy. Why the timing of foods and drinks is important for your oral health:
- When is my child old enough to eat a banana from the skin?
- Salt free stock in 60 minutes
- Toddlers eating squid?!
- Don’t be restricted when making salad 😀
April 2017
- Keeping motivated – you and your children
- Exposure is key when it comes to veg.
- My little beach explorers
- How can your little ones help?
- Mediterranean fish cooking with toddlers running in the background!
- With many ‘normal sized’ eggs having the daily energy requirements of a 4-5 year old girl…
- Bunny ears on and off they go
- Do you have a childhood food that you were put off because of the way is was cooked?
- Sweet potato, bean & chorizo hash topped with an egg
- Introducing ‘big’ tomatoes
- Which bowl has the most cereal in it?
- Food heaven in Porthleven!
- Can you guess what we’re about to make using these foraged ‘three cornered leeks’..?
May 2017
- Balancing lunch
- Vote for me please!
- Mud kitchen fun
- Wild garlic soup
- Our first new potatoes!
- Satay stirfry in action
- Orange fish pie..?!
- Bonus broad beans
- Gone sailing…
- Can you guess what’s going on? The is a ‘how country are you?’ test 😂
- Making meetings healthier
- ‘Grow the right plants and flowers rather than worrying about putting bird seed out everyday’
- What can I introduce shellfish (mussels on the BBQ for lunch)?
- A hidden Cornish gem
June 2017
- AHPs into Action in Cornwall (the day job!)
- Treasures…
- Get them to help!
- Sweet potato fish cakes with guacamole and minty yoghurt served with lots of tomatoes
- Do fruit pastilles count as a portion of fruit?
- Start the day with veggies…
- A year on – thank you!
- Boost your iron absorption by up to 50%…
- Pickle love on the beach
- Yes I (am going to) have twins…
- Simple snack idea: corn on the cob
- ‘Nice creams’ at the ready. You just need two ingredients and it’s milk free!
- Pre An Gof celebrations dinner
- Reaching for chicken food
- Portion control & pitta bread pizza
July 2017
- Keeping up the fibre with Peach Melba for breakfast
- When can I give peppermint tea?
- Herb roll making on an open fire
- Upside down crumble quiche
- Bamboo foraging
- Do you struggle to get your toddler to drink enough?
- Sunshine in the veggie patch
- What a great colour these fleeces are!
- Slowing down the pace of snack time…
- Egg-free mini pancakes
- What healthy lolly pops..?!
August 2017
- Sunshine (Mango) Oaty Bites just out of the oven
- Early (?) hedgerow snacks
- Spiced banana yoghurt ice lollies
- Did you know that basmati rice has a lower GI (glycaemic index) than white rice?
- Healthier raw or cooked?
- Pimms o’clock!
September 2017
- Pretty muddy induction!
- I won..! Thank you x
- Healthy conversations (through crafting) about food during neophobia (‘fussy eating’)
- French onion soup (fail) so quick stuffed pasta, peas and pesto cooked in 3 minutes!
- Surf and turf 😂
- Fruit and veg don’t have to be fresh to count towards your 5-a-day
- eHealth: what little things can we change to improve services?
- Balancing food on the go
- Aren’t raspberries great?!
- Giant couscous risotto for tea and not a spoonful left from anyone!
October 2017
- Party time: Damage limitation!
- Rainbow chard
- More basil please mummy!
- Feel fuller for longer: pineapple with mint and lime juice topping my Greek yogurt.
- Happy Halloween 🎃
November 2017
- Take a moment to catch leaves
- Love it, like it, learning it with prawns
- Time to learn from the trees and let go
- Eggcellent, a triple yolker!
- How to check the sugar content of your breakfast cereal & No added sugar breakfast at the reward: Carrot cake porridge.
December 2017
- Have a healthful Christmas. Today’s top tip: Pace yourself unlike my little lamb!
- Have a healthful Christmas #2
- Merry Christmas everyone
- Twixmas leftovers
2018
January 2018
- Endorsed by a celebrity… and more
- My stoma gave me a new determination to succeed: Michelle’s gold
- The perfect airway blocker….
- A great ‘free from’ snack in the making
- Love it? Like it? Learning it?
- Celebrating the small wins can make all the difference
- Squash & sage, prawn, chicken & chorizo risotto (worth the multi meat!)
- If you’re having a difficult day (for whatever reason) be kind to yourself
- Lunch for me and my toddlers in 10 minutes flat.
- Prunes 😋
- Pac Man Snack
February 2018
- Double Gloucester-ing the start of (free) Sugar free February
- Health benefits of cinnamon…
- Treasure hunt!
- Snow love
- Potato love
- Veggie packed cheats mousakka
- Baby-chinos at the beach
- Snow day bird food
March 2018
- Quick lasagna top: Greek yoghurt with a sprinkle of cheese
- The language we use when describing food can effect food preferences in both the short & long term
- Are they identical?
- Snow day snack
- Celebrate our differences
- Tomato and cucumber salad to start
April 2018
- No added sugar or sweetener ice creams at the ready
- Roasted squash falafel meze
- Simple fish, wedges and veggies joined by some fussy / faddy eater tips
May 2018
- Giving breakfast a Vitamin C boost with Cramelised Pink Grapefruits
- Enjoying the wild garlic
- Ready for cooking
- Looking for a half term activity to get everyone active and interested?
June 2018
- Pack horse!
- I’m going ‘on diet’ tomorrow #PKU #DietitiansWeek
- Struggling to get your little ones to try new foods?
- Wild strawbs & off to conference
July 2018
- Boat spotting & plant sales
- Playing squash…
- Happy Sunday everyone – make it achievable
- Mackerel pate
August 2018
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2019
January 2019
March 2019
April 2019
May 2019
- Iced watermelon
- Beach life
- Grow your own
- One ingredient pop corn! 🌽
- Ice-cream loved by your good bacteria
June 2019
- Festival fun
- Launched today: Please buy to support families hitting hard times & enjoy cooking our favourite family meals to nourish yours
- Making your new potatoes last longer 🥔
- Fancying something sweet & refreshing but still healthy?
- Beta-glucans benefit heart health
- Do you want to keep your herbs coming for longer?
August 2019
- Celebrating summer musical parade
- Week night tea: Bread pizzas
- Let’s be honest & not set other first time mums up to feel like failures…
- ‘Fed is best’ Let’s be less judgemental…