Category: Food

Midweek Meal Inspo; Chili, Garlic Butter Chicken, Pad Thai and more.

Midweek Meal Inspo; Chili, Garlic Butter Chicken, Pad Thai and more.

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This weeks meals are a little all over the place! Some are from before Kai started his fitness journey, with his personal trainer and an app that needs to measure his food and some are after. At the moment, we are sort of cooking him separate meals, to best support what he wants in life. It’s been a challenge adapting, but a challenge worth taking on for him. The rest of us are still looking to eat our favorites and try new foods as well!

Gnocchi with Sausages

The children have discovered their love of gnocchi, so we have been experimenting to figure out if they like it cooked different ways. We fried up some sausage in a pan, along with the gnocchi. There are two types; a sort of boiling type that ends up soft and a pan fried type that ends up crispy. These crispy ones got very crunchy on the outside! After they were crispy, we added in some Italian seasoning, cherry tomatoes and some fresh basil. Amelia and Robin decided they like it better soft, where as Kai likes them crunchy!

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Valentine's Day Cupcake with Sweet Designs by Jennie

Valentine’s Day Cupcake with Sweet Designs by Jennie

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Amelia and I go to a cupcake decorating class every month, as a bit of mother-daughter time, and this month Sweet Designs by Jennie had a special Valentine’s Day class, the day before Valentine’s Day, so you can make a half dozen cupcakes to share with your loved one. This class, unlike a lot of the others by Sweet Designs by Jennie, only comes around once a year, so we were both pretty excited as we hadn’t made these before.

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School Lunch Ideas with b.box Mini Lunchbox and Snack Box

School Lunch Ideas with b.box Mini Lunchbox and Snack Box

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[Ad- gifted products] We always do packed lunches, unless the school is doing a special meal. Our children don’t prefer the food schools make, so it’s just easier and ensures that they are getting food that they enjoy. With that in mind, I find that packing bento-styled lunch boxes is so much easier and takes a lot of thinking out of it. Looking at the box, you can see all of the compartments and figure out exactly what to put into them. Amelia was excited to try the b.box Mini Lunchbox, which isn’t really mini, but is smaller than their jumbo, along with the b,box Snack Box for her breaks. After a few weeks of using these boxes, here are the lunches she enjoyed:

Chicken, Avocado and Bacon Skewers

We aren’t a big sandwich or bread household, so one of the things we like making are bacon, chicken and avocado skewers. These are so easy to make; bake up some chicken (which I often do the night before) and cube it. Cook off some bacon and cut some avocado. We then add all of those to a stick, to create a sort of one-bite sandwich. Amelia had this with some homemade potato salad as a side. She had tomatoes and cucumbers as her vegetables, and grapes and blueberries as her fruit. We used the little divider for the b.box Mini Lunchbox, which gave enough room for some vegetables. In her b.box snack box, it fit an entire single serving bag of pop chips (BBQ Flavour), along with Oreos for her and her friends. I tossed in a few Sour Patch Kids and her vitamin as well. Inside her bag, I packed her a Raspberry Jelly Squeeze for one of her breaks.

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Flavorful Bread with Wright's Baking Cheddar Cheese & Onion Bread Mix

Flavorful Bread with Wright’s Baking Cheddar Cheese & Onion Bread Mix

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[Ad- gifted product] Amelia comes home from school often looking for something to quickly make. I think it’s that itch of baking – so we checked the cabinet and took a look for a bread to make for Kai’s avocado toast for breakfast. Amelia isn’t a big bread fan, but Wright’s Baking has sent us a load of different bread mixes to try out. She read off all the labels on them and settled on the Cheddar Cheese & Onion Bread Mix, which sounded the “best for Avocado Toast”.

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Harlow Chinese School – Hot Pot Party

Harlow Chinese School – Hot Pot Party

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When it comes to cooking at the Harlow Chinese School, a lot of the prep work is already done for us. This is totally okay with me, as I am more than happy to primarily do the eating! with the first course of the New Year, Sun Yong wanted to do something a bit different, and prepare a Hot Pot Party. This was more of a big social event, where we were just cooking out own Hot Pot and talking with each other. Honestly, it felt like a great community activity and a lovely way to start off the New Year without any sort of pressure.

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