A little too realistic for my liking…

I gave up eating chicken nuggets long before I became vegetarian, once you read what goes into a chicken nugget you can’t look at them the same again! Plus nine times out of ten I would always end up gagging on a piece of gristle, ugh!
Anyway, our local supermarket has recently been overshadowed by a [...]

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Back to the good stuff… curry!

Thanks for reading my moany post, but now it’s time to move it down the page!
So here is our lastest yummy dinner from Dreena Burton’s Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, Zucchini Chickpea Tomato Curry with basmati rice. Along with the veggies in its name there are also potatoes and green beans so it’s very [...]

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Green Tea Popsicles

The weather is so very, very nice and hot that I made some juice popsicles for myself yesterday. And as our matcha powder had arrived, I took the opportunity to make some Green Tea Freezer Pops from My Sweet Vegan too. Here’s one in all its rocketship-shaped green-tea glory!

I won’t give my verdict because you [...]

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Chai “Cheese”cake & Happy Birthday Mr. HPP

Mr. HPP is having a wonderful birthday, we went to the beach, for a walk in the woods, to the playground, got takeout soy cappuchinos with hummus & tomato pesto bruschettas, and generally chilled. Littlepixie is having a snooze, Mr. HPP is reading his birthday books and I’m letting you all know that Chai “Cheese”cake [...]

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Baking plans…

It’s Mr. HPP’s birthday “fortnight” so I used it as an excuse to procure a new vegan dessert book, My Sweet Vegan by Hannah Kaminsky of Bittersweet Blog fame. Each dessert has a full colour, full page photo and if I could eat them right off the page I would. But I can’t so [...]

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Mittelschmerz - a review & a giveaway

Mittelschmerz is a new(ish) zine written by veganmegan who can often be seen floating around the Post Punk Kitchen forums. The zine focuses on vegan pregnancy, childbirth & child-raising. Issue One has been available on etsy for a few weeks and hopefully Issue Two will appear very, very soon!
Mittelschmerz Issue One deals with pregnancy, including [...]

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Book review: My child won’t eat

Littlepixie took an unexpected 2 hour nap on my lap this morning, which meant us missing her playgroup but which gave me an excellent opportunity to read a book from my ever-growing book-queue.
I decided to read “My child won’t eat” by Dr. Carlos Gonzalez, published by La Leche League International.
My local LLL leader had [...]

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Soup on Sunday

It’s cold and misty outside today, we’re just back from a walk, I’m NAK (cool-speak for Nursing at Keyboard) and Littlepixie has fallen asleep so now I’m trapped! Luckily Mr. HPP has arrived in with a bowl of steaming hot soup for me (and the recipe so I can share it with all of you). [...]

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Food Additives and some more sleuthing

Just a quickie to draw your attention to a handy UK site called Action on Additives. You may remember last September there was a lot of publicity surrounding additives in children’s food in the UK, and I went sleuthing around reading medicine bottles and learning lots about additives.
Action on Additives has been set up by [...]

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Wordless Wednesday - Sunny glass of wine

A sunny glass of wine, a good book, relaxing on holiday…. ahhhhh!
Click here to go to HQ and look at other people’s Wordless Wednesdays.

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