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Pregnancy cravings

They don’t lie when they say every pregnancy is different. With Dexter, it was so easy I didn’t even know for the first 5 months. With Paisley, I spent most days aching, struggling to walk and in a permanent state of exhaustion. I had…

December 13, 2016

My Slimming World Top Tips

I joined slimming world last year in February. In a couple of months I’d lost a stone and a half and was pregnant with my second child. (Funnily enough, I had my first child after losing 3 stone on my own!) I didn’t continue…

October 16, 2016

Back in the saddle – Rejoining Slimming World.

If you follow me on other social media, you may have noticed more food-related pictures sneaking in. That’s because I have jumped back in the saddle and rejoined slimming world. Well, last week I sort of led the horse around the paddock a bit…

September 27, 2016
Family

Fussy eaters – My child won’t bloody eat!!

I’ve always wanted to encourage good eating in my children and when Dexter started weaning he was amazing. But now we’re lucky if he finishes just half of his dinner.. Is fussy eating a phase? How do we get round it? Dexter started weaning…

May 3, 2016
Family

Why I bought my one year old a knife

Since being pregnant, I’ve eaten so much more healthily than I did before. There was a time I’d spend my tea breaks at work scoffing down a greasy sausage roll and swigging a can of energy drink. These days I will more likely be found…

November 2, 2014

Todays lunch.

Today has been a bit of a lazy day today. Neither me or Dexter are properly dressed and I joined him for his morning nap when ideally I should’ve been doing housework. However, during our time of just ‘dossing about’, I did at least…

June 23, 2014

An open letter to Iceland…

Dear Iceland, Today I visited one of your stores. Ive not shopped at Iceland for about 9 years or so and my situation from then to now is very different. Today I visited as a mother of an 11 month old. We drove into…

May 8, 2014

Day 7 of the Organix #NoJunk pledge

Our last day of the challenge. And surprisingly, Its not been that hard. Todays breakfast was porridge with a fruit compote consisting of strawberries and raspberries. I was surprised to not have to do breakfast this morning as Liam got up and took Dexter…

May 5, 2014