Recipes

Menu Mondays: Baked Cod with Tomatoes & Home-made Chips

The baked cod with tomatoes was a surprise winner this week. It’s quick to prepare, fairly simple and tasty.

There’s also one surprise recipe we definitely won’t be using again!

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5 Tactics for Tackling Nutrition Labels

It’s estimated that around 60% of food shoppers now read the nutrition facts table on packaging. Unfortunately, they don’t make it very easy to use that information effectively. Here are five helpful tips to help you cut through the mumbo-jumbo and make the healthiest choices for you and your family.

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Menu Mondays: Somerset Sausage Casserole

A blend of great tasting sausages and tanginess from the cider, you get a wonderfully warming casserole that is particularly good on those chilly nights when it’s supposed to be spring going on summer.

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Menu Mondays: Texan Bowl of Red

I have been overruled and firmly put in my place. Under no uncertain terms, the family has declared the Texan Bowl of Red to be the overall winner for the week. Just because it is a great fast, light, easy and fun meal!

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Menu Mondays: Easy, Peasy Sauce with Pasta or Gnocchi

Menu Mondays: Easy, Peasy Sauce with Pasta or Gnocchi – making a lovely sauce doesn’t get much easier than this

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Menu Mondays: Mushroom Curry – easy, full of flavour and a real treat

Menu Mondays: Mushroom Curry – an easy vegetarian dish, low-fat, full of flavour and a real treat for all the family

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Menu Mondays: Thai Vegetable Soup – Full of Flavour & Surprisingly Simple

Last week’s favourite was a bit of a surprise for me. It’s something we’ve never had before and to be quite honest it just seemed to… well, simple. But when we put it together, the flavours really came together and it was really good. It just goes to show that good meals don’t actually need to be that complex.

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Menu Mondays: Sausage and Lentil Casserole – Try it and find out why it’s a family favourite

You just can’t go wrong with this warming, filling and family loving sausage and lentil casserole. As soon as it starts bubbling away on the stove we start getting a steady stream of visitors asking ‘what’s cooking?’, ‘is it ready yet?’, ‘can I just have a taste?’ All in a ten minute period.

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Menu Mondays: Sweet & Sour Pork wins the week!

Thanks to everyone for celebrating Menu Mondays with us, your feedback – in all formats, has really been appreciated.

Fancy Chinese this week? Check out this simple, but great recipe for home-made Sweet & Sour Pork with noodles…

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Menu Mondays: Planning stress free dinners your family will love

It’s getting late, your heart is in your mouth and blood is pounding in your ears. The kids are running riot and everything chaos, in exasperation you reach for a jar of something, knowing it’s not the best thing for your family, but not feeling able to do anything else…

What if there was a straight forward way to ensure this didn’t happen to you. Not only would your stress levels go down, but you’d soon have friends asking how you do it… at least that’s how it worked out for us.

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