The Kitchen Playground

So I thought I’d interview the Ankle Biters about food today. Surely with me for a mother they are budding gourmands with sophisticated likes, right? Let’s find out.
Son and Heir. Age 4. His answers italicised.
What is your favourite snack?
Sultanas and bananas
What is your favourite breakfast?
Mmm, porridge. Just porridge.
What is your favourite lunch
Um. I don’t know […]

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The Bread Winner and I have been trying to decipher that for weeks now. Lil Miss has been saying it whenever she is getting all disgruntled goat. Finally, we’ve cracked the code.
I don’t want to/I don’t want it.
In appropriately cranky tone.
It would be annoying if it wasn’t so gosh darned cute.

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Sorry people, I’m off on one of my non-food related rambles again. Bear with me please.
My brain is still processing the shattering events that ruptured yesterday’s Kindergarten picnic. Son and Heir has a new best friend. Let’s call her A. Only a few weeks into term and they are inseparable.
Last year, A attended the 3 […]

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I feel the need to break into a non-food related rambling. We had Son and Heir’s Kindergarten welcome picnic today. As I was preparing our picnic food, I was pondering on the things you learn about yourself when you have children.
When I was in my twenties, sewing several tons of wild oats, I never even […]

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Son and heir has his fourth birthday party today. A kid’s party at a local children’s farm which I chose largely because it was self-catered. Most venues that do kids party insist that you feed your kids with their preservative ridden muck. No thanks. I have a little more respect for my offspring than that. […]

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