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There’s a foodie bent to this month’s selection of brilliant dad blogs, for which I offer no apologies. Three of my six are top bananas in the punny sense of the term, not just because their blogs are feasts for the eyes but because they are also inspirational. My top three not only share my [...]

All of us at some point have to go into the kitchen and prepare something to eat for ourselves, for our children for our guests and that’s where the Foodie Roundup comes in to your life. I shall showcase a Foodie Roundup including well established blogs to inspire us, new blogs that have caught my [...]

At BritMums we’re bursting at the seams with brilliant foodie bloggers who share recipes, reviews, ideas and mouth-watering pictures day in, day out. Recently our friend Nick Coffer, aka My Daddy Cooks, has received a flurry of coverage both online and off. It seemed like high time to shine the light on some of our [...]

Our video bloggers are an industrious bunch and their latest topic for your delectation is the humble school lunchbox. From making meals go further to baking an easy apricot loaf to ingenious use of the freezer… “After a busy day at the office, I love nothing more than setting about in the kitchen making delicious [...]

Back to school needn’t mean back to the soul-destroying monotony of doling out cheese sandwiches each day, but nor should providing a healthy and innovative lunch box for your kids take over your life. Anything that requires overnight soaking or first thing cooking is clearly unsustainable…  Tasha from www.wahm-bam.org recently ran a competition to win [...]

This week, as Karin is on holiday (we’re not in any way jealous! not at all! sob!) the good reads are brought to you by Holly.  It’s great to get my sticky fingers on this post for one week, as it’s really made me rummage around the new BritMums site and sink into a serious [...]

If the number of cookery schools catering for children is anything to go by, says Nick Wyke from Looking to Cook, we can expect the next generation to produce more than its fair share of super chefs. In fact, there are almost as many cookery schools and classes for children as there are for adults [...]

Families eat out together more than ever. But @Working_Mum, who blogs at Adventures of a Working Mum, finds the situation not quite up to snuff when it comes to the food on offer for the kids. Find out what she has to say about it and tell us whether you think the “children’s menu” should [...]

Ask a bunch of parents about how to get secret goodness into children’s meals and you get not only recipes and cooking tips. You also get down-to-earth strategies and philosophies that go way beyond the kitchen. At our  Twitter party Thursday, sponsored by Kingsmill to announce their new Seeded range, the tweets were flying thick [...]