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Chocolate and Sprinkle Coated Breadsticks - Recipe

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So for the annual BBC Children In Need school cake sale I knew we would donate some homemade goodies but I didn't want the mess and drama of weighing, mixing, flour and sugar everywhere and that's before we got to the icing stage so I thought there must be something a little more MESS and STRESS free we could make. After a quick rummage in the cupboards and a stroke of creativity we come up with chocolate coated breadsticks. Ingredients Box of breadsticks  Cooking chocolate (we used both milk and white chocolate) Hundreds and thousands Edible candy stars Method 1. Melt the chocolate one bar at a time. We melted ours in the microwave but you can do it in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Make sure you stir until completely melted. 2. Cover two baking sheets with parchment and cover one with your choice of sprinkles. 3.  Dip as much or as little of the breadstick in to the chocolate and then roll in the sprinkles on the  baking tray(we did try sprin

Dirty Little Secrets

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Since becoming a mum I often crave just 5 minutes peace or often try to find a shortcut to make some tasks just that bit easier and quicker so here are some of my dirty mum secrets that have kept me going over the last 16 years.... Sometimes I can't be bothered to pick up a piece of rubbish so I leave it and claim that I'm conducting a social experiment to see how long it stays there before somebody else picks it up #lazy I've been known to say that I am putting the laundry away when in fact I am hiding in my room watching Youtube or catching up on some reality tv #hiding I'll buy treats when I go shopping and then hide to scoff a chocolate bar or share size bag of crisps whilst palming the children off with a piece of fruit #secreteater Sometimes in the middle of the night I pretend to be asleep when the little one wakes up and needs to go to the toilet so that Big Sam will get up and do the honours #naughty When the kids are being particularly annoying I w

Travel First Aid Kit

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For as long as I can remember my boys have always managed to have some kind of accident, sometimes big, sometimes small but with those two there is always a bump, scrape or blood. I know it sounds really stereotypical but that's just the way it has always been, I have prim and proper girls and boisterous boys! As a family we love to travel, whether that be a day trip, short break or full on foreign holiday, but because I know how accidental these kids are I never leave home without my travel first aid kit. I posted a picture of it recently on Instagram and had a flurry of messages asking me what I keep in mine so thought I would share the contents in this post. I know you can purchase first aid kits that are already put together but I wanted something a bit more tailor made with everything that I know one of  MY LOT (or us adults) may need.......although there's no alcohol. Travel First Aid Kit Contents Anti-bacterial hand sanitizer 3+ months liquid paracetamol

Money Saving Challenge with Free Printable

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What's it all about? In short, the penny saving challenge is a way of saving money over a 365 days/annual period. How does it work? It's a pretty basic system, each day you put away an amount corresponding with the day that you are on in the challenge, so for example day 1-1p, day 2-2p, day 3-3p(or the equivalent in whatever currency is used in your part of the world.) As the days, weeks and months go on the amount you put away increases leaving you with a pretty nice little savings pot. *I actually put away random amounts each day and coloured in the corresponding square How much can I save? If you stick to the basic idea of putting away 1p more each day, then at the end of the 365 day challenge you should have a total of £667.95 saved up. If you and your partner do a joint one then double that figure. *I would often put any loose change in my pot too so had more than £667.95 When can I do it? The beauty of this challenge is as it is a 365 day challenge