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Tuesday Treasures - Beans on Toast

I'm ill. These are saved especially for such emergencies.

They're imported from England and cost a ridiculous $4 a can. But sometimes, nothing else will do.

A Familiar Story?

We eat toast and cereal for breakfast.
Mummy sweeps up the mess.
We do crafty stuff (with glue of course) all morning.
Mummy wipes the table and sweeps up the mess.
At lunch time we have sandwiches and fruit.
Mummy wipes the table and sweeps up the mess.
At preschool we play in the sand and bring it home in our shoes.
Mummy sweeps up the mess.
Then we play with the liquid soap in the bathroom.
Mummy mops up the mess.
We make granola bars together.
Mummy wipes up the counter top and sweeps up the mess.
We devour most of the yummy crumbly (what was Mummy thinking?) granola bars.
Mummy vacuums up the mess.
Our friends arrive for tea and we eat more food.
Mummy wipes the table and sweeps up the mess.

We go to bed. Mummy is drinking a big glass of wine. She looks at her sewing room floor. She should really sweep up the mess but can’t bring herself to do it.

Oh and of course, I missed the part about Mummy shouting a lot about all the mess.

If you’d like to have crumbs all over your kitchen floor, then you can find the granola recipe here. We used considerably less sugar (1/4 cup) and substituted the raisins and walnuts with apricots and almonds. Yum.

Little cooks

My little man is under the weather with a stinky cold. We’ve been snuggling up on the sofa watching CBeebies together while Ruby’s at school. My children love CBeebies, although they left England over a year ago, they still watch it (thanks to Grandad’s DVD care packages). I’m not sure there’s an equivalent in Canada that’s as educational. The whole children and TV/Computers topic is one that I find fascinating when talking to other parents. My children watch about 30 minutes at the end of the day (generally when I’m cooking dinner) but I feel guilty about it! I don’t know why I give myself such a hard time about it, but I do. I’m amazed how people do without it at all – I’d like to go cold turkey, but I’m chicken! CBeebies seems like a good compromise to me, almost guilt free TV. No commercials, just great educational programming – with a fantastic website to boot.

Ruby and Tommy have two current favourites: Nina and the Neurons – science based stuff that they love…"Mummy, did you know that I have more taste buds than you?” (apparently you lose them as you get older) and Big Cook Little Cook. Granted, the songs are really annoying, but the generally healthy cooking ideas are great “We want tiger sushi Mum”. “Can we have star bean burgers?” ask my adventurous little tasters. So today we made the longed-for star bean burgers (they lost their shape a little) with chunky home made chips and they were Y U M M Y! See, TV isn't all bad.

You can find the recipe here.