Turkey is a delicious ingredient that’s also great for anyone watching their weight. In our Summer Turkey Recipe Challenge, we’re challenging bloggers to create their own recipes with fresh turkey, sponsored by Lean on Turkey. It’s high in protein and essential for growth and repair as part of a varied and balanced diet and healthy [...]
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Join our #SpecialK30 Linky Challenge – you could win an iPad mini!
A lot has changed from 30 years ago: Dynasty-era shoulder pads have come and gone, Karma Chameleon is (thankfully) no longer top of the charts and now one of the most popular cereals is updating. For the first time since 1983, Kellogg’s is changing Special K with a new, more delicious and wholesome recipe. The [...]
Dads Round-Up: Food, food glorious food!
‘Food, food, glorious food! What is there more handsome, gulped, swallowed or chewed?’ So the song asks. Stop sniggering at the back. It’s you isn’t it? It’s always you with the smutty mind. See me after class. Anyway, as I was about to say. Food eh? Lovely stuff. Food isn’t always merely something to shovel [...]
Join us: Marco Pierre White hangs out with BritMums!
He’s been called the original rock and roll chef. Now Marco Pierre White is hanging out with us at BritMums, talking about cooking. Marco will be with us straight from Susanna’s kitchen, talking about his cooking influences and sharing his tips and advice for cooking with fresh turkey. The G+ hangout is sponsored by Lean [...]
Review: Four Seasons Bosphorus for a weekend
It was dark and Istanbul was shiny with rain as the taxi driver and I sluiced our way through busy streets from the airport to the Four Seasons Hotel at the Bosphorus. I’d always wanted to visit Istanbul, even before I heard the They Might Be Giants cover of Istanbul (Not Constantinople). Earlier this year [...]
Twitter party: Share your turkey recipes
Turkey: it’s healthy, it’s quick and you can eat it all year-round. We’ll be sharing versatile, tasty and surprising recipes and meal ideas that include turkey at our #LeanonTurkey Twitter party on Tuesday 22 January at 13:00. Join us to share your favourite turkey ideas! The party is sponsored by Lean on Turkey, a website [...]
Festive food that we’re making this year
Let’s face it, getting Christmas food right does a lot to making families happy. At our recent #O2GuruMagicofXmas Twitter party, we were delighted to discover your festive fare favourites. (Check out O2 Guru TV for loads of cool videos.) Discover the fresh ideas and ensure a very tasty Christmas with these suggestions: Starters Have just [...]
Twitter party: Share your family’s Mealtime Memories
Meal times can be some of the most memorable family moments. Come share your #mealtimememories at our Twitter party on Tuesday 20 November at 13:00. We’ll be talking about what makes the perfect family mealtime, the best moment of a family meal, interesting twists on the traditional family meal moment, and what your family enjoys [...]
Guest post: How to make a fairy castle cake
On Crumbs, two sisters – Claire and Lucy – blog about feeding their family. They have different approaches: Claire is the ‘Queen of Cobble’. She pulls things together from locally sourced ingredients and whatever she can find in her cupboard. Lucy is all organisation, with meal plans, but there is the occasional off-piste dinner. [...]
Health round-up: Boobs, babies and some TLC
You may have noticed a pink tinge to most magazines this month with boobs being the talk of the town more than ever. That’s because it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month (although I’m sure you already knew that). Breast Cancer is a serious issue – over 46,000 women and around 300 men are diagnosed with [...]
Join our Twitter party and talk biscuits! #FoxsEveryday
Anytime is a good time for a biscuit. That’s why we’re delighted about our #FoxsEveryday Twitter party with Fox’s Biscuits. We’ll be talking about the everyday occasions that warrant a biscuit in your house, plus we hope you’ll share all your favourite ways to enjoy them (with a cup of coffee, dunked in milk, during [...]
Newbie Tuesday Round-up: New beginnings
I’m going to be predictable and start by telling you that I’ve just dropped my children off at school for their first day of the new school year. Although they are not new starters, they still have new beginnings – a new teacher, a new playground, a new school in GG’s case, and so [...]
Foodie Round-up: Peanut Butter Pie, Pimientos De Padron and Pesto Chicken
As promised, August is pot luck month, no theme to speak of, just good recipes, amazing food blogs and yet more recipes… There may well be cake too, if you’re lucky… First up Plus2point4 - always a great point of call for vegetarian and slow cooker recipes, Aly makes good use of one of the [...]
Dad Blog Round-up: Cooking, coupons, C-sections and sex toys!
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 [...]
BritMums Foodie Round-up
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 [...]
10 talented food bloggers to watch – they’re mums too!
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 [...]
Ladies who lunchbox
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 [...]
Ditch the boring lunchboxes
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 [...]
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