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Welcome to the British Mummy Bloggers Carnival, please bear with me this is my first carnival hosting for a while and my first ever British Mummy Bloggers Carnival. Here goes…
Our first post comes from Moaning Mum, she’s talkin chocolate, tequila and jewelry, and let’s face it, who doesn’t like (rely on?) at least one of them…. Love is a Nine Letter Word…And it’s Brown
Tales from a writer with three children submits a short piece about her middle child and only boy, Matthew. The enigma of Matthew…

Time Management Mum …

Monday: French Onion Soup and Cheese Toasts
I use a Jamie Oliver Recipe as the basis for my soup, although I adjust it to suit the ingredients I have available. This time I used a couple white onions, one red onion
Tuesday: Out for Dinner
Wednesday: Chicken & Bacon Salad
I used some gem lettuce, cucumber, griddled chicken, crispy bacon and honey mustard dressing. Serve with crusty bread.
Thursday: Chilli con Carne, Rice & Tortilla Chips

Friday: Baked Potato and Tuna Mayonnaise

Saturday: Duck & Pancakes, mini kebabs, prawn crackers
Sunday: Out …

This is slightly off piste for me, you know, I’m not really a gadget type even though in the last few months I’ve already bought a Flip Video Camera and now my lovely Samsung Notebook.
It started back at New Year, we don’t really ‘do’ New Year, I realise that some may find this a bit strange given that I live on the doorstep of one of the biggest and most popular parties in the world, Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party.
So instead of partying the night away I ended up …

Monday: Chicken Goujons & Chips

Tuesday: Out for Dinner

Wednesday: Potatoes, bacon, onions, corn on the cob
During the festive period Edinburgh hosts a winter wonderland, which among other things includes a german market. My husband works in the centre of town and come home with a recipe idea based on something they were selling at the german market. It’s a basic idea but tasted delicious, we ate al fresco in the first spring weather
I par-boiled new potatoes and left to dry, I then fried bacon until crispy then …

I’ve spoken about meal planning in the past, I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember and while some people consider it a symptom of OCD I find that it saves me time, effort, thought, stress and money everyday. I know some people that just have a rotating menu, that’s something I definitely couldn’t cope with, I prefer to collect recipes from magazines, recipe books, meals out and online, these ideas form the basis for my weekly meal plans which are all planned …

What’s Project 500?
This update is quite late, but as I mentioned in my last post I’ve been pretty busy. Results are still slow against my target but at least there’s progress.

Email Newsletter
My newsletter list has 58 subscribers, there’s a constant trickle even though I haven’t been directly promoting it. I haven’t sent a newsletter for a while but I’ve been offered some exciting new freebies so watch this space. Join the newsletter here.

Toluna
I’ve become an affiliate with Toluna, I’m not expecting too much success but you never …