Cafe des Enfants

Ice Skating

Taking the kids ice skating is a winter treat and there are so many ice rinks to choose from right now, especially in London.  I'll be going to The Natural History Museum this year I think.  When we lived in France the ice rinks were perfect for little kids, they had these little stands that children could hold onto and push along for balance as they skated... perfect!  Now if only they had them for adults too.

Raising Kids

If you haven't yet come across a fantastic website called Raising Kids then I would thoroughly recommend that you do!  It is an essential resource for anyone with children and offers advice, chat, loads of really useful information and lots lots more.  Apparently this year for Christmas parents are stepping back from electronic gizmos and looking for toys that recreate the fun of their own childhood, according to trendspotters for Toys R Us.  To read more about this go here to the Raising Kids website you'll be glad you did!

Meat Balls

Meatballs

I was amazed and delighted when my children ate this meal.  A friend of mine made them for dinner and the children really loved them.  The beauty is they are so easy to eat and really tasty and delicious.  Later I tried cooking them myself and they ate them again!  If your children learn to love these you are really onto a winner.  Serve them with pasta, rice, jacket or mashed potatoes and salad.  Very versatile.  You can even keep them and have them cold for a picnic lunch the next day.  If you want them with pasta you could make a tomato sauce (you will find the recipe in the NEW E-BOOK and serve them with spaghetti.

Spinach

"I want a leaf MUM.  Why have you given him one and not me!  Oh please can I have a leaf….please...."

Think I’ve gone mad?  Well think again.  You know what kind of leaf that was?  No?

Tele Class

Café des Enfants Launches New Tele Class

This month sees the launch of  Café des Enfants Exclusive Tele Class A Live Consultation with a Top Kids’ Nutritionist.   So if you want to have your burning questions about your kids food answered register at http://www.cafedesenfants.co.uk/products.htm or email us at teleclass@cafedesenfants.co.uk. 

· Do you ever wish your kids would eat a more varied diet

· Are you sick of cooking the same food every night?

· Are worried that they are getting enough nutrition?

· Or do you wish that they would just eat something – anything at all?

 Do you yearn for food to be the way that it was before you had kids? Simple, Fun and Enjoyable?

 Well….now it can be…..simply join us on the Café des Enfants Tele Class for recipes, tips ideas and inspiration to get food firmly off the stress agenda.

School Dinners

Hooray for Jamie Oliver.  Following his fantastic campaign over the past couple of years the British Government have admitted that there was a problem with its grotesquely greasy children’s school meals and moved over in a step to drastically improve them as soon as possible.   

Karate

Look I just have to share this with you.  Is there a children’s Karate class somewhere near you?  Do you know much about Karate?  Would your child like Karate do you think?  Well after this evening I LOVE KARATE.  It’s pretty great anyway, wonderful for self discipline, manners, respect and coordination and my son absolutely adores it.  He doesn’t get to mix with that many male mentors – all the teachers at his school are women!

Fried Chicken

I cannot believe this!  Last night I actually made fried chicken legs that looked, tasted and smelt just like the real thing!  I have never before considered this dish as I do not know how to get the coating to stick to the chicken legs throughout frying and they usually end up black and burned on the outside and pink and undercooked on the inside – not at all suitable fare for kids!

....But I Do Now!.......

The Menu

The other day Oliver absolutely refused to eat what we had for dinner…why…no, not the usual reasons, this time it was because I had said we were having something else and he was expecting something else…yes he is only 6!  And that is when I came up with the menu idea.  I said what if you knew what you were going to have every night…would you eat it?  He said that he would.

Egg Territory

We’re at the stage in our house now where I can’t crack an egg….no literally I cannot do any more of the egg cracking – at all, not ever!