We’re going to make a special feature of all the best recipes you mums and dads send us, both on the website and in our magazines.

We want recipes for your kids.  They can be for anything (snacks, party food, dinners, puddings, cakes, biscuits, etc). Share your food stories with us and gain a place in the posterity of My Mumbles.

A Fathers Perspective

As a father of young children, my Christmases have changed unrecognisably in the last few years. Not much of a revelation that, perhaps, but it has only just dawned on me, now that I have three little ‘angels’.

In fact I really can’t remember what I did before children. I have a feeling that it involved pleasing myself, pretty much, and of course travelling home to my parents for doses of I-now-remember-why-I-couldn’t-possibly-live-at-home-with-these-people-anymore family interaction.

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Here’s a great and simple recipe for some really yummy cup cakes.  We hope you like it. If you have any of your own recipes to share with us and our community then please drop us a line.

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This afternoon my 6 year old brought me 3 beautifully crafted and amazingly legible Christmas lists, one each for her 3 and 5 year old sisters and one for herself. We made a rule a couple of years ago that they can only put 5 things on their lists – it makes them think a bit more carefully about what they want instead of rattling out everything they see on adverts.

Lewis (dad) will be so pleased to hear that at the top of all their lists were some new dolls (like the 50 we already have aren’t enough). One that swims, one that pees, and another one that walks. I guess he can yet again be assured of finding dolls floating in the bath, wet dolls in his side of the bed and countless snack covered dolls in the back foot well of the car, give him something else to moan about.

He will be even more pleased to hear that the next thing they have decided on is Pony in my Pocket, Puppy in my Pocket and Jungle in my Pocket. Sounds to me like lots of little bits that Lewis would no doubt describe as ‘bin fodder’. Bah humbug!

Anyway – thoroughly looking forward to Christmas, not so looking forward to the rest of the winter – too cold for me.