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Magic sauce recipe – get your kids eating vegetables

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This post is happily shared with wearethat family’s Works for me Wednesday.

I have lots of children around my kitchen table during the week and boy are some of them fussy eaters. It can be really difficult to find a healthy meal they will all enjoy as there’s no way I’m cooking more than one meal a night (this ain’t no restaurant!). This is my recipe which they will ALL eat – it’s easy to make, it freezes really well and it squeezes in seven types of vegetables without them even knowing. It definitely works for me.

You’ll need:

1. a onion
2. a clove of garlic
3. a stick of celery
4. a red pepper
5. a carrot
6. half a small fennel bulb
7. a tin of chopped tomatoes
8. a little olive oil
9. a teaspoon of sugar (optional)

Optional extras are herbs such as basil and oregano (but my kids will object to any tell-tale green bits) and a slug of balsamic vinegar.

To make it, chop up ingredients 1 to 6 and fry in a little olive oil. Add the tomatoes (and the sugar, if you’re using it) and leave to cook for 20 minutes (or until all the veg is softened). Now you need to whizz this with a blender and all those little bits of vegetable magically disappear to leave a delicious tomato sauce which you can eat as soup, as a pasta sauce or as a pizza topping. That’s it – seven veggies inside your child with no fussing!

I’m always looking out for recipes like this that are easy to make and child-friendly, so if you have any to recommend I’d love you to post a comment.

Drowning in kids art – help me please!

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Today’s ‘Works For Me Wednesday‘ theme over at wearethatfamily is reaching out to readers to ask for help. So, can you help me?

With a house full of creative kids I need some ideas on how to use their masterpieces. The fridge is covered already (and the walls, and the doors…) so can you give me some other suggestions for ways to display or re-use their paintings and drawings? Please post a coment with your idea.

Please help!

Organise your school run morning routine

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It’s back to school next week and I find it can be hard to swing back into the school-run routine – for me and the children. One thing which has worked really well for us is to have a pictorial ‘Get Ready’ chart to help the kids organise themselves more, ready to head off to school. It also saves me having to ask / remind / yell so much in the morning, which everyone is happy about! It also encourages the children to be more independent and take responsibility for themselves – good life skills.

It’s easy to make:

1. Make a list of the individual tasks the children have to do each morning – in the order which you’d like them to do them. (After all, there’s no point them putting their coat on if they aren’t yet wearing their jumper)

You can include things they need to do (brush their teeth) things they need to put on (socks and shoes) and things they need to take (lunch bag) – whatever suits your routine.

2. Take photographs of each item / action. My kids think it’s so cool they have their own personal chart featuring their own items.


3. Make a poster of the photos in the right order. (You can add a word description too, even if the children are young, as it’s always good to promote reading and letter recognition).

4. Put your chart up somewhere prominent and at the kids’ eye level, so they can use it easily each morning.

We’ve been using ours for over a year now and it’s definitely made our mornings run more smoothly. Hope this works for you!


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