I Like This One and This One and This One and...

We were recently invited by Aldi to taste test some of their Christmas range. Being the crazed cake lovers that we are, 'PUDDING!!' was my immediate knee jerk scream response to the enquiry.  Pudding, cake, dessert, heaven on a plate - call it what you like we bloody love it and at Christmas time it only gets better and better!
To ensure we carried out a fair and thorough evaluation of the range, Finley and I chose several products for the taste test. We wanted to make sure that our review was meticulous and we didn't want to leave any stone un-turned, just in case it had pudding under it! We took our pudding haul to my parents for Sunday lunch and everyone had a great fun tasting all the different desserts!

The Ninth Gift of Christmas : Novelty Stocking Fillers by Creative Occasions

The Ninth Gift of Christmas are these novelty stocking fillers from Creative Occasions.  They make all kinds of sweet treats for children (and adults!) from gifts to party favours. We've been lucky enough to work with them before and have always thoroughly enjoyed taste testing their products!

This time they sent us some jars of Reindeer and Snowman Poop! The Reindeer poop are chocolate nibbles with caramel and dusted with icing sugar - absolutely yummy! The Snowman poop are mini marshmallows which we popped in our hot chocolates!

Win a Witches Brew Halloween Treat Jar by Dirrty Pops !

Double double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble!

Dirrty Pops who make delicious homemade treats have sent me a Witches Brew Halloween Treat Jar to giveaway to one of my lucky readers!
A witches cauldron full of delicious spooky treats for your children to eat, a really unique and creative Halloween gift, ideal for parties and even adults! 

The spooky treats include :
Broom Sweepings - Choc Lick Unicorn Horns - Chocolate Spinning Tops Witch Warts - Toffee Popcorn Cobwebs - White Candy Floss Graveyard Skulls - Jelly Filled Skulls Vampire Fangs - Jelly Vampire Fangs Eyeballs - Terror Bubble Gum Eyes Spider Eggs - Cherry Popping Candy

His 2nd Birthday

It was Finley's 2nd birthday this week so we both took a days holiday from work and he bunked Nursery. We got him a few little presents but nothing major so his big gift was a Birthday Day Out.
Its something I hope we can maintain in the years to come as his birthday will always be in the school holidays. He has his party set for Sunday and all the family will be there but we wanted to have him to ourselves for a whole day and take him out and treat him to a ridiculous amount of sugar!
I had a good weather and a bad weather plan. The good weather plan was a trip to a family adventure farm park in Sussex, complete with animals, tractors, water park and rides. I'll keep it in mind for next year.
The weather gods picked the bad weather plan (is Summer over already??) and we headed to the Gruffalo Experience at Bluewater.

“People who love to eat are always the best people” Julia Child

My (almost) 2 year old is an eating machine, he will eat almost anything and everything presented to him and still have room for a snack later on.  

He eats a heck of a lot, a hell of a variety, he’ll eat his, yours and mine if given the chance!