Kids’ minestrone soup – Friday Feast – we thought we’d try to bring you some simply recipes to try over the weekend to get your kids cooking in the kitchen. Minestrone soup is a firm favourite at Team Home-Start MAJIK Kids’ minestrone soup – Friday Feast Preparation time less than 30 mins Cooking time 10…
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Five ways to stay healthy this winter
Five ways to stay healthy this winter It may be cold outside, but winter needn’t be the unhealthiest time of year for you and your family. Here are five ways to make sure that, even when your body is telling you to hibernate, you can keep healthy and fit, no matter what the weather’s like…
Energy-boosting breakfasts
Energy-boosting breakfasts ‘Apple pie’ porridge Serves: one adult Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 5 minutes Calories per portion: 345kcal (1,443kJ) Ingredients 50g of porridge oats 200ml of apple juice (with no added sugar) 100ml of semi-skimmed milk 1 medium dessert apple, diced 1 pinch of cinnamon This is a warm and comforting porridge spiced up…
Winter Meals to make ahead
Winter Meals to make ahead When you’re working, time poor and it’s cold out you look forward to something warming and filling when you get home. So the staff at Home-Start MAJIK put together some of our go-to freeze/make ahead Winter meals to make ahead that are family and pocket friendly. Chicken & ham lasagne…
Healthy After School Snacks
Health after school snacks because they’re always hungry and grumpy after a hard day in school or after school clubs. At Home-Start MAJIK know from experience that when the kids get in from school they’re feeling hungry and maybe a bit grumpy and all too often its easy to hand a bag of crisps so…
Winter Warmers for Families
Winter Warmers for Families Now that the weather has started to cool off and the nights are getting dark it’s time to think about comfort or Hygge food to keep the family warm and whip up a batch of these winter warmers Here are a few of Home-Start Majik’s favourite go to recipes Hearty Pasta…
Benmore Botanical Gardens – Argyll and Bute Autumn Walks 2017
Benmore Botanical Gardens – Argyll and Bute Autumn Walks 2017 A forest bursting with colour Benmore botanical gardens boasts some of Scotland’s most impressive specimens of really big conifers. The trails take you amongst giant Californian redwoods, Douglas fir and Western hemlock, and even through a big tree… This is good habitat for native red squirrels,…
Win tea with Kirstie Allsopp
Win tea with Kirstie Allsopp Once again, Kirstie Allsopp is inviting a lucky winner and up to five of their friends to have tea with her at her home in either London or Devon. All in aid of the Snowflake Appeal. If you would like the chance to win, enter online for free here. This is…
Barbecue Safety
Barbecue Safety Barbecues are involved in many hundreds of accidents that occur in the garden each year. Last time figures were collected through the Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System (HASS/LASS) in 2002, an estimated 1,800 people visited A&E in the UK having had an accident involving a barbecue. The most common types of barbecue-related…
5 A DAY tips
5 A DAY tips Getting your 5 A DAY is easy. There are plenty of ways to add more fruit and vegetables to your daily meals. Here are some ideas to get you started. 5 A DAY at breakfast Add fruit to cereal, porridge or lower-fat natural yoghurt. Try a handful of berries or a chopped banana. Add…
