Monday 21st November

Firstly - homemade 'milo'  - some days the only way the children will eat breakfast is with milo sprinkled on top. This is such a healthy alternative! I won't feel bad about sprinkling this all over their cereal every day. E was eating it by the spoon today! Even R thought it was pretty good!

Next we made cheesymite scrolls. We made half vegemite & cheese, and half sweet chilli sauce & cheese. These were okay - I need to work a bit on my dough making skills!

Helping mummy!

For dinner we had Pasta e Fagioli (pasta with beans) from EDC book. Part of my goal in owning a thermomix was to introduce some vegetarian meals into our diet. We eat A LOT of meat, mostly 6-7 nights a week, and I would like to reduce that. Of course the boys weren't that fussed on the pasta to start with, but a bit of encouragement (and a game they play with R that involves toy trucks driving across the dinner table) and they ate a decent serve. E, as with any new food we introduce, needed some coaxing, and feeding, but eventually polished a whole bowl without complaints. From start to finish, this meal took 30 minutes (and whilst it was cooking 2 x 10 minutes, it didn't need stirring or supervising!). Pretty impressed.

Am not looking forward to working the next 4 days - my thermomix time will be so limited!