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    Easy Pizza Base Recipe Using 2 Ingredients for Cooking with Kids

    9th April 2020

    Cooking with kids is great to do when you’re bored indoors, but can take a lot of ingredients. I’ve managed to find a pizza recipe that only requires two ingredients, which don’t include the elusive eggs or yeast!

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    Easy Banana & Blueberry Pancakes

    4th March 2014

    Happy Pancake Day! We’ve just eaten homemade banana and blueberry Pancakes and wanted to share the recipe with you! Now I’m no chef, so the fact they came out yummy means this is a must-try recipe! It’s so simple I didn’t even need to read a recipe! -Whisk one cup of plain flour, one cup…

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Mum of one, step mum of two and dog mum to Yogi. A veg-growing, food-loving, trashy TV addict. I write openly about life, parenting and my quest to be healthier in mind, body and bank balance. Now a bride to be!

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💔Openly grieving my Partner & Mum

For National Grief Awareness Day I thought id give For National Grief Awareness Day I thought id give an insight into a typical day for me at the moment at the start of my grief journey.
Lost my mum 7 weeks ago after a long, painful end of life process, and then lost my partner without any warning 12 days later. 
Im in acute grief stages, mixed with trauma from having two deaths and one being sudden, so it might differ from other people's experience of losing one person at a time.
If this or my many tearful reels in my darkest days help anyone, then it was worth it. 
#nationalgriefawarenessday #griefawareness
I did a new thing today even though I didnt want t I did a new thing today even though I didnt want to, and hope I made them proud.
#grievingheart #grievingpartner
Waking up for the day after grief arrives is so di Waking up for the day after grief arrives is so different to how it was before. I miss just waking up feeling ok and looking at the day ahead.
Instead its pain, tears,  high anxiety and intense fear upon waking that I spend hours trying to reduce before it starts again the next day.
I miss my body being calm and free from survival mode.
Will I ever have a normal pre grief morning ever again?!
#griefdiary #grievingwidow
Is this a new stage to this awful acute grief? #w Is this a new stage to this awful acute grief?

#widowedandyoung #grievingdaughter
#grieveoutloud #griefhealing #grieveoutloud #griefhealing
How do i become my own safe space now ive lost my How do i become my own safe space now ive lost my partner and mum who provided that safety? 

Any advice welcome.
#grievingprocess #grievingwidow
How can I start to progress positively through thi How can I start to progress positively through this grief?
Really struggling to know what little steps to take to stop being so stuck
#griefawareness #grievingwidow
Ashes and abandonment issues, as well as how my fa Ashes and abandonment issues, as well as how my face has aged during this awful time.
#griefawareness #griefandloss
I feel like im being punished as I wasnt the nices I feel like im being punished as I wasnt the nicest, calmest most selfless person over the last couple of years. I fear this is my punishment in the worst way possible and I dont know how to continue coping like this alone
#grievingpartner #grievingdaughter #grieveoutloud
The second I wake these questions and feelings ove The second I wake these questions and feelings overtake my brain and the panic sets in.
Its exhausting and terrifying.
Will this ever stop?
#griefjourney #grievingprocess
Grieving and mammograms are quite the combo #griev Grieving and mammograms are quite the combo
#grievingprocess #widow #mammogram
Crying loudly in a supermarket is quite the experi Crying loudly in a supermarket is quite the experience
#grieveoutloud #griefjournal #grievingsucks
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