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I have to say I get a little frustrated with our toaster, in fact most toasters.  They seem to have two settings

1.Warm bread
2. Burnt to a crisp

To get the toast done correctly you have to set to warm bread, then put the toast back in on a warm bread setting and manually pop about half way through.  Pure guess work.  You even have to turn the slice over on the second time to ensure you toast the whole slice.  A huge pain.

Warbuton's have decided to tackle the problem and create a toaster to make the perfect slice of toast.  The toaster fits the Warburton’s ‘Toastie’ bread perfectly, however we have wholemeal bread so were keen to test the toaster with this.

The toaster seemed to have additional settings to the ones listed above, it actually had a toast function.  Not only this it has a 'Lift & Look' function allowing me to check on the progress without interrupting the toast cycle.  

Warburton's toaster

First test was can it create the perfect toastie?  There is nothing worse than making a toastie in the toaster and the top doesn't get warm.  We opted for cheese and ham, and the girls were very pleased with the results as was I, toasted all the way to the top

toast up to the top

As always the girls wanted a creative lunch so we had rabbits and squirrels. 

Warburton's toasties

One of the girls favourite dinners is beans and sausage on toast with cheese.  I decided to put the Warburton's toaster to the test.

We are pleased to report that the Warburton's toaster was a success and finally I have a toaster that toasts to the top!


Warburton's toast

I was sent a Warburton's toaster in exchange for this post, all words are my own. 
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Sunday

We headed over to our local RSPB centre and took part in pond dipping.  Both girls really loved catching things with their nets and looking in the trays at what they had found.  We will be going again soon

exploring a pond

Monday

It was World photography day today and this was one of my favourite pictures.  I have a linky running should you wish to add your pictures from the day too.  http://www.thisdayilove.co.uk/2013/08/world-photography-day.html

photography day

Tuesday

I bought a new Vacuum cleaner which arrived today.  My eldest loves it so much that she keeps plugging it in and switching it on to clean up.  

vacuum

Wednesday

After nursery I took the girls out for dinner at a local farm shop.  They had lots of fun and dinner was very nice.

spaghetti for tea

Thursday

As a reward to my eldest for not crying at nursery we went to Yummy Yorkshire ice cream in the evening.  The girls and I had ice cream.  My youngest loved looking at the cows, but the highlight for my eldest was the bouncy castle

boing

Friday

I am sorry girls that your Friday was so rubbish it was not meant to be.  We spent 7 hours in Kwik fit waiting for them to change 1 tyre, yes 1 tyre.

a not so quick fit

Saturday

It rained all day today.  We did our weekly shop and upon opening the car door my youngest had got hold of the bread.  She then would not let go of the bread, every time I went near I was met with a 'No'.  

youngest steals bread
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Sometimes my daughter goes into 'Little Princess mode'.  Its not a bad thing, I think its her way of 'testing boundaries'.  She informed me quite clearly that she wanted to eat only Princess food.  Now I am not 100% sure what Princess food is, and when asked my daughter simply replies 'Princess food Mummy' with a slight sarcastic twist to it.  I needed a plan.

I turned to my cookbooks for inspiration but drew a blank.  Earlier in the week I had received a cook book to review, the kids only cookbook by Sue Quinn.  

the kids only cook book

I opened the cookbook and found the perfect Princess recipe  'Toasty Baskets'.  I figured I could make them look like crowns with jewels.  

inside the cook book

The idea behind the cookbook is to encourage kids to have fun in the kitchen.  The emphasis on the book is to have fun.  It does not matter if things don't go right, the important part is trying.  The cookbook is laid out really simply making it great for a child to follow and it has a simple star system to indicate how easy the recipe is to do.  My daughter is 3 and although she can read some words she would struggle to follow a recipe  she can however follow what I explain to her to do.  So here she is making her Toasty baskets.  


I think they turned out really well

Toasty basketfresh from the oven





The girls enjoyed the Toasty Baskets, they did taste very nice.

eating our Princess foodEating the basket

After all that cooking and eating, we needed to get some fresh air.  I asked my eldest what she wanted to do and she said 'we need to take this bread to the ducks.'  A good idea I thought so off we went.

My eldest didn't want to get out of her royal carriage to feed the ducks, so she stayed in there and fed them.

feeding the ducks from the pushchair

The ducks got a little scared I think by the size of the pushchair and soon swam away, there was only one left.

one little duck

My daughter decided to get out and feed them and they all started to come back

the ducks came backfeeding the ducks

There was one final thing to do when we returned home and that was to ride the royal horse

the Royal horseriding the horse





This day I love fit for a princess

If you would like to take know more about the kids only cookbook take a look at the following video

 http://www.linkto.tv/iframe/show/uuid/RomJiyImrW8



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My name is Leyla, also known as Mum to my 3 humans and dog Mum to J. I have a passion for the outdoors and love to run. I can often be found off road exploring the trails and fells and covering distances all the way up to 50 miles. As a family we love travelling and discovering new adventures, as I try and run around the world!

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