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Am not sure what it is about breakfast or lunch but I always seem to be stuck for inspiration.  Resorting to carbs, carbs and more carbs.  Little Man prefers finger foods and I really want to give him variety and let him experience new flavours, so when I was invited by Piccolo to a lunch date with Piccolo I could not say no.

We arrived in London and were greeted by Alice Fotheringham who is the infant nutrition expert at Piccolo.  Alice is incredibly talented and as we walked through the front door we were greeted with lots of yummy food cooking away.  Little Man was made to feel incredibly welcome and got stuck in playing with all the lovely food toys!


Our starting point was breakfast and with that we began making porridge fingers!  I love recipes that involve non exact measurements as it makes cooking so much easier.  These porridge fingers were so easy to make and helps me to give Little Man something to hold for breakfast that is not toast!


With inspiration for breakfast next it was time to tackle lunch.  For this we made egg muffins, again a quick simple mix it all together recipe and one I can recreate at home.  Little Man however had his own plans.....


He promptly started stealing all the food and eating it, taking a particular liking to the courgettes!


The time simply flew by and my head was brimming with inspiration for our own lunch and breakfast over the next few weeks.  Of course, you cannot cook without preparing your own lunch.  


Safe to say with all this delicious food in front of us there was not one single plate with any food left on it!


Thank you Piccolo for inviting us to lunch and to cook with you.  We had a fantastic time and left full of inspiration [as well as some lovely food!].

This day I love Lunch with Piccolo 
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I love a challenge and the lovely people over at Jus Rol  decided to set me a spring themed challenge. They wanted me to take some of their Jus Rol pastry and create a spring inspired recipe. I began to think.

When I think of spring I think of chickens (possibly due to Easter, who knows), blossom, spring sunshine and the colour green. I wanted to use these inspirations in my recipe and came up with the following

Ingredients

250g natural yoghurt
1/2 teaspoon saffron
1/2 teaspoon sugar
500g chicken
1 sheet of Jus a Rol short crust pastry
Selection of green beans and vegetables : I used trimmed beans, magnetout, sugar snap and baby corn

Jus Roll recipe

Method
1. Pre heat oven to 180c
2. Grind the sugar and saffron together to make a powder and stir into the natural yoghurt. Put mixture to one side
3. Brown the chicken in a frying pan, once cooked add the vegetables to the pan for 2-3 minutes.
4. Place a sheet of banking paper onto a baking sheet and roll out the shortcrust Jus rol pastry on top.
5 spoon the chicken and veg mixture onto the top of the pastry leaving around 2cm at the edges.
6. Using your fingers turn up the edges of the pastry and pinch to form an edge.
7. Bake in the oven for 25minutes, or until edges of pastry are turning golden brown.
8. Remove from the oven and pour over the saffron yoghurt mixutre.
9. Place back into the oven for a further 5 minutes
10. Serve and enjoy.

I used chicken as my meat as from my original thought process on spring. The green beans and veg are from the initial thought of green. I thought the dish would be a little dry without a sauce or topping so created the yoghurt and saffron topping to add some flavour. The smell of saffron reminds me of the blossom which I also associated with spring. The whole dish has a wonderful yellow glow and warmth which is similar to the spring sun.

Spring inspired dinner with Jus Roll

The whole dish is simple to create and thanks to jus rol ready to roll pastry everything was quick and simple. The saffron adds s beautiful delicate flavour to the dish and for me is light enough to remind me of spring.

I was sent vouchers from Jus Rol to purchase the pastry used in this post. 
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crunchy deep ridgesCrispy crunchy full of flavour

Low in fat a taste to savour

In your lunch box nice and tight

The lighter crisp with a mighty bite








Oh what's this, let me see

checking out the crisps

Yummy, crunchy just for me

tasting the crisps
 Perfect for the smallest tummy
wanting some crisps

All gone, they're oh so yummy!

one last crispempty crisps


Walkers Mighty Light

A large box arrived on our door step last week.  I wasn't expecting anything so the girls and I eagerly opened the box.  We had a very lovely surprise.  Walkers had sent us one of each flavour of their new Mighty Lights.  Not just one packet, but one multi pack of each flavour.  The three flavours are Lightly salted, Roast chicken and Cheese and onion.  Mighty Lights have 30% less fat than standard potato crisps [on average], I therefore will allow my girls [3 years and 15 months] to have them as a treat.  Walkers Mighty Lights are ridged potato crisps.

My girls as you can tell from the above, showed no hesitation in wanting to try their Mighty Light crisps.  Both thoroughly enjoyed their Mighty Lights and the pack was emptied rather quickly.  I even had calls for more crisps please Mummy.  I like that Mighty Lights contain no artificial colours or preservatives and no MSG.  With Mighty Lights also been made by Walkers they are coming from a brand that I trust to deliver on a great crisp.

I was pleasantly surprised that even though Mighty Lights have 30% less fat than a standard potato crisp, the crunch and the flavour are not compromised.  In fact I prefer Mighty Lights over a standard potato crisp.  I often worry that the flavour of cheese and onion crisps might be too over powering, but I found these just right.  Even better I did not walk around 'tasting' the flavour of the crisp for the rest of the day, which I often find with other cheese and onion crisps.  Lightly salted is also exactly what it says, lightly salted.  Just enough to add taste without leaving you gasping for a drink of water.  Roast chicken was my favourite.  A really lovely taste, just right.

I prefer ridge crisps too as I think they hold their flavour better and I certainly wasn't disappointed with Mighty Lights.  Really lovely deep ridges and packed full of flavour.  With school starting shortly its nice to know that their is a potato crisp available that is 30 % less fat than a standard potato crisp and has a great tasting flavour meaning both adults and children will love them.   Perfect for school lunch boxes and adult lunch boxes.  I know I will be having a packet in my car.

Mighty Lights are also suitable for vegetarians and a great source of fibre.  So which flavour will you choose?  Cheese and onion, Lightly Salted or Roast chicken, hang on the Roast Chicken are all mine!

Mighty lights are now available to purchase.  Go on give them a try, they are perfect for lunch boxes, snacking and to take out and about.

We were sent a multi pack of each flavour of Walkers Mighty lights to review.  All words and thoughts are my own personal opinion.  




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