When I started weaning Ioan onto solid food, he ate everything I put in front of him. Then, as he reached toddler stage, he began expressing preferences for the bland or sweet (or sausages). A few months ago, after starting pre-school, he suddenly started informing us that his favourite foods were “broccoli, carrots and peas” […]
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Happy New Year from It’s Not Easy Being Greedy
As we say goodbye to 2019, and I reflect on a year of minimal blog posts (I really do want to do better in 2020), I thought I’d share a picture or two from every month of the year, to try and sum up 2019 in food. Picking one picture per month was challenging, but […]
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Gluten Free & Dairy Free Triple Chocolate Cookies
When it comes to baking, I am both a feeder, and a bit of a narcissist. I love to treat people, and food – for me – is the perfect way to do that. I also like to hear people tell me that what I have made is delicious – it makes me feel as […]
Cooking food that my child will actually eat
Another busy week bites the dust, and all of a sudden it’s British Summertime (not that you’d know it from the weather forecast), we’ve lost an hour but gained some daylight, and Easter is just around the corner. We had a good week this week of keeping to plan and that always pleases me, especially […]
A week of tantrums, tears, and Mother’s Day
Ioan has just this week decided that the bath is something to be feared, and so I am now unable to write my blog posts from the bathroom whilst I watch him play. Oh well, it was a good couple of weeks while it lasted, and I am hoping to keep blogging now I have […]
Menu planning with my new cookbook ‘Get your kids to eat anything’
My food blogger pal Emily Leary, who writes a fantastic blog called A Mummy Too, recently published a cookbook called ‘Get your kids to eat anything‘, and kindly sent me a copy to review. It couldn’t come at a better time, as Ioan has literally this week started to test boundaries at the dining table. […]
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Meal planning during a hectic couple of weeks
Last week ended up not being entirely to plan: leek lasagne turned into Spag Bol (Quorn version for my vegetarian brother); I let the potatoes over-boil on Thursday and the mashed potato was too salty, leaving them inedible; and a little accident for Ioan on Friday (bashing his mouth, leading to a chipped front tooth) […]
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Baking double chocolate cookies with a toddler – a photo guide
The other day, when Ioan and I were at home together and it was freezing cold and starting to snow outside, I decided that instead of venturing out, I’d bake some cookies with him. Call it greedy, call it fortunate, but there is rarely a basic baking recipe where all the ingredients aren’t already in […]
Happy New Year 2018
Hey, it’s me! Remember me? Tracy from It’s Not Easy Being Greedy? The greedy blogger with a young baby? Last time I wrote anything was last October, so I can understand if you have forgotten about me … Truth be told, this motherhood and working lark leaves little time for blogging. I have had the […]
Week 43 – on the road to recovery
I think one of the only things that is worse than you feeling ill is when your helpless child is poorly and there is nothing you can do about it. Ioan’s feverish, clinging misery from the last couple of weeks was hard to cope with, as the only thing that soothed him was to be […]