Hello hello

I should really introduce myself. My name is Talia, I’m a full time mum living in North London, with my husband and two small people. Life is busy and often chaotic and I seem to spend most of my time on the go.

I spent many years cultivating an interior design career, until my first child came along, and am now a busy Stay At Home Mum. Although a trained designer,  I’m fundamentally a baker at heart, always have been. I love to experiment, I love to cook and this is where my journey begins.

So, after much encouragement, I decided to create a food blog. BUT, this is a food blog for parents of children who absolutely refuse to eat their fruit or veggies.

So here’s the deal:

I have two young daughters, one eats beautifully. The other, reluctantly.

I hold my hands up to it. My elder child is a terrible eater.

I wish that she would just eat what I put on the plate in front of her. Really, I do. But the reality is that it’s just not going to happen. Not anytime soon, anyway. I’m that mother who collects her child from nursery and the workers very apologetically smile and say ‘she ate nothing’. Admittedly, she has got better in recent months. People tell me that their kids went through phases of only eating white bread, or fish fingers, that were seemingly endless. They all laugh about it now. I hope one day I will be one of those parents who looks back on what their child used to eat.

But whilst I’m still in this seemingly never-ending phase, it feels as though I have tried everything. Since my child decided that (in particular) vegetables are the food of the devil, and no more shall they pass her lips, I have tried all alternatives. The old ‘disguising vegetables in pasta sauce’ trick, (to be honest I’d be happy if she ate sauce at all) and ‘vegetables blended into meatballs/bolognaise’. Forget it. She’s onto me….I recently purchased the book of a well known children’s food guru that was aimed at fussy eaters, and all I could gain from it with was the assumption that all children eat pizza, and all children eat hamburgers and chips. Except mine.

So, I took a new course of action. Firstly, I relaxed.

Secondly, I started to experiment. Really experiment. (we’re not talking Heston style, but crazy and imaginative ideas.)

I found recipes, played with them, adapted them and put things into them I would never imagine.

And you know what. They work. So, I decided to share my journey.