Grilled cheese sandwiches. The ultimate comfort food/cold weather food/can’t be bothered making a ‘proper dinner’ food. Let’s be honest. It’s anytime food. Not just for kids – we ‘grown-ups’ can eat them too. It’s perfectly acceptable grub – even for dinner – especially when jazzed up with nutritious extras. In this particular specimen you’ve got cannellini beans for fibre and protein, avocado for healthy fats as well as a kazillion other wellness-boosting nutrients and beetroot to cover your veg bases. Wait a minute, avocado counts as a veg too! Let’s just forget about the slab of cheese wedged in the middle, and the fact that the bread is lathered in butter. Because, hey a little fat never hurt no-one (given that it’s not the major component of the meal). There’s simply no point trying to omit them – you wouldn’t have a grilled cheese sandwich anymore would you? Continue reading
We’re that family. The one that “pffts” its way down the Christmas aisle in the supermarket. The one that bemoans the playing of Christmas carols on any day prior to Christmas Eve. The one that blatantly abuses the ‘commercialisation of Christmas’. We discreetly purchase our gifts, not wishing to be associated with the cheery, festive Christmas-shopper crowd (though if it’s Christmas Eve its more likely to be bug-eyed and flustered in nature). What’s that you say? We’re a family of miserable Christmas haters? Whatever gave you that impression? Sheesh. Because despite our Grinch-like facade, we actually do enjoy Christmas. And golly gosh, we even have traditions of our own. What kind of traditions might a family ‘allergic’ to most Christmas related festivities have? Why, those pertaining to food of course. 
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