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Last week we were invited to our first Santa experience of the festive season. We were given a sneak preview of the new Ice Grotto Adventure at Squire’s Garden Centre.
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It’s no secret that I love Christmas and for me one of the big parts of Christmas is the food. It’s the one time of year you can eat all day without anyone questioning it. Plus, you can have all your favourite things on one very full dinner plate!
When Waitrose got in contact to share with me some food traditions from around the world I started to think of what food traditions we have in our house.
There are times of the year where things happen and it all feels a bit surreal. Taking the children to Stowe National Trust at the start of November, dressed as elves, was one of them.
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Stocking Fillers had this great idea to put together a 12 day advent calendar full of Christmas inspired food and drink with a summer twist. I was really pleased to be invited to take part and create a summer Christmas recipe and knew immediately what to make.
I know Christmas isn’t really ordinary but this year was what will one day be a typical, ordinary Christmas for us and one that we all really enjoyed and hung on to for as long as it lasted. This Christmas felt like our first ‘proper’ Christmas as LP was old enough to understand it and I think we all got swept up in the Christmas magic this year.
After having our December box at the start of December we then reuse the box to create our Christmas Eve box. This is a box that we open, share and enjoy on Christmas Eve, the start of our cosy festive family time and a day that I will always love.
We love going to Alice Holt Forest and have enjoyed picnics there as well as the Gruffalo Trail and just a general wander and play but yesterday we went there for something completely different – to meet Father Christmas!
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I love making festive treats at home that are a great alternative to mince pies or Christmas cake. These Christmas Mincemeat Cupcakes are just the thing and something the whole family will enjoy – and the children will love to bake too!
It’s a bit of a tradition now to have a Christmas Eve box, one that we will be doing but I realised the other day that I didn’t want to save our Christmas movies and books for Christmas Eve, I wanted to be able to read those Christmas books with the children, watch the movies and build up that Christmas excitement throughout December. So the December box was born!
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A Bakewell Tart is such a classic traditional British recipe that I thought I’d try baking with a festive twist using Christmas jam instead of traditional raspberry jam for a lovely festive twist with this Festive Bakewell Tart. I thought this would be a great alternative to mince pies but if you’d rather, you can use normal jam for a classic bake like a traditional bakewell tart from Bakewell or you could even use mincemeat for a real festive taste.