• 2 slices of white bread with the crusts cut off
• 30ml glue
• Food colouring

What to Do:

• Crumble bread into crumbs (or put it into the blender)
• Add glue immediately & mix well
• Add water if needed
• Add a couple of drops of food colouring if you want to colour it

I also love Campbell’s Split Pea & Ham soup, french toast and scrambled eggs.

These are the foods that I come crawling back to when I’ve had an especially tiring day, things just haven’t gone right, or my brain has gone on holiday again and I’ve reached a vegetative state.

Stuff You’ll Need:

6 large eggs
Dash of milk
Herbs, salt & pepper
100g diced bacon
100g grated cheese
Chopped radish
Sliced tomato
20cm frypan

How to Create WonderHubby’s Masterpiece Omlette:

Fry 100g diced bacon in a 20cm frypan, then leave to drain on some paper kitchen towel.

Preheat oven to 200ºC.

Take 6 eggs, beat with a dash of milk and add herbs & spices to taste.

Pour into frypan and stir on medium heat until it starts to thicken.

Stir in cheese, radish and bacon and place slices of tomato on top.

Cook in oven for a couple of minutes, until firmed. Check with a fork to see if it’s ready.

No need to flip, and if you use a non~stick frypan, the thing can go straight in the dishwasher with no yicky pans in the sink to bother with.

Serves two hungry parents in vegetative states.

Then it suddenly occurred to me that they don’t have to lather their hands with it.
We actually have some paintbushes in the house!

What a great idea: Painting with paintbrushes. D’oh.

Okay, so I’m not exactly painting with a full palette at the moment…

You will need:

• PVC glue
• Shaving Cream
• Food coloring
• Paint brushes.

What to do:

Put some pvc glue into a small container and add shaving cream.

Mix gently until the consistency is thick and even. Your mixture needs to be thick but still puffy.
Does that make sense?

Add some more food colouring for stronger colours. Make all sorts of different colors in separate containers.

Paint thickly to create puffy artworks and allow to dry.

Other thoughts:

• Jazz it up by adding a bit of fine glitter.
• Use a black permanent marker to draw a picture that has large areas to fill in.

By the way, Wren wanted me to say a huge “thank you” to everyone who said “get well soon”.

~She’s back on track and arguing with her brother again.

Life is back to normal, thank goodness.

The problem is that she’s not that sparing with her sprinkling, and those sprinkles don’t come cheap.

So this is an easy & cheap way for mums of girls keep up with the demand for bath salts. Not to mention fun for the kids to make.

What You’ll Need:

• 3 parts epsom salt
• 2 parts baking soda
• 1 part table salt
• Essential oils
• Food colouring

What To Do:

• Mix epsom salt, baking soda & table salt in a bowl thoroughly, with two or three drops essential oil and mix thoroughly to ensure it’s well~distributed.
• Add a small amount of food colouring and mix. Add more & mix if needed to get the colour you want.
• Store in an airtight container & add to bath in small amounts.

Other Thoughts:

• Most ages can enjoy this crafty activity.
• Take care when using essential oil that you don’t get it on sensitive skin or in eyes. Undiluted essential oils can cause painful, burn~like irritation.

Now, I am not a fan of pumpkin. I don’t even like it in baked dinners.
But this… oh, this!

And on top of that, it’s extremely healthy.

But please don’t tell my kids that.

You will need:

• 1 large~ish Kent Pumpkin ~ about 1.5kg

• Water

• 3 Cloves

• 1tspn Mixed Herbs

• 1 Chicken stock cube (or healthier equivalent)

• Salt & Pepper to taste

What to do:

• Boil water and add 1/4 pumpkin

• Put on medium simmer and stir continuously

• Gradually add remaining pumpkin as what’s already in there begins to break down

• Once all pumpkin has softened into a thick soup, add herbs, chicken stock & salt & pepper

• For a smoother consistency, use an electric hand mixer.

• Serve with a dollop of sour cream.

Other thoughts:

• Jap pumpkin is also nice in this recipe, but we prefer Kent as the flavour seems richer and sweeter.

• All those wonderful vitamins make this perfect for boosting your health in Winter.