L eats- Organix 7+ months baby food

As you already know we are big fans of Organix baby food and for the past few weeks have been trying multigrain mini cereal puffs and sweetcorn rings.

In 1992, Lizzie Vann decided to create a baby food brand whose recipes and ingredients used only pure, natural ingredients. She wanted children to eat food that didn’t have anything unnecessary added, or anything important taken away. Then and there, Organix was born.

Since then, we’ve grown into a full-sized team of passionate individuals, including nutritionists, organic farmers and parents. All of whom are passionately committed to our cause.

Our mission is to champion the right thing for children’s food - by working with parents to demand a better food environment, and supporting them to make good food choices, through honest advice about growing, cooking, and eating great food.

Multigrain mini cereal puffs (£2.49)

A softly chewable organic cereal with a mix of delicious rice, corn and wheat puffs. This mini version of real breakfast cereal has tiny crispy puffs of rice, corn and wheat to give your little one the mouth feel of a chunky breakfast but with a soft, easy to chew texture.

Just leave them to "soak" for couple of minutes and puffs are ready to be eaten.

This little box of puffs could be an interesting, "popping" addition to your child's breakfast. I have made porridge just with puffs, mixed them with a different type of porridge and mixed them with the yogurt. As it's only a 90g box it won't last long therefor I recommend mixing it with other breakfast with other diary products.

Sweetcorn rings (£0.75)

We only use organic corn in our puffs which is gently baked into rings that are easy to pick up and perfectly sized for little fingers. All we add for flavour is sweetcorn on to every one. Their chunky shape and crispy texture gives your little one something new to explore and they melt in the mouth too.

I have seen different shaped puffs but was surprised to see these chunky round puffs which are an ideal size for a little munchkin.

When it comes to snack L picks what she will and won't eat. She likes wafers or surf boards according to my husband and very weird with puffs. One second she will enjoy eating them, and then just throw them away. It was the case with sweetcorn rings, we had probably couple of odd days when she didn't mind them when we went for a walk but now just wouldn't accept them.

I have tried them myself and they taste no different to puffs from a different brand, I guess there is something different/strange in them for L.

Disclaimer: I was sent the items mentioned above for the purpose of this review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Fast Diet Kitchen Summer Ready Campaign week 5 update

Last week I have tried a different approach to the 5:2 diet, I have realised that if I mix Fast Diet Kitchen packs with normal food it won't work for me and I need 3 packs a day to fill me up. So I had one pack on Wednesday and 3 packs on Thursday which seemed a bit better. 
Having said that I came to a realisation that this particular diet plan doesn't work for me. I have no time for exercising at the moment, I'm not counting going up and down the stairs few times a day and an hour walk in the evening. I have an idea of what I want to achieve but cutting down calories seems to be a bad idea. I feel like I want to eat more food in the evening when I see my husband eating his big portion and try to eat more on other days as I felt I need to make up for 2 fasting days and especially as I'm still breastfeeding hunger is always there.

I have realised that my diet should consist of a complete change of my lifestyle. That only cutting down on specific things should be permanent, and for that I need a massive will power and a huge motivation.

I have had tasty meals last week and if you follow me via Instagram, Facebook or Twitter you could see how yummy they look.

I feel bad for letting FDK down and not achieving much during Summer Ready Campaign but we are all different, for some it works and for others it doesn't.

Disclaimer: I was sent the items mentioned above for the purpose of these weekly updates. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Little L is 12 months

Our little L turn 1 on Tuesday, hot weather reminded me how poor newborn L struggled with heat last year.
We had a photo session on Monday and only after looking at the photos I realised how much she changed!

L is not just a cheeky, stubborn, beautiful infant, she is incredibly clever and learned how to get to forbidden places and unzip the make up bag.

She is cutting more teeth her 9th is almost there and now struggling a little bit with 10th and 11th.

L likes daddy a lot and would wave goodbye when he is leaving for work and to anyone leaving for that matter. She has lots of toys but prefers zips, ribbons, tissues, key rings over toys.

Still addicted to me and won't let go in the morning when I need to cook breakfast or when I need to do things.

L sleep is still not perfect, she wouldn't sleep if I'm not there with her stroking her tummy until she falls asleep and then I have to tiptoe as we have creaky floorboards, she then wakes up an hour later or will sleep till about 12 am and then I will move her into my bed. Entirely my fault for not letting L get used to noises. Wakings are very early these days around 6:50-7:00 with 2 naps a day, which I am happy about.

We try to encourage L's walking and talking but so far we have one off words like hi, girl, daddy, mama, lots of baby babble in general which I love and so far L mastered 3 steps.

Can't wait to see what the next month brings us!