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10 foodie confessions as a parent VIDEO

October 3, 2014 by Sarah Trivuncic 15 Comments

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I was never the kind of mother I imagined I’d be. No mini bricks of frozen vegetable puree rattling in the freezer, no banning of television or gadgets.  As part of their Voice of Mum campaign promoting Baby Bath to Comfort Snuffles (a mentholly bubble bath equally good for unstuffing any family member with a cold), Cussons challenged me to share some of my motherhood memories and tips. As you might imagine they’re food related. Here are my foodie confessions since being a mum:

1. I dearly wish my son would eat baked beans. He is an adventurous eater but with morbid horror of pulses, beans and peas. Sometimes shoving beans on toast on the table would make my life easier. In attempts to hoodwink my child into eating baked beans I have mushed up butterbeans and told him it’s a type of Italian mashed potato called “fagioli”. It didn’t work.

2. Generally I have trained my child not to eat in fast food joints unless we’re in an airport or a motorway service area. But I took him to KFC for lunch on the day of the teacher’s strike. I don’t know why, it just happened.

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3. I don’t hide chocolate in my cupboards and but I tend only to buy large tablets of chocolate and it’s kept in a labelled box ostensibly for baking but yep, some squares get broken off in school hours and just um… get hoovered up. I do however actively avoid buying milk chocolate as I know only too well my capacity to inhale bars in one sitting. Mostly I try only to “stock” dark and white varieties since I like eating these much less. Noone else in the house realises this.

4. My child was so difficult to wean there was point when I had to restrain myself from punching anyone who mentioned Annabel Karmel recipes.

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5. The teacher once saw us sat at the conveyor belt in Yo Sushi at Westfield Stratford at 8.30pm in the evening. Luckily it was school holidays.

6. I worry my son will casually remark to the dinner ladies “they don’t do noodles like this in Wagamama.”

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7. Six years out of seven I have still been decorating the birthday cake during the party. On the seventh occasion the only reason I wasn’t was because the party was out of the house.

8. I disregarded the trend to give kids dried fruit to snack on ‘cos I always thought it was a bit square and hey the odd sweet never did me any harm. How vindicated do I feel now since drip feeding small children raisins has been slammed by dentists for causing tooth decay?

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9. Am I vain to always make a point of saying to every new teacher that I have made and decorated the donated cakes myself? Because they’re obviously handmade but the teacher doesn’t know what I do for a living and I’d be embarassed if they thought I’d gone out and spent a lot of money in a swanky cupcake shop.

10. And finally, if someone else’s kids are noisy in a cafe or a restaurant I always ignore them because they’re not my problem.

 

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Video & post commissioned by Cussons as part of the Voice of Mums Campaign. 

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Sarah Trivuncic has published recipes, restaurant and travel reviews on Maison Cupcake since 2009. She lives in Walthamstow, East London with her husband and teenager.
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Comments

  1. kellie anderson says

    October 3, 2014 at 11:23 am

    Your cupcakes are so pro that I am totally in agreement with you that the teachers have to know that you made them, not Primrose Bakery or some such. And I always thought that la Karmel was a bit smug for words anyway. Does that make me a bad person? Cute post, Sarah 😉

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  2. Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says

    October 3, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Haha I like number 3 – I can’t cook chocolate things any more because the chocolate rarely makes it into the recipe 😉

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  3. Jen @ Blue Kitchen Bakes says

    October 3, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    I’m terrible for sneaking nibbles of chocolate from the baking stash.

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  4. laura_howtocook says

    October 3, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    So many confessions, I wouldn’t know where to start. I love the beans fact. They are so useful but any form of pulse outside of baked beans is rejected in out house. It is probably better to not tell them hummus is made from chickpeas!

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    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      October 9, 2014 at 1:31 pm

      I know. He will eat hummus. Ssssh!

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  5. Katie Bryson (@cookingkt) says

    October 3, 2014 at 9:17 pm

    Loving this post… I’m definitely prone to hiding my favourite snacks and treats in the cupboard that still has a child lock on it that no one bothers to look in as it’s got tablecloths in it… Shhhh don’t tell anyone!!!!!

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  6. Elizabeth says

    October 4, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    I love this post so much! I chuckled through the whole thing! 😀

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  7. Sally says

    October 4, 2014 at 6:45 pm

    Do people ever really cook from Annabel Karmel or displayed ostentatiously to show what a good parent they are! Love the story about the Italianisation of pulses!

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    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      October 9, 2014 at 12:35 pm

      Friends in my NCT group went through an intense Annabel Karmel phase! Or at least it felt that way!!

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  8. Helen @ Fuss Free Flavours says

    October 10, 2014 at 10:53 am

    I think that punching anyone who mentions Annabel Karmel is perfectly reasonable behaviour.

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    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      October 11, 2014 at 12:53 am

      Now now!!!

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  9. Jac -Tinned Tomatoes (@tinnedtoms) says

    October 10, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    I hope that’s good quality chocolate Sarah, I can’t stand baking chocolate.

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    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      October 11, 2014 at 12:52 am

      I use Belgian chocolate supermarket own brand one from the baking aisle but it doesn’t taste like baking chocolate because you’re right that’s not generally something you’d eat out the packet.

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  10. Gary says

    October 15, 2014 at 1:26 pm

    Your son is a real good kid, baked beans are my Kryptonite.

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    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      October 15, 2014 at 5:07 pm

      Ha ha, I managed to get him to eat 4 slow cooked cannelini beans in tomato sauce. I’ve told him beans are even better than five a day and how proud mummy will be if he learns to love them!!

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