On Thursday the children wanted to try something they've seen Stampylongnose and Iballisticsquid do....
We decided on £5 or under each to buy ingredients to cook each other lunch, including pudding and a drink! They bought the ingredients for each other to cook, so Papaya bought what she would like to eat and then Povey cooked it for her and vice versa. They took it in turns to shop with me and then the bags were revealed when we got home.
Here is Povey's bag, and interesting assortment, but as you can see he only spent £3.69!
....and here is Papaya's bag; a far more nutritious assortment and she spent £4.34. I was impressed with how much she got actually, enough to feed all of us!
Gotta love Lidl for giving them value for money!
Povey decided to use Papaya's ingredients to make a smiley face sandwich and he grated the chocolate into her yoghurt.
Papaya mixed together the hotdogs and beans and heated them up with some sneaky sweetcorn and cheese from the fridge!
Then they chowed down!
We're planning to do another challenge involving more actual cooking in the future but it was interesting to see the choices they made and the pleasure they took in preparing meals for each other.
Tuesday was potato planting day so we looked out the big bins we used in previous years. The kit came with big bags for growing the potatoes in, but as we want to get as many as possible to eat we have cheated and used the trusty bins that have given us so many potatoes in the past! We'll probably use the bags for tomatoes. The kids planted a variety each and we labelled the lids.
We also planted the extra potato in a plastic bottle (with the top cut off) that sits on the windowsill with newspaper wrapped round for seven weeks. Once the newspaper is removed we should be able to see how potatoes grow.
As we were doing some planting I figured it was a good time to crack on with the rest of our seeds. We started off tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, carrots, beetroot, pumpkin, peas and sweetpea seeds in our seed trays and put them in the utility room where it's warm and bright.
Looking forward to seeing how they do. We have grown fruit and veg very successfully in previous years so hopeful.
We headed back to a favourite place, The Royal Institution for the show "Exploding Custard".
We were late as there had been a person under a train (poor person!) and had to sneak into the lecture hall up the top. Gave us a great view for all the science experiments!
Unfortunately you can't quite get the scale for these giant bubbles, but believe me they were as big as a person!
I got a couple of videos, one of the rocket powered by water pressure....
They send out growing packs to schools (and home educators!) around the country to promote and educate about potatoes. We'll plant them in two weeks time :)
