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Friday 24 August 2012

Holidays

The summer's flying past, with little time to set it down here. We went on holiday - it's always a wonderful thing to experience the glories of a British summer.


For the last few years, we've been here for a few wonderful days every summer - it's like visiting family, and is possibly the only week of the year when everyone is entirely relaxed. Usually we spend an hour one afternoon wandering round the Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival. Here is a picture I took for Alice - this, I imagine, is the type of thing she would create if she was ever forced to make her own scarecrows.


Whilst there, one of my rituals is a big breakfast bowl of Greek yogurt with muesli and honey. I can't recreate the holiday every day, but I've been able to recreate the breakfast, thanks to Total Greek Yogurt, who sent  a bumper pack of yogurt for me to review.


This is the best breakfast in the world, I tell you. And the fat-free version, that tastes completely indulgent and evil? 57 calories for 100g. I have no idea how they do that. They also sent me some delicious split pots, with a little portion of blueberry or raspberry compote. Now the best thing about these yogurts - and I'm sure this isn't what Total were expecting me to say when they sent me them, but here goes - is that I love them extra specially because my children don't like them. They don't even try to steal them away from me. It's a rare thing, to have delicious things in the fridge that you don't have to place under guard.

So here I am, eeking out the holiday with my little reminders. A yummy breakfast, plenty of pouring rain, and children with hair like scarecrows. I'll brush them into shape them later. We've still a few precious days to go before the school year starts.


15 comments:

  1. I luff that yogurt.
    (This is extraordinary news as I cannot abide by any yogurt.)
    It is my daily lunch until I feel the sting of university tuition and fancy laptop purchase fade.

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  2. total yoghurt better go on the shopping list then!

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  3. I love having food in the house that only I like. It means I can steal his Haribo but he can't steal my chocolate, which I purposely buy with nuts in because, apparently, he doesn't like nuts!

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  4. FAGE is THE best. I use to bake too, and sometimes it goes into cooking as well. How could it be wrong ...

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    1. I never use it in baking. I know you're meant to. But it seems too good for that.

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  5. A scarecrow festival sounds like fun, glad to hear your children are paying homage to it with their hair!

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    1. They do that a lot of the time, to be honest...

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  6. Yoghurt with muesli and raw pistachios is my favourite brekkie. I also toss in a few goji berries on the off chance that they might do me some good :-)

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  7. It's good to know that you managed to relax at last. Love the pictures.

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  8. Good grief...is that...can it really be....the Coffee Family? I had always imagined you dressed in brown not blue.

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  9. It's my yoghurt of choice too. I'm inexplicably off breakfast at the moment, but perhaps a bowl of that could tempt me back....
    And only a week of hols left - am dreading the return of gestapo mornings.

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  10. That's my holiday breakfast too! Any time I feel the need to feel jolly I slap a few spoons of yoghurt on some muesli and instantly it feels like Greece. If you close your eyes and stand in front of a v hot radiator. We get through pots of 0% total - I always thought I disliked yoghurt but it turned out I dislike flavoured yoghurt.

    Glad you had a good break despite the Kagoulish weather.

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  11. Scarecrow festivals in the rain - yes, we have those memories too. All part of the British summer holiday! Fun though .... sort of ... looking back on it .... from a great distance! xCathy

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  12. See I have been so busy with these holidays that I have took this long to leave you a comment. My two do not like the total yogurts either - result!

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  13. Glad you had fun. Enjoy those last few days. It looks as if it might not rain, too!

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