Friday 16 October 2009

Ladybird cakes and World Porridge Day

My niece is coming over to play today with her Mum. She is really into ladybirds are very in at the moment, apparently, so I have just made these:




Much easier than cooking 180 sausages (yes 180) last night. But that was all good fun and served with mash and honey mustard drizzle and brownies for dessert made for lots of happy faces.

I love food but do feel rather guilty about it sometimes. Here I am making ladybird cakes and only this morning I was reading about World Porridge Day. That is not a joke. Seriously, this Sunday is World Porridge Day - and international event to try and raise money for children all over the world who are starving hungry. All money raised will go to Mary's Meals which is an organisation which provides food in schools in some of the most deprived areas of the world, where poverty and hunger prevent children getting an education. Just £6.15 can feed a child for a year through this programme. Now that is food for thought indeed. How privileged we are to have our most basic needs met, and we can enjoy our food to the extent we do.
More on Mary's Meals can be found here:

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