Problem Solvin' Mom

Problem Solvin' Mom is a fun and useful blog for parents. Steph at Problem Solvin' Mom posts about a diverse list of subjects including, family, hobbies, health & fitness, and balancing work & home life. Her blog is just what every busy parent should read!

Heart Handmade, Heart Homecooked and Heart hi-tech

Heart Handmade is an arts and crafts blog offering lots of inspiration and interviews plus craft ideas. The blog is written by Marichelle Burdman and Marichelle also has an Etsy shop - wunderlust - plus two more blogs, Heart Homecooked with lots of delicious recipes, and a useful gadget blog called Heart hi-tech, with news and reviews.

Chez Pim

Chez Pim is the name of a food blog written by Pim. Pim grew up in Bangkok, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. In addition to her very impressive blog, her recipes, writings, and photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Food & Wine Magazine, and Bon Appétit magazine.

Love Food Hate Waste

The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce food waste. The impressive site offers tips on how to save time and money by planning meals using the recipes provided on the two week menu planner. The website offers lots of different recipes to "cook once, eat twice" and plenty of ideas for ways to use up leftovers.

There is also a Love Food Hate Waste Blog.

Prudence Pennywise

Prudence Pennywise is an impressive food blog written by "Prudy" and her tagline tells you what her blog is about:
"Scandalously good food on a budget"

Prudy doesn't just offer delicious recipes, she also features additional information with each recipe such as a book review. an event in her life, interesting background to a recipe, money saving tips and sometimes a give-away.

What’s Cooking Grandma?

What’s Cooking Grandma? Celebrating Grandmothers Cooking is a foodie blog that started as a project in 2006 in Lancaster England. The idea was to build a video cookbook of grandmothers cooking their special recipes.

Since then we’ve been growing, collecting and sharing recipes from Grandmas across the world.

I think this idea is fantastic - it's a place for treasured family recipes to be proudly shared and demonstrated by the expert cook - the actual "grandma". How perfect is that? I love it!

The site welcomes contributions from Grandmas at work in their own kitchen. If you want to add your recipes to What’s Cooking Grandma: Everything you need to know about sending in a video, film or photos

Rochelle's Vintage and Frugal Recipes

Rochelle's Vintage and Frugal Recipes is a fun blog where you can find a variety of recipes from old cookbooks and paper clippings.

Rochelle has a degree in Home Economics and admits that "Collecting cookbooks and recipes has been my hobby for over 35 years. I especially like vintage and advertising cookbooks and have over 1,000."

Tea and Cake

Tea and Cake is a lovely site "dedicated to the little ritual that is tea and cake."

The comprehensive site really offers everything you need to know about this British tradition, including ideas for tea parties, a selection of recipes, a listing of tea and cake places (in England) and even a fun quiz to see which cake you are.

The friendly creators of the site, Janine and Sam, welcome ideas for the development and improvement of teaandcake.co.uk so if you have recipes, tea shop/tea-rooms recommendations, or a photo to add to the teapot or mug gallery, you are invited to send them in and they may add your submission to their site and they will credit you on the site to thank you.

Baking and Books

Baking and Books is a delightful blog written by Ariela and where she shares some of her favourite recipes and reviews books.

I like the way Ariela writes her reviews - most of them are short and to the point. I perused her list and discovered a few books I will be adding to my (very long) reading list. I intend to try some of her delicious looking recipes too!

Small Bites: "Bite-size nutrition information"

Small Bites is the name of an informative blog by Andy Bellatti, a Registered Dietitian.

In his blog, Mr. Bellatti presents interesting facts about nutrition and he shares quick & healthy recipes.

He also presents a series of Small Bites Nutrition videos (on YouTube).

I love the name of the blog - Small Bites - how clever is that?

Farmgirl Fare

"Nearly everyone dreams of moving to the country, but few people are crazy enough to actually do it. I'm one of those few." This is what Farmgirl Susan says as her introduction on her blog, Farmgirl Fare.

First, she moved to a a 280-acre farm in 1994, then:

Seven years ago I moved to an even more remote 240-acre farm which I share with sheep, chickens, 2 dogs, 7 cats, 4 very entertaining donkeys & one really well fed farmguy. My life revolves around food. I write food & garden articles & have taught cooking classes & contributed to cookbooks. I'm a passionate bread baker, and we're slowly building a small wholesale artisan bread bakery here on the farm.

I think her introduction explains very well what her blog is about. She leads a very interesting life and shares stories and photos of her life on a Missouri farm. She also shares her delicious recipes!

In My Kitchen Garden is an an offshoot of FarmgirlFare.com and is about her garden, funnily enough.

Home Ec 101

Home Ec 101 is a smart, sassy site with a retro style that is all about housekeeping with a catchy tagline: "What You Wish Your Mama Taught You".

The site offers loads of useful tips and practical information such as a Bread Making Tutorial: Basic White Bread or a Frugal tip: Cutting up a whole chicken, plus handy cleaning tips, a 'Ms. Fix-it' feature with useful advice, and a section about doing laundry with washing tips.

A Feathered Nest

A Feathered Nest is the name of a lovely blog written by Abby, a stay at home mom in Michigan (USA). Abby writes that her "blog is a collection of basic, simple projects that anyone can do. My blog goal is to reach out and grab at least one person who will try something new and discover something great about themselves!"

Abby does indeed share lots of ideas and projects such as sewing and other fun crafts like crochet. For example, there is a tutorial for a Quick & Easy Apron and a Super Easy Reversible Farmer's Market Bag plus lots more sewing projects. Her posts labelled cooking 101 include lots of delicious looking recipes.

All About You

All About You is a site featuring some of the best articles from six of the UK's magazines: She, Good Housekeeping, Coast, Country Living, Prima and House Beautiful. It also serves as a portal to each of those magazine sites.

The site offers all kinds of interesting articles about a variety of topics such as diet & health, interior decorating, travel, pets, fashion, shopping and crafts (you can access free patterns such as a knitting pattern to download for a summer cardigan or a Stripy Sensation tea cosy knitting pattern).

Confessions of an Apron Queen

Confessions of an Apron Queen: Not Your Ordinary Mom Blog is a fun vintage-themed blog. The Apron Queen is a talented writer and photographer and she shares lots of fun stories and photos as well as delicious recipes.

Robin's Nesting Place

Robin's Nesting Place is a lovely blog written by Robin accompanied by her stunning photos of her beautiful garden, and the birds, bees, butterflies, and other creatures that visit her wildlife-friendly garden. In addition to gardening, and photography, Robin also enjoys cooking and shares some of her recipes on her blog.

Organic Gardening and Homesteading

Sue Merriam writes Organic Gardening and Homesteading, a site that offers lots of useful tips and advice for a self-reliant lifestyle.

There is a Homesteading Blog too, with recipes and frugal living tips.

The Official Annabel Karmel Website

The Official Annabel Karmel Website is a very impressive site devoted to food and nutrition for babies and children. Annabel Karmel is a popular cookery writer in the UK and you can purchase her books via her website.

Her site offers lots of healthy recipes, how-to information, a nutrition guide, How to Cook Videos, a forum, a Kids Cooking Site with Kids Cooking Videos plus competitions, prize draws and giveaways.

There is also a new AnnabelKarmel TV channel to watch online.

Healthy Recipes, "eatTHISdiet" free online diet plan from Dr. Gourmet

Dr. Gourmet is an impressive site all about healthy eating, created by Timothy S. Harlan, M.D.

If you are struggling to lose weight or just want to eat a healthier diet, Dr. Gourmet provides a free, interactive diet planner called eatTHISdiet to help you create weekly meal plans that are tailored to match your personal profile. You only need to take a moment to complete the information required (height, weight, food dislikes, allergies, and special dietary needs) to register (you can create an additional profile for other family members too). Once you have registered, you can access your free meal plan - complete with recipes and shopping lists!

You can also sign up for the Dr. Gourmet Newsletters.

Kids and Cooking: Encouraging Kids in the Kitchen

KidsandCooking offers lots of recipes for healthy family meals at home as well as recipe ideas for school fetes, party food, picnic food and recipes for making your own healthy fast food.

The site also has lots of other features and (over 70) articles such as how to encourage your children to help make dinner, lunchbox ideas, food crafts and teaching children about healthy eating.

In addition, KidsandCooking also offers some fun videos demonstrating how easy it is to cook with children.