I'm all up for organic food, and anything that's yummy without using sugar. There's been a particular type of biscuit that's long been a favourite in our house. Sweetened with fruit juice, and made with wholemeal flour they are very tasty. So I was quite excited to see something similar from Orgran - Dinosaur Wholefruit Wildberry Cookies (175g, £2.75).

These cookies are also free from gluten, dairy, egg, yeast, nuts, and soya. Also taste free? Out of the box I was disappointed. The shapes aren't that much like dinosaurs. In fact it was hard to make out what they were meant to be (you can see this in the photo). There's quite a chunk of wildberry in the cookies, and this has a strong, intense flavour that's quite chewy as well. This was a hit with me, and my other parent taster as well as half our young testers. My son wouldn't try them at all as he doesn't like chewy stuff in his cookies.

My friend was disappointed they weren't crunchier. The cookie part does have a slightly cardboard consistency. I won't be buying these again, although my friend is going to. If your children like things like fruit roll ups then they'll like these cookies.

I saw a fabulous idea for a cake - a tie dye cake - on the internet. How did they get those bright colours? I figured that, as it was an American site, it was something they had that you couldn't get in the UK.

I was a little bit right. Almost immediately the range of icing and colouring gels from Dr Oetker appeared in my local supermarket. I had to try them out, and see if they really worked. You know how you see something on Pinterest that never quite works out the same in real life?

But how much fun could you have with baking for children with a palette of neon colours? I had a bake sale coming up at my son's primary school, so I decided to go ahead and use it to give the icing gels a proper testing.

Click on the link below to see what happened when I made my version of the tie-dye cake, using Dr Oetker's Neon Food Colouring and Neon Glitter Writing Gel.

Got a couple of teenagers in the house? A few pre-teens? It's been a long hard week. You might be, like me, considering putting your feet up and just NOT cooking at least one night this weekend. Well, use this Pizza Hut promotional code to get  50% off orders of £15 or more.

Click here to use your Pizza Hut promotional code*

• Discount: 50%
• Minimum spend: £15
• Promotional code: EMAYX9ACB
• Expires: 20th May 2013

To use this coupon code, buy your pizzas. On the final page, headed ‘Here You Go’, before you get to checkout, enter it in the voucher codes box. The discount will appear immediately on the page.

It worked on a medium sized gluten-free pizza and a side salad, the total of which came to £16.98. The code took £7.49 off making it £9.49 in total.

As far as I can tell the code  won't work on meal deals.

Thanks to gamer852 at HUKD!

Use your Pizza Hut coupon code to get two large pizzas, potato wedges, garlic bread and a drink for £20. A brilliant deal, and a handy one if you want to both treat the family, and take  a night off cooking this Bank Holiday weekend.

Summer is here! I know, I'm being a bit premature, but after having a winter that started in September and finished in April this warm weather feels like summer to me. And just at the right time, Warburtons, the breadmakers, has launched a few new ranges.

We received a wide range of products to review. And much to my dismay I got to review them. I say dismay because I can't actually eat any bread products. Instead I had to watch as my family scoffed them down. Read on to find out what they thought and to read as I weep ...

Use this Dominos coupon to get 40% off your pizza order when you spend £35 or more.

Click here to use your Dominos coupon *

• Discount: 40%
• Minimum spend: £35
• Voucher code: UCQRJKBR
• Expires: unknown

Great to get a Dominos coupon code that can be used around the UK in time for the Easter holidays. The pizza chain issues lots of discount codes, but they all tend to be localised so can only be used in one small area. This code is meant to be a national one, and it worked for me in south London. From the comments on our sister site HUKD, it looks like it works around the country.

To use the code, click on Checkout when you've finished placing your order. In the first page of checkout, enter the code in the Voucher code box and click Update.

There are some exclusions, the problem is figuring out what they are! It doesn't seem to work on drinks, but it might on ice cream as at least one poster on our sister site at HUKD said they had ice cream in their order and it worked. It won't work on deals, and sometimes with Dominos you can accidentally order a deal without realising it - if there's a deal on a pizza and two sides for example, if that's what you've ordered it will count as a deal. I tested it on two pizzas and it worked just fine.

Thanks to mitch1635 at HUKD!

Use this Dominos coupon promotional code to get 50% off your pizza order when you spend £30 or more.

Click here to use your Dominos coupon *

• Discount: 50%
• Minimum spend: £30
• Voucher code: DSKAVTBV
• Expires: unknown

This is an excellent Dominos discount code, effectively getting you two pizzas for the price of one. The pizza chain issues lots of discount codes, but they all tend to be localised so can only be used in one small area. This code is meant to be a national one, and it worked for me in south London. From the comments on our sister site HUKD, it looks like it works around the country.

To use the code, click on Checkout when you've finished placing your order. In the first page of checkout, enter the code in the Voucher code box and click Update.

You can't use this code on deals or desserts. I tested it out on two pizzas at £15.99, and the code worked just fine.

Thanks to dandoc2 at HUKD!

My son's primary school does the most gorgeous school dinners. They have fresh baked bread, a salad bar, crisp vegetables that are cooked just before being served. And he won't eat a bit of it.

The meals are so gorgeous that only a few children have packed lunches, but unfortunately his best friend is one of them. And since the packed lunches sit at another table, well, you can figure out how the rest of it goes.

Coming up with fresh ideas for food to put in his lunch box five days a week isn't easy though. And I expect that lots of parents have the same problem, which is why you've got products like this new range from Deli24.

So if you're looking for a meaty, cheesy snack for the kids, read on to find out how these fared.

About three years ago now a friend and I got into wild foraging. We started getting food that was growing around where we lived. And there's a surprising amount of it - we don't even live in the country but in one of the biggest cities in the world.

I also tried growing my own food. I couldn't have picked a worse year for it though than last year. It wasn't that there wasn't much of a harvest so much as there wasn't anything at all. Local apple trees stopped producing, and for the first time there were no blackberries to pick. It was pitiful. And what we got in the garden wasn't that great either, with potato blight, no tomatoes, and courgettes that just didn't grow.

So, growing your own food isn't necessarily going to keep you stocked in fresh vegetables for no more cost than a little sweat of the brow. But for every bad year there's always lots of good years and it is worth persevering!

You don't even need a garden, an outdoor space of any kind will do, or just a ledge on your kitchen window. You can use what you've got to start saving money on the food bill.

Springtime is traditionally the time to start sowing seeds for harvesting food later in the year. And it is traditional to do so at this time of they year because, well, that's how nature works.

Except, not all plants need to be planted now to grow. That's just one of the many many questions I have to find an answer for. Because I am a complete novice at this  and really have absolutely no clues whatsoever when it comes to growing food.

So if you're like me , read on. Here's some of the help I managed to find online!

Use your Pizza Hut promotional code to get 50% off orders of £35 or more. The code is valid until Monday, so maybe a different meal choice for a Sunday than a roast? Click here to use your Pizza Hut promotional code

• Discount: 50%
• Minimum spend: £35
• Promotional code: SMSFFYPCY
• Expires: 4th March 2013

To use this coupon code, buy your pizzas. On the final page, headed ‘Here You Go’, before you get to checkout, enter it in the voucher codes box. The discount will appear immediately on the page. I tested it on various items, including sides and non-ice cream desserts, but the code only worked when I only ordered pizzas. Excludes drinks and ice creams, and double-up deals on sides, drinks and desserts. Worked on two pizzas, but not with any double or combo sides, and on collection as well as delivery orders. Thanks to marvelmight at HUKD!

Use your Pizza Hut promotional code to get 50% off orders of £35 or more. A useful code if you've reached the end of half term and the end of your tether. Each of the main pizza chains have done a voucher code this holiday, but only for a few days each. I wonder why? Perhaps it is a sign of the recessionary times? This one should see you through the weekend.

Click here to use your Pizza Hut promotional code

• Discount: 50%
• Minimum spend: £35
• Promotional code: SMSFFYPCY
• Expires: 24th February 2013

To use this coupon code, buy your pizzas. On the final page, headed ‘Here You Go’, before you get to checkout, enter it in the voucher codes box. The discount will appear immediately on the page.

Excludes drinks and ice creams, and double-up deals on sides, drinks and desserts. Worked on two pizzas, but not with any double or combo sides, and on collection as well as delivery orders.

Thanks to stacy_1983 at HUKD!

Use this Papa Johns pizza promotional code to get one free pizza when you buy a pizza. A handy offer for a half term treat.

Click here to use your Papa Johns Pizza promotional code

• Discount: one pizza
• Applies to: buy one pizza
• Promotional code: AAFREEREAD02
• Expires: 21st February 2013

To use this code, first make your selection. When you do, your order will appear on the right-hand side of the screen. Enter the code in the Code box under here, and it will be applied to your order.

The code can't be used on small pizzas or with any other offers. Buy one pizza and you get a second one of the same size and value.

There are Papa John's pizzerias located throughout Scotland and England, as well as some parts of Ireland and Northern Ireland. In Wales, only Cardiff has a Papa Johns unfortunately. The chain goes as far south as Plymouth.

Thanks to raycrane at HUKD!

Use these Dominos coupons to get 30% off your pizza order when you spend £30 or 40% off when you spend £35. Code is valid this weekend only, so you'll only be able to use it until end of play on Sunday. Could be a nice treat for the half term holidays.

Click here to use your Dominos coupons *

• Discount: 40% and 30%
• Minimum spend: £35 and £30
• Voucher code: WEEKEND4 or WEEKEND3
• Expires: 17th February 2013

The pizza chain issues lots of discount codes, but they all tend to be localised socan only be used in one small area. These codes are meant to be a national ones, and from the comments on our sister site HUKD, it looks like it works around the country.

To use the code, click on Checkout when you've finished placing your order. In the first page of checkout, enter the code in the Voucher code box and click Update.

There are a few terms and conditions for this code. Not valid with any other offer or deal and you must spend £35 at full menu price in order to get 40% off. Some items are excluded. One person found it didn't work with drinks, however they may have inadvertently chosen a deal, as another person has said that their order included drinks and the code worked. Another item that it may not work on is the Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

Thanks to jeetez at HUKD!

This is a nice little idea, and one that I think I'll find handy in the summer months. Fruity Pots (6 for £2)are kind of like a fruit equivalent of yoghurt. A fruit salad snack in a little pack that's perfect for lunch boxes, picnics, and just throwing in your bag. As the website says, they're great for kids, but not just for kids.

Since my son won't eat anything like them, I tried one out for myself. Incidentally the photo above shows my pot, which I'd already half eaten before it occurred to me to write a review. You do get more fruit than that!

I got the Peach and Pear Fruity Pot, two of my favourite fruits. Delicious. The pear chunks were sometimes soft and juicy, and sometimes crunchy and juicy. Just like real pears. The peaches didn't have a strong peachy flavour, which was a shame.

The pieces are in fruit juice, according to the package. From the ingredients there's nothing in there except fruit, fruit juice, some citric acid, and ascorbic acid. Even so, this is fruit, so it is still loaded with sugar. Per 100g there's 12g of sugar, which means that in these little 113g pots you've got the fructose equivalent of just over two teaspoons. Still it is one of your five a day, which makes it a really nice little dessert for afters.

What I liked as well is the little spoon that comes tucked inside the cardboard package. The handle clicks into place, and there you have it, a foldable teaspoon. It un-clicks again, so I plan on washing mine and reusing!

It is cold. The nights are still long, and very dark. This is the hardest part of winter because it feels like it is going on forever, you'll never warm again, and there's no Christmas to look forward to.

This is when it is easy to comfort eat, and warm up with big mugs of frothy hot chocolate. And generally be tempted into lots of things that are simply going to put inches on your waist. Whether you're a mum or a dad.

It is probably with that in mind that Weight Watchers has launched a range of low calorie hot chocolate drinks in sachets. We received three flavours to try out. Read on to find out whether they're the answer to your winter prayers, or just another trick to get you to spend your cash.

We're no longer making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. According to research that is.

Just in case you've missed this, it is Shrove Tuesday tomorrow. This is a day traditionally celebrated by making pancakes. I was always told the tradition started because people needed to use up the perishable stuff they won't be eating over Lent. Like butter, and milk. I don't know if that is true. I do know that I don't tend to do the whole Lent thing anymore. But I still love doing pancakes.

What I don't get is this idea that making pancakes is complicated and a lot of effort. You might be scoffing at that but it is true. Lyle's Golden Syrup people have done some research, and have found that there's 25% fewer people bothering to make pancakes now, than there was on Shrove Tuesday 10 years ago. The main reasons given?

It takes too much time and too much effort. What on earth are these people talking about? Pancakes were a staple of my student days simply because they were so easy, and relatively cheap to make. You don't need any more equipment than a bowl, fork, spoon, frying pan and hopefully a flat spatula or fish slice.

As for toppings - you know a knob of butter will do the job. But there's other options you might not have thought about , and which you're likely to have in your cupboard already. Read on to find out our top tips for the easiest pancakes you'll ever make.

There's a new brand of soya milk hitting supermarket and shop shelves in the UK as I write this. No don't yawn! I know what you're thinking. Like the world really needs another brand of soya milk. It isn't exactly that exciting.

But, it kind of is. For one thing, a variety of choice is always a good thing. It means it is more likely you'll find something you like. And secondly, what if the new product is tastier and better than whatever else is out there?

Already a popular brand in Spain, Vive Soy is hoping its milks will be popular here too. For that reason, the company sent me a carton to try out. And I took this carton to someone I know is an expert in soya milk, to see what she thought.

Is it tasty? Is it a good milk alternative? I am kind of hoping so because the really great thing about this milk is the variety of flavours it comes in. There's vanilla, chocolate, unsweetened, a 'light version' and - wait for it, a drum roll here please - cappuccino! Read on to find out what we thought.

If you use follow on formula then you'll know this doesn't often come up on special offer. Tesco Direct has knocked £2 off the  900g container of Aptamil 1Yrs+ Growing Up Milk Powder. It was £8.49 and is now £6.49. Every little helps, as they say!

• Click here for your Aptamil Growing Up Milk Powder at Tesco Direct

After he went onto solids my son decided that he wasn't going to breast feed anymore. I have to say I was a little bit sad about that, imagining a few more months of, at the least, night feeds. Still it happens. What I wasn't prepared for was that he also decided he hated cow's milk, and refused to drink it. He also refused soya milk, goat's milk and everything else I tried until I gave him some formula.

He loved the follow on stuff, and drank a bottle of that a day until he was about 2 and finally decided he liked cows milk after all. And soya milk. And everything else he'd spat out till then. Go figure!

According to Aptamil, its Aptamil Growing Up milk has been specially developed by infant nutrition experts to help meet the increased nutritional needs of toddlers from 1 year onwards, and contains Aptamil's unique GOS/FOS prebiotic blend. It is nutritionally superior to cows' milk and contains 40 times more iron and more vitamin C and D, to help take on this key stage of development.

Thanks to shaksy at HUKD!

Yoplait is a brand I tend, rightly or wrongly, to associate with yoghurts for children. So when Yoplait asked if I'd like to take a look at a new range they had out, I assumed it was for my son. After all it was all about healthy bones and vitamins.

I was wrong though. Cal-in+ is a brand aimed at grown ups (£2 for 4 x 125g pots). Most specifically at women, as we need to look after our bones and calcium more than the guys do. That doesn't mean the guys should shirk on this though! You will suffer bone loss in old age too.

Yoplait also recognised that very little food in the UK is supplemented with Vitamin D. Now this is a vitamin that's crucial for our bones, and our well being, but we get it mostly from the sun. And I don't know what the UK ever did to the sun, but it really doesn't seem to like us much.

Go to someplace like the US, and you'll find Vitamin D in all sorts of places, particularly milk. Is this a good thing? Well if you like your yoghurt, and you feel you need a vitamin top up, then Calin+ might be a good option. If it tastes any good that is...

Fancy getting someone else to do the cooking tomorrow?. Even better, see if you can get someone to look after the kids and go just the two of you. Use this Beefeater Grill Restaurants coupon to get one main free when you buy a main meal. It is valid for Sunday the 27th of January only.

Click here for your Beefeater Grill Restaurants coupon

• Discount: buy one main meal and get one free
• Promotional code: printable voucher click on link above
• Expires: 27th January 2013

To use this promotional code click on the link above, then on the Download Voucher Now link. Alternatively, click HERE to go straight to the printable version of the voucher.

Premier Inn Meal deal, breakfast, sides, 2 course and 3 course Sunday Set menu, Lighter bites and the 24 oz. Prime Rib-eye on the bone are excluded from this offer. The cheapest main meal will be free when purchasing one full price main meal.

Thanks to plumberman01 at HUKD!