Weetbix Toast

I am not a domestic goddess, nor have I ever implied or hinted at such a thing. And don't think for a second that because my husband is such a talented chef I'm good in the kitchen. I'm not. Quite average if we're being honest, though I do love a good pudding... I dabble but with two under five I don't really get much of a chance to cook. Proper cook. I pour through my Nigella and Gordon cookbooks, occasionally choosing a simple recipe, but 9 times out of 10 it's rejected by my little angels so sausages & pasta prevail.

I'm rubbish at cleaning too. In all fairness I find it incredibly dull & therefore don't put my all into it, something I am now regretting as I look at my walls & violently shudder with revolt. Surface cleaning aside if I were to remove the entire contents of our house it would take me at least a week (at least) to get it clean. It's disgusting. Let's put that down to the children too (I mean, Riley was born four weeks after we moved in...). We had a cleaner for a while, lovely woman, but I fear we sent her into early retirement.

So now you know I'm not a great cook or cleaner & I have to admit it I'm not so good at the upkeep either. The washing is always done (&, as our dryer recently died, now hung over every available space) & there's always food of some sort to be consumed, but we regularly run out of bread & sometimes even milk (I'm lactose intolerant so I often don't even notice). Unfortunately both my boys are also lactose intolerant so I have to have lactose free & soy milk on hand (ALWAYS) but when we do run out of bread, at least once a week (& yes, that includes the 'back up' frozen loaf in the freezer) I resort to weetbix toast for a breakfast staple. This was a favourite of mine as a child that my mother would make me as a snack - a weetbix, gently halved, then spread with butter & vegemite (NB: it has to be vegemite. Trust me on this). It's only recently that I've realised that this is not as well known as I'd first thought & several of my friends have been appalled at the idea. I say don't knock it 'til you try it!

And as I pop to the corner shop to buy that loaf of bread I can't help but wonder what back ups other people resort to in their times of need...