Warburtons lunches

Liven up your lunch is the name of Warburtons new campaign that aims to help families, well, liven up their lunches. I have to admit, I was a bit skeptical. My kids have a pretty set in stone menu for what they will eat at lunch, and any time I try to deviate from it... Let's just say it doesn't end well. But when I was asked to participate in this "Krazy Kitchen" campaign I though about two things - everyone in this house is already crazy, so why not to add the lunches to it, and the fact that we've always been fans of Warburtons, and especially their crumpets. So I said yes, let's go Krazy.
The main feature in this campaign are the funny videos you can find on their Facebook page, and their YouTube channel. These videos show two families competing against each other in the war to make a better lunch, while tackling various crazy interferences, like flying birds.
The kids saw the videos and found them hilarious, though it didn't make them want to participate in making food. Well, that one is for the half term. For our Krzay Kitchen challenge Warburtons sent us a package filled with ingredients, silly masks, and three recipes to try at home.

The recipes were all for meat-eating people, which is not me. All my boys eat meat, but not hot & spicy food, so the Tex-Mex was out of the question, I refuse to touch Tuna, so the Tuna Trawlermen wasn't an option also, and as Hidai hates Mayonnaise the Chicken Supreme joined them.
Like I said, changing lunches around here is no child's play.
But the ingredient hamper also included two types of bread. And everyone here loves bread. Especially Warburtons bread. We got wraps and sandwich-thins. I've never tried Warburtons wraps, mainly because we are not big on wraps usually, we prefer pitta bread (the kind my parents bring us from Israel when they visit, and we treat as if they are made of gold), and have never heard of sandwich thins. And so we decided to use them to make our regular lunches more fun and special.

First on the menu were the wraps. We decided to add them to our traditional Saturday lunch - chips and sausages. Why is that our traditional Saturday lunch? because it means I don't have to cook anything on Saturday, which I hate doing. Chips and sausages just go in the oven and I can relax and do absolutely nothing. We put the wraps in the oven to refresh them a bit, and they turned out great, so if you get them - a few minutes in the oven does wonder (like it does for any other bread anyway), and we nonchalantly put them on the table for the kids to "discover" them.

We all took one, with mustard or ketchup, chips and sausages (some of us eat the real thing, some - not so much). There wasn't a lot of craziness going around (ok, not more than usual and nothing I can write here if I want to keep my standing as a good mum).

The verdict was unanimous - please buy them again next week.
Success.
Next we tried the sandwich thins, which are small squares that are already cut into halves and you put something in the middle. You know, like a sandwich. I decided to add that to our dinner actually, because we don't eat sandwiches for lunch. I made scrambled eggs, which is the kids favourite kind of eggs, and goes really well inside a sandwich, and again put it on the table as if we've ate it a million times before. Atactic that never works, but I always try anyway. They spotted it immediately, but were willing to try it with some goat cheese and the eggs.

The verdict -  Yon is very particular about his bread, and would only eat a couple of brands, but he really liked it.  Ron ate two, and apart from losing half his eggs because he hadn't mastered the art of sandwich-eating yet, loved it. I tried toasting one, but they are too thin for that, so not the preferred eating method. The one with the cheese and eggs was so good I didn't even have time to take a photo! Outrageous, I know.

So this is my conclusion of the whole trying to make lunches fun ordeal - I think people, including us, get into a meal-rut, and we make the same foods over and over again without thinking about it. We all should eat healthier and more diverse food, and food making and eating should be fun, and not just the boring experience it is today. I applaud Warburtons for their effort in helping us do all that. I think their campaign captures a problem that occurs in many homes, and tries to help people change it using fun and funny methods.
In my case, though we didn't use the ingredients and recipes they sent us, we've managed to use their new breads to make our traditional meals more fun and special, and less boring.
So thank you Warburtons, first of all for the chance to participate in this campaign, second for the really great bread, and third for making me take a look at the fact that I was in a meal-rut and try to change it.



*This post was sponsored by Warburtons, who paid for it and sent me a hamper full of ingredients and breads.