Your post is amazing, and well done you with your menu planning. I have 5 kids half the year and then my own 3 the rest of the year. Lanzarote is very expensive for food. The prices that you see in your list, would simply be impossible to replicate. Food is probably one of the most expensive things in Lanzarote to buy because 80% of it has to be imported and because there is one import company whose monopolised everything. Our prices are in some cases twice as high as our neighbouring canary islands. They have only just given permission to Lidl's to open. They had sat on a supermarket waiting for permission for 5 years...No internet shopping either. I try and buy from the local market, I cook everything from scratch. Bread flour is expensive here, although I do make my own bread mixed in with buying bread. Breakfast cereals even own brand are nothing less than around €2.50 a small packet. I am going to try and do the same pricing see how much I end up at. Wine is cheaper... Drinkable wine, fizzy stuff for summer €2.50 a bottle!

Wow, I have never seen a butterfly like that. Going to go and check out the butterfly conservation site:)

What a load of f**king rubbish. Sorry but being told not to bother prompting manners is the biggest load of spreaded cow manure I've ever head. Can I just also say that my step son no 2 Jake didn't hardly say a word til he was past 4 years old, because his brother spoke for him, so his words weren't clear either as he wasn't that confident to talk. Noah's gorgeous and talking, I am sure the rest will come clearly as he gets older. Bi-lingual kids have this all the time, and don't have to be subjected to filming and insult in their own living room. Imagine if you'd just got on your laptop Noah would probably be on the AT RISK register now! The nursery sounds like they know what they are talking about .

My sentiments exactly. I only just managed 2 days in a cabin in Norway with no toilet, water or electricity, just gas stove. That was enough, ooh and sharing a single bunk bed with hubby - better than sleeping bag on the grassy floor? Not sure?!