Sainsbury’s Kids Fairtrade Bananas

£1.39 a bunch

Ted: “Nanananana! Naaaaaaanaaaaaaa! Naaaaa naaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Daddy: “I’ve never seen anything other than a chimp get so excited about bananas.”

Ted doesn’t just like bananas. Ted loves bananas. No, he lives for bananas.

“do you want a snack Ted?”
“NANA!”

“time for breakfast Ted”
“Nana Nana!”

what would you like for tea big man?”
“naaaaaanaaaaaa”

He probably requests bananas a good ten times a day. This is our own fault, we gave him bananas from an early age and there have been times when he’s eaten nothing but cheese sandwiches and bananas.

And while, in Ted’s eyes any banana will do, we prefer to buy Sainsburys Kids Fairtrade Bananas. They’re smaller than your average nana, ideal for small toddler hands, and Fairtrade, which assuages the good old middle class guilt. Not to mention the fact that these very bananas last longer than others (not that they need to), particularly those which come from cheaper supermarkets which seem to sell fruit which goes off the same day you buy it.

We’ve also discovered a rather wonderful banana recipe courtesy of our favourite camping friends Emma and Andy T:

You’ll need: bananas, Dairy Milk chocolate, sharp knife, tin foil, a camp fire

How to: slice bananas along the inside length (skin on) and stuff with as many cubes of Dairy Milk as you can squeeze in (in Mummy’s case, half a family slab). Wrap in tin foil and throw on the camp fire for around five to ten minutes. Open and scoff yummy, melty chocolate and banana with a fork whilst putting world to rights and drinking wine.