Blending it all together

If there are any frazzled new parents out there, desperately struggling to come to terms with the arrival of a firstborn child and its mighty impact on a previously well-ordered life, well, here’s the perfect prescription — an inspirational dose of cookbook author Sheila Kiely’s own personal history.

You may well believe you have said sayonara to sleep and sanity upon the arrival of a singular bundle of joy but Sheila Kiely once had six children all under the age of five, including two sets of twins and has survived to tell the tale. Not only that but six kids and Sheila still finds time to write a cookbook, ‘Gimme the Recipe’, on the back of her very successful food blog.

But even high-achieving go-getters will blanch on hearing she not only roadtested each recipe but did all the food styling and photography as well, despite having taken up photography just two years previous. Oh yeah, and she is also a working mum, holding down a job. Excuse me, while I lie down for 10 minutes.