We were lucky enough to be offered the chance to try out a Feast Box which is a subscription meal box filled with fresh ingredients and easy to follow recipes. To my delight, one of the options was an Egyptian dish and as I had been wanting to pretend to visit Egypt for ages this seemed like the perfect opportunity! Our previous North African visit to pretend Morocco had been brilliant and I knew this one would be too.
The Adventure
The World Museum in Liverpool has the second largest collection of Egyptian artefacts in the UK and so was perfect for a visit! I had actually never been to the this part of the museum and was delighted to find that it was big, interesting and had lots of kid friendly areas – like things they could touch and play with.
Penny was mildly terrified in the mummy section when she realised they were real dead people (although she absolutely loved being mildly terrified) and Freddie (of course) just wanted to look at the boats!
The museum was quite busy but very accessible and we even snuck out of ‘Egypt’ and down to look at the aquarium on the way out.
The Egyptian King
The mummified pharaohs are not the most famous Egyptian kings in Liverpool though. Mo Saleh is! And so we had a sneaky stop at Anfield on the way home to pay homage to Liverpool’s favourite Egyptian.
Cleopatra
Penny had been gifted a Cleopatra costume from one of my friends and she’s quite obsessed with Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt having read about her here: Good Night Stories Rebel Girls
She very much enjoyed getting her Cleopatra makeup done (it wasn’t quite as easy to take off!).
Turning daddy into a mummy
This is a simple game… as you just need some toilet roll and a willing victim. Much hilarity was had and if there had been more of us I suspect it could have got quite competitive! As it was we will be using this toilet roll for a long time I think! Much joy.
Hieroglyphics
We had enjoyed looking at the writing of Egypt in the Museum and so we used Google to help us to write the kids names in Hieroglyphics. If you are an Egyptologist reading this and we got them wrong – my apologies… but it was great fun and we actually learned quite a lot about how they work (like you add a man or woman on if its a male or female name).
Dinner
Penny and Mark elected themselves as The Chefs. Everything was brilliantly pre-measured and packaged up ready for them to make an Egyptian Koshari. Penny loved cooking for us all. She takes things like this very seriously and she really enjoys the weighing and measuring and all of the stirring and cooking.
The box was perfectly put together and super user friendly but still got you involved with the chopping and creating.
Penny and Mark got to feel really hands on and creative but never overwhelmed.
Penny’s favourite bit of the cooking was opening the cans and mixing everything together and (she tells me) cooking the beetroot because it was so pink!
I think Mark liked the fact everything was organised for him. He really likes cooking but can never be bothered with it.
And I got to be the chief taster! I have never eaten Egyptian food before so I was pretty excited and because taste box is so good I knew it would taste authentic. I was pretty impressed with Mark (and the instructions) as it looked exactly like the picture too! It was truly delicious and we all really enjoyed it. Not a scrap was left by the end and I will definitely be ordering another box when the next culinary adventure arises! If you fancy learning more about Treat Box then click on this link to find our all about it.
