DO play with your food at Holiday Inn

Is there anything more stressful as a parent when you're away on holiday or just for an overnight break than dealing with a fussy child who fidgets and messes around at the dinner table?  The last thing you want to be worrying about is whether or not your child will eat their dinner.

The clever folks at Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts have come up with an ingenious solution to this age-old problem.  They've enlisted the help of experimental food scientists The Robin Collective, and together have created some magical mealtime ideas to help make things easier and create a memorable dining experience for all the right reasons!

Launching in selected UK and German hotels, these new fun additions to the table include exploding parsley herb party poppers and a Willy Wonka-esque roast dinner flavoured straw.

We had fun at home playing with condiments in a piping bag - such a simple idea but makes dinner time so much more fun.

The new menu of condiments is available for a limited time at the Holiday Inn Manchester Media City; Camden Lock; Stratford; Birmingham City Centre and Edinburgh.

Photo Alex McGuire

Disclosure: We were sent a Magical Mealtimes box to experiment at home with.