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Real mum profile: Sarah Kauter of Remote Assistant (www.virtual-pa-uk.com)

It’s a real treat to come across a young mum who has set up their own business to juggle the demands of motherhood and earning and income. Not that they don’t exist, but many young mums tend to fall into the benefit line, or stop working all together and become stereotyped.

Sarah Kauter, Remote Assistant, mumpreneurIn walks Sarah Stubbings, 25, director of Remote Assistant and mum to Hannah 17 months, Bethany 6 months. She tells Motherswhowork.co.uk, how she has established a successful business that operates during evenings, weekends and nap times and has just taken on an employee!

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Product reviews: kitchen must haves for busy working mums

Are you struggling to get a decent meal on the table because you’re tired when you get home from work? Are ready meals ruling your life, your pocket and your waistline?

cooking nightmaresDo you feel guilty your children don’t know that chips are made from potatoes and don’t come from a paper bag or box?

Do you wish you could get the time to bake like those perfect Steford-style mums at the school gate, who are constantly showing off their perfect cupcakes at every opportunity?

Does your heart race like an adrenaline junkie at the thought of making a Sunday roast for the in-laws, because you can never get it as perfect as how your mother-in-law says she does it?

Don’t feel guilty, do something about it – we tested out some products from Lakeland that will make cooking a doddle (ok, less than the effort you put in now!):