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Foodie, cookbook author and businesswoman Jess Daniell was halfway through two tricky days filming the reality series Snack Masters NZ when life got just that little bit more difficult – her two young children decided they didn’t want to sleep.
She’s astonished she survived the blur of exhaustion while trying to recreate one of the nation’s most iconic snacks on camera.
“But as women, we just persevere, don’t we?” laughs Jess, 39, whose son Micah was only five