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An unreal lunchlady reader emailed me a recipe for zucchini brownies after I posted the chocolate zucchini cake a while ago. I was pretty excited to make them, but then my email had a meltdown and I lost my entire inbox (yay and sad all at once). It was a...

Autumn has come and she is beautiful. It is still warm enough to not be uncomfortable, but cool enough to rug up in your favourite coat and scarf. The soft gentle rain and the low cloud make these days dreamy. It was the perfect day to check up on our...

As some of you might know, I am slightly obsessed with instagram. I love it. I love taking photos and I love seeing what other people are taking photos of. It is so great sitting at my kitchen table with my lappy (laptop for you normal speaking non Australians) and...

I was driving home from school the other day, singing along to some song loudly and out of tune, with the girls, thinking about pizza. Nothing really concrete, just how I really like it. And salami. Pizza and salami could seriously be my last supper, in fact I had a...

How weird is this. Yesterday I thought "I should really write a post about staples, and how it makes life so easy when your pantry is stocked with them, hmmm… Kate that is a BRILLIANT idea!". Then I received an email from a lovely lady called Julie asking me to...

It is pretty lovely to have another lady I have known for a while here on Same Old Crap. I shot her wedding (yep, I do that stuff) and now she has a little baby girl Clementine. Aaahh… it's so great when life works out and makes little people. I...

Hey there! These last few weeks have been so insane in our house. Our home looks like a clothing, passata and general crap bomb has gone off in every room. It is a little deflating, but with a week clear of obligations we will rebuild. This post is about dealing...

I have learnt recently that it is easier to not get all high and mighty and annoyed about pre packed things. See my pavgate experience on instagram. But when I came across these White Wings Lunchbox Heroes in the supermarket the other day I thought enough was enough.

Passata Day 2014, Get Those People You Love Over! 18 March 2014 This weekend was the most special weekend in our little family’s calendar. It is a weekend where we crush 200kg of tomatoes and make our yearly supply of passata. It is a day where we invite the people...

Well we all know what I think if this week's Same Old Crapper. He is the love of my life, my kid's life, the one who makes me giggle like an idiot and makes me believe I can do anything! He is my guy, Rohan, well I call him Ro,...

Here is another one of those super clever women I am lucky enough to know. As well as being a clever clogs (go check out her classes!) in the kitchen, Ruth like Michelle, has impeccable taste in music, a gorgeous home and amazing kids. She has also been another one great...

It is such an awesomely amazing pleasure to have this lady here. Her beautiful blog, Hugo and Elsa, is such a treat. She is super duper clever, talented, beautiful and pretty bloody funny too. Oh and she has awesome taste in music. She also lives in one of my favourite...

This is pretty exciting! It is my first Same Old Crap from a new friend, someone who emailed me after reading the first Same Old Crap. Awesome! Keep em coming people!  Meet Nicola, she has an awesome blog, Homegrown Kitchen, please go and check it out, it is very pretty...

Ok, I'm sorry for the naff name (not really, I think it is awesome). But when I was driving the kids to school today it hit me like a bolt of comic genius lightening! It's a worry free dinner that doubles as a lunchbox winner! It's our problem free philosophy....

Drowning in home-grown zucchinis or being gifted zucchinis by people who are? This is the perfect recipe to get you through a zucchini glut.

Introducing… The Same Old Crap 5 February 2014 Welcome to Same Ol’ Crap, another regular series of posts for lunchlady. Same Ol’ Crap was inspired by a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with a woman I share office space with (I know I have my own office...

I always wanted to set up a lemonade stand when I was a kid. But Frankston in the early 80s wasn't the place for entrepreneurial kids and their cute hand drawn signs. We had a few crazy neighbours, like the woman who took her budgie for a walk in its cage,...

As you know our lives have been fairly CRAZY over the last few forevers, but finally we are back home and life is starting to slip back in to that familiar groove. It is so comforting when the alarm chimes at it's usual time and you get up to do...

Today was magical. It was the first day in months that wasn't windy, icy cold, raining, snowing or just plain grey. Winter is always a season you're excited about in the beginning, red wine, open fires and crackly records playing, but by the last weeks of August the blues have...

We have a glut of lemons in our house at the moment (thanks to nana lynne and her amazingly over productive garden). I had been planning to create jars of lemon curd, but I know if I do, I will devour them, secretly, in the laundry or in the car...