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About a month ago I was diagnosed with coeliac disease. Weirdly, it was the greatest news I'd received in a long time. For the last few years I had been feeling crap, depressed and generally out of sorts. Finally it reached a point where I was at my wits end...

We are currently in peak "mum can we have an icy pole" after school season. And since the girls and I have decided to cut refined sugar from our lives, the only icy pole we can eat from the store is four dollars a pop.

My brain and body is so disinterested in getting out of bed at the moment. The workaholic in me is pumped the kids are back at school and it's go go go with routine, but the lazy oaf who lies deep within is bummed about the shorter lounging around time....

I've loved granola forever. And I have been buying it forever. Like a mad woman. For some reason, when visiting dad in Tassie this Christmas, I was staring at the boxes of granola in the supermarket and finally snapped. HOW EXPENSIVE IS THIS BLOODY GRANOLA????? The cheapest I could find...

I've got my once a year bottle of Baileys in the fridge and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation downloading, so it's gotta be Christmas. This year is a little different for me, as it will be my first without my kids, but I've still got Bing blaring and I'm still working...

This time of year is intense, there's no way around it. This year I have paired back most of the Christmas responsibilities and yet somehow I still haven't rid myself of the insanity that is the festive season. I just close my eyes, hold on tight and hope I make...

I’ll be the first to admit I have a problem with managing my expectations. I build everything into the most amazing version of what it can be and when it falls short, I’m left disappointed. This is the story of my upside-down rhubarb and strawberry cake, kind of. I imagined...

Did you know that you can go and buy your very own copy of Lunch Lady now? From an actual shop? She went on sale in real life on Monday and it is awesome seeing photos of her popping up all over instagram. If you'd like to shout out and say...

I have a bit of a banana habit. I am obsessed with looking for the rejects at the green grocer and was once SO overcome with excitement when one of the big supermarkets were getting rid of tonnes of overripe bananas for $1 a kilo I called my partner to...

SURPRISE! Holy moly I’ve been busting to share something with you all for so long! Imagine being pregnant and not being able to tell anyone until the day your baby popped out, it's kinda, but not really, just like that.

People who think of other people, without a thought for themselves are freaking beautiful. They offer small gestures that are so heartbreakingly honest and true they amount to the most beautiful. Last year I was called to collect my big kid from school after she'd hurt herself. At 8:00pm that...

I have spent most of my time in the car today thinking how to write this post. There's no news or revelation, I've just been trying to articulate a feeling I experienced this morning. You know when you look at your kids and they look back at you in a...

You may have noticed from some of my blog posts we have endured a super long winter, the longest in 25 years. Winter got so hard, I seriously considered getting hold of a dawn simulator lamp to help me just get up in the morning. However, it wasn't until the...

There is no greater gift to give a new mum than one less thing to do. And baked treats.

My fella's mum gave me some 1920's Victorian Education Department cooking cards the other day. I thought it might be fun to make a few of the recipes. Being from that era and from the Education Department, I figured they'd be super simple with affordable ingredients. I thought it was...

I Realised I Couldn’t Save the World But I Could Make Someone’s World Better 8 September 2015 I know a lot of us are feeling it. That sense of helplessness in a world full of sadness and desperation. My brain keeps trying to come up with clever solutions to everyone’s...

Great Brekky Makes for a Great Day 3 Septmeber 2015 Something changed in my life this week. I decided to take more care of myself. I tend to gradually spiral into self neglect. It starts with little things but once you drop the little things, it is easier to forget...

I’m Not a Bloody Cafe! Actually … Perhaps I Am 1 September 2015 I have one kid who hates eggs and one who loves them. I try not to make meals tailored to their tastes, sometimes I yell, “I’m not a bloody cafe, you know!” Who am I kidding? I...

We’ve Got Vitamin C and D Covered 6 October 2015 Winter stops a lot of stuff, like wearing bikinis, lying in the hammock, plants growing and chickens laying eggs. While the ladies in the henhouse take a break, I create lunch box treats made with other ingredients. I eventually find...

Beat the winter blues with these choc-nana and sesame biccies.

3:00am Online Jaffle Maker Purchase and Baked Beans 6 August 2015 I wake up at 3:37am most mornings and instead of rolling over, closing my eyes and trying to drift back to sleep I usually pick up my phone. I check my email, instagram, facebook, the newspaper and more often...

Wintery Date and Orange Bars 4 August 2015 It is still so cold, and while the cold weather hangs around there is not many options in the fruit department. Which is OK, because nature is quite clever gifting us vitamin C packed citrus throughout the cold and flu season. I...

Teach Your Kids to Cook and You’ll be Rewarded with Kids Who Love to Cook You Things 30 July 2015 Let me introduce my buddy Stacey. She’s held the mantle of top cake baker in my circle of friends for as long as I have known her. And now we...

It’s a Vegan Cake But Don’t Be Scared 28 July 2015 I love making cakes for my kids to take to school. It reminds me of how special I felt on my birthday, even though I had minimal friends, they made a fuss and it was cool. I don’t have...