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Maple Marshmallow Fail 7 July 2015 We are in week three of the school holidays and for the previous two weeks I have been promising the kids maple marshmallows. We’ve been preparing for this day by watching instructional YouTube videos, researching all available online recipes and finally by buying five...

School Holidays, Where Snack Ideas are at a Premium 25 June 2015 For some reason my kids seem to have started their school holidays WAAAAAAY before anyone else’s kids. Which means I need to be ahead of the game when it comes to snacks. I am seriously lucky I have...

Learning Something Little Felt Really Big 22 June 2015 I have been wanting to learn how to make cheese forever. It is second to salami on my stuck on a deserted island food list. But I have always been too busy, too tired or too boring. It took my fella...

When Funk Doesn’t Involve a Cool Bassline 15 June 2015 Some days, weeks and even years are harder than others. Just getting upright and propelling yourself forward is all you can muster. It sucks and it is hard. When mid rut, cooking for the family is possibly the last thing...

Saving the Reluctant Lunch Baker 4 June 2015 I have been away from my family, with work, quite a bit lately. I miss them loads. Before this trip I made sure I left the stand-in lunch maker a good stash of baked goods for the daily lunch boxes. The word...

It’s a Long Way to Shop if You Want a Lentil Roll 22 May 2015 What a primary school classic that was. I have been pestering a school mum for her lentil roll recipe for almost a year now. I am sure I have spotted her hiding behind the bushes...

Love in a Jar 19 May 2015 My best friend has a lemon tree. I don’t. She is 5 foot flat. I’m not. My tiny best friend has limited access to the full stash of lemons from her heaving tree, so I help myself to the bounty just out her...

Where Did I Come From? 12 May 2015 In the last few weeks my biggest kid had started Prepare for Puberty classes at school. We all giggled about it together, but underneath the giggles I think both of us were slightly petrified. When I was ‘preparing for puberty’ I was...

Lunch Lady vs Puregg Spinach + Feta Omelette 29 April 2015 Seriously, this is one of THE MOST ridiculous things I have seen in a long time. With most pre-packaged meals, I get the time saving thing. But this omelette in a carton takes the same amount of time to...

An early morning invention 23 April 2015 We all have those mornings when we stand in the kitchen and try to pull together some kind of lunch for our kids in our head. Some mornings we are on fire, others we are thinking of what we can create with stale...

Lunch Lady vs That! Banana Milkshake 21 April 2015 This is simple. Milk moustache versus no milk moustache. I know where I stand. Regular Banana Milkshake 1 frozen banana 1 cup of milk (cow, almond, coconut, whatever!) 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon 1 teaspoon of honey Blend it up. Drink. That!...

Lunch Lady vs Coles Basil Pesto 14 April 2015 Autumn is here, and I find myself making stockpiles of pesto! It is one THE greatest friends you can have in the kitchen. It can be used as the base for a bazillion different dinners and it also a real winner...

Pistachio + Rose Rocky Road + Positive People 2 April 2015 My lovely friend Jade, from Eat This My Friend, makes the most amazing, good for you, sweet treats. They are also super easy to put together. I am going to get Maya to work on this one today. (Oh...

The Little Things are the Big Things 31 March 2015 Last week dad was telling me about something we did when I was a kid. I had absolutely no recollection and I could tell my dad was a little sad about my lack of memory. This is, however, a brain...

Crispy, Carrot, Cumin and Cous Cous Fritters 26 March 2015 I love feeding my kids good food, but I also love spending time doing things other than providing them healthy meals. The days are getting shorter and those daylight hours are becoming quite a premium! Making something for dinner that...

I have been promising Maya's teacher this chocolate mousse for a few weeks now. In fact, it has been so long, I am pretty sure she's forgotten the offer ever existed. But tomorrow, a mug of gooey chocolate will be plonked on her desk as a thank you for being...

I am finding it really hard to write this post. I just ate this whole tart. THE WHOLE THING. The laptop is resting on my full belly, like a stable table. I am currently a great source of amusement to everyone in the house, with my constant moaning and sloth like movements. I may,...

It is my littlest person's 6th birthday today. I LOVE that the girls take their birthday cake choice very seriously. Weeks out from their birthdays they are weighing up the pros and cons for each variety. Pretty much always ending with carrot cake. It is what I have made for...

I started writing this post last week. It was to be about how I took my kids to a music festival, how it was awesome to share stuff I loved with them, and how I took real joy in them loving the experience. For some reason, I ended up writing...

Balls. They are my FAVOURITE thing to make for the girl's lunch boxes at the moment. There's a couple of reasons. One, the fun they have when they asking for them and when I ask "who wants balls?". And two, they are the lazy man's lunch box paradise. Tick and...

This is, THE Lunch Lady vs the World showdown I have been waiting for. It is one that makes me particularly cranky every time I walk the supermarket aisles. You put the homemade version, side by side with the processed version and it is a no brainer.

If you have a mountain of zucchini staring at you, like I do, then this is an awesome and super easy way to use them up. And because this recipe is so simple, you can double it, triple it or even quadruple it and fill your freezer with zucchini bread, for those less...

Apple pie. They are two words that instantly send you to a warm, happy place. It is something I could quite easily devour all to myself in one sitting, this is why my kids teacher now has the rest of the pie sitting on her desk 'as a gift'. I understand most...

This time every year I start to get all deep and meaningful. I assess the situations current in my life and look to where they may head, why they're heading in that direction and if it isn't the way I want them to be going, then all of a sudden I start to think...