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Lunchlady Legend, The Baking Bandits

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...

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Lunchlady vs McCain, Round Three, Frozen Pizza

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...

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With Staples, You Can Do Anything!

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...

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Take a Chance on Me

Take a Chance on Me

As I was driving the kids to school, something amazing happened. Well not really, amazing amazing. But in my world it was amazing. The sun punched through the trees in beautiful rays of light, hitting the mist of the mountain morning. I pulled the car over and the girls knew...

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My Mate Stacey's Same Old Crap, Dal + Spicy Potatoes

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...

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Make Hay While the Sun Can be Bothered!

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...

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Lunch Lady vs White Wings, Round One, Anzac Biscuits

Lunch Lady vs White Wings, Round One, Anzac Biscuits

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.

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Passata Day 2014, Get Those People You Love Over!

Passata Day 2014, Get Those People You Love Over!

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...

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Rohan Anderson's Same Old Crap - Ugly Grilled Summer Veg

Rohan Anderson's Same Old Crap - Ugly Grilled Summer Veg

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,...

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Gourmet Girlfriend's  Same Old Crap - Spinach Slice

Gourmet Girlfriend's Same Old Crap - Spinach Slice

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...

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Little People are Bigger Than I Thought

Little People are Bigger Than I Thought

I remember when I thought I was too busy to sit down with my kids. To take time out and give them my full attention. So they could tell me about their world, what was on their mind or just for a cuddle. I always had 'something' to do, or...

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Michelle Crawford's Same Old Crap - Fried Rice

Michelle Crawford's Same Old Crap - Fried Rice

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...

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Nicola Galloway's Same Old Crap

Nicola Galloway's Same Old Crap

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...

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Hakuna Frittata

Hakuna Frittata

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....

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Photo of a zucchini cake by Kate Berry for Lunch Lady Magazine

The Secret Zucchini Cake

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.

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Introducing… The Same Old Crap

Introducing… The Same Old Crap

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...

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Berry Good Lemonade

Berry Good Lemonade

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,...

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Facing the Facts. I AM One of Those Mums

Facing the Facts. I AM One of Those Mums

I have a joke with a friend of mine, how we are 'that mum'. The naughty mum, the one who forgets (or in my case is totally in the dark) about special days at school, early finishing times or when school starts (just made the phone call today, it is...

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Ol' Blighty Cheese and Pickle Scrolls

Ol' Blighty Cheese and Pickle Scrolls

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...

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Always Make Time to Stop and See the Prettiness Around You

Always Make Time to Stop and See the Prettiness Around You

I know, I know. I haven't put a recipe on here for ages! And I promise there is one right around the corner. Life has been quite hectic lately and I just haven't had the time to put my recipes to paper. But I HAVE had time for the occasional...

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The Story Behind the Story

The Story Behind the Story

It is so nice to be home. Back to the chilly Central Highlands and out of the heat of Central Australia. It is such a beautiful thing to come home, it is the best thing about a trip away, I think. To feel safe, loved and comfortable. I have thought...

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Where the Bloody Hell Are You?

Where the Bloody Hell Are You?

Some of you may or may not know that last Tuesday I left on a bit of a crazy, healing adventure of a lifetime. I packed my 1966 Holden HD station wagon 'Crystal' and headed for Uluru with my two girls and my dear friend Peta Mazey. This is just...

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Nettle Pesto is the Besto

Nettle Pesto is the Besto

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...

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Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Nana Lynne Mini Cakes

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Nana Lynne Mini Cakes

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...

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