Inside: This easy blueberry muffins recipe makes a delicious addition to lunch box planning or afternoon tea plate! Let’s talk from one parent to another. Figuring out what to pack for school lunches every day can be exhausting. Am I right? What I think is a good idea doesn’t always go over so well with […]
Easy Berry & Oat Muffin Recipe
I think muffins must be one of the best things to cook with kids, they are great as morning and afternoon tea snacks, perfect for lunch boxes, freeze for later, and involve lots of mixing – which has to be my preschooler’s favourite part of helping to cook! These Berry & Oat Muffins include two […]
Choc Orange {Nut Free} Energy Balls
The flavour of choc orange is one firmly cemented in childhood thanks to one of my favourite cinema snacks – Jaffas! (Popcorn was my other #1) These Choc Orange Energy Balls are delicious, and being nut and processed sugar free, they make a great addition to the school lunch box or after school snack plate. […]
Healthy Lunch Box Ideas for Kids: Tropical Whip
This healthy lunch box snack is so simple to make that my three (and a half!) and my eight year old take it in turns to make a batch for the school week ahead! Inspired by the very delicious Berry Whip by Well Nourished, our tropical version is just perfect for my pineapple lovers, and […]
Printable Lunch Box Love Notes
I admit I’ve more than a little haphazard when it comes to adding lunch box love notes to Immy’s lunch box – it it most certainly not something that happens everyday! However late last year I felt that she needed a little extra encouragement and so one day I sat down and wrote a whole […]
25 Freezer Friendly Lunch Box Ideas
Six more sleeps until school goes back for a new school year for us! And for the first time ever I am going to have two in school (albeit one part time) and two lunch boxes to pack. I am hoping to be extra organised so that our mornings continue to run smoothly and so […]
5 Fun Lunch Box Surprises for Kids
I love to send small, unexpected tokens of love off in Immy’s lunch box, not every day, just every now and then. These are by no means extravagant or time consuming, just small acts that I hope will bring a smile to her face and let her know that I am thinking of her while […]
Lunch Box Ideas: Homemade Biscuit Dippers & Berry Yoghurt
In our house we are well into the last term of school for the year. It’s a little frightening that Bear and Bee have nearly finished their first year of formal schooling! And with term four came a whole lot of dissatisfaction about school lunches! By the end of last term, Bee was complaining about […]
Choc Banana Slow Cooker Cake Recipe
My oven has died! Gah! It’s such a nuisance! So a total rethink of our regular meal plan has been in order, and when it comes to school lunch box treats I have had to get clever…with my slow cooker! The first slow cooker cake I shared – the 3 ingredient banana cake – is […]
Deliciously Simple Apple Slice Recipe
I love that one of our local supermarkets has started selling ‘The Odd Bunch’ fruit and vegetables – the ugly, not-quite-perfect specimens that would usually be binned, and I picked up a big bag of cheap apples when I was grocery shopping last week. There is absolutely nothing wrong with these apples, they just look […]
