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Birthdays are a big deal in our family. I love getting the kids to choose a theme and a cake. I love it because it really reflects where their little personalities are at. This weekend our daughter turned 11, so this week I spent hours making her chosen birthday cake. “A Rainbow Unicorn Cake,” Indrani says. […]

In Australia, school holidays are now finished and we’re now faced with approximately another 50 days of packing school lunchboxes this term. Last week I shared my 5 Steps To Pack A Healthy Lunchbox, with a great template for you to download. This week I share 10 Non-Sandwich Lunchbox Ideas to help make lunchboxes a little […]

In Australia, every school term has about 50 days. Every school year has about 200 days. That’s a lot of days to pack lunchboxes! You can either look at these days with dread, or you can look at these as days as ones where you have the chance to pack food that helps your kids […]

This year, we’ve started home economics as part of our 10yo and 6yo home schooling curriculum. I’ve always made a habit of including the kids in different activities in the kitchen, ever since they were young, but this is different. Home economics is teaching them about what it takes to cook an entire meal – including buying the produce, how […]

School holidays – yay! If you’re kids are like mine, they enjoy not having the routine of school but they also tend to get bored quickly. They need activities to keep them busy, so I decided I would make a few School Holiday Mad Food Science Fun Experiments. The experiments are a bit of fun to […]

The world over is experiencing problems with children’s health. Jamie Oliver for years has spearheaded the drive to educate kids about real food. The problem is so large, he realised he couldn’t do it on his own so he created Jamie’s Food Revolution. It’s designed to “provoke debate and inspire real, meaningful, positive change in […]