I know I’ve been talking about the weather a lot lately, but when spring decides it really wants to be winter and you are faced with more rainy cold days than your sun deprived brain can cope with, talking about it is the only thing you can do to cope. Talk about it, and try […]
Seven ways to encourage kids to consume more milk!
This post is sponsored by Dairy Australia Three out of my four kids don’t drink milk. In fact, they would rather eat their cereal dry than add milk to it! Personally I think that is all kinds of wrong (dry cereal? You have to be kidding!), but over the years I’ve learned that it’s much […]
Kids Can Cook – Basic Vanilla Cake
My twelve year old has made this basic vanilla cake four times in the past three weeks. Man, it is so good when your kids are old enough to cook something, from scratch, without any help, and clean up after themselves. This is a really basic cake recipe, and it’s very forgiving. If you don’t […]
Kids Can Cook – Pita Chips
I first shared this super simple recipe way back in 2010, and it’s been one of my most popular recipes ever since, so it’s time for an update. I’m pretty sure I know why it’s so popular, it’s a combination of two things – they are delicious, and they are the perfect thing for little […]
The Easiest Easter Cookies Ever!
We’ve made a version of these Easter cookies/biscuits almost every year since my twins were toddlers. They are so easy, no really… they are super, really, a whole lot, easy. There is no baking or cooking of any kinds, just a bit of mixing, spreading, squeezing and sprinkling. We used shop bought cookies/biscuits – plain […]
Kids Can Cook – Easter Nests
This post is sponsored by Coco Pops My kids love to cook, and Easter is a great time for them to make some sweet goodies to share, but while my kids love to bake stuff, I am not always so into it. Ok, let’s be totally honest… often baking with my kids is the last […]
Cornflake Cookies
There are some things that just take me back to my childhood in an instant – the smell of a real pine Christmas tree, the sound of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf played on a slightly scratched vinyl record, and the taste of my Mum’s cornflake cookies. As soon as I bite into one of […]
No-bake Rocky Road Cookie Bars
It’s school holidays here, hooray! We spent the first week of the holidays in Tasmania, and this second week will be spent hanging out at home, going on a couple of fun outings, and having a movie night! Holiday movie night is a tradition that is firmly entrenched now. Every school holidays we hire three […]