When it’s too hot to go outside, and it’s too hot to move, and it’s definitely too hot to cook, that’s when I make a big bowl of this simple summer pasta salad. The best thing about this salad, apart from how delicious it is, is how quick and easy it is to make, and […]
Easy Rice Paper Rolls with Leftovers!
These easy rice paper rolls make a delicious lunch or dinner and are a great way to use up leftover roast chicken. Some of you might call these ‘summer rolls’ but my kids and I know them as rice paper rolls. They may look fancy and difficult to make, but in fact they are so […]
Easy, Kid-Friendly, Tuna Patties
This simple, kid-friendly, recipe can turn a can of tuna into a healthy dinner of tuna patties. There are some days when I may not have any other food in the house, but I can always find a tin of tuna in a the back of the cupboard. With that can of tuna I can […]
7 Ways to Make School Lunches Easier to Manage
I love the idea of bento lunch boxes filled with sandwiches cut into fun shapes and a variety of fruit skewered onto cute toothpicks, but sadly, my school lunch reality is very different. I hate making school lunches. I have four kids who all need a school lunch. Two of them don’t eat sandwiches, one […]
Easy Olive Dip Recipe.
Whenever my kids are home from school I brace myself for the onslaught… “I’m hungry” “What can I eat?” “I’m starving!” They never seem to eat what’s in their lunch box at school but on weekends and school holidays I can never keep the fruit bowl full for more than a day, and I feel […]
Mini Pizza Quiches
I’m celebrating a school lunch win today. It is also be a Mum lunch win, an easy dinner win, and a breakfast win! Oh how I love it when one recipe works for all kinds of situations. Yay for mini pizza quiches! These mini, crust-less, pizza quiches went in school lunch boxes this morning, and […]
Easy Pinwheels – Three Ways
I’ve got a huge list of family dinner ideas, I’ve even got a growing list of breakfast ideas, but lunches are still getting the better of me. School lunches, weekend lunches, lunches when it’s just me at home… whatever kind of lunch, it often ends up being boring bread. Now there’s nothing wrong with a […]
Rice and Veggie Muffins
These rice and veggie muffins are a delicious, healthy, lunch option that are prefect for school lunch boxes. Quiche Cups? Broccoli and Corn and Rice and Tuna Cups? Rice and Veggie Muffins? Veggie Cupcakes? I am still not sure what to call these little muffin-like, kinda quiche but not really, veggie and rice and tuna […]