It’s a never ending battle. Just when you think you are on top of the whole lunch box caper your darling child comes home from school on the second day and announces that they don’t want that lovingly baked treat in their lunch any more. Maybe it’s ‘too boring’ or ‘too crumbly’ or ‘not as […]
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 […]
Pizza Twists
I am a pizza making machine! In the past seven days I have made no less than 6 batches of pizza dough and used it to make three different pizza creations. I’ve made regular flat boring pizza, pizza pockets, and I’ve filled my freezer with a zillion pizza rolls to see us through school lunches […]
Homemade Pizza Rolls
These homemade pizza rolls make a great hot lunch or dinner, or pop them in your kid’s lunch box cold for a great alternative to sandwiches. My kids take a packed lunch to school every day. That’s four lunches, five days a week. That seems doable – a piece of fruit, a homemade muffin or […]
Easy Freezable Cookie Recipe
Do you need to make a lot of cookies, fast? This is such a simple recipe, it’s easy to adapt, and it makes a lot, and I mean a lot, of cookies, plus you can freeze the dough! With minimum time and effort you get a ton of freezable cookies. I first shared this recipe […]
Simple Lunch Box Ideas
Thanks to one of my long time readers for suggesting this week’s ‘Keep it Simple’ topic – lunch boxes! I’ve been managing school lunches for the past seven years and I don’t love it. Trying to come up with new ideas, dealing with kids who don’t eat sandwiches, and the relentlessness of the task, it […]