Monday is ‘bun shop day’. It’s been that way for the last six years. Every Monday I pick the big kids up from school and we run to the ‘bun shop’, aka our local bakery, and grab a quick treat to eat as we rush off to dancing. Our ‘bun shop’ makes the best apple […]
15 Kid-friendly Snack Balls
I was sitting at dancing with a fellow dance-mum the other week, and we were idly scrolling through facebook and chatting (as you do) and we both kept seeing posts for snack balls in our feed. We both wondered out loud if they tasted as good as they looked, if they were easy to make, […]
Homemade Crackers
“Mum…” There is that certain lilt in his voice that makes me think he is about to ask for something he knows he can’t have, or tell me something totally ridiculous. It ends up being the latter. “Mum… if someone says ‘biscuit’ how can you tell if they are talking about a sweet biscuit, or […]
Ten Healthy Lunchbox Treats.
This post is sponsored by nudie juice and Contagious Sometimes it’s nice to slip a little treat into my kids’ lunchboxes. But I don’t want to send them to school with total junk that has next to no nutritional value and won’t fill them up, so I’ve made a list of ‘healthier’ lunchbox treats that […]
Homemade Popcorn Bars
Now that I have finally mastered the homemade muesli bar I make a batch every week, sometimes twice a week. My kids never seem to tire of them, but I do. I try and mix things up a bit by adding different flavours – dried apple with cinnamon, sultanas and honey, cranberry and white choc […]
Pizza Swirl Bread
If only my kids would just eat a packet of dry biscuits from the cupboard on the weekends, that would make my life a lot easier. Alas they roll their eyes at that suggestion and say their current favourite whingey phrase… “Oh Come ON Mum!” So I am forced to make them something more substantial […]
Honey and Spice Cookies
The aim of the game is to make enough sweet biscuits/cookies to last a whole week of school lunches and snacks. I’ve got a few recipes up my sleeve now, and last week it was Honey and Spice Cookies that won the household vote. This recipes makes a LOT of cookies. You will need […]
Over The Top Chocolate Cookies Plus a Cadbury’s Give Away!
A bunch of Cadbury’s Chocolate was delivered to my door the other day. Some family blocks, a few smaller bars and some packets of the new buttons. Some days it is good to be a blogger. The Father Figure and I chomped our way through a family block. He took the bars to work for […]