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How to react to families rude food comments!

Whether a family member comments on the amount your kids eat, what they eat or how they eat it can really grate on your nerves - and rightly so! You are the parent and as such get to decide how and what your child eats. So when your mother,…
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Navigating Festive Food This Holiday Season

  When we think holidays we often get drawn to 'unhealthier foods', high sugar foods and snacks, festive baking - you name it! Holidays can be a difficult time and one where we often see diet culture rear its ugly head. Making us think…
Peanut Butter Cookies // 3 Ingredients
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3 Ingredients Peanut Butter Cookies

  3 Ingredients Peanut Butter Cookies Just 3 simple ingredients to make the most delicious moreish cookies! 1 cup Peanut Butter1/2 cup Caster Sugar1 egg Preheat the oven to 170C and line a baking tray with…
Creamy Pesto Pasta

Is pulse pasta worth the hype?

Pasta is one of those foods that just about everyone loves – especially children. Am I right?   Pasta can be consumed as part of a healthy diet despite what the celebs/ influencers may tell you. And, fun fact, you wont gain extra weight…

Does zinc really ‘boost’ your immune system?

Zinc is a mineral essential to childhood growth and development and helps build a strong immunity. Zinc deficiencies commonly affect hair, skin and nails but can also affect a child's cognitive functioning and growth.    Zinc will…
Kids in the kitchen

Why kids belong in the kitchen…

You have heard it all before cook with your kids, its great for their development, it helps them eat better. BUT why? Why is it so good? Well I am digging a little deeper into the research to show you exactly why your kids belong in the kitchen!…

5 Lunch box snacks you need to start packing!

School is well underway. We are either entering week 2 or week 3 (who are the lucky ones? Ha!). And you already you are sick of the lunchbox coming home full, you're at a loss of what to feed your kids? What snacks to feed them? And concerned…
Vegan Choc Fudge Cookies
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Vegan Chocolate Fudge Cookies

Filled to the brim with chocolate, you would think these double choc fudge cookies couldn't possibly be good for your kids! But that is where you're wrong. As far as sweet treats go, these cookies hold up pretty well in the 'nutrition department'.…
peanut butter and jelly pancakes
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Pancakes

I love peanut butter and I love jam… but I am not the biggest fan of it on bread. I don’t know why, maybes its because I just associate sandwiches with savoury filling! It's just not right to put them together between bread.   But…
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Savoury Pumpkin Scones

Savoury Pumpkin Scones Soft savoury pumpkin scones perfect warm with a little butter or just as is for a tasty snack. 3/4 cup Pumpkin Puree2 cup SR Flour1 tsp Baking Powder1 tsp Cumin55 g Butter (cubed and chilled)3/4 Cup…