Lunchbox Recipe – Homemade Muesli Bars

I grew up in a little country town. The population always floated around the 500 mark. My great gran lived next door. My grandma and grandpa lived across the road. My gran and pa lived a few blocks away. I never knew any different and I did take it for granted. The friends I had were people […]

Chewy Chocolate Cookies

My first pregnancy was fairly standard. I was sick for the first trimester, on top of the world for the second and getting tired in the third. The birth was, well, everything I could have hoped for. Isn’t that exactly how it is meant to be? With my second pregnancy I was constantly sick, day […]

Lunch Box Treats For a Time Poor Mum

Our lunchboxes can get very repetitive. We can get stuck in the lunchbox rut. The only thing that saves me is our freezer full of quick to grab, quick to make, delicious wholefood snacks. Time has become a luxury very few of us can afford, that is why it is imperative that anything I make […]

How to Make a Flower Sandwich

It can be a fun little treat every now and then to make some sandwich art for your kiddo as a surprise.  Below is a simple tutorial I put together on how to make a flower sandwich. – Prepare your sandwich by cutting a circle out of the sandwich using a circle cutter. Save the […]

Lunchbox Fun – Tutorial on How to make a Ladybug Sandwich

Here is a simple tutorial put together by What’s for Lunch. How to make a ladybug sandwich. 1. You need a sandwich with filling, a knife, a straw and a circle cutter. 2. Using your circle cutter cut a circle out from the sandwich then make a score for the face. 3. Make a slit […]

The Imperfections of a Perfect Lunchbox

Most people look at my Facebook page – What’s For Lunch, and are overwhelmed by the lunch boxes I put together for my daughter.  All her lunches I try to make package free and look great. Why?… Because I’ve got nothing better to do. I like to think that it inspires people, helps them out […]

Let The Kids Pack Their Lunch … Brilliance or Insanity??

A while back I decided to take the plunge and give my two darling masters of the house the “privilege”  of packing their own lunch boxes.  This was in fact the word I used to entice them into doing it themselves.  I thought it absolutely brilliant to give myself at least one day off per […]

5 Great Wholefood Lunchbox Ideas

That relentless little box, day after day after day it expects to be filled! Make it nutritious they say; five veg, two fruits. Don’t forget the protein to keep them sustained; and the carbohydrates, those little bodies need plenty of energy. It must be nut free, that one is important. What were the other lunch […]