39 Lunchbox Ideas

  Now that the kiddos have been back at school for a few weeks, you may be looking for some lunch box inspiration… A healthy lunch keeps active kids alert and focused for longer. But no matter how healthy your child’s lunch box is, it won’t provide any nutritional value if it doesn’t get eaten! So […]

Chocolate Chickpea Biscuits Recipe

Below is a great recipe with a twist that your kids will love with some good ingredients in there.  Thanks to Peta from The Road To Loving My Thermomix (ps. this recipe is based on the traditional way of cooking and Peta’s blog has both thermomix and traditional cooking recipes) Makes 24 Ingredients 45g oats 80g […]

So What’s The BIG DEAL About ALDI Bread

This Post Is Sponsored By ALDI Australia  We recently got the chance to do a tour of Broadmeadows Bakery in Melbourne, who supplies ALDI’s baked good to all ALDI stores in Victoria.  The behind the scenes tour gave us an opportunity to discover what makes ALDI Bread products so great! As a kid, if there […]

How To Stop Cut Apples Going Brown – A Science Experiment

I often hear on our facebook page school mums ask how to stop apples going brown in their kiddos lunchbox … sooooo I decided to do a little science experiment and test out some ideas people had shared on the page in th past to see what worked the best. The 3 ideas I trialled were: 1) […]

5 Simple, Easy and Affordable Lunchbox Ideas

This post is Sponsored By ALDI As a follow up to my blog post last week on the 5 Minute Lunchbox (you can read that here) I have put together 5 super easy lunchbox ideas your kids are sure to love.  All of these items are from ALDI and I have put the prices below […]

The 5-Minute Lunchbox

This post is Sponsored By ALDI I pride myself on being really quick at making my kiddos’ lunches for school and still managing to get some healthy food in there 🙂 In my head I make it a little game and time myself most days to see if I can beat my best time.  I […]

6 Super Easy Healthy Halloween Lunchbox or Afternoon Tea Snack Ideas

Brought to you by Nuffnang and Colgate Halloween whether you like it or not seems to be getting bigger every year.  When I grew up we kind of knew about it but it was never something we celebrated or put any effort into.  In years past I have been hesitant to do anything with the kids as I […]

BANANA MUFFINS – Recipe

Hi School Mums!  My name is Amanda and I am the author the cookbook ‘Food before 5’.  I have 3 children and am always on the lookout for lunchbox and afternoon tea recipes.  These are some of my favourites and I hope you can use them in your house too.  If you are interested, please check […]

Zucchini and Parmesan Cheese Minis

Running a Facebook page with over 200,000 school mums I am reading constantly about the daily challenge of the lunchbox.  Most of us want to make healthy and tasty food our kids will eat but this isn’t always as easy as it sounds. I know for quite a number of mums one major frustration is […]

10 Ways to Get Rid of Bad Odour from Your Kid’s Lunchbox

I don’t know about you but there are moments I find myself nearly gagging at the smells that come out of my kids school bag and lunchbox.  A little while ago we asked on the School Mum facebook page for some of the best ways to deal with bad odours in lunchboxes and bags and […]