Monthly Archives: January 2012

To survive the Christmas School Holidays, my husband and I  devised a plan we call “Divide and Conquer”.  Unbeknown to the kids we secretly directed them towards separate activities around the house and outside, therefore avoiding fights over iPads, colouring pencils, barbies, trampolines etc.  You understand what I am getting […]

Crunchy Cookies

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WANTED:  Head Chef Must be creative, flexible, able to multi-task, and above all else, extremely SNEAKY.  Oh, and willing to work all hours. I think this description fits every lunch box packing parent on earth.  Making sure our kids eat a balanced diet can be exhausting, especially if you have […]

Carrot! What Carrot?

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Banana Cake is a great occasional sweet treat for my little Diabetic, un-iced of course, and I often use this recipe to make muffins.  She is less likely to ask  “Where’s the icing?” if it looks like a muffin, not a cake.   But if you don’t have any diet […]

Banana Muffins

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Only six more sleeps until school goes back,  as my kids would say.  Parents everywhere are racing around buying bags, books, pencils, shoes and yes, lunch boxes.  And after all the to-do is over we are left the night before school starts  wondering what we are going to pack in […]

Apricot and Sultana Rock Cakes

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