Allergen: Contains Eggs

Sausage and potato tray bake

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For this simple but tasty tray bake, start with your favourite sausages and tender potatoes and then add whatever is available in the fridge. We’ve used capsicum, red onion, bacon, and baby spinach but this works great with broccoli or cauliflower florets, baby beets, or kumara. 

Chorizo Caesar Style Salad with Healthy Dressing

Promotion for Hellers

Hellers are here to make your life a whole lot easier and your dinner a lot yummier with their new range of Hellers Crafty Cooks Diced Chorizo and Bacon Strips.

Ready to eat, you can add these into your favourite dishes for quick and easy meals for your tribe. They’re in convenient twin packs so you can keep them fresher for longer.

They’re also Made in NZ and Gluten Free with no artificial colours or flavours. Unleash your inner chef and use these in frittatas, risottos, pastas, fried rice and salads, the list goes on!

Use Hellers Crafty Cooks Diced Chorizo in this simple, nutritious caesar style salad that you can have on the table in just 30 minutes!

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Hawaiian Style Pork Burgers

We all lead such busy lives so weeknight meals often need to be easy as well as affordable. These Hawaiian-Style Pork Burgers made using New Zealand Pork are a healthier alternative to fast food.

These burgers are family-friendly, cost less than $20, and take less than 30 mins to make!

* Look for ‘born and raised in New Zealand’ and ‘NZ Pork’ on the pricing label to be sure you are buying New Zealand Pork – quality assured, high animal welfare standards, low carbon footprint. See New Zealand Pork for more information.

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Gingerbread Men Cookies (Ingredients Jar)

A classic cookie with a festive twist, a gingerbread man is a great treat for Christmas day. Fun for the kids to make and decorate, this easy recipe uses an ingredient jar from Lots Of and a few pantry staples to simplify your baking.

Do your kids love gingerbread men?

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Rainbow Rice Paper Rolls

This Lunchtime Hax from Jax Hamilton and Best Foods is fun, healthy and yum! Low on carbs and high on flavour, rice paper rolls are a light and tasty modern take on a sandwich that can be made in the weekend, frozen, then popped into lunchboxes when you need them.

Social media star and creative foodie genius Jax Hamilton has teamed up with Best Foods, makers of New Zealand’s favourite mayonnaise, on a mission to make school lunches a fun (and easy) experience for both parents and children, by sharing the ultimate time saving hacks (or Hax!) and delicious recipes.

Make several rolls and store in the freezer for up to two weeks.

Recipe provided by Best Foods NZ

Here’s another great Jax Hax!

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Preload Your Spreads For Sandwich Fillers

Hack, slice & go! This great Lunchtime Hax from Jax Hamilton and Best Foods makes preparing great lunchtime rolls quick, easy and tasty.

Social media star and creative foodie genius Jax Hamilton has teamed up with Best Foods, makers of New Zealand’s favourite mayonnaise, on a mission to make school lunches a fun (and easy) experience for both parents and children, by sharing the ultimate time saving hacks (or Hax!) and delicious recipes.

Lunchtime Hax: At the start of the week, create two to three options of loaded sandwich spreads pulled together with a lick of mayo and butter so you can easily spread on top of any bread option and go.

Recipe provided by Best Foods NZ

Here’s another great Jax Hax!

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Banana and Weet-Bix Pikelets

Quick and easy banana pikelets with the goodness of Weet-Bix.

New Weet-Bix™ Little Kids Essentials is designed specifically for little kids with a tailored blend of ingredients including prebiotics, high fibre, 3 whole grains, 9 essential vitamins & minerals, and is low in sugar.

Find out more about Weet-Bix™ Little Kids Essentials and their unique & tailored blend of ingredients that is designed specifically for Little Kids.

Recipe provided by Weet-Bix Little Kids Essentials

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Green Monster Fingers

Your little monsters will gobble up these snacks, loaded with veges and the goodness of Weet-Bix, in a flash!

New Weet-Bix™ Little Kids Essentials is designed specifically for little kids with a tailored blend of ingredients including prebiotics, high fibre, 3 whole grains, 9 essential vitamins & minerals, and is low in sugar.

Find out more about Weet-Bix™ Little Kids Essentials and their unique & tailored blend of ingredients that is designed specifically for Little Kids.

Recipe provided by Weet-Bix Little Kids Essentials

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Cheesy Lamb Moussaka

Moussaka is to Greeks what lasagne is to Italians. This version uses potato to layer between the meat and sauce to make a filling and nutritious dish.

Recipe provided by Bargain Box – Family Choice and adapted for Kidspot NZ.

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Ricotta Parmesan Dumplings with Broccoli and Garlic Breads

This tasty vegetarian meal is easy to prepare. Pop some freshly torn basil leaves on top if you have some for some extra flavour.

A flavoursome and budget friendly family dinner.

Recipe provided by Bargain Box – Family Choice and adapted for Kidspot NZ.

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Banana Bread

A moist, flavoursome banana bread filled with crunchy walnuts and ready for toasting.

Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Vegetarian, Low Carb, No Added Sugar, Source of Protein, Source Dietary Fibre)

Recipe provided by Lakanto

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Honey Mustard Chicken and Potato Bake

We love when meals look super impressive but in reality are one of the easiest dishes to create.

With just 6 ingredients and the oven doing the hard work this meal is great midweek or for those ‘bring a dish’ get togethers!

This recipe appears in The New Everyday cookbook from Food In A Minute. Click here to find out more and grab your copy!

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Berry Dutch Baby

It’s amazing how something as simple as eggs, flour and milk can puff up in the oven into the most gorgeous looking dish. A Dutch Baby is like a pancake crossed with a yorkshire pudding. It can be served for breakfast but they make a delicious dessert too.

Recipe provided by NZ Eggs

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