Flipping brilliant lunchbox & after-school snack ideas with Marcel’s Pancakes
Discover quick and tasty lunchbox and after-school snacks using Marcel’s Pancakes. These flipping good ideas will have them coming back for more!
Super Snacks For Kids
We’re pretty good at ensuring our kids are eating nutritious, healthy food for their main meals. But when it comes to snacks, there can be a tendency to just let the kids loose in the pantry or fridge for after-school, after-dinner, weekend, or ‘why-not’ snack raids!
10 Tasty & Nutritious Dinner Ideas To Get The Family Fed Fast
Embracing the reality that the simpler and faster the meal is to prepare, the more the kids like it, we've put together a list of tasty, simple meals that are not only quick and easy, they're also cost effective and kid-friendly too.
Meat-free Mondays
Would you like to save money and make family meals healthier – by substituting just one ingredient once a week? Then maybe you’d try going without meat every Monday
9 Cheap & Easy Ways To Make Meals Stretch Further
The cost of feeding the family, along with other everyday costs, just seems to keep going up and up. To help make the most of your grocery budget, here are 9 easy ways to make family meals stretch further.
Arnott’s teeVee Snacks – Kids Review
The Arnotts range of teeVee Snacks come in a great variety of shapes and flavours and are a really fun treat to have in the cupboard for something a bit different. We were lucky enough to try five flavours (Birthday Cake, Malt Sticks, Original, Honeycomb Chocolate, and Chocolate Brownie). Find out what we thought!
Fun & Easy Treats For School Lunches & Snacks
Looking for some easy inspiration for packing school lunches? When you're filling the lunch boxes for the kids, don't forget the occasional fun treat too.
Grab And Go Snacks For Kids
Busy lives and hungry, growing kids mean healthy snacks and lunches that will provide energy and nutrition are a necessity. We take a look at some of the most convenient, healthy, and full-of-goodness snacks and lunchbox fillers that not only keep the hangries away, they can also give a nutrient boost.
Review: New Zealand Apple Products
The selection of products available from New Zealand Apple Products are definitely the pick of the bunch.
Nuffin’ Better Than a Muffin!
Muffins are a good bet for a lunch box filler - they can be made with so many different ingredients that there's sure to be something to suit every tastebud.
Top Tips for Teaching Kids About Food Safety
When you are pregnant it is important to ensure that the food you are eating is safe for you and your developing baby. Find out what foods to avoid and how to ensure the food you are eating is safe.
Review: The Thermomix TM6 kitchen appliance
When it comes to the ultimate kitchen appliance, you can't go wrong with the new Thermomix TM6.
The best hi-tech appliances for your kitchen
To help aspiring or time-poor chefs make the most out of their kitchens, celebrity chef Mark Southon has revealed his top five favourite kitchen appliances.
Easy Meals Teens Can Make Themselves
When your teen is ready for some independence, ensure they are armed with at least a small repertoire of easy dinners that they can make themselves.
5 Delicious Ways to Create Family Memories in the Kitchen
Warm, lovely smells and delicious food - creating special childhood memories in the kitchen evoke all these lovely feelings. We have five easy ways you can create special kitchen memories for your children - even if cooking and baking is not your super power!
Bake it Better for Starship
New Zealanders are being asked to get behind our national children’s hospital by taking part in Bake It Better for Starship, a month of bake sales in July.
6 of the Best Foods to Fight Cold and Flu
Fight cold and flu symptoms by eating foods packed with antioxidants and immune-boosting properties such as garlic, honey, and oranges - here are six of the best.
Why Family Dinners Aren’t Just About Dinner
There are so many documented benefits to regularly sitting down as a family and sharing a meal. Get 8 great tips on how you can make the most of eating dinner together.
Meal planning for the win
The thing about kids is that they want dinner. Every. Single. Day. And if you are the main dinner supplier, this requires a not insignificant amount of forethought and preparation to achieve. Find more about meal planning and get some top tips.
Tips for planning school lunches
Producing a lunch box every school day that is not only healthy but also has things in it that will actually be eaten is a task that requires some forethought and effort. While the kids think that food somehow miraculously appears in the pantry and fridge to be popped into the lunch box, we all know there is much more to it than that.
Giving Eggs to Infants and Children
You may be nervous about giving eggs to infants and children, but eggs are naturally nutritious and a good source of protein to support children's growth.
Buying and Storing Eggs
Learn the best tips for buying and storing eggs and get the most out of this fantastically versatile food.
Kiwi kids’ consumption of fast food and fizzy drinks
Over 60,000 Kiwi kids are eating fast food at least three times per week. Is New Zealand in a fast food epidemic?
Sausage sizzle rules
There are new rules for the good old Bunnings sausage sizzle. We think they may be a few sausages short of a BBQ!
Teachers reveal the worst packed lunches
Teachers in the UK have shared the worst examples of a child's packed school lunch that they have encountered including a can of Red Bull and a packet of chippies, and a cold McDonalds burger.
Reducing Your Child’s Food Waste
In New Zealand, the average household throws away $563 of food in a year - but if you have children, that figure may be higher. Get some top tips on how to reduce food waste at your place.
Meal makeovers for when your child refuses their dinner
Before you ditch the dinner, or relent and create a whole new meal for your picky eater, consider giving the existing meal a makeover.
What To Do With Your Child’s Leftovers
The ultimate guide to using up your child's leftover food, including recipes from the Love Food Hate Waste website and the Kidspot Kitchen.
Fussy kids and keeping the peace
There are lots of reasons why your child may be fussy about food. Read Kym's tips for peaceful mealtimes.
Throw a Pink Ribbon Breakfast
Come together and host a Pink Ribbon Breakfast during May! The money you raise helps Breast Cancer Foundation NZ fund research and patient support.