New Zealand's Top Mummy Blogger Parenting Travel Blog Family Zoodles Recipe

Creamy Avocado Basil Zoodles Recipe

Oh.  My.  Lord. Never made zoodles before, preeeety sure I’ve never created OR made a whole foods recipe before either. First time for everything – including using New Hemisphere Hemp Seed Oil –  and let me tell you, I will be making this again, and again and again.  The nutty taste of the Hemp Seed Oil is the perfect complement to …

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Back to School Lunches: 4 Ways with Wraps

Kids and lunchboxes. Here we go again for another year! My kids start off the school year quite enthused about lunches but, as each term draws to a close, we find more and more food coming home uneaten.  Which makes me cringe for two reasons; Both of the boys are huge, hungry eaters.  If they’re leaving food in the lunchboxes …

New Zealand's Top Mummy Blogger Parenting Travel Blog Family One Pan Macaroni Cheese Recipe

The Best One Pan Macaroni Cheese Recipe

Forget everything you thought you knew about Macaroni Cheese.  This is the easiest, quickest, most delicious Macaroni recipe you will ever make.  One pan.  One step.  Forget about boiling pasta, making a sauce, draining the pasta, combining the ingredients, baking……………this is too easy! Dave and I whipped this up in 20 minutes, seriously. Press play to watch the 1 min …

New Zealand's Top Mummy Blogger Parenting Travel Blog Family Shortbread Recipe

Recipe | Shortbread Christmas Tree Stacks

Baking with kids is awesome at any time of year but the mess is exponentially MORE enjoyable when you get the littlies in the kitchen at Christmas time. I bake shortbread every Christmas to gift to our neighbours, my Scottish Pop, kindy teachers and anyone else who needs a little sweetening up after putting up with us for the past …

New Zealand's Top Mummy Blogger Parenting Travel Blog Thai Chicken Pie Recipe

Thai Chicken Pies – Dinner is served!

I came to the realisation this week that, despite being a born-and-raised Kiwi mummy, there was something that was missing from my life.  Something so quintessentially ‘New Zealand’ that I’m pretty embarrassed to have been overlooking it for so long. I couldn’t remember the last time I had eaten a pie. Truth. There are few things we hold dear as …

New Zealand's Top Mummy Blogger Parenting Travel Blog Pulled Pork Recipe

Pulled Pork Tacos Recipe – In 10 Minutes!

Imagine, as a Mum, if every time you said – ok SCREAMED – “Dinner is in ONE minute!”, you were actually telling the truth.  What if the ravenous hordes could literally smell dinner cooking within moments of you opening the fridge to begin dinner prep? Like, really, are you imagining this because it’s a sweet, sweet dream ya’ll.  A dream …

New Zealand's Top Mummy Blogger Parenting Travel Blog Family Ramen Bowl Recipe

How to: Family Friendly Ramen Bowl Recipe

Ramen bowls are trending hard right now and rightly so.  They are quick, easy and budget friendly meals that can smash leftovers and just as easily feed the troops on a busy weekday evening or be pared back for a perfectly sized meal for one. I wanted to make the family roast chicken stretch for two meals so reimagined our …

New Zealand's Top Mummy Blogger Parenting Travel Blog Family Chocolate Chip Macadamia Cookie Recipe

The Best Chocolate Chip and Macadamia Cookie Recipe

Having the kids home for the school holidays is the perfect time to try out some new recipes (Chocolate Chip and Macadamia Cookie anyone?) and get the kids comfy in the kitchen. Learning to follow recipes, prepare and serve food, clean up (!) and share the kitchen space as a valued and useful member of the family are life skills …

New Zealand's Top Mummy Blogger Parenting Travel Blog Family Egg Burrito Recipe

Kid’s Choice – Easy Egg Burrito Recipe

Friday is always the best day of the week when you’re a kid and this winter Dave has started a new breakfast tradition that has the boys getting to the breakfast table even faster than usual.   Ethan is a kid who has remained true to his birth-place of Southern California in that we can chuck anything in a tortilla …

New Zealand's Top Mummy Blogger Parenting Travel Blog Family Dairy Free French Toast Recipe

French Toast Recipe with Almond Milk – An Easy, Healthful Change

Having an indulgent, ‘treat’ breakfast is one of life’s little luxuries whatever age or stage you’re at.  By getting a bit creative with the ingredients, you can help reduce the ‘guilt’ factor many of us feel and make an easy family-friendly meal that can be adapted to meet many specific dietary requirements. We’ve been using Almond Milk in our smoothies …