Menu Planning

Each week I post our family’s menu plans with links to recipes on the blog. Also you will find tips on how to create your menu plans quickly and easily.

Pink Snowballs Recipe

September 12, 2011

This Snowballs recipe is very different from the Chocolate Snowballs recipe I posted a few months ago. This is a now bake recipe and is more suitable as a lunch box treat. It is sort of a combination of chocolate balls and rice bubble slice! Pink Snowballs Recipe Ingredients: 100g marshmallows (which is about 1 [...]

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Halloumi – Tasty Fried Cheese!

September 5, 2011

I cooked this super tasty Halloumi (Fried Cheese) on Sunday at my sister’s house. The exciting thing about this was my dad actually tasted it and loved it. My dad is very much a meat and three veg man, so to have him taste and eat something new was awesome. I considered this a special [...]

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Italian Meatballs

August 22, 2011

This recipe for Italian Meatballs is a hybrid of ones I looked at online and in recipe books. This meal was a massive hit with the kids, with the 12 year old declaring it “awesome”. So expect to see this added pretty frequently to the family menu plans! Italian Meatballs Ingredients: 3 slices of bread [...]

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Coconut Macaroons with Chocolate!

August 14, 2011

These Coconut Macaroons with Chocolate are gluten free, kid friendly and easy to make. I had three helpers when we made these, my 2, 5 and 7 year old all had turns at adding, beating etc. These are the first macaroons we have ever baked, so was pretty happy with our result for a first [...]

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Beef and Beer Casserole

August 8, 2011

At the Bloggers Brunch I attended recently, Weight Watchers were the key sponsor of the event and in the goody bag we received the Weight Watchers’ Cook Hearty Recipe Cook Book. I randomly opened the book to a page with the recipe for Beef Carbonade. It looked like a pretty tasty recipe for a beef [...]

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Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins (that kids can cook!)

July 24, 2011

This recipe is so easy the younger kids (7 & 5) can do pretty much all of it without my help now. These Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins taste divine and a great sweet treat to whip up when you need something in a hurry as they are quick to make. The ingredients for this [...]

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Plan To Eat Membership Give Away

July 20, 2011

The give away has now closed, thank you to all those who entered. Plan To Eat are a current sponsor of Planning With Kids and they have 2 x 1 year memberships to this excellent premium meal planning site to give away. This give away is open world wide. Read to the end to find [...]

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Chocolate Christmas Tree

July 10, 2011
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This very cute Chocolate Christmas Tree is easy to make and a perfect treat to get the kids in the kitchen to work on. I made this one with my 6 and 4 year old. If you were to make it on your own, you can be more precise with the layer shape and size, [...]

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Free Menu Planner Recipe Updates and List

May 31, 2011

I am well behind updating the Planning With Kids Free Menu Planner with the new recipes I have been posting on the blog over the last several months. While yet to be completely up to date, I have added the following recipes recently: Homemade Star Chips Party Sausage Rolls Choc Chip Muesli Slice Home Made [...]

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Using A Slow Cooker

May 16, 2011

Now the weather has turned cooler and I have been featuring slow cooker recipes on the blog, I have had a number of questions about using a slow cooker. So here are some things I think are helpful to know about slow cookers. Slow cookers don’t always mean less work. The first thing you should [...]

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Easy Pumpkin Soup Recipe

April 25, 2011
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This was originally posted this Easy Pumpkin Soup Recipe 2 years ago almost to the date! I never had a photo of the soup at the time, so have updated the post and thought I would share it again. We are heading into the perfect weather for soup. Easy Pumpkin Soup Recipe Ingredients: 2 kg [...]

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White Chocolate Mud Cake Recipe

March 14, 2011
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Ever notice when you deprive yourself of something, how prominently it can then show up in your life? I decided to forgoe chocolate for a couple of weeks and in that time I have posted this Chocolate Nut Crunch Recipe and now I am posting about White Chocolate Mud Cake! My rational is if I [...]

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