family meals

Serving Many!

July 19, 2010

I have found this little combination a great meal to serve when there are lots of children about. Out of the three items they are bound to like one of them and we serve it banquet style so the children can serve themselves. It also easy to cook and doesn’t require the cook to be [...]

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10 Family Meals That The Children Will Love

October 28, 2008

I have a lot of discussions with other parents on the topic of meal time and about getting smaller children to eat a healthy meal. There are a number of things that we do as a family to make meal time more enjoyable, but I think the most important from that list is having the [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – Short Week

September 8, 2008

Image by Teamaksins We (me and the kids) will only be at home for dinner from Thursday this week. I have taken the children to Mildura for a few days so that we can help celebrate their cousin’s 2nd birthday. I have created a menu plan for only the days that we are back home. [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – One I Prepared Earlier

August 25, 2008

Image: Fimb Last week went by in a blur. I am so glad that I did my big planning session at the end of July. With the pace that I have been going at in August it has been great to have one less thing to think about and just access the menu plan file [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – Is It Still Winter????

August 11, 2008

Photo: avlxyz It happens every year at about this time. I start to fret that winter will go on forever and that the cold and wet weather is never leaving. I know that in Melbourne with our appallingly low water reserves, it is somewhat ungrateful to complain about rain, but could it just happen at [...]

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10 Things We Do To Make Meal Time Enjoyable.

February 19, 2008

(1). Involve them in planning the meals. Planning meals ahead and avoiding a hectic lead up to meal time is important for me. It means that I am much calmer and in a more jovial mood by the time I sit down to eat with them. By allowing the kids to help me plan, they [...]