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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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MPM – Simple Pasta With Chicken And Spinach Recipe

March 15, 2009

Pasta with Chicken and Baby Spinach Ingredients: 500 grams fresh pasta (I buy this from the supermarket, either Latina if it is on special or San Remo. The kids like the spinach and ricotta filled types best.) 690 mls Pasta Tomato Sauce (Coles does a great organic basic one) 2 chicken breast fillets, diced 150 [...]

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MPM – Seasonal Fruit and Vegetables For March

March 1, 2009

1. Pumpkin slices, 2. I love summer – I love sweet corn, 3. Organic Zucchini, 4. Yams March is the start of Autumn in the southern hemisphere. After having such a devastating summer, I am sure that there will be many here in Victoria who will be happy to see the end of it and [...]

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MPM – Easy Fried Rice Recipe

February 15, 2009

We had another of the children’s favourite meals last week – Fried Rice. Although we call this dish fried rice, the rice is steamed and not actually fried so it quite healthy and the kids love it. You could use any vegetables you had on hand for this dish, eg corn kernels, mushrooms, peas. We [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – Easy Mexican Family Recipe

February 8, 2009

Last week we had one of our children’s favourite meals, it something that I have concocted myself and named Mexibake. (I forgot to photograph the dish before we ate it, so you are only seeing half the meal in the photo.) It is a very easy Mexican Family Recipe to cook. The other bonus with [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – Free Menu Planner

January 25, 2009

The Planning With Kids Free Menu Planner has been launched for a few weeks now. Thanks to all those who have signed up and using the menu planner. A special thanks to those who have taken the time to give me feedback on it, I have really appreciated your comments. Remember if you would like [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – Menu Planning Process

January 18, 2009

One of my key tasks for January was to complete the family menu plans for the next couple of months. The obvious reason for this is the impending arrival of our fifth child. (As this post is being written in advance, by the time it is published I will be officially over my due date [...]