This Free Lunch Box Idea Printable provides many options from the 5 food groups plus the option for treats. By picking at least one from each food group you can feel assured that you ARE DOING THE BEST for your children. As they get older their tastes and interest in a different range of […]
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7 Tips for Packing a Lunchbox for Prep
Starting Prep can be a stressful time for both parents and students, and that is why we need to make sure that we make their day as easy as possible. Eliminating any extra stresses in their day will make for a smooth transition from kindergarten to “big school”. One of the extra stresses can be […]
Top 10 for 2014
What a year it has been. It’s like we blinked and missed it, it went that fast. For Cooking For Busy Mums it has also been a huge year. A new blog, many new recipes, many new faces leaving lovely comments and questions (which is always lovely to see) and just a general community that […]
Weekly Meal Plan #5
This week has a bit of seafood theme. We are lucky enough to live a short drive to the local trawlers where we regularly buy fresh squid to make our calamari. This week we bought some fresh local caught prawns as well as squid, enough to freeze and cook with for the week. Both boys […]
Holiday Cooking, Ham Crust Frittata
We had a lovely 4 night holiday at Iluka last week. We stayed in a quaint little cottage on the bay where we enjoyed spectacular sunsets, fresh crabs and prawns and quality family time fishing and walking to the park. When we go on holidays I will normally bring most of the food with us […]
Afternoon Tea Ideas plus Free Printable
Earlier in the week a follower on the Cooking For Busy Mums Facebook Page asked for some ideas for Afternoon Tea. There were some fantastic ideas from the Cooking For Busy Mums community so I have put them altogether in a Free printable for you print and have on hand for when you need some […]
Fudgy Coconut Slice
While I was visiting Mum last week I had the luxury of 5 minutes to look through one of her new cook books. My Mum loves cooking as much as I do and regularly picks up a new cook book here and there and I luckily get a chance to skim through them when I […]
Easy Ways To Add Chia Seeds into Your Families Diet – Pancakes & Pudding & Smoothie
On Facebook over the weekend I posted two recipes in which I used Chia Seeds in. They received a great response but also a few questions were asked about Chia Seeds. I’m not an expert on them but I know a few basic facts that I learnt when googling them originally a few months back […]
Ideas For a Family Packed Lunch & A Day at The Brisbane Museum
Family time is precious and when we have a day when we all don’t have work or Kindy we like to get out of the house and experience different things. Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul I was lucky enough to be given passes to see the new Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the […]