Category: Lunch Box
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Cornish-style Pasties
One of my tricks for making a limited diet less boring is to vary the presentation. For example, using a chicken pie filling to make these cornish-style pasties. These turned out to be great cold in Oscar’s lunch box (and mine!) as well. Read more
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Spanish Omelette
After so many years of cooking FAILSAFE food, I hardly every come across something new that I don’t have to modify terribly much. I don’t know how I missed Spanish omelettes. With this recipe from BBC Good Food only needed to swap leek for onion and change the oil. It makes for a very simple… Read more
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Pillow Biscuits
School is back, so it’s time to do some more baking for the lunch box. Oscar adores these biscuits – “Pillow Biscuits” as he calls them. They are also one of the best lunch box snacks for freezing and dropping into the lunch box in the morning. There are a lot of recipes for these… Read more
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I’ve finally made the 2-ingredient biscuits (except I used 3)
For a while now I have been coming across recipes on Facebook for 2-ingredient biscuits. Struggling to put food in Oscar’s lunchbox that would give him energy but would be quick to eat I thought these would be worth a try. While I love bananas, I didn’t think they would mask the flavour of the… Read more
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Last Minute Christmas Baking (and my final post for the year)
Four more days until Christmas! Are you ready yet? It’s been a bit of rush here, on top of moving, organising for our house to be demolished and finalising our building contract (the thought of my new kitchen keeps me going đ ). We had a street party last week (our old street) and I… Read more
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Rye and Spelt White Choc Chip Biscuits
This is my favourite biscuit recipe at the moment. Since I cut down on eating wheat, I’ve found that I can’t eat very much at all. Even 1 biscuit gives me terrible pains in the stomach (I guess I’m “food intolerance” as Oscar says!). These biscuits are easy and very filling, so even though I… Read more
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Three Easy Desserts/Snacks for Kids to Help Make
Lately, Oscar has been showing an interest in helping in the kitchen to prepare the evening meal. It’s a great way for him to learn about food and we talk about the different ingredients we use. He’s learning how to chop vegetables, squeeze lemons, whisk eggs and stir things on the stove. These are three… Read more
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Beef Koftas with Saffron Yogurt
This is an easy week night meal, that keeps our household sane when Oscar suddenly asks for (demands ) “dinner on sticks”. The saffron yogurt is nice change from using plain natural yogurt. Read more
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Baked Chicken Tenders
Thank you to Damien who submitted this recipe on my About Us page some time ago. These chicken tenders are easy to make and the crumb is a nice change from coating chicken in plain bread/rice crumbs. The cooked chicken pieces can be frozen and added to lunch boxes, they would also make great party/finger… Read more
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Making My Own – Vanilla Essence and Baking Powder
Vanilla Essence is very expensive, especially when you need to find a brand without preservatives. I finally decided to try making my own, and even using good quality organic vanilla beans and vodka I’m saving almost $2.50 per 50 ml. There a numerous recipes on the net for making vanilla essence and they really only… Read more
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Lunch Box Wednesday #6
Well, we are halfway through the year and I haven’t run out of ideas for Oscar’s lunch boxes – yet! These mini frittatas are actually a very early recipe but as Oscar never took to them, I haven’t published it before. Now that he is finally eating eggs on their own I decided to give… Read more
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Best Ever Carrot Cake
Best Ever Carrot Cake is a pretty big claim, but this is truly the best one I’ve made with Oscar’s food restrictions. The coconut pulp I had left over from making coconut milk was the inspiration for this recipe; I found the To-Die-For Carrot Cake recipe while searching for coconut recipes. I modified it quite… Read more
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Lunch Box Wednesday #4
Something savoury this week – mini calzones. These are just a variation on my savoury calzones recipe, but I wanted to make a non-wheat pizza dough as I’m trying to cut down on wheat. We had the big calzones with a potato, mince and gravy filling; and since there is always at least one ball… Read more
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Lunch Box Wednesday # 3
This month it has all been about Squeeze’ems. Â I haven’t been able to experiment with much else as Oscar has been obsessed with what I can put into the Squeeze’ems. Â Which is a good thing because I know he’ll enjoy having them in his lunch box, and the frozen ones will do double duty in… Read more
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ANZAC Biscuits
The 25th of April is ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand. For my overseas readers, ANZAC Day is the day we remember and commemorate the men and women who have fought for our country. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. “The Anzac traditionâthe ideals of courage, endurance and mateship that are… Read more
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Lunch Box Wednesday #2
Oscar and I have been busy trying out new snacks this month. His favourite was the Pear and Vegetable Bread (cake of course! – adapted from a recipe on Cooks.com. ), but he was also pretty impressed at having peeled apples in his snack box. When he asked for apple to be included in his lunch… Read more
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Strained Yogurt and Tzatziki
I’ve wanted to try straining my own yogurt for some time now. I’m not sure why, curiosity I guess! But then what to do with the yogurt? A little bit of research and I discovered that “Greek Yogurt” is actually strained yogurt, so I could turn my natural yogurt from the Easiyo maker into Greek… Read more