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Lunches

This salad is incredibly tasty. The yummy soft roasted pumpkin with the crunchy apple slices go so well together and is really easy to eat. Just pack a container with a fork and hope they don’t lick the container clean. Depending on your children you may want to take out the red onions.
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Zucchini Pie

September 6, 2012 · 0 comments

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Zucchini recipes are a great way to add some healthy lunches to your kids school lunch boxes. Zucchini’s are a healthy green vegetable, giving a good source of fibre and vitamins K,C and A. This recipe also has grated zucchini with the skin on you get the goodness of the skin being an added [...]

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Yummy, Delicious, Tasty! Are the comments from my children. This quick and easy healthy muffin recipe makes for a great lunch. It only requires an average size zucchini and a good size green apple.
Muffins are a good change from sandwiches for a school lunch or picnic. I make muffins for everything from breakfast, [...]

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Corn Fritters

July 17, 2012 · 0 comments

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Fritters make for a very healthy school lunch. They are quick and easy to make. I will often make these and fry them up while I am cooking an evening meal. This allows me to pop them aside to cool then pack and put in the fridge to send to school in the morning.
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To celebrate the Queens Birthday weekend and especially this year in celebrating the Queens Diamond Jubilee, I wanted to create an afternoon tea British style. The 2 main things that came to mind were light scones with jam and cream and then of course the cucumber sandwich. So I made my family an English Tea [...]

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Pasta makes a great lunch all times of the year. In fact pasta is great in my house for lunch or dinner. My family loves pasta, so we eat it often. It is very healthy and affordable. I always keep dry pasta in the house but also enjoy making fresh pasta. For a quick lunch, [...]

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Mini Quiche

May 24, 2012 · 1 comment

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A quick lunch you can prepare in minutes. This mini quiche recipe cooks fast and also tastes lovely cold. I have made them in the morning and wrapped into paper towel and sent in a brown paper bag. Works well for school lunches or picnics. Alternatively you can pop them in the fridge and send [...]

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When it comes to lunch we all want something savoury and tasty. If you mix up your kids school lunches each day and give them something different, there is a much higher chance they will actually eat it. Kids are excited at lunch time, they get out of the classroom to spend time with friends [...]

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Muffins are a fantastic lunch for kids of all ages. These tasty muffins are a healthy lunch and a good alternative to sandwiches. Lots of kids get sick of sandwiches day after day and then again some kids don’t like sandwiches at all. Muffins are a great lunch on the run. One of my kids [...]

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Salmon Salad

September 24, 2010 · 0 comments

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Salmon salad is so quick and easy to prepare. You can buy the small cans of salmon making it as easy as open the can and add some salad. Salmon just happens to be one of the most nutritious foods we can eat. It is full of of important nutrients including omega-3 fatty acids, which [...]

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