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Family dinner planner: Week One
Essential Kids is doing the thinking for you with our weekly dinner planner. These are our dinner winners this week.
Not sandwiches again: three different lunchbox ideas
As a kid I used to hate sandwiches with a passion. If you want to mix up your lunch box repertoire why not try these fast and yummy ideas?
Kristy Komadina
Meal planning for dummies
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The shortcuts we take as parents
I have my own shortcuts, little tricks I use throughout the week to get my kids fed, clothed and relatively clean, my house ordered and relatively clean, and my work done (and relatively on time).
Fans build a Han-Solo-in-carbonite fridge
A group of Star Wars fanatics have taken fandom to the next level – building a Han-Solo-in-carbonite fridge.
Melbourne mum's food art inspires son to eat healthy
If you're wondering how to get your kids to eat more vegetables, take some inspiration from Melbourne mum, Lelah Mohmedi.
Mum bakes bread inspired by children's art
Check out this creative mum's bread baking skills inspired by her children's drawings.
Failproof tips to make easy-peeling hard-boiled eggs
We have three - count 'em, three - new foolproof (and we don't use that word lightly) ways to turn out perfect hard-cooked eggs that peel like a dream.
Nine porridge recipes to warm your winter mornings
Entice your kids out of bed during the cold winter mornings with a large bowl of deliciously warm porridge.
21 kebab recipes of fun food on a stick
Sometimes it's just the novelty of something cooked on a skewer - easy to cook, easy to hold, easy to eat - that gets kids interested in eating.
Adult versions of childhood foods
Feel like you're too old to enjoy the foods from your childhood? Well, we have good news for you, with a few tweaks, you can create a new and improved - slightly more mature - version of your old favourites.
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Mum praised for teaching "mean girls" in cafe a lesson
When Michelle Icard, 43, heard a group of "mean girls" talking about girls at their school, she began "crawling out of her skin".
The online gift cards that are too good to be true
And tricking you into parting with a few dollars is the least of the scammers' intentions.
Young boy finds crystal meth in his Kinder Surprise egg
A six-year-old boy who found a chocolate egg under a hedge last week was perplexed on opening it up to find a bag containing a white powder inside.
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