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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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Finger lickin' good - or gross? KFC launches chicken-flavoured nail polish
Kentucky Fried Chicken chicken-flavored nail polish is a real-life, this-is-not-a-joke, thing.
Chris Hemsworth bakes amazing dinosaur cake for daughter's birthday
When the bakery told actor Chris Hemsworth they didn't have time to bake his daughter's birthday cake, he set out to bake it himself.
Six dinner recipes kids can master
Kids can cook - it might get a little messy, but they can also learn to clean up too.
Blue Ribbon ice-cream recalled after plastic pieces found inside tubs
Unilever has recalled its 1.25L and 2L tubs of Blue Ribbon ice-cream, warning they may contain pieces of plastic.
Ten top books for young cooks
Add these to your collection, and inspire junior kitchenhands to make cracking snacks, brilliant bakes and winning dinners, not to mention a little something sweet.
Mother's Day breakfast recipes
No matter the level of kid culinary expertise in your home, this recipe is easy for anyone to whip up for mum while she takes it easy on Sunday morning.
Keep these foods apart and cut food waste
Where you store your groceries within the fridge matters, but so does the type of fruits and vegetables your store together.
Three ways to turn your child's cake into a showstopper
Here is a simple - but delicious - chocolate cake recipe that anyone can make with three simple and effective decorating ideas to turn it into a party showstopper that will impress kids of any age.
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How to make healthy nachos
Everybody loves to eat nachos, but traditionally they aren't very good for you. I've taken that family favourite and given it a healthy twist using low fat cheese, corn tortillas plus delicious and healthy Heinz baked beans.
What's really in your oregano?
Shoppers buying and sprinkling chopped oregano leaves to flavour their food might actually be using entirely different ingredients, says consumer advocacy group Choice.
Fight to stop the world running out of chocolate
We're eating more chocolate than ever before. But cocoa farmers are struggling to meet demand, and some are abandoning the crop altogether, worrying chocolate makers.
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