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3 cheap and cheerful recipes with lemons

Lemons, one of those quintessential fruits with lots of uses. It can be a key ingredient in many sweet or savoury dishes and it has myriad health benefits. Who…

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5 delicious ways with cauliflower

Whole cauliflowers can be bought for only a few dollars, so they make a perfectly healthy and cheap meal or side dish. Cauliflower can be an amazing accompanim…

Cookies and a glass of milk laid on a cooling tray.

5-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

This recipe is my favourite sweet treat to prepare for a movie night because it is easy and goes well with salty popcorn! It only has 5 ingredients, it is glut…

A glass with yellow toned trifle in an individual serve.

Amber’s sensory-friendly Christmas trifle

Christmas can be a difficult time for people with sensory issues and Autism. Sharing food with family and friends can be problematic and painful when presented…

Anzac biscuits with vintage typewritten recipe

Anzac Bikkies

Anzac biscuits are a humble and homely antipodean snack with a long and honoured history. They pay tribute to our fallen and returned servicemen and women. The…

Brown, chewy, fudge-like brownie, cut into squares in the pan.

Banana Brownies

Indulgent, fudge-like, and one for the sweet-tooths amongst us. This banana brownie is easy to make and a way to use up overripe bananas.

Some plain biscuits stacked on a blue plate, a teacup is in the background.

Basic Biscuit Recipe

The great trick with this recipe is that you can choose a flavour to fill it with. Split it into 4 and make 4 different variations, or leave it as a plain swee…

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Basic Bliss Balls

A recipe is always fun when you can use it as sensory play. In this recipe, we promise you mess, fun, and healthy bites to snack on. There are endless variati…

A bluberry muffin drizzled with white icing and two strawberries, all on a plate.

Blueberry Muffins

This recipe was originally my Aunt's "visitor cake", the recipe you have on hand when you are expecting visitors and need to make something quickly and easily…

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Budget Cooking Tips with Vegetables

According to Foodbank, Australian households throw away 2.5 million tonnes of edible food each year. That equals nearly 300 kilograms per person…

Two chia puddings, one with mango smoothie and mint, the other with berry smoothie and blueberry.

Chia Breakfast or Pudding

When breakfast can be a dessert, that has to be a great recipe, right? Make this the night before for a ready-made breakfast. If you need breakfast on the go…

A table set with a pie dish, cutlery, crockery and a nutmeg, bayleaf and peppercorns. The pie is golden with vegetables showing through some slits, it is garnished with herbs such as thyme.

Chicken Pie

When the cupboard is empty, it's been a long day, and I need a quick meal with an easy shopping list, this Chicken Pie is my go-to.

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Chocolate mug cake / microwave self-saucing pudding

This is a super quick and easy recipe for one or two people. A comforting and decadent dessert, perfect for your next late-night Netflix binge, or you can turn…

a cast iron skillet filled with crumble. applies, cinamon sticks and star anise arranged around it.

Comforting Crumble

For a warming dessert on these cooler, crisp nights, a comforting crumble can be the ultimate hearty and healthy-ish comfort food. It can be prepared in advanc…

A slice of pale yellow pie dusted with white icing sugar and with lime zest on top.

Easy as Pie

Actually known as “Impossible Pie”, this recipe is easy to make. The name came about because a runny mixture goes into the cake pan, and a 3 layered “pie” come…

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Easy Chicken Soup

Satisfying and soothing, chicken soup is always a useful recipe in your collection. Fighting colds, feeling unwell, or just for comfort, chicken soup is the es…

A bright green plate, with golden cooked fish, some garnish, a lime wedge and tartare sauce.

Easy pan-fried fish

A fuss-free fish recipe that lets the natural flavour shine. Your local fishmonger can recommend alternate fish varieties depending on seasonality and to suit…

A caramel coloured slice with two layers and crumbled pistachio in the icing.

Ginger Crunch

With a rather odd colour, this one surprises me that children like it - they reach for it thinking it's caramel, but are surprised by the spice-sweet ginger. I…

A tray of hot cross buns, milk, blueberries, and butter.

Hot Cross Bun and Butter Pudding

A comfort food staple, the classic Bread and Butter Pudding gets an Easter makeover! Using Hot Cross Buns rather than slices of humble white bread gives this r…

A range of healthy snacks. Banana, apple, youghurt, blueberries, honey, nuts, crackers, veggie sticks, hummus, rice cakes

Hunger Games: After-school snack ideas

Back to school means back to those after-school hunger pangs! Lunchable and bento-box ideas aside, you might need a little extra inspiration in the after-schoo…

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