It’s time for our monthly twitter chat again tonight (Sept 19) called #eatkit and we’re exploring the challenges and solutions to raising healthy eating kids. We hope you can join us tonight – just follow these details. Or if you missed out we’ll be posting the #eatkit archive here. So of course it got me…
Christmas and the weeks before and after can bring out the best and the worst in all of us – fun, parties, catching up with friends, Christmas shopping, 11th hour car park rage, being over- indulgent with alcohol, not enough sleep and too much food. Sound familiar? If you’re confused about striking the right balance…
My daughter Miss 8’s first post on Must read cookbooks for kids was so popular, we just had to have her back for another go. And with Junior Masterchef hotting up in Australia, there’s bound to be a surge in sales of their branded cooking kits for kids. Did I really see that one of…
Ok, ok, I’ve put up with the nagging for close to six months. My Miss 8 has been hounding me to let her guest post since we launched The Scoop on Nutrition and I’ve simply run out of excuses. Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that she is a budding Junior Masterchef. So I said yes. And…
Clean your plate. You MUST eat your broccoli. No dessert unless dinner. No Tv on. Did you grow up with a defined set of meal rules, guidelines or unwritten expectations? Did they help or hinder you becoming a healthy, balanced adult eater? Are you passing these “rules” on or have you changed your parenting style? And more importantly, would…
It’s hard to stay healthy when you work full-time, especially if you have a family to look after too. If only it was as simple as getting out of bed, arriving at work stress-free and being able to eat well, exercise and de-stress whenever you felt like it. The reality is though that many people find it hard…
It can be a confusing world out there. When it comes to pregnancy, everyone has an opinion on what to eat and what not to eat – and those opinions can sometimes be pretty kooky! At the very least they can differ substantially from one another. Science is constantly evolving, and with new discoveries being…
Ask kids of today where milk comes from and you get some pretty interesting answers. A carton. A supermarket. A big tanker. And even those who correctly say ‘cow’ (or rice or soy or almond), can’t always explain how …they just know to say ‘cow’. So what’s the simplest answer to this modern day dilemma? SHOW them. A great…