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Food photos & recipes from my kitchen. Mostly fresh & healthy, occasionally indulgent �

05/09/2026

Happy belated 8th birthday my big boy- A turtle cake this year ✨️ I think he turned out very cute 😍

04/09/2026

Today we are having Eli's 8th birthday party 🎂

I thought it would be fun to look back through all his big cakes and repost them. Then I'll post today's cake later after he's seen it ❤️

Last year for age 7 he requested a cake made of jelly. We had 8 month old twins, so I happily obliged, but there's no photo evidence of that one 😅

First up his 6th birthday was a dinosaur 🦕

His 5th birthday was a black cat. We had a cat called Pickles at the time and he wanted a cake to match!

4th birthday he loved Bluey so that was the cake theme that year ❤️

I realised that I never posted Arhla & Orin's first birthday cakes last year- they were these simple but cute decorated number one's. Looking forward to all the cake journey's they'll take us on x2.

31/08/2026

What we've been eating 😋

-Bunless Burgers- I was going for an Aussie style Works Burger but I forgot to cook some eggs. Delish anyway.
- Cheesy Tuna egg muffins- good snacks and lunch platter bits for the kids
-Slow roast lamb with Potatoes, Carrots and chickpeas (which aren't really pictured). I crisped up the veg and lamb after they'd slow roasted and got the beautiful picture worthy Potatoes 😍😋
- Davids birthday cheesecake- Salted Miso Caramel flavour with Sesame crisps
- Healthy no sugar/gluten chocolate zucchini muffins- included a cup of grated greens the kids don't particularly like but tastes rich and chocolatey- winning 🙌
- Mulberry breakfast crumble- a healthier version that i served with Greek yoghurt. Our Mulberry tree is loaded, I need more ideas to use them 🤔

25/08/2026

Some days it feels like an effort to take pictures of meals and I frequently forget and wonder why I still do it in the chaos of daily life. But I know we all struggle with the daily 'what to have for dinner' dilemma and maybe if my meal ideas help someone with that, its worth posting 😊

I've started making the kids a few extra snacks to give up on a few processed snacks so these are here too 😋

- Marinated chicken thigh cutlets with Cauliflower Mash and salad
- GF, sugarfree banana muffins
- Greek style roast chicken and veg
- GF parmesan crackers
- Maple butter salmon, sheet pan potato rosti and Broccoli
- Peanut butter chocolate slice
- GF low carb BBQ Chicken pizza scrolls

20/08/2026

What's been cooking recently ❤️

- Slow Cooked brisket loaded sweet potato wedges
- Meatloaf, mash and beans (forgot sauce 🙃)
-Marry me Butter beans with sourdough
- Spaghetti and Meatballs
- Sheet pan Quesadillas- so quick and easy and everyone enjoyed these, I'll definitely make them again- pictured is how to do it, just pop another sheet pan on top in the oven 👌

03/08/2026

Been a bit run down the last week or so and haven't managed to post some of our meals for a while. So here are a few yummy goodies we've enjoyed 😋

- Pork and Prawn Dumplings- nothing like choosing the most crazy hectic everything-that-can-go-wrong-did-go-wrong type of day to fiddle with homemade Dumplings 🙃 thankfully worth it, even the twin mini humans and almost 8 year old agreed 🙌

-Cheesy Corn and Tuna Fritters- another win amongst the kiddos, fritters hide many a veggie or occasionally a tinned not favourite protein in our house, I make different kinds regularly

-Chicken Caesar Salad- homemade sourdough croutons make it 😋 👌

- Simple Steak and veggies meal- the kids had sausages since they dont like steak (yet)

- Overnight Oats- I may be late to the Overnight Oats trend but making these in advance has really helped me get a decent breakfast each morning amongst the chaos.

-Scrunched Filo Creamy Veggie Pie- another great way to get our kids excited about veggies, pies for the win 🏆 😋

20/07/2026

A few things we've eaten this week 💕

- Satay chicken, veggies and rice. This has been my favourite meal, the sauce is so delicious 😋
- Pulled pork taco salads
-Salmon with roast veggies and hollandaise
- Pancakes with the kids
- Double chocolate cookies

11/07/2026

Part 3/3 School Holiday eating 😋

- Slow Cooked lamb shanks + mash
- Browned Butter Miso choc chip cookies (so good, if you want the recipe i use let me know!)
- Chicken Rissoles with roast veggies- sweet potato, regular potato, parmesan garlic brussel sprouts
-Sweet and Smokey Chicken legs, pan fried zucchini, mini muffin tray potato bake (i make these in my silicone muffin trays for a much quicker version of potato bake with all the flavour of the original)

Have a good weekend ❤️

05/07/2026

School holiday eating part 2 ❤️

-Crispy Rice Tuna and Avocado Salad. Crispy chilli oil is a must. I actually use a recipe for this if you're interested in it, so delicious!
-Date Snickers Slice- Dates, Peanut butter, Chocolate = yum
- Extra veg Bolognaise- a kid friendly fave with a few grated veg in the sauce
- Veggie Halloumi Fritters- I love a fritter to get lots of different veggies eaten by the kids, adding a batter doesn't detract from the goodness in them 👌 these have carrot, zucchini, corn, red onion, parsely, halloumi in a very light flour/milk batter with some seasonings. I ate mine with a fried runny egg and Mayo and chilli oil again 😋

29/06/2026

A moment for the sweetest kitchen helpers ❤️

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