She was only three. She was two bites into her apple. She stopped. She looked at me with her big, inquiring eyes. “Mum, my apple is sweet.” I said “Yep”, and kept eating my apple. “Does it have sugar in it?” My heart broke. Someone had demonized sugar to my just out-of-nappies-innocent-as-anything little girl. I […]
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Homemade Fruit Filled Cereal Bars for Kids
Cereal bars from the supermarket can come with a variety of fruit fillings. And this inspired me to work on a healthy rustic dough recipe that I could use to wrap around my own fruit fillings of choice. This is so that I can make fruits last a touch longer and present them in a […]
10 Reasons Your Picky Eater Is Still Not Eating Family Style Meals
The Ellyn Satter Division of Responsibility (DOR) model accumulates the essence of feeding research and presents family meal dynamics with responsibility lines drawn in the sand. Ellyn Satter’s model is pervasive throughout feeding research and it is PRACTICAL for families to follow. The family meal model gets talked about constantly in our Parenting Picky Eaters facebook […]
{Guest Post} Introducing Solids – The First Week
Thanks to Fi from Mumma Morrison for sharing with us her daily diary of how she felt during her first week of starting to feed her little man solids. Fi’s son is known on her blog as Starfish. It’s lovely to remember the first feelings associated with what a big milestone this is in your motherhood […]
Food As Baby Names
As a bit of a departure from my usual fussy eater and family meal blog posts, today I bring you “Food as Baby Names”! My hubby and I were talking about the trends in baby names and how foodie names are quite hip at the moment. Here are some that we brainstormed, discussed, found some surprising statistics […]
Sisterhood of the World Blogging Award
The lovely Shari from Good Food Week has nominated me for the “Sisterhood of the World Blogging Award”. Don’t worry I had to google it too! It’s kinda like a bloggers version of a chain letter. Did you ever get a chain letter as a kid? I did and I LOVED the concept. I would […]
Inspirational Local Mums: My Interview with Emma Wilkinson
Emma and I have been in the same circles for a while, however, inspiration struck when we got to chatting about how we both have funny childhood memories of particular vegetables! Emma not only has a great appreciation of beetroot, but she is quite hilarious and a fountain of knowledge when it comes to crochet, especially crochet […]
Inspirational Local Mum: Julie-Anne England
I am so happy to have Julie-Anne on the blog today! Julie-Anne has extensive experience with children culminating in her current role as mother and owner of online magazine, Small Steps Parenting. Julie-Anne brings a wealth of knowledge, from her 15 years’experience as a nanny, childcare worker and centre leader, to create an online publication that embraces and celebrates […]