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How planning ahead to avoid the 4pm ‘What’s for dinner’ question will make your life so much easier.
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Apr
Apr
Dinnertime is about coming together as a family to enjoy a delicious meal, but as the word ‘busy’ becomes embedded in everyone’s daily conversation it’s easy to neglect the simple things like healthy eating and sitting around a dinner table together. At least that’s what Marley Spoon founders Fabian Segel and Til Neatby found. With…
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Apr
Apr
Take it from a Mum of 5 – ‘You deserve a good night’s sleep’ We speak to Annmarie Sanson, Director of national nanny agency Night Nannies Australia Pty Ltd on why you deserve some extra support. “I remember going to my full-time job as a 20 something and telling my colleagues in an exasperated voice…
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Apr
Apr
Most people, particularly families with young children are busier than ever, with work, school and social activities. With this constant pressure, we often become so overwhelmed that we can actually lose sight of the basic and very important opportunities to spend time with family. In particular around daily interactions like meal times. The importance of…
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Apr
Apr
Investigating Australia’s first ‘female only’ ride-share platform. If you are lucky enough to win one of the 5 Mum’s Day Off experiences we are giving away, then part of your amazing prize will include being driven around your experience activities by a Shebah driver. Yup, sit back, relax and let someone else negotiate the navigation…
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Mar
Mar
Chocolate comes in many forms – dark, milk and white, amongst others – but what is the difference? Dark chocolate will contain a high percentage of cocoa solids (generally at least 35%, but there is no Australian definition) and cocoa butter and little, to no milk solids. Milk chocolate contains a lower percentage of cocoa…
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Mar
Mar
Don’t take the fun out of Easter… but maybe some of the additives. Get creative and think of a few simple substitutes to gift your little ones and their friends. Chocolate doesn’t need to take centre stage, Easter can still be enjoyable with a balanced approach. Here are 5 creative ideas to dilute the chocolate…
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Mar
Mar
Get creative and think of a few simple substitutes to gift your little one and their friends. Chocolate doesn’t need to take center stage, Easter can still be enjoyable and much healthier! We know lots of Mum’s who prefer to give Whole Kids snacks instead, so we have come up with this super fun Easter…
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Mar
Mar
It is often easy to forget just how much extra nutrition kids may need as they grow and develop rapidly – it can be up to double the energy requirements, per kilogram of bodyweight, compared with adults. Snacks can be a necessary part of a child’s diet particularly as their tummies can be too tiny…
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Feb
Feb
Pearsall Primary School, Western Australia, has won a garden bed in The Little Gardener recycling competition, which encouraged schools to collect and recycle their Whole Kids snack packaging, providing a boost to their sustainable garden project. For the last five months, organic kids snack company Whole Kids and global recycling pioneers TerraCycle ran The Little…
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Feb
Feb
We’ve all heard that wholegrains are good for us, but what exactly are they and how much should we be feeding our kids? Whole grains include whole wheat, oats, brown rice, corn (maize), barley, buckwheat, rye, and millet. They are grains that are whole, intact and unrefined. The seed of a plant, is made up…
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Jan
Jan
These 10 healthy and easy lunchbox staples are life savers. Add these to your standard shopping list for quick and easy to make lunchbox snacks. Most can be kept in the pantry, freezer or will last a good while in the fridge: *Is you child under 3? Keep in mind that every child develops differently….
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Jan
Jan
What to put in your kid’s lunchbox can be a tricky dilemma, particularly as it needs to be done five days a week, often for multiple children who like different foods. It goes without saying that no matter how healthy the lunch box is, it won’t provide any nutritional value if it doesn’t get eaten!…
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Jan
Jan
Meet our resident Nutrition Advisor Diana Austen and learn more about her thoughts on Big Food marketing, why she specialises in children’s nutrition and …. Peas! Tell us what inspired you to study nutrition Ever since I was young I’ve always had an interest on the effect of food on the body, in particular its…
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Dec
Dec
It really is the loveliest and the craziest time of the year! With school concerts, last minute costumes, Christmas parties, presents for teachers, locking in babysitters, the excitement of Santa and the long-anticipated arrival of our cheeky Elf Lilly keeping our little ones up until 11pm on weeknights, it’s almost enough to drive anyone around…
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Dec
Dec
Here’s 5 trends that might be influencing your children’s food and the way they eat in 2018… 1. Importance of nutrition from an early age Providing good nutrition to your little ones is on most parent’s minds, long gone are the days of looking to packaged snacks simply to provide a sweet treat. Ever more…
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Nov
Nov
In today’s food and drink synthetic preservatives are used widely – they are often listed with their chemical name or number – and can leave parents completely confused as to their purpose and effect on their children. Choice provides a handy guide to additives and their respective numbers found on ingredient labels. We have provided…
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Nov
Nov
Food additives are simply ingredients which are added to our food and drink to preserve the flavour and shelf life, enhance the taste, retain the moisture content or improve the appearance. Some food additives, such as salt in preserving and curing foods, vinegar in fermenting vegetables and baking powder in cakes and biscuits, have been…
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Oct
Oct
Halloween can decline from the promise of allowing just one or two treats, into a spiral of sugar-laden, hyper-active, children. Whilst it is commonly understood that an occasional treat every now and then is unlikely to do any harm, Halloween can often be a challenging time for parents trying to limit their children’s intake of…
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Oct
Oct
Halloween is getting bigger and bigger each year and while kids might love celebrating with goody bags full of lollies, parents will find the prospect of all of that sugar frightening. Limiting the amount of junk your kids eat doesn’t have to mean limiting the fun. Whole Kids founder Monica loves to get her children…
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Sep
Sep
Shopping for organic produce might seem like an unnecessary expense to some, and a bit of an overkill, since we are all bound to be exposed to pesticides and other chemicals in some form or another throughout our lives, but that doesn’t mean we can’t limit that exposure. Besides, when you are preparing your children’s…
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Sep
Sep
This World Gratitude Day take some time to reflect on the amazing things you have in your life, smile and realise that you are thankful. It’s a good feeling, isn’t it? That why it important to teach your children to be grateful. Here are 5 tips to get started… 1. Re-enforcement Re-enforce saying thank you…
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Sep
Sep
September is Australian Organic Awareness Month and as part of the activities we are highlighting reasons for buying organic. Certified organic food is a holistic means of growing and handling food, produced by farming practices that do not use synthetic chemicals including artificial pesticides and fertilisers. Why buy organic? 3 great reasons to buy organic…
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Sep
Sep
A child’s understanding of gender equality begins in the home. This Father’s Day we want to eliminate gender roles at home by smashing the stereotype of the hopeless dad in the kitchen. We know not all dads are experts at cooking, but all dads care about providing their children with a healthy start to life….