Six recipes for fun on a stick
Licking a lollipop, sucking a frozen ice block or buttering hot damper off a stick are exciting ways for kids to devour their treats and become more engaged in the process of cooking, preparing and enjoying their food.
30 Winter Soups To Fill Your Tum & Warm Your Cockles
There’s something so comforting about a big bowl of hot soup. In the winter months, a big batch of your favourite soup can feed the family for days. It’s food for the soul, as well as the belly and these mouth-watering recipes prove it!
5 Golden Rules Of Family Meal Planning
A perfect meal plan isn't one that is just made up of your favourite foods or what you like to make or bake, rather it works in with your family and your life.
10 Ways to Add Flavour to the Lunchbox
Kids can get bored of the same school lunches over and over again, so colour and variety are key and a few healthy, homemade treats will go a long way. All out of ideas? Here are a few to keep your kids snack-happy.
4 budget foods worth cooking from scratch
Most things are easier to buy these days but these 4 staples taste so much better made from scratch and also save new lots of money if homemade and not bought
14 special but healthy meals to help you celebrate without the stodge
There is a way to enjoy the season to be jolly without resorting to a New Year’s resolution to never eat again. Try these meals that say ‘special celebration’ without saying, ‘I can no longer zip up my pants’.
8 Great Lunchbox Snack Ideas
Lunchbox snacks need to be healthy, tasty and adhere to school guidelines. Find out how to pack great snacks that will be eaten every time and see our easy tips to make those snacks on a budget.
40 common cooking terms
Cooking restaurant-quality food at home can be as easy as 1-2-3, provided you are across the A-Z of common cooking terms.
Frozen versus fresh
Stir-fries, prepped potatoes, frozen berries are all there to make our lives easier but where do they stand when it comes to nutrition?
12 divinely decadent Valentine’s desserts
As the saying goes, the way to a person’s heart is via their bellies, so serve up some of these decadent, delicious and divine desserts and you’ll be in like Flynn!
10 cooking techniques to master
10 cooking techniques that, once mastered, will have you whipping up meals like a pro.
After school nutrition for your sporty child
Children need to refuel with the correct food after expelling so much energy, and we're not talking about a lolly or ice cream on the way home. The best thing to offer is a nutritious snack brought from home.
Perfect plums
Plums are red globes of juicy fruit bursting with sweet summer flavours. A main player in the summer stone fruits line-up, they are perfect on their own or in a fruit salad with other stone fruits.
Building strong bones at breakfast
The calcium that children get from a bowl of cereal is vital. We build most of our bone strength when we are young, so we can avoid conditions like osteoporosis when we're older.
Quick and easy dinners the kids can prepare
Having your kids help with the cooking is great for so many reasons – they’re more likely to eat what they’ve made themselves, it’s a fun activity for you all to enjoy together.
35 Never Fail BBQ Recipes
A backyard barbecue is the NZ way of bringing special people and great food together – no doubt about it! So what are you waiting for?
10 easy treat recipes with Rice Bubbles
Kids love rice bubbles! But you can do much more with them than just eating them with milk. Find 10 other creative uses for your favourite cereal.
25 Ways To Save At The Supermarket
A big chunk of our budget can go on groceries, but with a few simple tips and tricks, we can significantly reduce the amount we spend at the supermarket each week.
25 Tasty Dinner Recipes To Keep Your Family Healthy This Winter
Comfort food doesn’t have to be heavy, stodgy and artery-clogging. Here are 25 tasty dinners that will warm the cockles of all at the table while still packing a nutritional punch.
Keep your kids well this winter
While some sickness can’t be avoided, you can give yourself and your kids health the best chance by following some basic steps and paying special attention to their diet throughout these months.
Hold the spaghetti! Different ways to use bolognese
Spaghetti bolognese is SO yesterday. It's time to beef up everybody's favourite meat sauce, and take homemade bolognese to new heights.
No-sugar birthday party recipes that are still yum and fun!
It’s time to kick sugar to the curb, and show those hungry hordes of kids that you CAN make an exciting smorgasbord of party food without coating everything in sugar!
Yummy recipes you can make with a can of coconut milk
Coconut milk adds a creamy aromatic note to soups, curries, oven bakes and sweet treats. Here are delicious recipes to make something truly yummy, using a tin of velvety coconut milk.
Getting sorted for Pancake Day
Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Day) is a day traditionally celebrated by Christians and is observed the day before the beginning of Lent (Ash Wednesday)
Dinner Shortcuts Every Parent Needs To Know
In the spirit of saving you time and energy, we're sharing our favourite dinner shortcuts that you can use while still producing healthy, delicious meals the family will love.
Cook Up A Relaxing Mother’s Day
Kidspot has the recipes for a stress-free Mother's Day that will indulge you (and your own mum). Read on ...
15 of the best banana baking recipes for little monkeys
There are some bananas going black in your fruit bowl. Yesss! It’s banana baking time!
7 great meal planning themes
There are a number of ways you can approach meal planning, but one of the easiest is to base the week's meal plan around different themes.