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Back To School With That! Dairy Snack + Giveaway

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Back to school is the hot topic at the moment and it doesn’t matter whether it is your first child, last child, grade 1 or grade 7; lunch and snacks are a very important aspect of their day.

It is vital to cater to your childrens dietary needs and of course their likes when organising their lunches. I say likes as well because it doesn’t matter how good the food may be for them, if they don’t like it they won’t eat it. I always ensure I give Declan a variety of foods that swap and change regularly to prevent him getting bored with his lunches.

 

One day his carbohydrates might be a sandwich, the next he might have fried rice or pasta. He will have a piece of fruit that is swapped and changed daily, also a yoghurt or snack pack and a few other things to fill the lunch box. I am always on the lookout for new snacks and I was lucky enough to have recently been introduced to a new dairy snack that provides as much calcium as half a cup of milk (that is 20% of the required daily calcium of a child). It’s called That! Dairy Snack.

There are a few things about these snacks that grabbed my attention besides the calcium intake; they don’t require refrigeration which means mums don’t need to worry about them spoiling before kids get to eat them at lunch (they can be found in the long life juice isle at Woolworths), they can be frozen, they are 99% fat free and gluten free! They come in 2 delicious flavours – Wild Chocolate & Cool Bananas, which my kids absolutely love!! What I love most is that they don’t cost a fortune, they retail for $1.89ea but almost every time I go to Woolworths they are on special for only $1!

The only fault I can find is that the kids find them a little bit difficult to initially crack the seal but once they have been opened they can open and close them as they please. I however love the resealable lids as it means there is no wastage if they cannot finish it all at once.

That! Dairy Snack has a great competition running at the moment. Make sure you enter their giveaway for your chance to be pampered – it’s quick and easy to enter!! Pop over now and ‘like’ their facebook page here.

 

What snacks do your kids love in their lunch?
 Disclaimer: I received no cash payment for this post. I did however receive a box of each flavour (as seen in pics) for review purposes. As always all opinions are honest and my own. Competition has nothing to do with my blog, I just wanted to share.

Easy Moist Banana Bread Recipe

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Easy Moist banana bread recipe. If you are looking for a simple and yet delicious moist banana bread recipe, than you have found it!

 

This recipe is so easy to make and results in scrumptious moist banana read.
The BEST if I don’t say so myself!!

Easy Moist Banana Bread Recipe

INGREDIENTS
1 ¾ cups Self Raising Flour
¼ cup Plain Flour
2/3 cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ cup milk
2 eggs
60g butter (melt and cool)
1 ½ caps of vanilla essence
3 over-ripe bananas (mashed)

 

METHOD
1.     Preheat oven to 180°c
2.     Grease loaf tray and line with grease proof paper (allow it to overhang) & 6 muffin tray
3.     Sift flour (both variants) and cinnamon into a large bowl
4.     Add sugar and mix
5.     In a separate bowl mash bananas
6.     Add to the bananas – milk, eggs, vanilla essence and butter. Stir until well combined
7.     Make a well in the flour mix
8.     Add banana mix to flour and mix until just combined
9.     Spoon into loaf (approx. 3/4 full), smooth top and fill muffin trays
10.  Bake loaf for approx. 30mins
11.   Bake muffins for approx. 15mins
12.   Check with skewer to ensure it’s cooked. (Will be removed clean if cooked)
13.  Remove from oven and cool in trays for 5 minutes
14.   Turn onto wire rack and cool completely

 

 

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Have you tried my banana bread? What did you think?

Make the Time – Its worth It!

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Girls Day Out With Mr 3!

As you can probably tell by the lack of posts lately that I have been absolutely run off my feet, between studying for exams, assignments, looking after the kids, keeping the house semi-organised from being a complete shambles, organising dinners, the kids’ homework, sorting out our house, our holiday, etc. I have had no time for anything ‘fun’!

I decided as K (3) and I haven’t really had time to do anything alone recently I’d forget about all the shit I ‘need’ to do and just spend time with the little guy. We got a day that D was at school and C was at work where he should beand we took advantage of it. We had the ultimate girls day (yes I realise he is a boy) but we had so much fun.

He got a haircut (he loves getting it cut and spiked up); we bought him a new pair of shoes ($15 Slazenger sneakers from Spendless Shoes or something like that. What a BARGAIN!! And to top it off we went to an actual real café for lunch.

We dined at Cino’s in East Maitland – Greenhills.

The service was fantastic, food was great and the coffee was delicious.

I ordered a big breaky – Don’t be judging me I was freaking starving! – $17.90

K got chicken nuggets and chips – $7.90 which I might add was a waste of money. K was only interested in helping me devour my meal. I did find the prices a bit high but I think that’s the chef coming out in me (I know roughly what everything costs and how much profit they would have made). However the atmosphere was good and best of all it was kid friendly. K and I talked about loads of different things and he got really excited, I just loved the look he had in his eyes.

He was having fun and so was I!

This is something I am going to have to make time to do on a regular basis with the family, whether it is all of us at once or just one on one. It was almost therapeutic to actually sit, relax and just talk (yes I am aware I was talking to a 3 year old but gee has he got some interesting stories to tell)  ;p

Do you have regular dates with your husband/wife/partner? Kids?

What do you do to mix things up?  

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