If Bambu’s aim is to ‘create interest and excitement around renewable materials and sustainable practices’ then the goal has definitely been achieved.
We all want our homes to be a safe place for our children as well as a place where they can learn self-sufficiency. There are many crucial life skills taught in the kitchen alongside the many laughs and interactions with family and friends which take place there over the years.
I have been using my Lunchskins snack and sandwich bags (featured here in September 2009) for quite a while now and can vouch that they are excellent quality and easy to clean. My boys are used to using them too, which really is a lesson to us parents that kids easily adopt environmentally-conscientious behaviour, even … [Read more.]
Ask and we shall receive! Kids Konserve waste-free lunch kits have just arrived in Australia.
Parents who have just finished buying up big on school and kindergarten supplies will probably agree that the lunchbox purchase is a harrowing ordeal. My children like to pick their own and I’m almost always presented with three flimsy plastic boxes in awkward sizes that look just like every other lunchbox in the class. Enough … [Read more.]
My eldest son is pretty hilarious trying to eat with chopsticks at our local Vietnamese restaurant but I’m always so proud of him for trying. Those noodles do tend to escape him and eventually he resorts to the fork.
Deep into the ‘terrible twos’, my daughter is pretty much refusing all vegetables. Spinach (in the form of spinach quiche) is the only green that passes her lips. I’ve thought about disguising the good stuff à la ‘chocolate and broccoli cupcakes’ but decided against it; I don’t want to create a twenty-year-old who’ll only eat … [Read more.]
Since having our daughter, our food containers and jars seem to have quadrupled. We use them every day: for breakfast on the verandah, lunch at the park and dinner at the table. All have lids as it’s imperative they can transport easily. Being used and washed many times over, I’ve definitely noticed which ones last … [Read more.]
One of my favourite cuisines is Japanese but I’ve never really tried making it at home. Being spoiled for choice for food living in Sydney, the boys and I love chomping on California rolls from local restaurants. These novel machines, the Gyoza and Sushi makers, would be brilliant for a fun afternoon in the kitchen … [Read more.]
Shortly after breakfast each day, I try really hard to turn my mind to what we’ll have for dinner. That may sound terribly organised but it is actually quite the opposite. I find that if I don’t have an early plan of attack, the day gets away from me and I end up resorting to … [Read more.]
For a long time I had a hard time getting my eldest boy to eat sandwiches. He was too young to handle loose food in a container with a spoon by himself so sometimes I just needed something that he could eat with his hands. I tried every imaginative filling I could but it seems … [Read more.]
I have two school-aged children and another heading towards the ranks of kindergarten. I deal with the lunchbox quandry five days a week. I’ve tried and invested in the Tupperware and I’ve bought just about every kind of zip-lock bag available. I am, however, yet to try the Reusable Fresh Snack Pack. These reusuable pouches … [Read more.]
