Top THREE Fast Healthy Lunch ideas

Food
I have thousands of dinner recipies but for some reason I'm always stumped for lunch ideas. Especially now I'm on a roll loosing this baby weight I wanted to start actually watching what I eat. Realistically Archer needs all the nutrition too since what I'm eating is what is creating his milk... God the other day I had scollap potato for breakfast, nachos for lunch and pizza for dinner! Don't hate on me. 

Rice Cakes 
a brilliant substitute to bread - my go to toppings are currently philli cream cheese, tomato salt and pepper and avocado.

Vege Pasta
if you don't have a vege pasta thingo GET ONE! Seriously so yum and so healthy - a hit with the kids and cooks up so quick. Mix in some pesto and wallah. 

Stuffed veggies 
Take the inside out of a tomato a capsicum or a mushroom, stuff with some seasoned mince, tuna, feta and spinach or any other fillings you desire. Oven bake till cooked!



Mummy Blogger Makes | Bacon Wraped Eggs

Breakfast
I saw this recipie this morning on MyFridgeFood.com and made it straight away for morning tea! 
It's as tasty and simple as it looks 😍 

This is the image I saw when I was drawn to the recipie! My own didn't look as nice as this but let's face it nothing ever does. 

What you need :
Bacon
Eggs
Milk
Cheese



How to make :
Place a strip of bacon in each hole. 
Whisk eggs milk and cheese together.


Pour egg mixture into the middle of each hole.


Cook at 210 degrees for about 25 minutes or until golden! 


Mummy Blogger Makes || featuring thesweetmamalife

easy

This week on mummybloggermakes we have Karly joining us to share one of her easy family friendly meals! I actually love this and planning in trying out her recipie Friday night. 

As you all know Friday I'm attending a Melbourne market so hopefully this is a quick easy and super yum meal for me to throw together once I'm home (: 


The Sweet Mama Life’s Easy Weeknight Pie


I’m no Martha Stewart. In fact, I’m probably the exact opposite! Our house is clean, but always untidy; I always manage to find a way to get lint on the washing; and I can’t cook to save my life. So I love it when I find a recipe that I can actually cook AND tastes delicious AND is a cheap weeknight meal for a family on a budget with a new baby. Easy, cheap, and delicious – who doesn’t love that!? The other thing I love about this recipe is that you can mix it up and add whatever ingredients take your fancy. I have provided the basic pie recipe with a few examples of how you can mix it up, but the choices really are endless!



Ingredients:


1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 large brown onion, finely diced
500g lean beef mince
125ml (1/2 cup) tomato sauce
60ml (1/4 cup) Worcestershire sauce
60ml (1/4 cup) boiling water
1 egg, lightly whisked
1 sheet of frozen puff pastry, thawed.  

Method:

Preheat oven to 200°C.

Heat oil in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes.

Add mince and cook, stirring to break up lumps, for 3 minutes or until it changes colour.

Add tomato sauce, Worcestershire and 60ml (1/4 cup) of water and cook for 5 minutes or until sauce thickens.

Divide among four 300ml ovenproof dishes or ramekins.

Cut puff pastry to size and place over top of ramekin, pressing sides down gently with a fork. Brush with egg. Make a slit in the pastry top with the point of a knife. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.


Mix it up!

Serve pies with mashed potato and steamed vegetables for a healthy and hearty meal.

Add grated carrot and zucchini to the mince mixture for an extra dose of hidden nutrients for those fussy eaters.

Add some bacon when cooking off onion, and a layer of cheese between the meat and pastry for some cheese and bacon goodness.

Scrap the pastry and top your pie with some creamy mashed potato for Shepherd’s pie perfection!

Cook 300g frozen baby peas until soft and mash with a dollop of butter for those that love their pies with mushy peas.


You can find Karly on Instagram as @thesweetmamalife or on her blog thesweetmamalife.blogspot.com ! 

Christmas & Boxing Day

Boxing Day
My Grumps (grandfather) said something yesterday which pretty much summed it all up in a few short words. "We look forward to this moment each year, it's a shame that it only comes around once".
It touched my heart a little because even though I try to take Charlie to see them as much as I can. Some of the family only do visit once a year for Christmas and it's the only time we are all together at once. 

Christmas Day 
We woke up at 6am! I was so excited for Charlie to open his presents I didn't even try to coax him back for snuggles to et some extra sleep! He opened all the presents from us and santa, then the mad rush began to prepare food and set up tables for lunch which I was hosting (: 
With the help of my fiancé and sister in law we got everything set up and looking lovely! (: 
The day was fabulous, great company, delicious food, alcohol and lots of laughs. Charlie got absolutely spoilt rotten! He has so many toys which I don't even know where to put. 
The extended families all left at their own pace and for the immediate family the lunch tuned into dinner where all the left overs once again made a really good feast. 



Boxing Day
Boxing Day we went and visited my grandparents on my dads side who we did not see on Christmas Day. They absolutely adore Charlie and I wish I could take him to see them so much more often! 
Afterwards we went to Shane's mums side of the family which was a dinner. That was a fabulous afternoon with food, backyard cricket, fun, laughter and some more sneaky beverages! (: 


Night life of a mum

cocktails
Being a mum is exhausting, most of my nights consist of a cold dinner once Charlie is in bed. A shower which I jump out of three million times because I think I hear him screaming... Yes he was asleep each and every time. Then falling asleep before I get the chance to do things like paint my nails or read a book.

But, last night was different! I carried out Charlie's normal bed time routine, dinner bath bottle bed (then left him at home under the care of his Nan). Then got dressed up, and headed out on the town for dinner and cocktails, followed with some late night shopping and then some more vodka! It was my girlfriends 19th birthday and we thought we would treat ourselves! 

Let me just say... Thankyou to Hogs Breath Cafe, may your curly fries cause me to become obese! And your cocktails cause me to become an alcoholic! 



If my last meal was this all over again, I would die one happy woman! 

I guess the purpose of this post is to let all you mums know that it's OK to have a break for a few hours! Have one or five well deserved drinks! You will get home and be so refreshed and ready to face your daily routine again untill a few months go by and you want that break again 😂 haha! 


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