Lunch Lady Magazine

Lunch Lady is a quarterly keepsake full of meaningful content, inspiring family stories, easy DIY, stacks of recipes plus funny relatable opinion pieces about the ups and downs of raising childrwn. It's a magazine where parenting is not taken too seriously but a balanced approach to family life is.

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playful modern kids. • Creative couple Shay and Fran are the dynamic duo behind photo agency Imagenfotografi, and together photograph, video and produce inspiring content for brands all over the globe. Their art has propelled them to live the lives they always wanted and break generational trauma along the way.

block party • A diy guide to making your very own set of building blocks with Beci Orpin.

Raising mentally fit kids. • With author, educator and positive thinker Kari Sutton.

Mama and creative Patti Andrews talks about gluten-free fuss-free food, family and adventure.

bean tacos • I’ve been waiting for the kids to get sick of this meal but it is always devoured, silence befalling the table. A quiet interrupted only by the occasional jalapeño eating competition. Cue squeals, watering eyes and calls for a glass of milk.

forest pasta

sunshine bowls • This is Go Go’s happy place. She loves rice, raw vegetables and doing things herself.

corn burgers • We always say we will leave the beach earlier on summer evenings. But Louis is somewhere searching for octopus in the rock pools, Go Go is up a tree and the light is lovely enough to ignore the fact that we will have approximately 12 minutes to get dinner on the table at home. This meal can be packed into lunchboxes for assembly at the beach for such evenings. BYO chip-shop chips and salty kids.

chicken nuggies with pink pickles + fancy cos • Mid-week dinners are not the time for an Ottolenghi buffet, nor are they the time for a thrice-coated, dunked and spiced chicken nugget. Cut every corner with a one-ingredient brine and one-ingredient coating. The first time I did this I had zero faith it would work, but the brine gods were shining down on me that day and every time I have made it since.

why do kids stop drawing? • Associate Professor Misty Adoniou makes a convincing case for a world where drawing doesn’t stop at childhood.

taking back power • Kemi Nekvapil wants women to take ownership of their power, and it all begins with living in the present.

anna jones chats one pot, pan + planet. • British chef and mother Anna Jones believes one of the best ways we can help the planet is by rethinking how we shop, cook and eat.

GREENS + KIMCHI FRIED RICE

LATE SUMMER CORN + TOMATO CURRY

HALLOUMI, BROCCOLI + CHICKPEA BAKE

MELON, POTATO, HERB + ROAST FETA SALAD

PISTACHIO + TAHINI FRIDGE TIFFIN

hello kindah • Artist and mum Kindah Khalidy talks inspirations, collaborations and work after kids.

let’s play a painting game! • Inspired by Kindah Khalidy’s book, Once Upon an Empty Canvas.

meet sam. • Father, lawyer, former political adviser and disability advocate Sam shares his experience of growing up disabled and the journey to becoming a father.

STANDING NAKED IN FRONT OF STRANGERS HELPED ME LOVE MY BODY BY MANDY NOLAN

THE CONTRACT BY LORELEI VASHTI

the contract :)

REASONS YOU SHOULD NEVER SPEAK IN FRONT OF YOUR KIDS (AND OTHER LEARNINGS OF A PRESCHOOL TEACHER) BY ANISA MACLEAN

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