Breakfast cereals are a product that come with a fair amount of packaging. Many families can get through lots of packets of cereal per week. Making your own cereals like this easy homemade muesli [...]

Here is another one of our purees from our award winning Munch Seasonal Cookbook for Baby and Family –  banana avocado baby puree! It is super simple to make. I used to eat the left overs [...]

I love it when you come across a cookbook and when thumbing through it for the first time you  want to bookmark nearly each and every recipe – that has to be a good sign.. right?!? Well, that is [...]

Breakfast is definitely one of my favourite meals and an important meal for everyone. It is always a busy time at breakfast in our house, so its great to have something that everyone likes to [...]

My  favourite meal of the day has always been breakfast. I recently started making refrigerator oatmeal to add a bit of variety to my breakfast menu. You need to pop it in the fridge the night [...]

Philippa Murphy is a mother, the founder and director of BabyCues and a leading postnatal educator, both in New Zealand and Internationally. With twenty years experience in this field, Philippa [...]

This recipe for Magnificent Cinnamon Cranberry Crunch Muesli would make a great homemade Christmas present. Magnificent Cinnamon Cranberry Crunch Muesli What I found very interesting about this [...]

Linseed, Sunflower and Almond ground together is often referred to as LSA. It has a sweet nutty flavour and I think it is quite delicious and extremely good for you. Linseed, Sunflower and Almond [...]

In this post we share a wonderful recipe from Melissa Jack – The Everything Muffin recipe. You know when you have that one brown banana that you don’t want to waste, but one isn’t really [...]

If you have read any of our other posts on Smoothies, you would know that we are quite keen on them here at Munch. In this post we share one of Kate Day’s smoothie recipes – her [...]

With Freddie now at preschool breakfasts have become essential! I definitely notice a difference in how he behaves when I pick him up at the end of the day. On the days when he’s had a decent [...]

I have always wanted to try making my own nut butter, and this peanut, cashew and brazil nut butter has a great flavour and texture.  You can personalise this recipe by using your own blend of [...]

I think that utilising a euphemism or two when discussing food with your children can get you a long way without much culinary effort, and this is what I have done with these oaty pancakes. I was [...]

Freddie loves berries. In fact natural yoghurt with some frozen berries in is a favourite dessert which he’s nicknames icey yoghurt!Berries are a superfood packed full of vitamin C. Something our [...]

Being a mum is full on! I recently created this great recipe: muesli for mums. This muesli is packed full of nutrients that will help keep your whole family healthy and full of energy. A bowl of [...]

  Toast. Hot, buttered. Drizzled with honey. Scraped with marmite. Smeared with pate. Dripping with melted cheese. What’s not to love? The problem is that sometimes (often) I think I can [...]

If I write about how important breakfast is, will you all fall off your chairs with boredom? Yes, probably. It’s old news isn’t it? So I’ll start by talking about coffee. Ah, coffee. I only need [...]

On a cold blustery Wellington morning there is nothing more warming than a bowl of hot porridge to get you going!  Not just any porridge but a porridge with fruit and nuts recipe for us to enjoy. [...]

In this post we share a recipe for a breakfast makeover pineapple paradise smoothie. Fruit smoothie recipes are a great quick and easy way to start the day and there are a few simple tricks to [...]

In this post we share with you a great recipe for your toddler – cheesy, eggy bread. This is another one of our great toddler breakfast recipes. If you liked our Sugar Free Banana Bread, [...]

In this post we share another one of our Best Toddler breakfast recipes.  This is another French toast inspired recipe, we call it healthy French toast fingers. If you liked our cheesy, eggy [...]

Well I’ve been doing a bit more reading into why high sugar breakfast cereal is such a problem and as far as I can tell there are a couple of big issues. The first one being that the energy [...]

Often I am not at my best before my first cup of coffee (we still get up to one of our little ones a lot in the night). So I like to know what I am going to make for breakfast. Luckily, my three [...]

My friend Charlotte sent me an email asking for tips on how to get her 11 month old to eat more breakfast. As I, along with lots of other Mums I know, have been through this exact same experience [...]