The Knit Guru

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  • Comfort Food

    I found a bunch of photos from earlier.  I thought I had lost them when my camera died… but it turns out I didn’t!  Yay! So here we have a pasta bake, nut mix with cranberries in the side bits. In the main section, boiled egg, strawberries, cheese slice and a couple of baked stuffed Read more

  • And Another Way With Iskender

    The Iskender revisited.  We now all know I LOVE LEFTOVERS and this is why…. Yummo.  The dark section is beetroot, yogurt and hummus in the other side, lettuce, carrot and cucumber with felafel patties and rice things… done in one of those rice shapers…. a heart and a star.  Too cute to eat really.  But Read more

  • Picking Away at the Food

    This was my Model UN lunch…. we were running a Model UN event, and I wanted something I could totally eat on the run. Here we have strawberries, kiwifruit with a giraffe pick, peanut butter lunch punch puzzle sandwiches, popcorn, mixed nuts, small sports-ball chocolates…. and there was a yogurt and fruit pottle on the Read more

  • Muffin-tin Iskender

    After a lot of talking about Art today and how it really is breaking down things into smaller parts, this happened for dinner…. a deconstructed Iskender.  Which is nice…. as the foods don’t touch!  Lol. Here we have:– Felafel patties– Cucumber cubes– Grated Carrot– Cubed beetroot– Lettuce slices– Hummus– Yogurt dressing And it was all Read more

  • And a popular but simple lunch

    Okay, this lunch had the kids totally in awe, and I wasn’t really that impressed with how it turned out… We have an easy lunchbox, with:– Boiled egg (in cutesy eggshell holder)– Homemade hummus in the penguin holder to dip the vege sticks in– Carrot and Cucumber sticks with an elephant pick– Peanut Butter on Read more

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