Lunch Lady

These beauties are full of the good stuff, take 20 mins to bake and last a week in the fridge. That’s the lunchbox treat for next week sorted. Makes 12 muesli bars.

There are labours of love in this world, and then there’s the Ai Pioppi Playground. The brainchild of 79-year-old grandfather and madcap inventor Bruno Ferrin, the Ai Pioppi Playground has been almost 50 years in the making – a miracle of hand-welding, scrap metal and basic physics that has produced something truly unique: a theme park that runs entirely on gravity.

Super healthy, CHEAP, delicious and easy, Dhal is a winner when you’re looking for a little winter warmth but you’re out of dinner ideas.

Lighthouse began in 1865 with a Scottish merchant trading in spices, tea and flour. He started the Robert Harper Trading Co. which grew into the Lighthouse brand alongside a rapidly changing world. In 2002 Anchor foods brought the Lighthouse brand to the West Coast of Australia where it now happily resides in the port town of Fremantle.

Tip 1. If you want to make rainbow or striped chalk, allow each layer to set slightly before pouring the next one. For swirly chalk, layer the colours and then take a bamboo skewer and run it through the liquid plaster.

I was inspired to create something beautiful and organic that families need. A simple but playful product that appealed to my personal taste.

Inspired by the Girl Guides, this ingenious muffin trick works a treat in any campfire.

We didn’t really see ourselves as coffee roasters in the beginning because our café was our home. This changed after we opened our second store and realised where we wanted to take it. From there we had to really learn and grow.

It’s no secret that Mexico is dealing with more than its fair share of issues these days. Home to an ongoing war with its numerous drug cartels that has claimed somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 lives, it’s a country that is living the Narcos nightmare in real time.

I’ve always been interested in design and it started out as a purely functional design project – how do I solve the problem of tampons falling out in my handbag? But it quickly evolved into something far deeper as I discovered the synthetic ingredients used in traditional tampons; I realised there was a direct correlation between the ingredients in tampons and their effect on our bodies and environment.

Four quick, yummy sandwich ideas to get you through this week.

Michael Allpress was inspired to start Allpress Espresso after witnessing the specialty coffee revival in Seattle during the late 80’s. This is where he first learned about specialty coffee and was inspired to bring it back to New Zealand. He started the country’s first coffee cart and later began roasting coffee in the back of a garage.