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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arty farty • Papier- mache, farts & a giant puppy named Arty. Welcome to the artistic universe of Misaki kawai...

meet mariam issa • Community leader, author, speaker, ambassador for the Refugee Council of Australia and mother-of-five Mariam Issa has lived an extraordinary life. But despite all the trials and tribulations, Mariam leads with compassion and love and believes connection and courage can transform us all.

queen of common sense. • Teacher, counsellor, mother of four boys + author of six parenting books Maggie Dent knows a thing or two about raising kids.

salad maker • Hetty McKinnon is well known for food that builds community. From cafe owner to author, Hetty has built a life around creating delicious vegetarian dishes. Here she shares her tips on making friends and throwing together the perfect side dish.

The Anatomy of a Salad • A great salad is like a novel, with many chapters and characters—along with a few plot twists—that come together in the end to create a cohesive story. I love this analogy because it really encapsulates how I conceive my salad recipes. I start with one hero vegetable (or two); team it with a hearty legume or grain; add some leaves for greenery, herbs for freshness, nuts and seeds for texture; and finish it all off with the crucial element: the salad dressing.

Summer flowers that taste great in salads. • When eating flowers, always double-check the variety to ensure you don’t accidentally eat something that could be dangerous. Also, avoid eating flowers growing commercially or in public spaces where sprays might be used or dogs might do their business. Once picked, lay your flowers in single layers on paper towel and pop them in containers to store in the fridge. All edible flowers are best eaten the same day they’re picked. If you have any allergies, be careful about trying edible flowers as they may aggravate some allergies.

Salad dressings • All ingredients can be popped in a jar and shaken, except for the Avocado Herb Dressing. You’ll need to blend this one for best results.

the young ones. • PHOTOGRAPHER CARINE THÉVENAU HAS BEEN TAKING PICTURES SINCE SHE WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD. HER MOST RECENT DOCO SERIES WAS MOTIVATED BY HER DESIRE TO PHOTOGRAPH WHAT REALLY MATTERS.

Zine girls • CELIA C PÉREZ’S LOVE OF PUNK MUSIC INSPIRED HER LIFELONG ADDICTION TO JOURNALLING. HERE SHE TALKS PARENTING, PUNK, WRITING CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND THE STEPS TO MAKING THE PERFECTLY IMPERFECT ZINE.

make a simple 8-page zine with kids. (from just a piece of paper!) • A zine, pronounced zeen (just like the end of the word magazine), is a homemade publication. There are no set rules for making zines. A zine can be about anything you’re interested in. Really! There are all kinds: fanzines (a zine about something or someone you love), cooking zines, comic zines, art zines, poetry zines, and personal zines where people write about their daily lives. The content and appearance is completely up to the creator and can be as simple or as complicated as you want.

children’s ground • Margaret Kemarre (MK) Turner OAM and Leonie Kngwarraye Palmer are respected Arrernte Elders, grandmothers, professors, cultural advisers, translators, teachers and social justice champions who helped establish Children’s...