Homemade bread is the stuff fairytale parenthood is made of: a smiling serene mother with her hands in yeasty dough, a crowd of smiling serene children who sniff the air appreciatively when the shiny warm homemade loaf comes out of the oven… right? Yeah right. 

While freshly baked bread may not be the perfect answer to children’s tantrums and mum’s cabin fever, it is a lot cheaper and healthier to eat. Here are some easy family recipes for homemade bread:

• Delicious banana bread
• Dotty sultana cake-like bread
• Chocolate banana bread (you can replace the chocolate with dried fruit for a healthier recipe)
• Easy coconut loaf
• Date and walnut loaf (perfect for the kids’ lunchboxes).

Do you have a favourite recipe for homemade bread? Share them online with other mums and dads at Kidspot Social. And here is one of mine: take your favourite homemade bread recipe and add a Tablespoon of all of the following (unless the recipe already calls for it or unless you are allergic to one of the ingredients): poppy seed, quiona, flax seed, sunflower seed, sesame seed, bran. 

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• Kids cooking.
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