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It has been a busy year, studying, working, moving house and looking after my kids. I used to plan my weekly menu’s and shopping lists etc. However, moving house sort of stopped this happening, with so much needing to be done to my new house I found myself forever catching up with what needed to be done last week.

My cooking went became not quite as healthy as I would like. Meat pies, sausage rolls vegetables…. a bit more take away than I would like, cutting corners to save time.

Then I stumbled across the Six O’clock Scramble – I was a bit dubious at first about whether the recipes on this site would match what my kids and I would eat. But I liked that I could plan a menu for how every many days I needed to cook and then it gave me a shopping list! I figured for approximately $1 a week it was worth a try.

Most of the meals can be adjusted for vegetarians – which is good as quite often my budget doesn’t quite stretch to meat (which my boys eat but I don’t). I like the fact that I am able to choose dishes based on what is in the pantry, how quick it is to cook and on how I wish to cook it (for example – I use my slow cooker often – when I am at work, my meal cooks for me and dinner is ready when we get home so we can eat, bath and then bed for my boys).

My favorite meal so far is lemon feta chicken for two reasons – it was delicious and it took next to no time to prepare.

I now know what I am cooking for each meal and I have a shopping list this has meant that I am much less likely to resort to takeaway and I tend to buy only what I need – this has saved me quite a lot of money (I would say about $50-60 per week) – we eat much healthier and it has given me back the confidence that I can cook a decent, tasty meal.

The only downside of the Six Oclock Scramble is that all the measurements are in onces and pounds and living in Australia all measurements here are in grams.

I have had a few people over for dinner and to stay and they think I am a good and organised cook – and well with the Scramble I am!

If you wish to subscribe to the Six O’Clock Scramble you can use my promotional code GLREB5446 – this gives you a discount and extends my subscription by a month. They also have a book which is on quick to make recipes – I haven’t read or used it but if it is as good as the site it would be a good buy it is: The Six O’Clock Scramble: Quick, Healthy, and Delicious Dinner Recipes for Busy Families

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Yesterday my son was sick and as he got worse as the day went on I decided to take him to the doctor. I usually like to wait a few days as often they get better, but with him having spent the weekend with his Dad I didn’t know if he had already been unwell.

Anyway it was just as well I did as his lungs were starting to sound like he was getting a chest infection and thus he was put on antibiotics – today he is nearly like his old self again. Anyway that is not why I am writing.

While at the doctors – the doctor weighed and measured him – they need to do this to calculate the dose of the antibiotics. However, when the doctor went to put his weight into the computer – the program would not let him as my son was outside the parameters for a two (nearly three year old). The computer would only let him put a weight in of up to 18kg and he was 21kg and a height up to 108cm and he is 110cm.

My son is big for his age – which can be a pain at times – particularly when he was younger as kids and parents would think he was much older and expect him to act older (like when he was nearly two and hurt a five year old who had pushed him).

It got me thinking how stressful standard heights and weights are… what if you child weighs too much or too little. Are we making a situation that may make our children paroThe standard weight and height chart that is used in Australia dates back to the 70’s surely they have the stats available that it could be updated.

If a child’s measurements cannot be entered onto a doctors computer – how can they be properly monitored – surely the computer needs to be capable to accept variations.

What is a normal size anyway?