#6 - Homemade > Store-Bought: Brownies, Cookies & Seriously Good Kitchen Swaps

🍫 Kate’s $7 Brownie Rebellion
Kate refuses to buy tiny café brownies for the kids and bakes her own big, gooey tray instead – topped with a sprinkle of Murray River salt. Simon taste-tests (brutally honestly) and LOVES it.

🍝 Next-Level Bolognese Tips
Simon shares his chef secrets for a proper bolognese:
- Why a splash of milk at the end is magic
- A tiny grate of nutmeg and even chicken livers (trust him!)
- Pancetta vs bacon
- Why fettuccine/tagliatelle beats spaghetti for holding sauce
- Turning leftovers into pies, toasties, nachos & stuffed veg

🥗 30-Second Creamy Salad Dressing (No E-Numbers)
Simon whisks up a “creamy” dressing with:
Extra virgin olive oil, Balsamic (guava, pomegranate or whatever you’ve got), Mustard or lemon horseradish cream... All in under a minute – no bottles, no weird ingredients.

🍪 Forking Good Gooey Skillet Cookie
Then Simon rolls out his “brownie points” – a hot skillet cookie with:
Gooey cookie dough, A hidden layer of Nutella, A scoop of his Much Moore Christmas mince pie & vanilla ice cream, Finished with flake salt for that final 5% magic

🎒 Kids’ Lunchboxes, Waste & Real-Life Eating
Kate and Simon chat about:

Why kids’ lunchboxes are full of packets (and what to swap instead)
- White bread vs proper grain bread
- Fruit vs “99% fruit” lollies
- Getting kids to pack their own lunch
- The 80/20 rule: healthy most of the time, fun some of the time

🧼 Old-School Soap Shaker & Zero-Waste Dishes
Kate shows Simon a seriously cool retro gadget: the soap shaker – a metal basket for solid dish soap that replaces plastic bottles and watery detergents. Plus: Wasted Kate dishcloths and how you can win some.

💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION
Tell us in the comments:

Are you Team Brownie or Team Skillet Cookie?

What’s your go-to, actually-eaten-by-kids lunchbox combo?

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