At the School Gates - Our news blog

In need of some lunchbox inspiration or having trouble getting your little ones to finish their school lunch? Well, using a food flask may be what you need to get them excited about their food again! Hot lunches allow for so much more flexibility and children often prefer a cooked meal as their lunch. When making the family dinners, simply double up the ingredients and set aside the leftovers for the school lunches. All that is left to do in the morning is heat up the food, and pack it into you child's food flask!

Another summer is reaching its peak - and what summer it has been! For the last couple of months, we've been busy packing and shipping books to cities, towns, and villages all over Ireland. As a 100% Irish owned company, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional value and service, and we are delighted that our customers seem to agree that we are doing just that. See below for yourself!

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." - Charles Dickens

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.” ― Emma Donoghue, Room

“When in doubt, go to the library.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will” – George Bernard Shaw

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” ― George Orwell, 1984

“Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” ~Bethenny Frankel

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.” – Mark Anthony

"He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone