At the School Gates - Our news blog

Meet the Creator - Happyosity
When we pack a healthy, nutritious school lunch for our children, this shows love and compassion. Why not take it up a notch? Choose to include one of 20 unique HAPPYOSITY lunch box cards and empower and inspire your child.
There is no doubt that the cards could change anyone's mood throughout the school day, but who stands behind this brilliant invention?

Let's Create - Halloween Monsters
Introducing a new segment to our blog - 'Let's create,' where crafts are made fun with plenty of ideas on how to spend that rainy afternoon with your little ones.
Let's start with some Halloween Creations!
Check out this step-by-step on how to...

3 Tasty Recipes To Put In Your Mummy Cooks Food Flask
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!

Have you experienced our wonderful service?
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!

The World's Worst Children
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
- Charles Dickens

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

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

Arckit
“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

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
“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

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

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

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