Complete Guide to a Healthy Lifestyle
HEALTHY LIVING
Your family guide to health and happiness! Bookmark our fab health articles and favourite products. Watch our Green Event Guide and our fave picks of blogs & sites. We also have gallery of Green Stars, to inspire you!
GREEN HOME
What shade of green is your home? Our articles, product recommendations, home product guide and shortcut to GREAT online shopping sites will help you create a more sustainable, eco-friendly, energy-saving and cost effective home.
CONSCIOUS PARENTING
Every parent needs to hear words of inspiration from time to time! From family planning & pregnancy to birth and beyond… we’ll share excellent current articles & options that encourage well-being for all!
MOMENTS & MEMORIES
Whether you’re planning a holiday, day trip or going out for a meal, we’ll share our best travel articles loaded with tips, family friendly accommodation, and restaurants and even help you capture the memories!
GREEN KIDS
Daphne, Protector of the Forest, shares the most amazing videos full of ideas, information and good green stuff!!
GREEN STARS
Amazing people and initiatives making our world a shade greener with inspiring ideas – for the good of our children & our earth.
HEALTHY RECIPES
What’s for dinner? Healthy, thrifty and quick recipes for your family… breakfast ideas, snacks, drinks, salads, light meals and even sweet treats.
SPECIAL OFFERS & GIVEAWAYS
Let’s face it… families COST moolah!…We’ll find the most amazing green family deals and offers and FABULOUS GIVEAWAYS for your family! .
Helping families go ‘green’ since 2007!
Our journey started 9 years ago! We were mamas with new-borns, desperate for a bit of guidance. We knew that there were innovative and eco-friendly baby products out there, but were clueless where to find them.
Necessity really is the mother of invention … we sourced products and articles that ‘felt good’ to us, inspired us and helped us survive and decided to share them! So the Survival Guide for Families magazine was born.
By the time the babies, who’d suckled while we burnt the midnight oil doing layouts, started ‘Big School’, we discovered that they weren’t the only things that had changed. The world was a very different place!
It was time for us to change too! Even eco paper did not feel light enough on the planet and totally unnecessary in a technologically changed world where sharing information quickly and inexpensively is possible.
So here we are, your green family guide to help your whole family thrive!
What’s New
Wonderful Winter Recipes to Melt the Soul
We may not get much snow in the winter here in South Africa, but the howling winds, icy temperatures and […]
Sustainabrations – Ways to Party and Celebrate Sustainably!
We all love celebrations and everything they come with. A slice of cake, a smile and perhaps a little bit […]
Boost Your Pet’s Wellness with Healthy Treats and Care
For most pet owners, their much-loved furry companion is one of the family. That means that our quest for healthy […]
Himkaar Singh – Compost Entrepreneur!
Meet our Green Star, Himkaar Singh! Himkaar Singh’s journey into the composting of organic waste was borne out of his […]
Celebrating Father’s Day – A Gifting Guide
This Father’s Day, let’s go big on celebrating dads, step-dads and all fatherly figures. While material gifts are lovely, the […]
Celebrating Our Favourite Heroes This Father’s Day
Precious memories of Dad can be traced back to the very beginning, with him bouncing us on his sturdy shoulders […]
Four Big Reasons to Grow Your Own Microgreens
More than just the faddish darlings of trendy chefs, microgreens are finding a fresh way into home kitchens. These succulent seedlings […]
Why Your Teen Needs Privacy
As parents we feel a certain pride when our teens stake out their rights to more and more autonomy. After all, […]
Boomerang Kids! How to Co-Exist, Peacefully
Just when you thought you could finally enjoy life for yourself and have some ME time, with the kids finally […]
Visit a National Garden and Participate in the Challenge!
South African cities are joining more than 400 others around the world in the 2022 City Nature Challenge by inviting […]
Thrive by Five – Survey of Preschool Child Development
Largest survey of preschool child development in South Africa finds 65% of 4-5 year olds are failing to thrive 65% […]
Get Your Home Ready for Winter!
The cold is setting in around many parts of the country. Winter is knocking at the door and for many […]
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