I buy a lot of biscuits from the baby food aisle and both my kids love them but it’s always nicer (and cheaper!!) to make your own. The Boy loves helping me in the kitchen so I try where I can to involve him when I bake. As you have guessed by now I try to avoid giving the kids sugar wherever possible so here are 3 biscuit recipes that are baby, toddler, child and adult friendly and none of them have any refined sugar in them. The first one does have honey but it’s a small amount so it’s good for children over 1 but remember that under 1’s should not have honey. I have called this post Sugar Free Biscuits – Part 1 as I have a few more recipes in my collection but want to save them for another day! Continue reading
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Easy Egg Free Recipes
I realised recently that most of my recipes – particularly my “baking” ones (I can’t really call what I do baking!) – contain eggs. I have a few friends with children who are allergic to egg so whenever I am making them meals I have to come up with egg free recipes. Here are my 3 favourite easy egg free recipes.
7 days of Breakfasts
I got such an overwhelmingly positive response to my 7 Days of Lunches post that I thought I would show you what Little Lady has for breakfast over a week too. It’s not as varied as her lunches admittedly but I do try to give her different things as much as I can. I always try to give her a carb and some fruit and if I can get some dairy into her breakfast then that’s a bonus too. I hope these 7 Days of Breakfasts inspire you! Continue reading
Easy Sugar-Free Rice Pudding (Cakes)
I am a member of a large parenting group on Facebook and two common questions are “what calcium rich snack can I give my child instead of their afternoon bottle” and “what healthy desserts can I give that aren’t full of sugar”. I love rice pudding and I wanted to give my kids some but all the ones in supermarkets are loaded with sugar and any recipe I have seen also contains sugar. That called for me making lots of mess and doing lots of tasting in my kitchen (Mr MyMiniMeals is now calling our kitchen “the experimental kitchen” – a la Heston) and – Voila! – I came up with something really rather tasty. Continue reading
Peanut Butter and Banana Cookies
Being a Stay at Home Mum I really value the times that Little Lady naps whilst The Boy is at school as its “Mummy time”!! Normally while Little Lady sleeps I do a bit of cooking or cleaning then I always make sure I sit down with my lunch and watch some TV. One of my favourite things to watch is Masterchef Australia and I absolutely love Matt Preston’s recipes as, like me, he uses hardly any ingredients and, like me (!!!), ends up with delicious things. One thing he made in the last series stuck with me as a great thing to make for the kids but as it contains lots of sugar I didn’t make it. Then recently I had a brainwave and amended the recipe and I created a completely (refined) sugar free yummy snack. Little Lady gobbled them up and as usual I have yet to tempt The Boy to try them. Mr Mini Meals also said they were yummy.
Super quick breakfast ideas
In my household breakfast (especially on weekdays) is a really rushed experience and I have been giving my kids the same thing every day as I know a) they will eat it and b) I haven’t got time to think of different things to make them. The Boy tends to have the same cereal every day and Little Lady (who eats once we are home from school run) has toast or a different brand of cereal. But I have recently started (especially for Little Lady as she is my guinea pig and eats most things) giving them different things. At the weekend we all eat as a family and have more time to make different things (I frequently make 4 different breakfasts!) but I am slowly starting to give everyone the same thing that I have made from scratch (much to The Boy’s horror!).
Here are a few things I have been making recently that have gone down well with my kids and Mr Mini Meals and they really are ridiculously quick to make!
Yummy Chewy “Biscuits”
This is another recipe I found online but, when I tried it, it just didn’t work so I adapted it and the result are “biscuits” that are like chewy in the middle “fudgy” cookies. I have to admit they look unattractive but are really yummy. Perfect for a snack, dessert or breakfast.
Banana and Raisin Muffins
I found this recipe online and loved it so much I made a couple of amendments to make them even more tasty. They are so quick and easy to make and the bananas make them really sweet so no need for sugar.