ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT, ANOTHER MEAL …

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT …

Rocking Christmas jumper, denim shorts and gold polka dot tights 😍

  

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

APLLE PASTRIES 

 This is one of the easies to make snacks/desert which kids will love. And what is important they are sugar free ! Whole family would love them. 

  
Ingredients:

– ready to roll puff pastry 

– 1 Apple 

– 1 Pear

Cooking method:

 Preheat oven to 200C (or whatever temperature is required on the packet of the puff pastry). 

 Wash and peal apple and pear and cut in to small stripes. 

  
 Cut pastry in to squares (around 3cm x 3cm). Place apple or pear in the middle of each square . 

  
 If you love a little bit of sugar you can sprinkle some icing sugar on top of the pastries once they have cooled down. 

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL, ANOTHER OUTFIT …

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT …

 In ❤️ with those cute crown printed leggings !

 


ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …MUSHROOM AND MINCEMEAT RICE 

Ingredients:

– 200g mushrooms 

– 250g pork mince meat (you can use different one if you prefer)

– 50g carrot  

– 1/2 onion 

– 1tsp thyme

– 1tbsp reduced salt soya sauce 

– 100g brown rice 

– 100ml vegetable stock 

– 50ml double cream

– 50g parmesan cheese

Cooking method :

  
 All vegetables to be sliced in to small cubes (I use food processor for onion and carrot).

 Cook rice according to the cooking instructions on the packet. 

 Fry onion and mince meat on the frying pan for 5 minutes. Add carrot and mushroom and fry for another 5 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 10minutes. 

 Add rice to the dish and then finish off with the parmesan. Enjoy it !  

ANOTHER DAY,ANOTHER MEAL … CAULIFLOWER AND SWEET POTATO CURRY


ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

CAULIFLOWER AND SWEET POTATO CURRY:

We love curry in my house and luckily for us so does Chloe. Now that she is one year old I can make a kids version of the curry that we eat, which makes the cooking so much easier.

Hope that your baby will like it as well.


Ingredients:

– 100g chicken

– 150g cauliflower

– 1/2 onion

– 200ml tomatoes

– 200ml of coconut milk

– 2tsp of mild curry powder

– 2 sweet potatoes

– 1 tbsp of basil

– 1 tsp ginger (cut in to very small cubes)

Cooking method :

Peal and slice sweet potato; steam until soft*

Fry your onion on a little bit of olive oil for 3 minutes. Add chicken and curry powder, fry for 5 minutes. Add tomatoes and coconut milk and simmer for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile wash your cauliflower and blend it in the food processor (if your baby/child is older you can divide it in to small florets instead).

Add cauliflower in to the curry and simmer for another 10minutes. At the end add basil.

Cut sweet potatoes in small cubes and combine with the curry.

Your dinner is ready to serve!

* I like to cook potatoes separately by steaming to preserve more nutritions and because it’s so much easier to cut them in small cubes once they are cooked.

ANOTHER DAY,ANOTHER MEAL…COCONUT AND BANNAN (SUGAR FREE) PANCAKES

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT….

Fox print leggings and a white blouse, only a baby can get away with it 😊


ANOTHE DAY, ANOTHE MEAL …

COCONUT AND BANNAN (SUGAR FREE) PANCAKES

Babies and kids love pancakes. This is a great breakfast, snack or a very healthy desert.


Ingredients :

– 400ml coconut milk

– 3 bananas

– 2 tsp baking soda

– 1 1/2 cup of flower

– 2 eggs

– 1 tsp vanilla extract

Cooking method :

Warm up coconut milk in the cooking pan, the reason we do it is to make sure that we have one cream consistency.

Blend bananas. Combine all ingredients together until your mixture is smooth.

Fry on a non stick pan.

HEALTHY BUT SO YUMMY KIDS PARTY FOOD ! Yes it is possible !!! 

Kids Birthday Parties can be fun, yummy and … Heathy ! Yes they can ! There is no need to buy only junk food or to have everything with added sugar.

A few weeks ago I organised Chloe’s 1st birthday party. I wanted a sugar free party, why? Because most of Chloe’s guests were 1 year old or under and because I haven’t given Chloe sugar before. I have gathered lots of different ideas about kids party food from Pinterest and I have  adapted some sugary recipes so that they are sugar free.

This is what I have prepared for the party


ICE CREAM CONES 

Ice Cream Cones dipped in blended blueberry and coconut.  You can make so many different versions of it, depending on the age of the kids.

– chocolate and nuts

– chocolate and coconut

– blueberry and cornflakes

– melted marshmallows

ICE CREAM CONES WITH FRUITS

Stuff ice cream cones with any fruits you like. It’s sweet, healthy and it looks great.

SWEETCORN AND PEAS 

All kids love those ! Put them in to cute little cupcake cases to serve.

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KIWI FLOWERS

 Another fun way to serve fruits. Use a small cookie, flower cutter to use around the kiwi. Top the kiwi with a raspberry and add a leaf of mint to finish it of.

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STRAWBERRIES 
Strawberry is another great replacement to sweets/cookies. Because of its sweetness and vibrant colour kids (most of the kids) love them.

Dip strawberries in a soft cream and … coconut for a super healthy snack or in dark chocolate and then coconut if your kids are already eating chocolate.

You can also cut strawberry in half and put little dots of soft cream/ chocolate on top to make little ladybirds.

 

HEART AND STAR SHAPED SANDWICHES 

I know that this is a lot of work but I can do once a year for a special occasion. Just make your sandwiches and flatten them,  use biscuit cutter of a desired shape to cut them. Just remember that the sandwich needs to be very simple : soft cheese, cheese or ham are ideal.Screen Shot 2015-11-24 at 20.46.23

MAGIC WAND

Kids love blueberries so get some of them on a toothpick, topped with a star cut out of watermelon and you have a magic wand ready. I have used bought toothpicks with gold stars on top of it.

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BANNANA MUFFINS

Bannana sugar free muffins are a great alternative to the traditional ones. They have been a hit on all of the babies parties I have been to (you can find the recipe on my blog).


ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …MEATBALLS WITH CABBAGE IN TOMATO SAUCE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL….

MEATBALLS WITH CABBAGE IN TOMATO SAUCE

Golabki is a traditional polish dish of a cabbage leaves filled with mincemeat and rice in a tomato sauce. I really wanted Chloe to try it so I have came up with a baby version of this dish, surpassing it worked and Chloe loved it.
Ingredients :

– 100g of cabbage (cut small)

– 200g pork mincemeat

– 50g carrot (cut in to small squares)

– 500ml vegetable stock

– 2 sweet potatoes

– 50g couscous

– 1 egg

– 3 tbsp of tomato pure

– 1 tsp of oregano

– 1 tsp of basil

– 1 garlic cove

Cooking method :

Make the couscous. Mix half of the cabbage, mincemeat, egg, couscous, garlic and oregano together. Form little meatballs.

Bring vegetable stock to boil and add tomato pure. Add meatballs, cabbage, carrot and basil to the boiling vegetable stock, simmer for 15-20 minutes. Mine while cook sweet potato then cut in to small cubes. Add potatoes to meatballs and you are ready to serve !

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL … SALMON AND BROCCOLI PIE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL…

SALMON AND BROCCOLI PIE

It’s the first time I have done a fish pie, but not the last time as Chloe loved it. It’s very easy , healthy and suprisingly tasty.

Ingredients:

– 2 tomatoes (skinned and chopped)

– 60g of broccoli florets (cut in to tinny bits)

– 1 small carrot (whizzed in food processor, or cut in to small pieces)

– 1 onion (whizzed in food processor or cut in to small pieces)

– 2 tsp of flower

– 200ml of milk

– 300g of salmon

– 50g of greater cheddar

– 1 tbsp of parsley

Cooking method:

Cook your sweet potatoes for around 15 minutes. Then add a splash of milk and mush to get a nice creamy consistency.

Melt the butter in a saucepan and fry onion and carrots for around 3 minutes. Add tomatoes and simmer for another 3 minutes.

             Add flower and cook for 1 minute then add milk. Bring to boil then add the broccoli and salmon, simmer for 3 minutes . Add cheddar and parsley , combine it all together  and season to tast.


Divide the mixture in to the baking pots, top with sweet potatoes and bake for 15 minutes in the oven at 180C fan/200C . Hope that you will like it !

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL … COD FISH FINGERS

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

COD FISH FINGERS

This is an adaptation of Annabell Karmel recipe. As we know we all need to eat a lot of fish and this is a great idea to introduce fish in another form. This recipe is so yeasty that it’s a dinner for the whole family !

Ingredients:

– 300g of cod filets

– 75g of breadcrumbs

– 75g of grated parmesan

– 1 egg

– a little bit of flower.

Cooking method :

Cut your fish filets in to strips. Mix breadcrumbs with grated parmesan. Get flower, egg and  breadcrumbs mix on to separate plates.

Cover you fish strip in flower, then egg and then coat it well in your breadcrumb mix.

Fry on the frying pan with olive oil 5 minutes on each side or until golden.

Serve with vegetable couscous.

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL … BANANA MUFFINS WITH NO SUGAR !

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL…

BANANA MUFFINS WITH NO SUGAR !

Makes around 34 – 40 small  muffins.

Ingredients:

– 100g of self rising wholemeal flower

– 100g of white self rising flower

– 50ml of sunflower oil

– 50 ml of water

– 3 ripped bananas

– 2 eggs

– 1 tsp of baking powder

– 1 tsp of bicarbonate soda

– 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon

– 1 tsp vanilla extract

Cooking method :

Heat up your oven to 165 C fan.

Beat your eggs until  thick and creamy

Blend your bananas so they are nice creamy consistency.

Mix all of the ingredients together


Line up your muffin baking cups or baking  tins.

  Fill up each one with one big spoonful.Bake for 12-14 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool.


You can freeze them or keep for around 3 days in the fridge.

 

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL … SALMON PASTA WITH BROCCOLI

ANOTHR DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

SALMON PASTA WITH BROCCOLI 

Ingredients:

– 100g Salmon

– 150g Broccoli

– 70 ml of baby vegetable stock

– 100 ml of single cream

– 2 spring onions

– 60 g of baby pasta

– tiny bit of lemon juice

– tsp is dill

Cooking method :
Cook your pasta according to the cooking instructions.


Cut your broccoli in to a tiny florets (size depending on the age of your baby and the feeding stage)

Put vegetable stock and salmon on a frying pan. Bring to boil then cover and simmer for 5 minutes. You want the salmon to be nicely cooked.

Once salmon is cooked put in aside and add broccoli in to the pan. Fry for 2 minutes then add cream; cover the pan and simmer for 3 minutes.


Add salmon and then pasta, a little bit of lemon juice, dill and it’s ready! it’s that simple !

ADULT VERSION:

Ingredients:

– 200g broccoli

– 350g tagliatelle

– 200g of salmon

– 4 spring onions

– 150 ml of wine (if you prefer use vegetable stock instead)

– 200ml of single cream

– Fred dill to garnish

– Salt and pepper to season

Cooking method :

Exactly this same as your baby’s version.