Tag: Baby food

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL … CHICKEN, COURGETTE & MUSHROOM PASTA

DINNER RECIPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

CHICKEN, COURGETTE & MUSHROOM PASTA

Another recipe for you and your little one.

The only difference between your version and your baby’s is seasoning really. You can make it without the turkey for a vegetarian version.
Ingredients:

– 1 courgette

– 100g of chanterelle mushrooms

– 1 turkey breast

– 50ml of cream

– 100g baby pasta

– 1 tbsp of Parmesan
Cooking method:

Cut courgette in to a small cubes or grate it, cut mushrooms in to a small pieces. Fry turkey breast and once cooked cut in to small pieces.


Cool pasta following cooking instructions.

Fry vegetables on a tsp of butter for 5 minutes.


Add chicken and cream to the vegetables followed by pasta. Mix well together, add parmesan and you are ready to serve …


Grow up version:

For a grown up version use this same ingredients + 2 egg yolks.

Grate courgette, and cut mushrooms in to a small pieces. Cut turkey breast in to cubes and fry in a tap of butter. After few minutes add courgette and mushrooms and fry for 5 minutes.


Meanwhile cool your pasta following cooking instruction.

Mix egg yolks with cream; add salt and pepper.

Combine all of the ingredients together and finish of with parmesan.
 

   ANOTHER DAY,ANOTHER MEAL … FRITTATAS WITH COURGETTES

SNACK RECEPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

FRITTATAS WITH COURGETTES

Frittatas are great for breakfast or as a snack. You can add anything in to it, this recipe is an adaptation of Annabel Karmel.

Ingredients:

– 50g wholemeal self-raising flower

– 2 tbsp of milk

– 100g grated courgette

– 50g grated carrot

– 20g grated pepper

– 2 tbsp of sweetcorn

– 50g grated cheddar
Cooking method

Beat the egg then add your milk and flower, mix it together till nice and smooth.  

Add all of the remaining ingredients and combine together.

Fry the mixture until golden and serve !

CHICKEN WITH BEETROOT

DINNER RECIPE

 
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

CHICKEN WITH BEETROOT

As we all know beetroot is full of goodies and vitamins. What makes beetroot perfect for baby is sweetness of this fab vegetable!

Ingredients :

– 200g of beetroot (cooked or raw)

– 1 small carrot

– 100g of sweet potatoes

– 100g of leek

– 100g of chicken/turkey breast

– parsley

– 500ml of chicken stock (one with no salt)

– couscous/rice optional

– 1 tbs of lemon juice

Cooking method :

Grate beetroot on a small grater. If you are using cooked beetroot leave it on the side until later, if you are using raw beetroot add it in to cooking with the rest of the vegetables.

Cut all vegetables and chicken in cubes, if your baby eats solid foods cut all vegetables in to small pieces which the baby can eat.


Put all in to the cooking pan with chicken stock, bring to boil and simmer for around 30 min (until vegetables are soft). Add. The lemon juice and :

Option 1: just serve

Option 2: blend all and serve

Option 3: blend all and add couscous or rice

SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR …. SUGAR EVERYWHERE ! Yes even in  BABY food! 

BABY ADVICE

 I love sugar and anything that is sweet … It takes a lot of will power not to eat chocolate all day long every day. 

 I assumed that baby food, especially the one labeled : heathy, organic, no preservatives added  will have no sugar or just minimal amount of it … NEVER assume  anything ! I couldn’t be more wrong ! 

 I was shocked to see baby food from 4 months old having over 20g of sugar per 100g. What was even more shocking is that things which shouldn’t have any sugar had lots of it !  

 Don’t get me wrong I am all for healthy but balanced diet, I give my baby, baby biscuits but I don’t want my baby to be consuming lots of sugar especially not when she is so small ! Also giving then sugar make the weaning and feeding so much more difficult because they refuse to eat things which are not sweet!  

 I started to check labels very carefully and found product which are nice but don’t have lots of sugar which I will share. Oh and just to clarify product is high in sugar when it has 20g or more of sugar per 100g.

CEREALS

 There is a very small selection of cereals that don’t have lots of sugar in it, and only handful of cereals that have little or non sugar. My recommendation will be those 2 :

– Organix Multigrain Porridge (only 2g of sugar per 100g)

– Organic Mutligrain Mini Puffs (only 1g of sugar per 100g). I use the puffs to add to other porridges for the texture. I usually mix it with whatever porridge I make, especially with the flavoured ones. It’s great when you start to introduce texture to your baby’s food. 

  

– Good flavoured porridge is by Ella’s Kitchen (11.7g of sugar per 100g). I usually make it with multigrain mini creel puffs. 

  
– Organix Cereal Bannan & Rospberry (12g of sugar per 100g and believe me this is the smalles amount of sugar that I could find in the stage 3 cereals)

  
Bad boys:

– Cow&Gate Fruity Porridge – 40g of sugar per 100g !!!!!!! This should be illegal!

TREATS FOR BABIES : 

Rice cakes.

 It’s a great snack for babies from quite an early age (I have Chloe her first one at 5,5 months). They not high in sugar but even in this one snac the sugar level waries depending on the flavour (those are the Organix rice cakes) : 
– Apple rice cakes -14g 

– Berry rice cake – 10g

– Banana rice cake – 9,7g

– Strawberry rice cake – 6,7g 

Biscuits:

 Biscuits naturally have much more sugar than any other snack, but again I thought that because they are for babies the sugar level would be reduced …. Not always the case. There are healthier options like:

-Ella’s Kitchen Apple & Ginger biscuits 16,5g

  
-Ella’s Kitchen Milk and Vanilla biscuits 16,1g

-Ella’s Kitchen Hello-Copter Oat and spelt cookies 13,4g 

A bit less healthier but not too bad :

– Heinz Biscotties Banana 22g

– Heinz Biscotties Apple 20g

– Heinz Biscotties Mango 22g

 All of the others I found had 28g of sugar and above which is very very high so should be a treat from time to time only. 

CORN SNACKS

– Organix  Crunchy Sweetcorn Rings 3,5g

–  Ella’s Kitchen Melty Puffs Tomatoes & Leek 0,5g ( the Strawberry and Bannan flavour already has 7,4g which is a lot). 

  
– Ella’s Kitchen Lentil and carrot sticks  0,7g

  
– Ella’s Kitchen Cheese and Lentil Crunchy Wheels 0,2g

– Kiddylicious Blueberry Wafers 9,6g

– Kiddylicious Cheese flying Saucers 0,5g

Bad boys:

– Kiddylicious Passion Fruit and Peach Yoghurt Melts 45g

– most of the frut snacks like Bear Fruit Paws are high in sugar with 40g and more in 100g

– Organix Goodies Fruit Gummies Strawberry has 67g of sugar !!!!!!!!!

 I could probably write a book about contest of sugar in baby food … Don’t want to bore everyone so the only thing I will say is check the back of the package for information ! Don’t be influenced by the colour of the package, marketing etc…. And remember that fruit and vegetables are always best option sometimes just not practical 😀

 What is you experience, opinion? Do you have know of a yummy and healthy snacks/foods? 

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …SWEET POTATO FRIES

DINNER RECIPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL ….


The weather has turned in London to a rainy and chilly so we had to wear more layers. Chloe is wearing:

Jumpsuit from Primark,
Pink top and pink jacket with stars from H&M,
White lace trainers and pink headband from Mother Care
ANOTHER DAY, ANITHER MEAL…

SWEET POTATO FRIES

Great as part of a meal or just as a finger food. It’s healthy and so testy !

Ingredients:

– sweet potato (quantity depends on the amount that you want to make)

– thyme

– maple syrup (optional)

Cooking method:

Just cut your sweet potatoes in to a chips size. You don’t need to peal the skin I did it only because in my head my 10 months old could struggle with eating it.


Put a tiny bit of olive oil in to you baking tray, put your potatoes and cover with a little bit of thyme (you don’t have to use it)


Bake for around 15 min on 180C. You can add 1 tsp of maple syrup and sprinkle it on the top, put back in to the oven for 3 min.

ANOTHER DAY,ANOTHER MEAL … CHICKEN WITH GREEN VEGETABLES AND RICE.

DINNER RECIPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL…

CHICKEN WITH GREEN VEGETABLES AND RICE.

Ingredients:

– 1 chicken breast

– 1 onion

– 100g of peas

– 100g of spinach

– 50g baby broad beans

– 50g of cooked rice

– 50ml of chicken stock
Cooking instructions :

Fry onion until golden on a little bit of olive oil, then add chicken and fry until cooked.

Steam peas, beans and courgette for 5 minutes then add spinach and steam for further 2 minutes.


Cook rice according to instructions; prepare chicken stock.

Once vegetables been steamed add chicken and onion and blend all together. Add chicken stock to achieve your perfect consistency and finish off with adding rice for texture. If you baby is on 3 stage of weaning then you can also cut all of the vegetables in to small cubes instead of blending it. If your baby just started weaning you can blend it all together.

DESERT:

Sliced Pear, it’s a great finger food. It’s very soft so you don’t need to pre cook it, just cut it and serve.  

SALMON NUGGETS

DINNER RECIPE, YUMMY BABY & KIDS RECIPES


ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL …

Today I have made Salmon nuggets accompanied by sweet potato and great bins. This will be Chloe’s first dinner made only of finger food.

Ingredients:

– 150g of Salmon

– 30g of breadcrumbs

– 15g of Parmesan

– 1/2 tsp of Lemon zest

– 1 egg beaten

Cooking method :

Heat your oven to 200 C.

Make sure that Salmon has no bones or skin. Cut in to a bit size pieces. Combine parmesan with breadcrumbs and lemon zest.

Put salmon in to the bowl with egg then coat it in your breadcrumb mix.


Bake for 15 min (until golden) on a non sticking baking paper.


You can serve it with whatever you want or  just as a snack. I served it with boiled sweet potato (sweet potato wedges are great alternative), steamed green beans and peas.


DESSERT:

 A bowl of fresh fruits