Tag: Healthy eating

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL … SALMON AND BROCCOLI PIE

DINNER RECIPE

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

DINNER RECIPE

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 !

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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

DINNER RECIPE

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.

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 …PANCAKES WITH APPLE,PEAR AND BANANA

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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL….

PANCAKES WITH APPLE,PEAR AND BANANA

Those are great from quite a young age (around 7 months) as a breakfast, desert or a snack ! Chloe and me loves then !


Ingredients :

– 300ml of milk

– 1 tsp of baking powder

– 225 g of plain flower

– 2 large eggs (beaten)

– 30g of melted butter (don’t have to use it)

For the grow up version you can also add pinch of salt and 1 tsp of sugar (I don’t add sugar or salt when I make it for my baby)

– 1 banana (chopped)

– 1 apple (chopped very small or greater)

– 1 pear (chopped)

Cooking method :

I usually do a bunch of mixed fruits pancakes and the few of just one flavour, but really you can do whatever you fancy! Chloe loved those pancakes as they have a lovely sweet flavour and are packed with fruits which she loves!


Fry until golden on each side.


You can also freeze them.

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, ANOTHER OUTFIT ….

DINNER RECIPE

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER OUTFIT …

 Chloe is rocking today a casual look in this printed jumpsuit from LINEX. Look is finished with this cute headband from River Island Mini. 

  
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MEAL ….

AUBERGINE CURRY

Ingredients:

– 1 aubergine (sliced)

– 1 small carrot (sliced)

– 1/2 a red pepper (sliced)

– 1 onion 

– 1 chicken/turkey breast (sliced or cut in to a small cubes if you don’t give your baby blended food)

– 1 tsp of mild chicken curry 

– 100g of rice 

– 400ml of coconut milk

– 1 garlick cove 

Cooking instruction 

 Cook your rice fallowing cooking instructions.

 Fry aubergine till soft and leave it to the side. Fry onion until gold then the add chicken and curry powder and garlic. Fry for a minute or two then add coconut milk.   

 Add you aubergine pepper and carrot and simmer fora round  15 minutes (making sure your chicken and carrot is cooked). 

 If you still introducing texture to your babes main meals blend your curry together  and add your cooked rice for texture.  If your baby eats solids make sure that all of your veg are cut in to small pieces (cut aubergine after frying it). 

 What is great about this recipie is that you can eat it as well ! For a grow up version don’t add carrot or pepper, add salt and season depending on how space you like it 🙂 

DESSERT : 

Fresh fruit selection, today grapes and blueberries . If your baby is smal remember to cut grapes in half as they are chocking hazard.