Healthy food for 3yr old that can be made in advance as parents work, UK only please?!
Suggestions from the UK preffered as USA ideas not always available
Answers: Would like to start the new year of with some healthy food ideas, trying to help my wife out by coming up with ideas that can be prepared in advance on nights where we are short on time, was thinking of something healthy like home made chicken nuggets or home made healthy pies? We are not very good cooks and my wife is a vegetarian so eating 3 differnt meals at the moment and run out of ideas.
Suggestions from the UK preffered as USA ideas not always available
Buy yourself a pie maker, keep shop brought fresh pastry in your fridge and in twenty minutes you can have the pie of your choice. Veg and potatoes only take the same amount of time to cook. Alternatively, buy a student cook book for fantastic, quick, easy and healthy recipes. Good luck
one thing you can try is by making bolognaise sauce.
keep reading. First start by making it with red lentils and grated vegetables. then when you've added the herbs and tomatoes, put aside the portion required for your wife and add fried minced meat to the portion you will use for yourself and the toddler. You can cook things like wholemeal macaroni for the baby to eat with the sauce. And if you are clever, you can hide a multitude of vegetables in pasta sauce.
Good luck. Happy New Year
not from the UK but not from the States either :-)
Spag bol is my fave quick and easy idea (made with soya). It can be frozen or refrigerated. I make a quick pie using condensed soup, quorn chunks and frozen pastry. Tuna and pasta bake is another of my quick and easy ideas. your 3yr old should beable to eat what you eat, especially as you are making it yourself and can watch the salt content.
When our son was a small child,we both worked and prepared meals for him,which were kept hot in a wide necked thermos.Soups,practically any baby food,milk puds,pulses,most things will stay hot for up to eight hours,provided the flask is filled
Hope this helps.
Get a slow cooker and then you can make healthy stews, soups, bolognese etc. etc. You can prep the night before and let it cook during the day so it's ready for you when you get home. My favourite recipe in the slow cooker is bbq chicken. Just add chicken breast to bbq sauce and let the cooker do the rest
Fish in a Pond
1/2 cup lowfat cream cheese or cheese spread
Fish-shaped crackers
4 celery ribs, stems removed
Scoop the cream cheese into a bowl. (You can tint the cream cheese with blue food coloring to make it look like a pond.)
Place the goldfish crackers in a separate bowl.
Let the kids dip the celery sticks into the cheese, then into the bowl of crackers to "catch" a fish.
Serves 2
Bugs on a Log
2 stalks celery
your favorite filling: peanut butter, tuna salad, tofu dip, etc.
raisins
Wash celery and cut off ends.
Fill celery with your favorite filling and decorate with raisins.
That's it!!
Serves 1
Banana Nuggets
1 banana sliced
1/2 cup rice krispies or corn flakes
1-2 Tbsp Peanut butter
Microwave peanut butter till semi-liquidy.
Dip banana slices in the peanut butter and coat with cereal.
Refrigerate until peanut butter has thickened.
Note: You could do lots of variations on this recipe, try mini M&M's, coconut, raisins, dried cranberries, ect.
Monkey Mix
1 cup banana chips
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup chocolate chips
3 cup Cheerios
Mix all ingredients in a gallon sized plastic bag. Shake well.
get a cook. it takes all the guesswork out