Tag: kids
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Review: Oscar’s Lunch Box
This week we bought a new book for Oscar – Oscar’s Lunch Box. Its a fantastic book about a little boy, called Oscar, who has food intolerances. Oscar gets upset when he starts school and discovers that the other kids have much more colourful and interesting lunch boxes than he does. He hates that he… Read more
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Japanese Food fun
Last month I read a post on Hear Mum Roar about Japanese sandwich cutters and immediately went to j-listto buy one for myself (for Oscar of course!). While I was there I found some other great food cutters and shapers – boiled egg shapers, a rice shaper (called a ONIGIRI Shaper) and vegetable cutters. They were all… Read more
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Stuffed Zucchini Boats
The problem with growing your own zucchinis is that they go from being “normal” sized to enormous overnight and you end of with a pile of zucchinis that look like these 4kg beauties. It takes a lot of zucchini recipes to use these up, so I decided to make a stuffed zucchini, the only problem… Read more
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Back to Day Care
Oscar went back to day care on Monday, so Sunday afternoon was spent putting together his supplies. He has a list of allowed foods that he can have at the centre and we provide 3 out of 4 lunches each week as well as some of his snacks.We made cupcakes (which go in the freezer… Read more
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Vanilla Spiders
Oscar and I have just had a little holiday with his Nana and Pa in Shepparton, where it was 35 degrees plus all week. After a trip to the Kids Town playground one afternoon we all needed something to cool us down. Rather than just ice cream I made Oscar a spider (also called floats or… Read more
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Christmas Scones
I saw this recipe for Whole Wheat Biscuits on Super Healthy Kids and thought it would be a good one to make with Oscar for Christmas. It was only as I was making it that I realised “biscuit” in America means scone in Australia. As scones they turned out pretty well, and better than scones they… Read more
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Christmas Treat – Almost Gingerbread Muffins
While out shopping with Oscar today we found some Gingerbread Man muffin moulds, so wanting to make something Christmasy I decide to try the Gingerbread Muffin recipe in the The Failsafe Cookbook. The recipe was gluten free, so I replaced the gluten free ingredients with ordinary flour, but have listed both recipes here. There’s no… Read more
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Fridge Biscuits
There are plenty of recipes around for fridge, or refrigerator, biscuits and they don’t need to be modified for Oscar’s diet, however they did come in very handy recently, so I’ve decided to add them to the blog. Oscar’s day care centre has cooking activities for the kids, so whenever Oscar attends on a cooking… Read more
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Homemade Sausage Rolls
These sausage rolls have become a bit of a hit with Oscar. They are quite easy to make and freeze well, which makes them a quick easy meal served with mashed potato and swede and fried lentils. Oscar also has a little bit of pear sauce with his. Sausage rolls (High Amines, Low Salicylates, Low Glutamates) Serving… Read more
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"Lemon" Slice
Today was my day at home with Oscar and we decided to make “lemon” slice. Lemons are quite high in salicylates, so Oscar can’t have them, but citric acidmakes a good substitute. I adapted this recipe from the Nestle one on the condensed milk label. “Lemon” Slice (Low Chem) “Lemon” Slice 3/4 cup plain flour… Read more
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Chicken Casserole with Savoury Biscuits
The inspiration for this dish came from a recipe called Hungarian Chicken, which has biscuits (scones) cooked on top. Its a really nice dish with paprika, tomatoes, capsicum and other things we can’t have. I decided to use the biscuit concept with a chicken casserole and to make savoury scones (i.e. hidden vegetables). The scones… Read more
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Muesli – a great way to start the day
One of Oscar’s favourite breakfast options is muesli. We make our own muesli as all of the commercially available ones contain at least one ingredient he can’t have. I make a large batch, about 8 cups, which lasts for months in an airtight container. Oscar loves this so much he will eat it dry, without… Read more
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Pasta Bake with Vegie Sauce
The pasta bake was a big success with Oscar, he even helped to cook it. Although helping consisted mostly of eating the pasta before it went in the oven. He also ate a lot of it for dinner. I managed to use up a lot of left overs with this recipe. Quantities are a rough… Read more
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Kids Vegie Sauce
Being a typical toddler, Oscar does not like eating vegies. Its even harder when his range of vegies is so small. The idea for this recipe came from his dietitian who suggested that I make a thick vegetable sauce and stir it through pasta or rice for him. I was a bit sceptical at first,… Read more
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Chewy Muesli Bars
I’ve had a few attempts at making muesli bars, and after a bit of trial and error I’ve finally come up with a recipe that works. They look pretty similar to commercial muesli bars. I take the nut-free version to my son’s daycare centre to have when the other kids have commercial muesli bars. A… Read more
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Yummy Chocolate Spread
This weekend I have tried making a chocolate nut spread, an alternative to Nutella, using cashews. Not something for everyday consumption, but a nice treat for weekend breakfasts or morning tea. It also went really well with chopped banana in a little pie made from some leftover pastry. Oscar loved it on crumpets, and thought… Read more