Don’t you just hate menu’s and foods (apart from baby food) specifically for children? I certainly do, why not just serve smaller portions from the regular menu? I’m not yet a mother but I know (yes I’ll probably be back here in a few years retracting my words) that I’ll cook a meal for the family and while I may reduce the level of spice added to some dishes I won’t be serving up low quality foods from the supermarket freezer aisle such as chicken nuggets and chips while I dine on pasta with meatballs for example.
That’s partly the reason I have no objection cooking meals (or sweet items come to that) for the family from recipe books aimed at food for kids.
The lovely Heather over on Violets Pantry posted a recipe for amazing brownies a long while back and I have to confess today is only my second attempt at baking them. Shocking behaviour as they are so delectable and considering that brownies are my favourite type…
“Eat your greens” is something we hear rather a lot during our lifetime, if it isn’t our parents during childhood, Government guidelines (e.g. 5 a day project), it’s nutritionists/medics via the media telling us how good they are for us and how we need to eat more.Â
Sadly despite all this advice many people still do not eat very many fruit or vegetables in their standard day to day diet, and a lot of what they do eat is overly processed and therefore lacking most the nutrient content. It’s essential to remember that different vitamins and minerals behave in various ways when heated, frozen or are eaten raw and that some need to be eaten in conjunction with others to obtain the benefit, e.g. eating a food high in vitamin C along with an iron rich food enables the iron to be better absorbed by the body. A great source of information regarding this can be found <a href=”http://www.eatwell.go…