Early Morning Oats
Life with a toddler and a preschooler can be a rather busy affair. With seemingly less and less time to cook and eat food let alone blog about it! Breakfast is the time for fuelling up, Continue reading →
Plum Pudding
Despite being at the tail end of the season, plums still seem to be in abundance. I really love cooking with them, in both savoury and sweet dishes, or just to snack on as is. My children love them too, and they’re really easy for those with few teeth to manage, especially Continue reading →
Breakfast club
Porridge fingers
As I may have mentioned (!) one of the highlights for me of baby-led weaning, is being able to all share in and enjoy the same meals. This doesn’t mean you have to suddenly begin cooking three three-course meals a day, adapted for your baby, just do whatever works for you. There really is no pressure, as I mentioned in the last post, because babies new to food will still get all their nutrition from their milk feeds, it’s really just their skills they’re practicing whilst getting used to handling new tastes and textures, so there’s no rush in terms of how many meals they eat per day, or indeed no worry over how much of these meals get eaten (hallelujah!).
With my daughter I found it most manageable to begin her weaning one meal at a time, to give us both chance to get used to eating together. We started with lunch as this was the meal we would most reliably have the leisure to sit down together (awake) for. Continue reading →
Pancakes!
A definite highlight of these early days of weaning has been Rory sharing pancakes for breakfast with us on my birthday, just a week into his food-loving adventure. And boy did he love it! They are of the scotch, or american pancake variety, so are thick enough to cut into fingers and to remain pretty sturdy for gumming down on. The recipe below is sugar free, and no less tasty for it, so perfect for children. We serve ours with greek yoghurt and berries (and bacon and too much maple syrup for the grown ups!)
They were repeated for friends who came for brunch at the weekend when banana and maple syrup were also included amongst the toppings on offer, Continue reading →
Ma Hart's Kitchen 