Food

When you just don’t have the time to cook up a healthy balanced meal for your young ones, it can be quite tempting to order from the nearest takeaway chain and call it a night. While there is no shame in having someone else cook for you and the family, it’s important to keep their health in mind. Fried vegetable dumplings and shrimp lo mein are always delicious choices and favourites of the kids, it can be rather simple to form a habit of ordering “just the usual”. So, instead here are a few tips to encourage your family to stay healthy and keep their bellies happy:

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Here’s another delicious chocolatey recipe to mark “National Baking Week”, this time using avocados along with Cadbury’s Double Decker chocolate bars, to create yummy rocky road to share with all the family. The price of avocados is set to increase, so why not make the most of them now? Baking with Avocado is also a clever way to sneak some extra greens into your kid food!

Avocado Rocky Road (makes 20)

Ingredients

For the Brownie:

• 110g dark chocolate, chopped
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 60g caster sugar
• 10g cocoa powder, unsweetened
• 25g ground almonds
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 avocado, mashed well

For the Cocoa-avocado Frosting:

• 1 avocado
• 100g cocoa powder, unsweetened
• 150g honey
• 150g maple syrup pinch of salt
• 2 Double Deckers

Additional:

• Freeze-dried raspberry
• 10g rice krispies

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To celebrate National Baking Week, I’m sharing a few delicious recipes made with Cadbury’s Double Decker chocolate bars. With Halloween around the corner, these FreakShake MiniCakes would be great for any parties you have planned, or would be a good plan for some baking fun with the kids over the half term holidays.

Double Decker FreakShake MiniCake (makes 24)

Ingredients:

For the Canape Cakes:

• 125g butter, softened 200g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 125 plain flour
• 40g cocoa powder
• 10g baking powder
• 0.25 tsp baking soda 0.25 tsp salt
• 2 tsp vanilla extract 50ml buttermilk

For the Nougat Frosting:

• 1 Marshmallow fluff jar 100g white chocolate
• 100g cream 25g sugar pinch of salt
• 100g cream 25g sugar pinch of salt
• Chocolate Glaze: 50g milk chocolate
• 35g butter

Additional:

• Choc finger/café curls
• 1 Double Decker, chopped

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It’s National Baking Week, and to mark the occasion I have a few yummy recipes to share with you all, made using Cadbury’s Double Decker chocolate. These tasty cookies use the double decker to make frosting to sandwich in the middle!

Double decker cookie sandwiches (makes 20)

Ingredients:

For the Cookies:

• 150g butter, softened 70g light brown sugar 70g caster sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 225g plain flour
• 0.5 tsp baking soda pinch of salt
• 50g chocolate chips
• 1 avocado, mashed well

For the Double Decker Cookie Dough Frosting:

• 115g butter, softened
• 150g light brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 125g flour
• 0.5 tsp salt
• 50ml milk
• 1 Double Decker, chopped

This recipe is Suitable for Vegetarians, Contains gluten (wheat), milk, nuts, egg, soya, and Does NOT contain gelatine or alcohol.

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Guest post from My Cook King blog

If you’d love to feed your little ones with only the good stuff, then you shouldn’t skip healthful tomatoes in the picture. But how do you package them in such a manner that they look appealing and yummy for kids? Tomato soup is the answer!

So over the weekend or any ordinary day, you might want to prepare a brightly colored, nutrient-dense tomato soup that does not take much time to make. Here is how.

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Tefal Cook4Me is a pressure cooker with many added features that make it so easy and quick to use, especially for busy families or those who don’t have so much confidence in the kitchen as it gives you so much extra guidance. A few weeks ago, I went along to a Tefal event to try out the Cook4Me for myself, and  now have one to use at home too.

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For an easy and tasty snack or lunch idea for all the family, why not try these yummy cheesy pittas

Homemade Salsa & Primula Pittas 

Homemade tomato salsa with garden-ripe flavours paired with creamy Primula Cheese.

Perfect for quiet afternoons in the garden or alternatively keep the salsa chilled and snack until the sun goes down. Top with fresh basil, et voila!

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Contributed by Paula of ChewTheWorld.com

Want to Give Your Kids A Treat Everyday? Try These 5 Easy-to-Make Recipes

Parents often feel that a three-meal system is perfectly sufficient for their kids – but the truth is that snacks contribute a great deal to overall growth and development too. You ought to know – snacks almost bring in 15% of the total calories your kids need on a daily basis. Here’s the catch, just about any snack won’t cut it, you must choose wisely.

Your kids spend a lot of energy with their games and activities, plus they still have an immature digestive system that can’t go on without eating for long. So snacks are a perfect bait to keep their tummies filled every now and then – whether they like it or not.

Being a parent is hard and getting your kids to eat healthy is harder. We’ve compiled a list that contains recipes kids will love. You don’t need to look anywhere else.

Here’s your list of healthy homemade snacks for kids:

1) Baked Potatoes

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Who doesn’t love the occasional sweet treat to satisfy their sweet tooth? Children are notorious for loving anything that’s loaded with sugar. Usually, it means they’re reaching for a candy bar or something else that’s bound to give them a sugar rush. As a mother, wouldn’t it be nice if you could give your children something that is healthy as well as tasty? Well, we have just the thing. This recipe for Walnut & Pecan Balls has all the right ingredients. Walnuts are a superfood, packed with omega-3 fats, copper, manganese, and much more. Pecan nuts are equally nutritious and contain plenty of fiber and other essential fats. When combined, these nuts enhance the nutritional value of any meal.

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