Crispy Bacon Noodles

Crispy Bacon Noodles

 

Well, what can I say? Quick and easy tasty food, which is you use bacon medallions instead of streaky bacon, is syn free on the slimming world extra easy plan! Result! This meal will cost 70p for a baby portion or £2.30 (approx.) for a baby portion and a mummy and daddy portion. Increases for mummy and daddy portions will be stated at the end of the initial ingredient layout.

 

Yes it does taste as good as it looks!

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 1 piece of smoked streaky bacon
• 1 slice of dairy lee 'plastic' cheese
• 3 level tbsp. of frozen sweetcorn
• Half a nest of medium dried egg noodles
• 1/6 of a grated onion

 

To make mummy and daddy portions increase the amount of bacon to 5 pieces, the amount of dairy lee to 4 slices, the sweetcorn to 6 heaped table spoons, use two and a half noodle nests and half an onion.

 

The Not-so Nitty Gritty

 

1. Cut the bacon into chunky squares and fry with no oil or fat for 5 - 10 minutes. 3 minutes into this, add the grated onion and stir in.
2. Add the egg noodles and sweetcorn to boiling water and leave on the boil for roughly 7/8 minutes.
3. Cut the 'plastic' cheese into squares and leave to one side.
4. Put the bacon and onion onto kitchen paper and fold in two to absorb excess fat and grease that has come out of the bacon during the cooking process.
5. Drain the noodles and sweetcorn but put back in the pot.
6. Stir the bacon and onion into the noodles.
7. Serve onto plates (the bowl did not go down well... see below) and add the squares of cheese on the tops of the noodles.

 

What Little Monster made of it

 

 

Well after playing with the noodles... stretching, throwing and of course twirling..... Tyler realised he loved it! I would not serve in a bowl as they slip out rather too easy as I have found on previous noodle ventures with the LO. He gobbled up most and mummy polished off the crumbs he left, such a considerate child thinking of mummy's tummy too! I would not used smoked meat in a baby's diet too much as they are naturally higher in salt, and streaky bacon is higher in fat. For a low fat option use bacon medallions, as stated in the intro. If your LO likes spices try adding some to the noodles once cooked, rather yummy! Definitely hand eating task though, the fork was not much use to be quite honest with you.

 

 

Let me know how you all get on, as always I love feedback, it helps me improve!

Happy cooking ladies and gentlemen.

 

 

What Can You Expect Next Time?

 

Well, in the next two blog posts I am covering Sweet Chicken, Rice and Peas as well as looking into what nutrients babies need at different stages. We get such a lot pushed on us in the first two years, don't do this, make sure you do that... it gets so confusing. I am going to try make things as basic as possible (it has to be basic otherwise I won't be able to understand!).