Sausage Stew

Sausage Stew

 

It sounds bizarre, well actually it is! But my god it tastes fantastic. It is all stuff that I had lying around in the cupboards so I haven't bought anything special. This should serve 4 - 6 people easily.

 

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 1 tbsp. oil
• 1 tbsp. mixed herbs
• 1/2 tsp. black pepper
• 6 thick sausages
• 2 large white potatoes
• 6 tbsp. peas
• 6 tbsp. sliced carrots

 

The Not-So Nitty Gritty

 

1. Add the oil, mixed herbs and black pepper to the pan and gently heat until it starts to smell aromatic.
2. Then cut the sausages into 6 sections each. Brown lightly.
3. Add 1L vegetable stock to the casserole dish along with 2 large white potatoes that have been peeled and chopped into chunks.
4. Then add the peas and carrots and leave to simmer on a reduced heat for 45 minutes to an hour.
5. Serve with bread, lots of bread.

 

 





Sweet Farmhouse Chicken

Sweet Farmhouse Chicken

 

Another fabulously low-fat recipe suitable for Rosie's and Slimming World followers! Tyler also wolfed this one down, I was very surprised, he couldn't get enough! I served mine with mashed potatoes but you can try something different such as jacket potato, wedges or potato rosti.

 

The nutrition is brilliant, lean meat providing a low fat protein, fibre, vitamin C etc. Very healthy for little ones and us older ones!

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 2 Large Chicken Breasts
• 250ml Chicken Stock
• 6oz Frozen Sliced Carrots
• 4oz Frozen Petit Pois
• 1 tsp Mixed Herbs
• 4 Sprays of Low Calorie Cooking Spray
• 2 tbsp. Cornflour

 

 

The Not-So Nitty Gritty

 

1. Add the cooking spray to a hot casserole dish (on full heat on the hob), followed by the mixed herbs.
2. Once the herbs start to smell aromatic, dice the chicken breasts and add to the dish immediately. Keep turning the chicken with a wooden spoon so the chicken is evenly coated with the herbs.
3. When the chicken has started to colour up and loose it's pinkness, add the stock to the dish, followed by the carrots, peas and cornflour.
4. Reduce the heat and stir well. Place the lid on top of the casserole dish and leave. Stir every five minutes or so to prevent it sticking to the dish. After 20 minutes, serve with a carb based side.

 

 







Extra Lean Minced Beef Hash

Minced Beef Hash

Serves 4

 

6 simple ingredients, ready in half an hour tops, warming, filling, nutritious and low in fat (free from syns on slimming world and compatible with Rosemary Conelly's).

 

 

Lovely on a cold evening!

 

This meal provides, Vitamin K, Vitamin C, Protein, Carbohydrate and Fibre, amongst other vitamins and minerals.

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 2 white onions peeled and finely diced
• 450g extra lean minced beef (£2.79 at Lidl)
• 4oz Frozen Sliced Carrots (£1 for 750g at Co Op)
• 5 Fl oz Reduced Salt Beef Stock
• 5 'Twists' of Black Pepper
• 10oz White Potatoes Peeled and Diced

 

 

The Not-So Nitty Gritty Bit

 

 

1. First peel and dice the potatoes and onions. Put the potatoes on to boil along with the sliced carrots.
2. Fry the onions and as soon as they start to brown, add in the minced beef. When the mince begins to brown, add the stock.
3. After the potatoes and carrots have been boiling away for around 10 minutes, drain them and add to the minced beef, stock and onions. At this point, add in the 'twists' of black pepper.
4. Leave to simmer for 15 - 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

 

 

 







Bolognaise

Bolognaise

 

 

Quick, healthy, filling, warming, cheap! You can use bolognaise with normal pasta or spaghetti. I reckon this will cost no more than £3 to feed the whole family. Alter the amounts of the ingredients to suit you.

 

 

Ingredients

 

• Pasata
• Chopped Carrots
• Chopped tomatoes
• Peas
• Lean Mince Beef
• Half a Chopped Onion

 

 

The Not-so Nitty Gritty

 

1. Prep the veg first.
2. Fry the mince with no oil or fat.
3. Add the veg to the frying pan.
4. Add the pasata.

 

 

Done :)

 

Tyler has always loved this dish, especially with pasta twirls because the bolognaise sticks to the twirls so easy, and makes a great tea that is easy to pick up. However, as you have probably noticed a lack of photos and a lack of a review from little monster. He has been teething, had a viral infection, a tummy bug then he was teething again. So food has not been high on his list of priorities unfortunately. Will detail this 'traumatic' experience in my following blog. 

Catering with those little mouths with GOR & GORD

GOR & GORD

 

   GOR and GORD are the two types of acid reflux that people can suffer with, and it is a lot more common in babies and children than I initially thought. So, here's where I find myself, I'm putting together a couple of recipes that rule out all the 'forbidden' food that could trigger reflux. Everyone's reflux has different triggers so to do something ruling out each one would have took forever! And as a busy mummy, I do not have forever, as I'm sure none of you lot do either! GOR is more common than GORD and can go on it's own. However, GORD is more serious and often needs monitoring and medication, even in babies. GORD is when the stomach acid leaks out of the stomach and into the oesophagus (the long tube that starts at the mouth and ends at the stomach).

   What I have picked up on my personal research into GORD is that most sufferers should avoid a high fat diet, avoid fizzy drinks, citrus fruits and choose white lean meat such as chicken, fish and turkey over red meat such as pork, beef and lamb.

 



Picture taken from a post on the living with reflux facebook page.

 

Farmhouse Pasta

 

Tyler is chowing down.

Ingredients:

• 30g turkey breast (£1 per pack, Iceland)
• 50g frozen baby carrots (carrot batons may be better) (£1 per pack, Iceland)
• 4 baby spinach leaves (£1 large pack, Asda)
• 20g dried penne pasta (69p, Asda)





The Not So Nitty Gritty Bit

 

1. Add the carrots and pasta to a pan of boiling water and leave for approximately 8 minutes.
2. I used pre-cooked turkey breast (lazy mummy day) so I sliced the chunks and cut the spinach and added to Tyler's favourite bowl (the pink one of course).
3. Drain pasta and carrots and add to the bowl.
4. Mix the bowl round a bit so your little one can't just see one block colour, they need stimulation to keep them interested.
5. Serve, too easy? Yeah I agree but Tyler liked it.

 

 

And what little monster thought.....

 



Yes mummy very nice but I personally would much prefer eating it off my legs right now.

 

Loved it, ate a bit of everything but had a lot left over, but this unfortunately is due to his health at the moment not the poor cooking standard, however, let me know how you get on with your little ones. No pasatta was included in this recipe as it's for GORD sufferers and tomato can aggravate reflux sometimes, so feel free to add it if your child is happy with the tomatoes.

 

Against the Grain Chicken and Roast Veg

 

 

It looks like a hot salad!

 

What You Will Need

 

• Quarter of a red pepper (on offer at 29p each, Lidl)
• Quarter of an aubergine (89p, Lidl)
• Quarter of a courgette (49p, Lidl)
• 5 green beans (99p for a large net bag, Lidl)
• 20g (can use less or non if vegetarian) of sliced chicken breast (£1 per pack, Iceland)

 

 

The Not-So Nitty Gritty Bit

 

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees, add a 1 calorie oil spray (as little fat as possible used for GORD sufferers) to a roasting tin or add oil if your baby is okay with it. Place the roasting tin in the oven to heat through. This allows the veg to cook quicker.
2. Wash all your vegetables thoroughly. Slice the pepper into thin strips, leave the green beans as they are and slice the courgette and aubergine into rounds.
3. Add to the roasting tin and leave in the oven for five to ten minutes, do not leave any longer as they can go very dry and if you wouldn't eat dry and hard veg, why give it to the little ones?
4. Make sure the chicken is not in pieces that are over-sized, adjust to your baby's stage of eating.
5. Add all to a plate and serve!

 

 

And What Did The Little Monster Think?

 

 

Well, as you can see from the pictures, orange squash was added to the recipe by Master Blakemore himself! I would not recommend.

 

Well, he liked what he actually ate but he is even more off his food today then he was yesterday. Although, he was not keen on green beans but he eats them in a stir fry? I don't understand my sons logic very much.





 

Other Recipe Ideas:

 

No pictures available for these, but when they are they will be on the feeding for the future facebook page.

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• Little Hands Stir Fry: 20g chicken breast, 1 nest of plain dried noodles, 5 green beans, 2 tbsp. of peas, 2 tbsp. chopped carrots and 10g of chopped red pepper. All in one big wok. Takes 5 minutes to cook. Shouldn't cost more than £1 per portion!
• Moroccan Style Chicken: 40g chicken breast, 15g roasted courgette, 5g Red Pepper and 3 tbsp. sweetcorn. Chicken should be cooked at 180 degrees for 40-50 minutes and always cover in foil to stop it going dry. This should cost no more than £1.50 per portion.
• Bread & Fish Dippers: white bread soldiers, white fish (cod, haddock, Pollock) steak cut into chunky strips (cooked according to instructions on packet or from fish monger) and a blended avocado dip (blend half an avocado with 1 tbsp. of butter).

 

Let me know how you get on with your little ones and send in the pictures, I like to know how you do yours differently too :)