Feeding a child a varied and nutritionally balanced diet takes care and attention, but basically the secret is to AVOID products aimed at kids! Most are full of sugar, salt and fat and ruin a child's palate in no time, leaving them hankering after stronger tastes.
I thought I would keep a photo diary of my daughter's breakfasts for a week, so you can see what she eats in a typical week.
Enjoy!
Monday
Oats soaked in natural yogurt, served with apple and blackberry compote (find the recipe from the apple and blackberry pie recipe)
Tuesday
Home made waffles served with fresh berries
Wednesday
banana mashed into natural yogurt and served with fresh nectarine
Thursday
porrage with yogurt, dried mango and sliced apple
Friday
bowl of sugar free cereal with fruit juice and a sugar free cereal bar - great for days when you don't have time to prepare anything! We're currently using Nature's Path Millet and oatbran flakes and the bar was a Lyme Regis 'Fruit 4 U' bar which is basically fruit leather or dried fruit.
Saturday
Homemade apple turnover and yogurt
Sunday
Scrambled eggs on toast
As you can see, it's not difficult to ring the changes over the course of a week and not an ounce of refined sugar in sight!
Wow, they look fab.
ReplyDeleteThank you Shell - it was really interesting keeping a diary for a week! I'd like to do it again and see what else I come up with, perhaps at different times of the year.
ReplyDeleteoooh what brilliant ideas Rae!! I love the idea of the oats soaked in yoghurt. Do you just soak the oats overnight and then serve with the compote? If so then that would be really simple.
ReplyDeleteHi indiebird; lovely to see you. Yes, that's right - just soak the oats; they don't take long so if you forget you can do it in the morning - it's more 'crunchy' but still edible :)
ReplyDeleteBrilliant Rae, thanksxxx :-)
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