Posted by
ldsllvn
18 yrs ago
Dear mums, I feel I am stuck with the same food for my two 20month olds. same old pasta, rice, chicken thing. I really would love to hear your favourite recipes for your little ones - really need something new! Thank you for sharing.
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mine is still 12months old so cant talk from experience, but i came across this website that seems to have nice ideas
http://www.ourlittletreasure.com.au/pa/sub/recresults.php?searchboxrecipe=&difficulty=NULL&mealtype=All&submit=Find+Me+That+Recipe
i think these could work for mine...
http://www.ourlittletreasure.com.au/pa/sub/viewrecipe.php?id=20
http://www.ourlittletreasure.com.au/pa/sub/viewrecipe.php?id=112
but there's plenty of ideas on this site..
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thank you ladies - have Annabel Karmel but sort of bored with it! will look at your links/books!
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idsllvn,
sorry to hijack your thread but here's my situation:
mother of almost 2 year old toddler and 5 week old baby. baby settles not well at bedtime, quite a fair bit of crying so mum is too anxious/stressed to do much cooking....toddler eating too much baked beans in the past 5 weeks, mum and dad getting week from eating too many hurried sandwiches.
so would welcome any ideas for super easy/quick, family friendly recipes that can be batch cooked and frozen!!
no need for annabel karmel/gina suggestions, we've done them all....
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wheelymate check out the website that i posted. i think most meals can be eaten by babies and adults.
I pressure cook barley and lean beef for an hour and then all of us have it, with olive oil, parmesan cheese and pepper. Once the barley and beef is cooked you can add whatever veggies and cook for another 3mintues.
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Kim11
18 yrs ago
What do you mean by a pressure cooker? I have made a few things int he rice cooker on top of the rice but does anyone have any other good recipes for this?
I just read about another easy recipe I might try. Easy Sanchoi Bao- fry pork mince add a can of water chestnuts, glass noodles and serve in lettuce leaf. I don't know about the sauce though. this was not from a Hong Kong recipe so dont' know if you can get the proper lettuce here.
I will check this post for more ideas! Good luck for quick easy meals everyone!
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Hi, I have a really simple meal I make, actually more often than I should but it's hainanese chicken rice. I put the rice in the rice cooker but instead of water, I add chicken broth, then layer raw chicken breast on top and cook as usual. by the time the rice cooker pops, both the rice and chicken are ready and then we use sweet soya, thai sweet chili sauce, and grate fresh ginger. my 13mths old will have the rice and chicken without the sauces. Then I will microwave some frozen veggies, lucky for me hubby and baby are OK with brussle sprouts.
I also make ribs, this one takes a while to make but with minimal preperation and you dont have to watch the stove. I set everything on a timer. boil pork ribs on high for 10mins, then on low heat for 2hrs, pop into the oven with a ready made BBQ sauce for 20mins on each side to bake the sauce on. then same as above, frozen veggies...haha we have frozen veggies a lot...13mth old has the rib meat without sauce and veggies.
I also have a hearty soup recipe posted here that we have with wholegrain bread as a meal:
http://milkmonsterlaughs.blogspot.com/2007/08/mmmm-soup.html
13mths old eats the barley and veggies from the soup, and bread.
One for toddler only - I cook alphabet pasta (it cooks the fastest like 4mins and cools down really fast too.) with peas (yes, yes frozen peas) and grate cheese on top. my son LOVES this.
Happy cooking!!
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That's great ideas MM laughs. I'll give that chicken rice a try, sounds easy to cook.
I read your blog, you only give Tyson chicken to your son?
Keep the recipes coming please, as i'm also running out of ideas on what to give to my 16 months old. It's the same old rice with lentils/beans. And a dish with meat and mixed vegetables. Thank God, he can't complain yet ;-)
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kim 11: a pressure cooker is a pot that cooks things at high pressure. It makes cookign fast and easy. I know steaming veggies is the best to keep their nutritional value etc, but i cook all meals fresh for baby and havent time to steam. i don't believe in freezing and reheating veggies.
i pressure cook lots of stuff...its great to boil lean meat (10-45min depending on how big the pc is, potatoes' 10 min etc). would be lost without my cooker...
fluffy veg omlette
4 eggs
2tablespoons of plain flour
vegetable of choice, onions (preferably something that cooks fast like spinach, frozen baby peas, bell peppers etc)
clean and prepare veggies and stir fry with a tablesppon or two of oil without water in the skillet to be used for the omelette. lower flame.
break eggs into bowl, seaprating white from yellows. use an egg beater to whisk eggwhites really stiff, and then add the yellows. fold in the flour and a dd salt to taste.
pour egg/flour mixture over veggies, cover and cook for 4-5 minutes. if stillkful enough flip the whole thing over otherwhise cut and flip individual pcs to cook egg on other side.
This can be done for beakfast using thinly sliced apples, and a sprinkling of sugar on the pan before the egg is added.
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Hi Honeypie, yeah we have Tyson's chicken quite a bit because it's convenient. I always have a bag of it in the freezer. Whenever possible we will buy fresh organic meat and I also order horomone free chicken from South Stream Seafoods. I agree with the goddess that fresh veggies are best but we only grocery shop for organics on the weekend so for the latter part of the week we end up eating a lot of frozens. If available though, I will choose organic frozens...
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crj
17 yrs ago
That's a great link to Our Little Treasures, what an excellent site - thanks for that TGKali.
Here is an old thread with lots of toddler finger food and meal recipes:
http://hongkong.asiaxpat.com/forums/parentingadvice/threads/99224/toddler-finger-food-recipes/
Here are two sites I use a lot:
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com
http://www.wholesometoddlerfood.com
And some more:
http://www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/startingsolids/weaningrecipes/ninemonths/
But saying all of that, I am SUPER LAZY.
My 2 year old gets:
Breakfast - super porridge with cod liver oil and multi vitamins, yogurt, banana, other fruit (mango/papaya) which he now doesn't always eat.
Snack - could be dried cereal, cheese on toast, banana if he didn't eat his at breakfast, bagels and lox if I am having it, etc... we call it 'second breakfast'!!
Lunch - tofu or chicken or fish or egg (quiche, omlette, boiled) (either made for him or our leftovers from night before), vegetables (often frozen as easiest), rice or noodles
Snack - apple dipped in yogurt, egg or cheese toast or quesadillas, whole grain cereal which he eats like crackers, etc...
Dinner - similar to lunch, but lately it also has a bowl of yogurt as he is on a yogurt phase again!
Right now he is 2 years and 2 months and he is all about dipping - the fruit gets dipped into yogurt, he can go through a bowl of homemade hummos if he gets to dip... so we are doing lots and lots of dipping meals.
When I make soup or any other healthy home made food for us for dinner, he gets it for leftovers the next day for his lunch or dinner, supplemented with extra veggies if needed.
He also loves helping if I am cooking - pressing the button on the blender, mixing something, etc... but to be honest, I don't do it that often!
Last night I made a thai curry and he LOVES curry... so today he will get that with brown rice and he'll be thrilled.
Another thing to note, is toddlers are different every day. A friend told me 'it is not what they eat in a day, but in a week' We have some days where all he wants is super porridge or yogurt and some days he barely eats and other days he eats loads, and many days he has a small dinner but huge breakfast.... we don't push him or worry, whatever he eats is healthy and he has pretty good food habits thus far.
With my 10 month old, I am still doing purees, food cubes, etc... I keep telling myself I will get more creative when they are both eating the same thing!
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i could have survived without this forum, another fab thread...the little treasures site is very promising, will definitely be trying out the recipes!
crj, how do you get your son to eat curry? i've made a mild curry for him with some korma pasta and apples and chicken and raisins (a karmel recipe) which he enjoyed but he can't actually take anything that's spicy and i imagine your thai curry has a kick to it?
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crj
17 yrs ago
WM - our son even ate spicy curry in Thailand, as well as clams with chili, and everything else we put in front of him. Then we went to the USA, and he only ate porridge, bagels, lox and not much else until the last few days when he started to eat everything again - we think it was the jetlag.
The one thing we learned early though, was not to let him feed himself. We discovered he liked curry when he was about 15-18 months old.... and he was feeding himself, then touched his eye - that was very bad! So now we feed him. If it is super super spicy he can't eat it, but then again we have trouble too at that level.
He also loves garlic, and will pick it out of the plate to eat it and ignore the rest of the food.
He is my son for sure... I ate lots of garlic and curry when pregnant, but with him did not eat it while breast feeding (he seemed to be fussy when I did). With my daughter I ate it while breast feeding as well, but we haven't tried her on it yet as she is too young.
But like I said, it really varies... he has some days where he is the most boring eater and others where he is a superstar.... the bigger issue is I don't expose him to enough on a regular basis and we don't eat together as his meals are much earlier than when I would eat.
Oddly, I didn't eat spicy food until I was 18, I couldn't stand it - and then I totally changed. And I was exposed to it all the time by my parents, family and friends - so who knows how/why we eat spicy or not!
BTW - check out the activities month by month on the little treasures site, very nice layout, etc...
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crj, thanks for sharing.
my husband and i love all things spicy so abit disappointed when my son acted like we were trying to poison him when he accidentally dipped some roti prata (an indian pancake of sorts) into the accompanying curry. i guess this is something we have to train!
clams with chilli, i'm still wary about seafood at this point, will wait until he's after 2
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How do you transition baby from eating purees to eating more "adult" textured food? My 13 month old likes purees and congee, but will vomit if we try to thicken the congee a bit, and shows no interest in eating finger foods or in eating more textured food. :(
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"How do you transition baby from eating purees to eating more "adult" textured food? My 13 month old likes purees and congee, but will vomit if we try to thicken the congee a bit, and shows no interest in eating finger foods or in eating more textured food. :("
Keep trying. Easy concept that hides a lot of complication.
Try something more exciting like fruit. Papaya, mango, apple, etc... All more "solid" than mush but sweet enough most babies will gladly put it in their mouth.
Thin wafers are also good since baby can hold and suck until the wafer liquefies.
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goddess,
just tried one recipe from little treasures - the chicken meatballs in noodle broth. it was a hit! but i used pork instead of chicken (v suspicious of chicken mince in general), alphabet pasta for a fun element instead and to make it easier, i used assorted frozen veggies....it was done in minutes and can make a big batch at one go.
thanks for the link, will definitely try out more of the recipes!
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a note to milk monster - i have been cooking hainanese chicken rice for years and i NEVER thought of putting chicken pieces in the rice cooker for ease! awesome!!! i tried it tonight and it was so good - much easier than poaching a whole chicken which is very fiddly! one thing i always do to that makes it really tasty is to fry the UNCOOKED rice in olive oil (butter if you feel really unhealthy) and chopped garlic and ginger and then pop in the rice cooker. that is the secret to really authentic hainanese chicken rice! :)
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