Plans

Healthy Cooking Plans

Plan school lunch ideas
Make more triangle lunch sacks
Banana Pancakes
Herb butter
Sweet Butters
Source local grass fed meat
Bulk Almond Meal
Buy Food Mixer
Make coconut butter
Support local growers
Wrap energy bars in brown paper
Use Almond Milk

Grain Free

We are trying to adapt to a healthier lifestyle in our family. So I thought I might keep track of the recipes we're trying  and keep  a journal of what works.

What worked today

Getting the kids involved
The girls got up early made a garden salad and a fruit salad. They loved using the melon baller and squeezing lemon juice on the fruit salad to keep it fresh. They served it for morning tea and it was delicious and quite sweet with the little shapes they had made from the melon baller.

Yoghurt
We are serving our Greek yoghurt in small bowls with blueberries and honey. Just  small amount of yoghurt, one large tablespoon seems to satisfy them and is  healthy sweet snack.

Routine Foods
Having routine go to healthy food that they recognise is comforting for us all.

Chocolate Truffles
1 cup coconut
20 dates softened
half  cup cocoa
1 tb coconut oil

Roll into teaspoon size balls and roll into coconut.

The kids only need one of these and it is  sweet little bite on the run

Baby Carrots
Having small  carrots in  little basket is something they like and its  a vegetable!

Cauliflower Rice
We had a sit down lunch with vegetables, tuna, cauliflower rice and cheese. Such  healthy lunch and the not only ate it....they also enjoyed it. Not always the case but such  a bonus for a basic cook like myself. Next time I will try and sneak in some avocado and sesame seeds......

Byex

I'm thinking about.........

Tomato and lentil soup
Potato and chorizo fritatta
Potato salad
Lovely little green salads
Baked potato medley
Tuna and white bean salad
Greek Salad
Chick Pea and parmesan salad
Roast Beef Roll Ups
Salmon Balls with homemade rye breadcrumbs
Small food all in a row....
Little parcels of food
Lots of salads
Pulsed vegetables in a salad
Sweet dressings

Wheat Free Vanilla Cupcakes

This is a modification of an original recipe from Tartlette. It was a lemon and coconut cupake which I have changed to vanilla and coconut and omitted the olive oil to butter as I found it too overpowering.

2 eggs
1/2 cup cster sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 cup yoghurt
vanilla
1 cup GF SR Flour
1/2 Rice Flour
1/2 Cup coconut
1 TB Baking Powder

Wheat Free Strawberry Tart

This is the most versatile tart recipe and very simple to make. I like it because you don't have to precook the base and it cooks in no time at all.

Base
Butter
Dates
Honey
Crushed cashews


Filling
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar/Honey
1 cup almond meal
1 egg
Orange rind and a splash of juice

Topping
Sliced strawberries
Sliced Pear
Blueberries

Things I'm loving in the kitchen

A salad bowl on the bench so we can graze on healthy snacks
Potato Wedges with rosemary and pink salt
Lovely new quiche recipe from a friend
Cucumber fetta and red onion altogether
Lime juice
Salmon on a bed of mash
Poached eggs
Coleslaw with whole egg mayo dressing and lots of cracked pepper

Wheat Free Blueberry Muffins

These are delectable and high fibre. What a combination. Are the two things possible?
You can smell the honey wafting throughout the kitchen as you pull them through the oven.

I cup SR Gluten Free flour
Half cup brown sugar
Two table spoons honey
Two eggs
Half cup olive oil
Half cup oatmeal
Half Cup LSA
Milk to complete mix
Add Blueberries once you've mixed ans spooned into the patties