Feeding Kids
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The advice you’re given will change your life forever!
Feeding Kids is a real parent's realistic cooking guide; jam packed with priceless tips on not only what to feed your children, but how to get your kids to actually eat it!
Written by Lorna Lily Saxbee, a busy mum who’s not keen on cooking, Lorna's motto is,
“I do as little as possible, as quickly as I can, while getting the highest health benefits for my children”.
“It’s not about quick, unique recipes that aren’t particularly healthy, says Lorna. It’s about having kids eating real, nutritious food, by cooking simple, everyday recipes in a yummy way. Also, recipes that can span a few meals, so we can lessen the work load.”
You'll Get:
- Simple, Quick and Easy ways to prepare fantastic nutritious meals your kids will love.
- Uncover All The Secrets to overcome your kid's finicky taste buds.
- Identify & Avoid Common Mistakes parents make which stop kids from eating healthy foods.
- Discover the creative ways to involve kids in nutritious meal preparation & consumption
Stop struggling to get your kids to eat their veggies, let the Feeding Kids e-Book give you all the knowledge you need to get your children eating healthier so you can stop worrying!
Disliking domesticity herself, Lorna spent years developing the many methods in this e-Book, which not only made her life easier, but supported her in raising shinny, healthy children and now her advise is helping mums all over the World.
Let Lorna help you too.
The Feeding Kids recipes can be found, in easy print format, at the end of the book and to avoid having to flip back and forward between recipes with sticky fingers, some of the common tips and tricks are repeated throughout.
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Feeding Kids - Lorna Lily Saxbee
Thank you, Mum, for so much.
Aurora and Raphy, for being my inspiration and biggest fans.
Craig, for knowing all the rules.
Andrew, for keeping my dyslexic spelling at bay and Adam, for teaching me photo-shop.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Vegetable & Organic Mince Sausage Rolls with a side of Green Beans
Chapter 2 Veggie, Bean & Meat Stew
Chapter 3 'Kids Get Dinner' Baked Beans, Nuts, Frozen Peas, a Honey Cracker & a glass of Water.
Chapter 4 Breakfast
Breakfast #1 - ‘Fruit, Nuts and Yoghurt’
Breakfast #2 - Soft Boiled Egg, Nuts, Avocado & Grated Cheese Cracker with a Honey Cracker
Breakfast #3 - ‘Good Old Porridge’
Breakfast #4 - Chunky Avocado & Grated Cheese Crackers, Fruit and Nuts
Breakfast #5 - Orange Mash & a Sunny Side Up Egg, Topped with Grated Cheese
Chapter 5 Lamb Cutlets, Orange Mash & Green Peas With extra veggie option of; Green Beans & Zucchini
Chapter 6 Veggie & Organic Mince Bolognese
Chapter 7 Grilled Salmon, Roasted Veggie Chips & Salad
Chapter 8 School Lunches
School Lunch #1 - Baked Beans
School Lunch #2 - Homemade Sausage Rolls
School Lunch #3 - Ham, Hummus, Baby Spinach & Cheese Wrap
School Lunch #4 - Tofu
School Lunch #5 – Hard Boiled Egg
Chapter 9 Cheesy Tofu Bites, Orange Mash & Juicy Green Peas
Chapter 10 To Deal with Bullies and Teasing… or not. A Mothers Dilemma
Chapter 11 New Mums with New Bubs
Chapter 12 Pesticides And Chemicals
Chapter 13 A Few Thoughts
Chapter 14 Complete Recipe List For Printing
Breakfast #1 – Fruit, Nuts & Yoghurt
Breakfast #2 - Soft Boiled Egg, Nuts, Avocado & Grated Cheese Cracker with a Honey Cracker
Breakfast #3 - Good Old Porridge
Breakfast #4 - Chunky Avocado & Grated Cheese Crackers, Fruit and Nuts
Breakfast #5 - Orange Mash & a Sunny Side Up Egg, Topped with Grated Cheese
Organic Mince & Veggie Bolognese
Grilled Fish, Roasted Veggie Chips with Salad
Cheesy Tofu Bites with Orange Mash & Green Peas
School Lunch #1 – Baked Beans
School Lunch #2 – Homemade Sausage Rolls
School Lunch #3 – Ham, Hummus, Baby Spinach & Cheese Wrap
School Lunch #4 – Tofu
School Lunch #5 – Hard Boiled Egg
Vegetable & Organic Mince Sausage Rolls with Blanched Green Beans
Veggie, Bean & Meat Stew
'Kids Get Dinner' - Baked Beans, Nuts, Frozen Peas, a Honey Cracker & a glass of Water
Lamb Cutlets with Orange Mash & Green Peas – with extra veggie option of: Green Beans & Zucchini
Hello and welcome. I’m Lorna your host and my goal is to help you to get your kids eating healthy, real food.
After having children, I soon realised cooking is just something you can't avoid. Not being keen on cooking, in fact to be honest, not liking it at all, I set myself a goal to raise the healthiest kids possible with the least amount of effort or time spent in the kitchen. I figured the time and energy saved could be better spent on having more fun with them.
Still, I won't cut a corner if it's detrimental to my children’s health, but cut a corner across a vacant block, then I'm all for dashing across.
At times I've wondered, What am I doing? What is a mum who loathes the kitchen doing creating an eBook on cooking?
Then I realised, what I hoped I was writing was not just a cooking guide, but a philosophical look at what we as parents can do to raise happy, healthy and respectful kids.
Not to mention there must be others like me out there, who don't crave kitchen time. Perhaps, like me, you were caught out and wondering how this had happened to you. There you were one minute, trained and prepped for a fabulous career, then the next you awake to discover yourself in another world. A once limitless world now transformed into a domestic nightmare. Orh, ok, perhaps nightmare is a little harsh. How about ‘fog’?
But so desperate I’d become in this world, that when my child’s School Fete came around, I’d seriously berate and cajole an old theatre buddy of mine, who just happens to love baking in frilly aprons, until he’d promise to bake Anzac bickies for me. I knew his baking was perhaps not as fab as he believed it to be, but I didn’t care, even his rock like Anzacs. I'd just make sure they were carefully wrapped in cellophane with a pretty pink ribbon to disguise the burnt edges, before I handed them over to the P&F as my very own. To me they were still well worth the prize of not having had to bake.
Well anyway, I’ve come to realise, when unexpected events occur, or strange worlds appear, the answer to why, is usually found at the beginning.
As exciting and adventurous as my youth was, and having gained great skills along my career path, all these years later (we won’t clarify how many) it’s been revealed to me that none of this life experience had prepared me for the particular journey I had stumbled onto. This road I had embarked upon had seemed innocent enough, even romantic, with a lovely feeling attached; but I’m telling you, it was not what I expected. This love thing had deceptively planted me on the most difficult path of all and that was the path of parenthood.
You know what I mean, don’t you?
From the moment my bundle of divine joy arrived - a yummy, squeaking, bright eyed, squishy bundle of love - I went into shock.
It wasn’t until seven years later, that I made it back to reality. Actually, perhaps I did come out of shock on the odd occasion; but only to discover that I’d been replaced, made incapacitated, my mental bank now a blank and my mind reminiscent of a cud-chewing cow. They had conspired against me - my mind, my body - and had fenced me into a calving paddock.
Nature’s no pushover for us modern-day career women either: she bars no holds and is certainly not ashamed of her covert tactics or the powerful way she has of ensnaring us. Hormones and heartstrings: her favourite ammunition.
Yes, parenthood! It’s ruthless really, because once undertaken there is no going back.
If I were to be honest, being a new mum wouldn’t have been so very bad really, except that I was a shocking Control Freak Perfectionist, CFP. Though I’m proud to say that now, I am a Recovering CFP.
If you’re a parent you’d know (oh dear, unless you’re a covert CFP) that this is really not a character trait that lends itself to parenting. In fact, it makes it terribly more tortuous than it needs to be because you know the number one thing you lose when you have a baby, is control. How impossible it is to be in control or a perfect parent? Impossible; absolutely impossible. In fact, no lesson could be found to be more excruciating for the CFP character type!
Yet it’s been a fruitful trip in the end, because now I have the chance to pass on lots of little tips that may ease your happy little burden.
Look: bless my children, they are the light of my life; but someone has to complain of the parenting challenges. Laughing together stops us from being too hard on ourselves.
I think we just learnt Tip Number One – that is: none of us is perfect!
By the way, have any of you recognised as parents that you are in the most important role for humankind ever undertaken in all of our history? Well it is really, isn't it? Our society has forgotten; but I haven’t and that’s why I hope I can support you, if only in the tiniest of ways.
With this in mind, you’d have realised by now that I hate domesticity so it won’t be a gourmet love session between the pans and me. Instead, just me, who hates her pans (especially washing them up) giving you some good advice on how to do as little as possible as quickly as you can, while getting the highest health benefits happening for your children. It’s not about quick, unique recipes that aren’t particularly healthy; it’s about having kids eating real, nutritious food by cooking real and simple, everyday recipes in a yummy way. Also, some recipes that can span a few meals to lessen the work load.
Most important for you to know is there are no medical letters after my name; you won't find anything except a Degree in Drama and like we don’t have enough of that in our lives? What you will find though, is a mum who has survived the early years of parenthood, has two kids who eat their veggies, and has lived to tell the tale.
I know it’s not easy getting your kids to be healthy, especially if they are older and are set in their ways, but you can replace these habits. Bit by bit. If I make it look too easy, don’t be fooled: it wasn’t easy for me either. I did start when mine were babies though, which does help, but it can be done at any age, eventually.
*Please always do your own research in anything that I may have an opinion on because even though my opinions are heavily researched, they are still mine and may not be suitable for you or your family. So always take ownership of what’s good for your family and absolutely seek out medical advice for any big changes or concerns. In fact, I always do my own research on any health issues that arise: I see a doctor for advice, then seek a natural practitioner’s and then after all that, I’ll do my own research again before finally deciding what health plan I make. Hmmm, did I say recovering CFP?
These days it’s tough to be healthy when your family is surrounded by toxic junk food everywhere and nasty marketing which focuses on the evil manipulation of children. All made worse because you’re exhausted from raising kids and either paying the rent or the mortgage off. So after all that, who’s got the energy to get the kids eating well?
Don’t worry: you’ll find it. I admit it’s tough and sometimes it doesn't really feel like it gets any easier; but then whenever I felt disheartened, I remind myself of what my children have eaten that day. Then I know it has all been worth it.
My kids are now eight and nine and they will eat 99% of anything I put in front of them. Not always happily and silently, sometimes with some perfectly-pitched manipulative whining; but I ignore them, and the rest of the time they love it.
We all know parenting is not an overnight job. Appreciation for healthy food and respect for their little bodies is a vital tool you can build up in them over time. It’s a tool to last them a lifetime.
Whenever I lived alone BC, that's 'before children', I never even bothered to own a fridge. So honestly, believe me when I say, if I can do it, you can do it.
Even start in tiny, wee steps. For example, if its nuts you are getting them to eat, even one almond a day will mean that by the end of the year, your child may be eating a handful of raw organic nuts every couple of days for a snack, instead of a packet of chips. Imagine how immensely proud of yourself you’ll be then? There is no failure because one nut is more than no nuts.
A key concept for children to understand is that 90% of the