baked oakmeal

This is another dish that freezes great. It makes plenty, so there will be leftovers.
6 cups of rolled oats
3/4 cup of honey or maple syrup
2 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
5-6 cups of kefir or yogurt
4 eggs
1/2 cup melted coconut oil or butter
-you need to soak the oats for 12-24 hours before cooking.
-mix oats and kefir or yogurt in a large mixing bowl( you want the oats to be completely covered in the liquid) use more if you need to
-cover bowl w/ a clean dish towel and leave for12- 24 hours on your counter(this will make the nutrients in the oats more available)
-the next day, combine the eggs, sweetener, vanilla, salt and fat in a large mixing bowl.
-add soaked oats- mix well
-pour into a large cassreole dish or 2 small ones
-preheat the oven to 350 degree
-bake for 35-45 minutes

You could add many different things before baking
-nuts
-ground flax seeds
-berries
-dried fruit
-pumpkin pie spices

popsicles

I am sure by now you all now that I do not give my kids packaged foods. Maybe on occasion, I will give them a store bough coconut milk ice cream sweetened w/ agave syrup, but 99% of the time their treats come right from my kitchen made by mama!! I strive to give them and my husband and myself, as much raw food as possible. So treats are usually raw cookies, raw dairy smoothie, fruit, grain free baked goods(I use almond flour or coconut flour) and stevia or raw honey are the only sweeteners I use.
When the nice weather comes around, I start making popsicles. I found some molds that are BPA free(safer plastic) You can buy them on amazon.com. Tovolo popsicle molds.
You can put just about anything in them. My basic recipe goes like this:
-kefir or yogurt
-blueberries
fill mold 1/2 way w/ blueberries
add in yogurt or kefir
pop top on and freeze
You can do this w/ any type of fruit you like.
I also will blend up a smoothie and fill the molds w/ the mixture.
-raw cream
-raw egg yolk
-kefir, yogurt, or coconut milk
-fruit
-sometimes stevia
-vanilla extract
I always have this on hand during the nice weather months. When the neighborhood friends are getting the ice cream mans ice cream(if you can even call it that) my kids get their ice pops.

almond flour bluberry muffins

2 cups almond flour
1/4 cup coconut oil, ghee, or butter
3 eggs
1/4 cup of milk, cream, kefir, yogurt, buttermilk or coconut milk
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup blueberries(frozen is fine)
6 tbsp honey
Melt fat and put aside. Mix salt w/ almond flour. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl and add the vanilla. Mix the egg mixture into the flour and blend together. Now add the fat and mix well. Then fold in the berries.
I use a silicone muffin mold- I fill each mold 3/4 full w/ batter. I bake at 350 for 25 minutes. I do check after 20 min. w/ a toothpick. Insert the toothpick and gently pull out. If there is bater on the pick cook another 5 minutes.
This recipe makes about 10 muffins.
Serve as is or w/ butter!!!

strawberry soft serve ice cream

This is a delicious fast ice cream that doesn't require an ice cream maker.
1 bag frozen strawberries
1 tsp vanilla extract
pinch of sea salt
1 tbsp honey or maple syrup(if you like it real sweet, add more)
heavy cream, coconut milk, yogurt or kefir
2 raw egg yolks(optional)
In the bowl of the food processor(FP): add the berries, vanilla, salt, and sweetener: pulse to chop strawberries into small pieces. Now add egg yolks and while FP is going, slowly stream in the cream or whatever liquid you choose. Stop when the mixture is thick, like soft serve ice cream. You can serve now or put it in th freezer for 15-20 minutes(until ready to serve)
*I have made it w/ coconut milk and frozen bananas-AWSOME!!!(add 2 tbsp
unsweetened cocoa-WOW!!)
*yogurt and kefir go nice w/ blueberries
*cream goes nice w/ , raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, mango, bananas, blackberries

blender pancakes

These are great! They taste like regular pancakes(not whole grain) I learned the technique from Sue Greggs recipe.
1 cup of whole grains(I use 1/2 cup of brown rice and 1/2 cup of rolled oats or steel cut oats)I have also used 1/2 brown rice and 1/2 buckwheat. you can use any grain you have or like.
1 cup of plain yogurt or kefir
*put the yogurt or kefir in a blender, then put the grains and blend for about 2 minutes. You want the mixture to be almost smooth. Let this mixture sit overnight.
*in the morning, before breakfast, add the rest of the ingredients.
1 egg
1 tbsp melted coconut oil or butter
1 tsp baking soda(I leave this out for a very thin, crepe type of pancake)
1/2 tsp vanilla(optional)
1/2 tsp cinnamon(optional)
*blend again for a minute or so. Now make the pancakes!!
*****very easy- whole grain- nutrient dense- yummy*****
Add ins:
1 tbsp ground flax seed
1/2 cup frozen or fresh blueberries
1 banana and1/2 cup walnuts-folded in w/ a spoon
and anything else that you can think of

how to raise kids to LOVE food

*LOVE food yourself!!!! I mean REAL food, made at home w/ love.
*breastfeed for as long as possible!!
*make sure your house always smells like food. The smells from childhood stay w/ you forever.
*do not give grains until after 1 year(even longer is fine too) Babies can not digest grain until they have the enzymes to break them down. They do not develop these enzymes until after 1 year.
*DO NOT give any sweets(even natural)not even a taste until well over 1 year. They will know no different and they will enjoy foods in their natural form.
*do not serve babies bland food. Serve them food the way you season yours.
*revisit foods that baby refuses to eat. Sometimes they just arent in the mood for a particular food. Parents, I think, mistake "just not in the mood" for "I do not like that".
*start babies young w/ unsweetened lacto fermented foods(yogurt, kefir)between 6-8 months and cultured drinks(kombucha,water kefir) over 1year. These foods are chock full of nutrition, enzymes, bacteria and yeast which will keep babies healthy and their digestive tracts filled w/ "the good guys".
A healthy baby, child and grown up loves healthy food.
An unhealthy baby, child and grown up does not love healthy food.

frozen organic berries

I always have bags of these on hand. They are great in my coconut flour muffins, smoothies, pancakes, and in a bowl w/ some yogurt or kefir and a little cream too. But what they are really best for is a teething baby(over 1 and w/ a few teeth) They were loved by my boys and really soothing on their swollen gums.
* I do want to say that I gave them to my boys at maybe 7 months in one of those mesh food bags sold at the baby stores. They look like a rattle sort of and you can put all different foods in them. I used then mostly for my teething babies w/ frozen fruits put in.

the kids favorite smoothie

1 cup kefir
1 raw egg yolk
1/4 cup of raw cream(if I do not have any I use more kefir)
handful of frozen berries
1 tsp of powdered greens
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 drops of stevia or 1 tsp raw honey
Place all ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth!!!