Serves 4 adults and two babies with left over beef for sandwiches etc and a couple of baby portions of stew for the freezer unless…
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Claire’s Baby Tuna Niçoise.
Ingredients: Half a boiled egg, Cucumber sticks with the edges trimmed off (the centre is much easier for little people to eat), Streamed green beans…
Dietitian Becky’s take on KFC
Chicken fillet oven cooked in fresh breadcrumbs with a little oil eg rapeseed (in the UK most of the vegetable oil is rapeseed) or olive…
Honeydew Melon ☀️
One of the tastiest melons I’ve ever eaten. The girls absolutely LOVED it too. Just look at the golden colour ☀️ Rich in Vitamin C,…
A quick vibrant lunch
Lunch for me & the girls (now 9 months). For me: Egg (mashed with a little salad cream) In a whole meal wrap, Plum cherry…
Minty pea and broad bean humous
Minty pea and broad bean humous – just finished & I have to admit I’ve already eaten some! Yummy 😍 Ingredients: 300g peas (fresh or…
Pineapple porridge with a dollop of Greek yoghurt
This beautifully ripe pineapple gave a great sweet zinginess to our porridge this morning. Did you know that pineapples are not only rich sources of…
Herby cauliflower & macaroni with crispy cheese top
A lower fat and lower salt version of the classics mac cheese and cauliflower cheese. Adding mustard powered and herbs to the white sauce and…
Can you eat a rainbow?
This is my harvest from the garden this evening (excluding the blueberries which are grown down the road)! By eating a wide range of fruits…
Eating today’s rainbow
Using yesterday’s rainbow harvest today. Let me take you through our day as we enjoy eating yesterday’s rainbow harvest. In brief porridge for breakfast, yellow…
Simple tuna pasta
A quick one tonight (less than 10 minutes from turning the kettle on to going into their mouths) as we’ve had a very busy day!…
Blueberry oaty bites (baby friendly flapjack)
This time I used a rounded tablespoon of yoghurt & a handful of blueberries. About 10 into quarters & microwaved the rest for 1 1/2…
A rainbow 1st birthday party
Happy first birthday to my gorgeous neice. What a clever mummy you have! Rainbow pizza: What a great idea a rainbow themed party is with…
My newsletter is now working!
Thanks for all of the love and support for DoubleYummy people. I’ve started a newsletter that will be delivered to your mailbox on a Friday…
Julienned carrot & cucumber with lunch
Cucumber sticks are still a difficult texture for my girls (9 months old) to cope with and so I wanted to try something different. We…
Ham with parsley sauce
Served with new potatoes, green beans & the tops of the purple sprouting broccoli. Both girls had a little more ham than pictured 😍 This…
Banana love – sensory play & a snack 💖🍌
Sensory play with the banana skin! 1/2 banana each for snack before swimming 🍌 💖💖 🏊 #easy #sensoryplay #snack #weaning #baby #dietitian #registereddietitian
Two ways tuna & potato
Serving the same thing two ways adds variety with minimal faff! Great for us as my girls love variety and I dislike too much faff…
Grass: Sensory play in the garden
Simply enjoying sitting on the grass (no rug) and picking the grass!🌱 We’re making the grass swish like waves, wiggling our feet through the grass…
Gooseberry & strawberry porridge
Gooseberry & strawberries stewed and served on our morning porridge. So easy to do. Just top and tail the gooseberries (no need to chop). Add…
Celebratory lobster macaroni cheese!
Thanks to Rebecca for asking about when shellfish can be introduced. See below for more info 😀 To celebrate Pop’s birthday we made this special…
Squash and black eye bean hash, served with avocado
I thought it’d be useful to share a recipe that is good for lots of you / your little people who are having to follow…
Cornish pasty
I was ordering my dads birthday present (a batch of onion free pasties) when it came to me… No added salt pasties. Thanks to @gearfarm…
Blackcurrants, blueberries & red grapes
Today’s fruit mix stewed together and added to our morning porridge. Someone asked me how do I come up with the fruit combinations? Careful and…
Omega 3s & the BBQ
The beautiful colours of last nights impromptu BBQ. Some great long chain omega 3 fats from the mackerel on this yummy meal. This type of…
Healthy cherry Icecream 😍☀️🍨
Cherry icecream with no added sugar or fat and suitable for almost all ‘free from’ diets and all of the family. The banana makes it…
Tip of the day: to improve portion control use a smaller plate!
For lunch we have leftover mackerel, ratatouille & new potatoes. #doubleyummy this time round as no cooking needed 😍 My lunch is on a side…
Vitamin D & Breastfeeding or giving less than 500ml of formula?
We all know that breast is best when it comes to feeding your baby in the first 6 months (don’t stop reading if you’re mixed…
Picnic lunch
Picnic lunch today after Bongo Babies at the @dracenacentre. Finger friendly strips of Edam (pre sliced was cheaper would you believe?! And by cutting down…