10 things I won’t feed my son

 

• Foods with 10 ingredients or more. Wholesome foods tend to have very few ingredients because they only contain ingredients that are essential to making that product.  
• High fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
• Enriched and bleached flour (be careful because it may say “whole grain” or “wheat” on the package. It’s not necessarily 100% wheat flour)
• Trans fats/hydrogenated vegetable oils
• Artificial colorings
• Saturated fats
• High-sugars/refined sugars
• High sodium (we should not consume more than 2 grams/2000mg of sodium per day)
• Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
• Sodium nitrate

#Organic spinach salmon pasta pizza.

Here is a fun food that is so healthy and versatile; it is a favorite in our home, it can be served for breakfast, lunch or dinner with very little changes made to it. Our 7yr old and my wonderful husband (sssssssh) can’t get enough of it- It takes so little time to make this meal-We sometimes use quinoa or brown rice spaghetti

Ingredients- we used all organic ingredients.

• 3 eggs
• 2 plum tomato- diced
• 1 small red onion -diced
• 1 cup baby spinach-chopped
• 1 small carrot –thinly sliced
• ½ a pack of spaghetti –about 3 cups (boiled)
• ¼ olive oil
• 2 cloves of garlic-chopped
• ½ a cup of left over grilled wild caught Alaskan salmon (leave this out for breakfast)
• a pinch of sea salt, freshly ground black pepper and nutmeg to taste

 

Directions
In a large bowl, beat eggs, add tomatoes, onion, spinach, carrots, garlic, salt, pepper, nut meg, salmon and mix, add boiled spaghetti.

In a large 10-inch non-stick skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add spaghetti mixture, spreading evenly and pressing down in pan. Cook until golden brown, about 8 minutes. Carefully invert onto plate, add a little more oil to the pan, and slide mixture back into skillet and cook the other side for 6 minutes. Turn out onto serving platter and cut into wedges and serve warm. If you are a pro at this you can toss over to change sides..

Feeding your family fresh wholesome foods can be as adventurous and fun as you want it to be- Hope you are having a good day.

Agatha
www.yummyspoonfuls.com

Baked organic kale chips

 

• 1 bunch organic kale
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• pinch of sea or season salt optional

Instructions
Preheat  oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a non-insulated cookie sheet with parchment paper.

With a knife carefully remove the leaves from the thick stems and tear into bite size pieces. Wash and thoroughly dry kale with a salad spinner or paper towel. Drizzle kale with coconut oil and sprinkle with salt. Place them single layer on the sheet .do not double stack
Bake until the edges are slightly brown but are not burnt, 8-10 minutes

Amazing snack, my family loves kale and we pretty much make all type of stuffs with it including juice , started making kale chips  for our son when he was a year old, oh what a mess he used to make, at age 7 it is still one of his favorite snack but without the mess:) he knows now to crush the crispy leaves in his mouth and not his hands.. Enjoy this yummy snack with your family.. Healthy has never tasted this good..

Agatha
www.yummyspoonfuls.com

 

 

Steam organic quinoa, blueberries & yogurt breakfast.

I eat and feed my family very purposefully especially our son who is now 7, I know that every bit he takes is a nutritional opportunity to nourish is ever developing body so I take full advantage of it, here is a typical breakfast in our home, we don’t do box cereal or any other foods that literally has been processed to death. This is a powerhouse house breakfast that is full of nutrients and it is wonderfully yummy. Our son had steamed organic quinoa topped with fresh organic blueberries, yogurt, organic almond milk and organic grade B maple syrup for breakfast. See recipe below.

• 1 cup Quinoa ( steam a cup using directions from your package)
• ¼ cup Blueberries (frozen blueberries)
• ¼ Milk (we use almond milk made with organic almonds)
• 1 teaspoon of organic butter
• A scoop of organic yogurt
• 1 teaspoon of grade B maple syrup

Directions. Cook quinoa following directions on your package (you can always steam a batch of quinoa and use as needed). Scoop a cup of steamed quinoa in a bowl smaller portions to fit the need of your child, this here is for our 7 year old son, add your organic milk (our son likes his porridge very thick so we add very little milk, add your blueberries, butter, yogurt and drizzle your maple syrup at the end, you can use whatever fruits you like, I have made this meal with dried apricots, raisins, cranberries but this combination with blueberries is still an all time favorite in our home..

Knowing who makes your food is just as important as knowing what is in your food… have a wonderful day and remember, “Our health is our most precious asset we have at any given moment. Invest wisely!” – Leslie Sansone

This will make an amazing complete meal for your baby as well, just mush it up in a blender to the right consistency and make sure you only add what they have been cleared to eat..

Agatha

 

 

Organic baked oatmeal…Breakfast outside the box.

 

People are always surprised when I tell them we don’t eat nor feed our 7 yrs old ‘breakfast cereals’.  I usually get the same questions, so what do you feed him? And seriously what else is out there? I know it sounds complicated since cereal is the most widely advertised convenient breakfast food and with our hectic schedules time is always an issue. I am not saying making real breakfast for your family is going to be as easy as pouring cereal into a bowl of milk but simply saying that it is going to be very well worth your time. It is easier for me because it is a way of life; box cereal was never a breakfast item for me as a child. Here is a typical breakfast food in our home; it also freezes very well so I make 2 batches at a time.

• 4 cups steel cut oats
• 1  cup pecan, or nuts of your choice
• 2 tablespoons yogurt, kefir, whey or buttermilk for soaking
• dash unrefined sea salt
• 6 pastured eggs
• 2 cups whole organic milk
• ½ cup raisins
•  ½ cup dried cranberries
•  1 tablespoons cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon nutmeg (this is one of my favorite baking spices, grew up using it for all our baking needed)
• ¼  cup coconut oil plus extra for greasing baking dish (you are welcome to use any good quality oil of your choice)

Preparation steps:

• Pour the steel cut oats and nuts into a large bowl.
• Add enough filtered water to completely cover the oats and nuts. Add a dash of your salt and a two tablespoons of  fresh organic yogurt
• Allow the oats and nuts to soak, covered, overnight in a warm place in your kitchen – about eight to twelve hours.
• Strain liquid out using a colander and put back in the mixing bowl.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and grease a 13 x 9-inch rectangular baking pan with oil
• Meanwhile beat together eggs, milk, until  it is nice and frothy.
• Pour the mixture of eggs and milk over the strain soaked  oats and nuts, stirring well to combine into a porridge-like mixture.
• Gently fold in your dried fruit, nutmeg, cinnamon and coconut oil into the mixture.
• Pour the mixture into your greased baking pan and flatten it out with a rubber spatula to ensure even baking and a good appearance.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for forty to forty-five minutes or until the oatmeal achieves a pleasing golden-brown color on top, a knife inserted into its center comes out clean and free from liquid and the fragrance of baked oats, dried fruit, nutmeg and cinnamon perfumes your kitchen.

Cut into squares after it cools down just like our picture.  We served ours with a scoop of organic yogurt, fresh raspberries and drizzles of grade B organic maple syrup… You and your family are going to love this breakfast and did I mentioned how nutrient dense this meal is:)

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Sunday breakfast/brunch. Homemade toast & turkey

Sunday breakfast/brunch has never been this easy or tasted this yummy, I believe that when people realized just how easy it is to make food at home they would start doing it more not to mentioned the fact that freshly made usually taste far more better. On the weekends I like making simple breakfast items but make it very elaborate and fancy, this meal gives you the illusion of a very expensive high-end resort breakfast but truth be told it was whipped up in less than 20 minutes and cost so very little.. The key as Julia Child puts it is fresh ingredient.

‘You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces- just good food from fresh ingredient “

 

 

Here are a few key points to my healthy wholesome quick Sunday brunch, I did not have to make my own bread from scratch this week but the good news is I got freshly made bread from my local famers market and they use the same real ingredients like I would without any unwanted and unneeded extras like preservatives and fake synthetic colors, also our sausage was made local with not a drop of fillers just ground up turkey and a dash of maple syrup..

1. 1 loaf of fresh organic sourdough rye bread (here is what is used to make my bread: wheat flour, rye flour, fresh yeast and water)
2. 5 large organic eggs (I love happy chicken:) so it needs to always be pastured, being organic and not free range is not good enough for me)
3. 1 cup milk (we use almond milk) you can use half and half as well
4. ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
5. ½ teaspoon nutmeg
6. salt to taste
7. butter and oil
8. 1 lb local made turkey sausage in sheep casing
9. For serving:
10. Fresh strawberries (see my fancy little trick.. sliced thinly and then spread for that artistic touch)
11. Fresh yogurt
12. Maple syrup (grade B)

Ok so now you have all the ingredients ready, let’s go..

In a large shallow bowl, whisk together your eggs, milk, vanilla, nutmeg and your salt, soak bread slices in the egg mixture, make sure you turn to soak both sides if pan too shallow, you want it to feel drench in that yummy mix.

Heat butter and oil (I tablespoon of each) in a large sauté pan over medium heat, add your slices of bread and cook for about 2 minutes on each side or until nicely brown, fry remaining  soaked bread slices and stacking to keep warm until you are all done adding butter and oil as needed.. If you are not as fast in the kitchen as I am then you might what to store toast in a warm oven as you are working so it is not to call by the time you all are ready to sit down to eat (if you need to set your oven to 250 degrees)

Grill your sausage ( I usually steam sausage before grilling to make sure it is well cooked and moist, I put it on the grill to give it that brownish look without drying it out…Get out your fancy table cloth and mama’s china and you are ready to go..

Bonne appétit

Agatha
www.yummyspoonfuls.com

 

 

Organic green eggs- In honor of Dr. Seuss

In honor of Dr. Seuss here is a little green for you, Happy Birthday. We love adding color to food without the use of any thing synthetic; we love playing with food naturally. This is our son’s favorite egg and we are very careful since he loves is spinach crisp, he won’t eat it wilted..

 

2 organic pasture eggs
1 Cup fresh organic baby spinach
A pinch of real sea salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
2 tablespoon butter or your oil of choice
½ teaspoon water (pls don’t ask, my mom always added water to her eggs and I now do the same, really don’t know if it is relevant or not)

Whisk the eggs in a bowl with the spinach, salt,  pepper and water, heat butter in a large sauté or omelet pan add egg and cook on medium heat, allow to cook on one side then turn like you would your pancakes.. Enjoy

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Organic petite pasta for your precious baby

Organic petite Pasta

 

 

 

• 12oz pastina or quinoa or brownrice
• 6 plum tomato
• 1/2 onion
• 1/2 stalk leaks (white part only)
• 1/2 chop spinach
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
• 1/4 cups cold pressed olive oil
• broth or water to cook the pastina

• Cook pastina or quinoa and set aside (follow cooking specification provided by manufacturer,
• In a food processor add tomato, onion, leaks, garlic and ginger and blend until nicely chopped.
• Pour blended mixture into pot and allow to cook until fluid is almost evaporated, about 7 minutes
• Add oil and allow to simmer for about 2 minutes
• Add your pastina or quinoa and your chopped spinach and mix properly and let it cook for just a few minutes,you don’t want to over cook the spinach.

This is a fantastic meal for your baby that the rest of the family will truly enjoy as a side dish.. Meal can also be blended for a mushy stage 2 texture. Shredded chicken, lamb, or fish can also be added to this meal.
In this recipe we used all organic ingredients and homemade vegetable broth

Homemade organic food is best for your baby, if you don’t have the time to make yours join a host of other parents who trust us with their babies freshly made meals
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Coal tar derivative chemical that causes hyperactivity in children found in processed food.

Would you knowingly feed your children coal tar? The thought of this seriously makes me cringe, I am so happy that you WILL NEVER FIND such nasties in Yummy Spoonfuls organic baby food.. It is a shame that so many dangerous toxins makes their way into our food supply chain, yesterday in the news it was arsenic in baby formula, today we are talking about cold tar in the food we feed our children.. There is always something crazy going on with the food we feed our kids that for a minute it makes you forget the purpose of food.. Food is to NOURISH and not POISON.. Please become a compulsive label reader, don’t feed your baby food that might have the slightest potential to harm them, just because it is in the market doesn’t make it right…

Many processed foods are made with a coal tar derivative chemical that causes hyperactivity in children

Read article here at Natural News

The 5 Grossest Things You’re Eating- Including human hair

This is wrong on so many levels but what makes it so sad is that the same government that allows these freakishness in  our food supply chain is the same one working tirelessly looking for cures to treat the man made illness generated by these same food.. It is a vicious circle.

It is very scary to think of all the additives and chemicals that are added into our foods supply to increase product shelf life thus guarantees the bottom line of the product. It is a shame that our society has been made to believe that it is necessary; all these additives, colors, chemicals etc are actually decreasing our health.

We all know processed foods are filled with a lot of other unnecessary ingredients that serve as stabilizers, sweeteners and preservatives so the food can outlive your kids’ more reason why we should avoid any food that has   10 ingredients or more. Wholesome foods tend to have very few ingredients because they only contain ingredients that are essential to making that product.  For example, organic peanut butter should contain peanuts many list a lot of other unnecessary ingredients that serve as stabilizers, sweeteners and preservatives so the food can outlive your kids’ childhood. Bread should contain about 5 or 6 ingredients, HFCS(see below) should not be one of them.

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