Idiot Proof Pudding

primowino

What my son loves and loves to make is Eton mess, basically its cream whipped until thick into which you stir stuff, this should be fruit and crushed meringues, but could be fruit and anything you had in. I always buy the boxes of meringue nests/cases which are reduced because they are broken, and then have them in for when cream is reduced because it is short dated. You can make it with angel delight or similar. I know it is high fat but it is a rare treat and we are all thin due to the amount of exercise we do. I do make sure we have lots of fruit in it.

Skint_Catt

Rice pudding?

or a fave from Retired Lady on the Slimming World thread is plain pudding rice boiled in water. Then mixed with yoghurt (we use Muller lights) - you can also add fruit to the flavour of the yoghurt in! Yum!

My fave when I was a kid was apples with mincemeat (the sweet stuff in mince pies not the actual meat!) Peel an apple, core it (you can buy apple corers which make the job easier) fill the hole with mincemeat, put in microwave for a few mins and there ya go! Also goes well with custard!

C xx

justpeyton4now

Skint_Catt wrote: »

My fave when I was a kid was apples with mincemeat (the sweet stuff in mince pies not the actual meat!) Peel an apple, core it (you can buy apple corers which make the job easier) fill the hole with mincemeat, put in microwave for a few mins and there ya go! Also goes well with custard!

Oh that sounds really good! Don't have a micro but could do it in the oven when baking or roasting something else. My grandmother used to bake them with brown sugar and cinammon in the middle but mincemeats sounds fab! Thanks!

Peyton xx

pmorrisjones

My daughter makes 5 minute flapjacks in the microwave - with oats, golden syrup and other bits that are cheap (the golden syrup etc. lasts for ages) She also makes rice/tapioca pud in the microwave (even cheaper). My Dad always put jam in his rice so they might not feel so deprived. The rice/tapioca you can buy in a box with instructions on the side how to make in microwave or in oven and the good thing about both recipes is that you just throw in ingredients and mix before putting in microwave/oven. If you want recipe for 5 min. flapjacks than let me know and I'll post it. They are not quite as good as ones done in oven and need to be eaten that day but I guess thats what you want. The flapjacks are full of sugary things but then at least your children will realise it is possible to make yummy things (and easily) not just pick them up. If they can help make them you may spark an interest in cooking. I think (under minimal supervision) they could make them themselves pretty soon.
Let me know if you want flapjack recipe and recipe for rice/tapioca is on the side of the boxes (Whitworths I think). Good luck :j

chumbasmum

HI leiela.

I started reading your thread and thought how great it was that you were actually trying to feed your children better food. It is easy to say that we will feed children well but when the reality hits you need to have planned meals to have enough ingredients to make these meals and put up with some serious complaining from children who can manipulate like the best UN peacekeeper.

It is good for their growing bodies but sometimes more importantly it educates them for their future and future generations. It will also help them if budgets get tight in their furture when they may need to cook to save the pennies.

I work with children and have two of my own and feel that this issue does start in the home. I teach secondary children who can sit and list every unhealthy food, tell you what it does to them and then go home and eat most of those things - or choose it from the shop on the way home. I think it begins at home and we lead by example.
WOW, I DIDN'T KNOW I FELT SO STRONGLY. I SHOULD GET OFF MY SOAPBOX!

However, I have found that one of the best ways to not let children have sweets is not to have it in the house. Children know exactly what sweets you have, where they are ..... They have the worlds best memory for that sort of thing - not so good at remembering to wash their hair - funny that!
I know it sounds tough but I even feel the same for myself. I often are trying 'just to loose the odd pound' and if I know that there is a packet of cheese and onion hoola hoops in the house - they are mine!!!!

Just keep up the good work. It doesn't have to be a 'full hair vest' experience but every little helps. Have sweets but only on the weekend for example.
Sorry to waffle on. Just very impressed.

leiela

chumbasmum wrote: »

HI leiela.

I started reading your thread and thought how great it was that you were actually trying to feed your children better food. It is easy to say that we will feed children well but when the reality hits you need to have planned meals to have enough ingredients to make these meals and put up with some serious complaining from children who can manipulate like the best UN peacekeeper.

It is good for their growing bodies but sometimes more importantly it educates them for their future and future generations. It will also help them if budgets get tight in their furture when they may need to cook to save the pennies.

I work with children and have two of my own and feel that this issue does start in the home. I teach secondary children who can sit and list every unhealthy food, tell you what it does to them and then go home and eat most of those things - or choose it from the shop on the way home. I think it begins at home and we lead by example.
WOW, I DIDN'T KNOW I FELT SO STRONGLY. I SHOULD GET OFF MY SOAPBOX!

However, I have found that one of the best ways to not let children have sweets is not to have it in the house. Children know exactly what sweets you have, where they are ..... They have the worlds best memory for that sort of thing - not so good at remembering to wash their hair - funny that!
I know it sounds tough but I even feel the same for myself. I often are trying 'just to loose the odd pound' and if I know that there is a packet of cheese and onion hoola hoops in the house - they are mine!!!!

Just keep up the good work. It doesn't have to be a 'full hair vest' experience but every little helps. Have sweets but only on the weekend for example.
Sorry to waffle on. Just very impressed.

Hey there thanks for posting.

you know it is difficult but im trying ... haha .. god loves a trier right?

So far i've managed to give the kids pudding every night and my eldest even announced yesterday that he was glad he gave up his sweets because pudding was much better.

Im sure most nutritionists could tear apart my puddings in 10 seconds flat BUT i don't care they are better quality than sweets thats for sure and its all a step in the right direction.

Today i took the kids shopping with me and we spent a great deal of time in the bakery section. I asked the kids to pick 2 things each we could put into cakes and none of them where allowed to be sugery, they had the choice of loads of different nuts and loads of dried fruits.

Despite my youngests announcement that he didn't like nuts except chocolate nuts and the following discussion about "why?" (quite amusing because when i threw back the question asking why he didn't like them without chocolate he couldn't answer) we managed to walk away with 4 packets, bags of nuts and 2 bags of dried fruit.

Arriving home we made (together) Muffins with dried mixed fruit, which they both wolfed down. Funny because i've never been able to get them to eat fruit before, but i guess the combination of letting them pick the ingredients and help bake them somehow turned thier opinions around.

sometimes i think kids just like to feel in control, kids don't want to be forced into eating things, and sometimes giving them alittle control makes all the difference at least thats the way it seems to me, im sure if id have TOLD them the sweets where going they would have made a fuss, instead i managed to help them make the right decision and so far *fingers crossed* it's been a pain free change for the better.

trying-very-trying

leiela wrote: »

Well i went with the microwave sponge ... did it plain no joam or anything in the bottom, but i added some drinking chocolate to make it "chocolaty" and served it with Custard.
Both kids loved it, thanks for the recipe.
Ill most certainly be trying some of hte other recipes at the weekend when i have some baking time

Here's a link to curry queens variations on that microwave sponge http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=523656&postcount=135 Just use half measures of her sponge mix ingredients.

skintc

I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but have you tried fruit smoothies, to get them to eat more fruit? You can choose whatever fruit you like. Do they drink fruit juice? You could use something like orange or apple juice as a base, and then add some different fruits to it, even some veg (I think you can put carrots in smoothies, just don't tell them )

saving-grace

thriftlady wrote: »

Nigella has a very similar recipe with chilli in and also one without the cocoa -I think she calls it Holiday Hotcake.

Nigella has a recipe in Nigella Bites called Easy Sticky Toffee Pudding which has a similar method i.e. pouring boiling water over the pudding. Sticky Chocolate Pudding in How To Eat is her version of the chocolate fudge pudding.
I'm like you mummysaver in that I don't always find Nigella's recipes as reliable as they should be but her sticky chocolate pudding is a favourite in our house.