Kiddies Fromage Frais

ksb76

Just to help you with making healthy decisions - milk contains 6-7% sugar - that's what the lactose is, so even unsweetened yoghurt will contain some sugar.

Kirsty

chivers1977

ksb76 wrote: »

Just to help you with making healthy decisions - milk contains 6-7% sugar - that's what the lactose is, so even unsweetened yoghurt will contain some sugar.

Kirsty

Thanks Kirsty, never knew that!

kayjay1809

My son used to get budget fromage frais, now he's older he only gets Frubes etc if there is an offer on such as BOGOF. He turns his nose up at budget ff but does like the smart price yoghurt drinks

Butterfly_Brain

I buy the plain fromage frais and add fruit or a conserve (Fruity jam) to it and it works out a lot cheaper than the tidgy pots

Isis_Black

i always got the value fromage frais as my kids when very young would only be happy with them for breakfast! they would have 3 each morning so you can imaine hoq many i used to go through lol
now they have the wildlife tubes and have 1 a day with them and i also get extra to freeze and they have them like an icepole or lolly.

thriftlady_2

powershopper wrote: »

I too would love to know how to make Fromage Frais. I do a really good line with a litre of milk, a dollop of the last batch of yoghurt and a thermos flask, but just fora change thought I would have a bash at FF. But can I find it on the www? can I 'eck!!! Loads of recipes to cook with the stuff, so help, please.... anyone............

You'll need to research cheesemaking. Fromage frais is a kind of cheese. Try googling 'fromage blanc' or 'fresh cheese'.

[Deleted User]

I changed to fromage frais to use insted of cream on fresh fruit ect.Tescos do a healthy eating pot for about 1.25 and its quite big. Why not save some of the little empty pots and bung in some honey or chopped fruit and tell them you've made it specially with their favourite friut for them Or as another poster said make some jellies or blancemange and put it in the little pots. You can buy a jelly for about 40 p and it makes a pint and fill up at least half a dozen if not more of those little pots.I see that the supermarkets sell little pots of jelly at 40-50p each make your own and put some small bits of fruit in there

Boodle

chivers1977 wrote: »

I am not the tooth police but we were advised when my son was a baby, nearly 4 now that there is as much sugar in a petit filous as in a mars bar. No idea whether this was true but it was the council dentist that visited us in a postnatal class.

How about just value yoghurt with some fruit or a spoon of jam in? That is what I do most of the time. He gets 6 value fromage frais at the beginning of the month and that is it!!

EDIT: just been and checked. The dentist was lying but they are still 10% sugar!!!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

http://www.nhsbordersdentists.scot.nhs.uk/document_library/sugar_list.pdf

And can you believe my HV suggested them as a weaning food for my DD at 4 months old?! Don't worry - I didn't follow that particular advice :rotfl: I don't actually think I have tried DD on formage frais yet, for no other reason than it never really occurs to me to buy it in tbh. I did find it a struggle to track down full fat yoghurts for her that weren't loaded with scary additives tho - I found Rachel's Organics and Sainsbury's kids ones at the time. But I'm also not sure the large pots of plain fromage frais will be full fat - producers of these foods often seem to think we only want them if we are on a low-fat diet for some reason. I have the same problem tracking down full fat cottage cheese :rolleyes:.

Sorry, back on topic - we prefer plain yoghurt now but again, this is difficult to find in full fat and individual pots - Yeo Valley do them but not sure it will save much replacing the fromage frais with them I'm afraid. Turned out I wasn't much help there, was I

celyn90

I mix melted jelly in a little water with a carton of yoghurt then leave it to set - it's quite sweet but sort of forms a gloopy semi-solid mass (I'm not selling this well, am I :rotfl: ). I find plain yoghurt nasty (and I can't take much of it anyway) but I will eat it if it is thicker and more heavily flavoured.

thriftlady_2

Bronnie wrote: »

They might love it , but not letting them eat so many would save you money!
What about making little home made milk-based desserts like blancmange, custard, rice pudding with fruit instead. Or just buy one large tub of natural fromage frais and stir into puree/ chopped fruit .
Like most kids, I suspect they really love it for two reasons, it comes in a cute little pot and its sweet!
The variety will be good for them too.

What sensible advice:T

It might be worth checking out the homemade yogurt threads on this board too. It is really very easy to make a litre of creamy, luscious, wholemilk natural yogurt. My kids like it with a drizzle of honey or a sprinkle of dark brown sugar, or some hm jam (especially good for runny jam). I love it with stewed fruit.

For other milk pudding ideas try tapioca and sago. I found packets of both at a farm shop and discovered my kids loved the stuff hot or cold.