Today on the website, I am thrilled to be able to share a healthy pikelets recipe with you from the lovely Amy Crawford, health and wellness practitioner and founder of the online wellness hub The Holistic Ingredient.
Princess Pikelets
Vital Stats: gluten free, dairy free, nut free
Makes 40 small pikelets.
You’ll Need:
1 ½ cups buckwheat flour
1 cup tapioca flour
2 tablespoons coconut flour
2/3 cup milk of choice (coconut milk, almond milk, rice milk etc)
3 tablespoons raw honey
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 eggs
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
Pinch sea salt
Coconut oil for frying
Method:
In a large mixing bowl whisk the eggs. Sieve the flours into the bowl and add all remaining ingredients. Stir to combine, ensuring no lumps in the batter.
Heat a frying pan over medium heat and melt 1 teaspoon coconut oil. Spoon dessertspoons of the mixture into the pan. Cook for 1 minute or until bubbles form. Flip and cook for less than a minute or until golden. Repeat with the remaining batter, adding more coconut oil as required.
Eat warm with Jammy Raspberry Goo or store in an airtight container for 5 days.
Jammy Raspberry Goo:
You’ll Need
1 ½ cups raspberries, fresh or frozen
1/4 cup water
3 tablespoons chia seeds
3 tablespoons rice malt syrup
Seeds of one vanilla pod
Method:
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and stir well. Use a fork to mash up the raspberries. Cover and place in the fridge for a minimum of one hour or overnight. Store the jam in a sterilised airtight container in the fridge for up to 10 days. Spread between pikelets.
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I let my kids help with dinner preparation and they also have a say in what we have for dinner (4yrs and 2 yrs). They actually eat a wider variety of food when they are involved and it’s fun!
We make our own muesli bars and have removed wheat, dairy and refined sugar from all of our baking.
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I nourish my two boys with Wholefoods that they love to help me cook. Made with lots of love.
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the best way I nourish my kids … with love …..
Some years ago we started having a colourful salad with most dinners. My girls miss it if its not there…
Love this recipe Sonia 🙂 And the name of them.
I nourish my children by showing them all the love in the world that I can. I believe children thrive best when they feel loved and supported endlessly 🙂 xo
What a beautiful looking book. I nourish my kids with love, fresh air, and fun.
I nourish my boy with home made chicken and vegetable soup when he is feeling under the weather – and I’m thankful that he enjoys eating it
By staying away from packet food and using minimum artificial sugar.
And by Offering homemade meals every single day.
Every morning he drinks a cup of chicken bone broth, always a good start to the day!
I’d love to win this book to get some new recipes to try on my fussy eating 6yr old granddaughter. She’s a beautiful little girl, very energetic but I’m worried she’s underweight. I’m been making soups and stew type dishes with bone broth included to help build her up and healthy smoothies.
Bone broth is one of my favourite ways to nourish my kids. I derive such pleasure from watching them consume it… 🙂
This book would be a welcome addition, especially with my daughter having allergies to all nuts. I find many of healthier recipes for children are nut based (whether that is the whole ingredient, flour or oils). We nourish our children by setting an example eating well, buying organic produce where possible, letting our children cook with us and encouraging them to try new things (and praising them for their efforts) too.
This looks wonderful!!! I nourish Miss 2 with lots of love and helping me in the kitchen when I’m making her yummy healthy foods :O)
I’m seriously having trouble nourishing my 3 year old. She won’t try new things, dinner time is tears. Very hard. And I have a nearly 1 year old I want to do things differently for. ☺️
Stay away from refined foods, especially fats. Encourage outdoor exercise and relaxation, and most importantly, lots of affection mixed with clear boundaries.
I nourish my kids by avoiding processed foods as much as possible and cooking from scratch. I also add milled nuts and seeds or hidden veggies to their foods for a bit of extra goodness.
Yes definately staying away from processed foods,sugar.Cooking from scratch teaching them better choices too. I also add milled nuts, seeds & veges to everything even desserts/muffins.
I nourish my kids with our free ranging hens eggs and the joy of caring for the chooks.
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I think the best way to nourish your kids is to get them involved as they’re keen to eat/drink ‘their’ food. For instance yesterday my 3 yr old and I made a carrot, apple, cucumber, lemon, ginger and turmeric juice as he has a cold. It tasted so much better than if Mummy made it!!
Pack a little something extra in your child’s kid lunch box to nurture a healthy mind! Like a note saying I love you or even a simple smiley face. Be creative and come up with something like a funny cartoon or saying that you know will put a smile on your child’s face.
For the days when my fussy little 2yo monkey isn’t eating well, I try him with a green smoothie for afternoon tea. He will usually drink it if I’m having one to!
Wishing there was a like or love button on the comments, so many wonderful ideas and parents/grandparents!
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I nourish my kids with snuggles!!!
we try to eat seasonally available local produce when possible
With freshly picked veg and fruit from our veg patch , kids love eating it straight from the garden 🙂
I have been giving my 16 month old bone broth since she was about 6-7 months. She is a pretty picky eater but without fail she will drink her broth! It’s helped in times of sickness & teething! That and extended breastfeeding
We are lucky to have a vegie patch and a daddy with a green thumb, so nourishing our 2yr old with foods from Mother Nature that she helps plant and cares for is such a privilege. My 8 mth old baby is currently struggling with various food allergies so it’s a fun (!) challenge to find good nourishing foods for her to eat, but right now her favourite food is bone broth in a sippy cup and coconut cream porridge!
i nourish my child by cooking with bone broth whenever I can! So good for them 🙂
Breastmilk and love.
We have recently had to go gluten, dairy, and soy free for my toddler too. I am finding it hard some days but it is so worth it.
chia seeds on yoghurt and berries… lots of homemade healthy baking…. and no packages….
As a family we nourish our bodies by growing vegetables and eating them each night together. But my favourite time is loving cuddle time to nourish our souls.
I nourish my kids by raising them in a safe, happy and healthy household where we not only try and lessen our negative impact on the world through going as chemical and plastic free as possible, we teach our kids how to do it too. We grow some of our own food, have chooks and eat “from scratch” 90% of the time. They love helping me make bread, choose meal plan ideas and are even great at making smarter food choices when out at the shops with all that pre-made muck around them. Nourish a child’s mind, body and soul and you will raise a wiser adult. 🙂
I try to incorporate bone broth into our daily meals. My toddler loves it. His favourite is Russian bortch soup (beet/cabbage soup based on organic osso bucco cuts slow cooked for 12h) on days that we don’t have soup I use dehydrated bone broth sprinkled on his meals.
i nourish my kids with love and cuddles and the best possible food I can make for them…
Hopefully setting themselves up for a healthy food outlook in life later..,
We have eliminated most packaged foods so our kids aren’t eating additives and preservatives and now we’re starting to go chemical free too with toiletries and household products.
Real home made food but above all else, lots of love & hugs xx
By letting them pick the vegetables and herbs fresh from the garden to add to our meals.
I sneak veggies and bone broth into everything! !!!
Book looks great and definitely giving these princess pikelets a try ☺i nourish my kids everyday with wholefoods and have just gotten them onto bone broths!
delicious smoothies and lots of whole foods
Love these, thank you. Just made them for a warm lunch with coconut yoghurt for my little ones. I did find that I had to add an extra 1/3 cup of milk to get them a little runnier. This could be from over mixing as both my kids had to have a turn.
Thanks for the feedback Jodie! 🙂
My daughter planted her own strawberries, lettuce, and zucchini. She loves all types of fruit and veggies that I prepare (she’s 10 now but raised plant based her whole life) but I think it makes her feel responsible, independent, and happy when she eats something that she grew all by herself 🙂
My bub is 10 months old but she loves loves loves her fruit and veggies. I’m hoping she continues to learn from me and eat what I eat.
I nourish my son with love and my time. ( he also helps out in the kitchen )
Yay! A book that will cater to my gf 15mo and fussy 3yo!
I make sure we set a good example by eating healthy most of the time!
My DD14 and I are both doing the small steps to wholefoods together. We are encouraging each other to try new foods and change the way we are eating and my younger DD is also learning new ways.
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I nourish my babes with unconditional love and cooking with whole foods every day.
My little one has only just begun eating but I have decided on the Baby Wed Leaning approach to help encourage the enjoyment of eating a healthy varied diet.
i like to nourish my munchkins by letting them help choose our meal plan, they suggest something they would like that week and then we do the healthiest versions we can, and include a weekly family picnic where we do a healthy homemade fast food (fish and chips, pizza, burgers etc) so they don’t feel like they miss out on fun food!
We’ve just added bone broth to our diet, my 4yr old is still not quite convinced lol but I’ll keep trying 🙂
I nourish my kids by avoiding processed foods and making sure they have fruit and raw veges in their lunchbox everyday. I would love my son to have half a cupful of bone broth every day but he’s not having a bar of that so I sneak it in to soups and stirfrys whereever I can.
I nourish my kids with homemade real food, natural remedies when they sick and as much love as I can give to glue it all together.
I nourish my kids by avoiding packaged foods and using whole foods / baking from scratch as much as possible.
I make homemade bone broth and then use it to make a chunky vegetable soup which the kids love and always ask me to make. A great combination of protein, veggies and healthy fats and so tasty.
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I nourish my boys with our daily green smoothies, which has become a tradition that they love! x
My kids like meatballs, so I grate any veggies I can to hide in the mix
I love to morose my kids by cooking in lots of bone broth. I use it in mash instead of water or milk. If a dish calls for water I replace it with broth. Every little bit counts. Will have to try the piklets. They look great.
Yum! I try my best to nourish my family by eating as much fresh and organic food and cooking together as a family.
Thanks for entering everyone! The lucky winners are Natascha, Meredith and Rachel.