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is it possible to make healthy rice crispy cake/bars?

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nct73 · 19/11/2007 22:18

DD is nearly 1 yr old and a bit of a fussy eater. We were happily having porridge or yoghurt with fruit then toast a bit later. Now she has gone off porridge. Health visitor suggested rice crispies. DD said NO!!! Firstly by refusing point blank to have a spoonful. When I tried hiding in fruit puree, she started scraping them off her tongue with both hands. This is something she does when she hates things esp runny with lumps in. She seems to do smooth or solid but not a mixture. Later I found her eating a lump which had dried to her chair so tried giving her some without milk which she found highly entertaining but didnt eat any.

So back to the thread title - I thought that maybe I could make my own cereal bars with dried fruit from some of the rest of the big box of rice crispies we now own and try getting her to eat them that way but all recipes seem to contain large quantities of either chocolate, sugar, syrup, marshmallows or all of above. Surely there must be a way of sticking them together in a healthier way as she is only one. Any ideas?

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Smithy · 19/11/2007 22:24

This sounds nice (found in the depths of the internet!)

2tbsp sunflower seeds
2tbsp pumpkin seeds
2tbsp linseeds
2 bananas (about 300g (10 1/2oz) in total, weighed with their skins on)
100g (3 1/2oz) unsalted butter
3tbsp golden syrup
50g (1 3/4oz) millet flakes (I don't see why you couldn't use rice crispies here instead!)
100g (3 1/2oz) rolled oats
100g (3 1/2oz) stoned dried dates, roughly chopped

preperation time: 25mins
cooking time: 30 mins

  1. Preheat the oven to 180c (350f, gas mark 4). Grease a cake tin (mine is about 9in x 9in), and line the bottom with parchment paper.
  2. Roughly chop the sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and linseeds. Peel and roughly mash the bananas
  3. Melt the butter and golden syrup together. Add the chopped seeds, mashed bananas, millet flakes, rolled oats and dates. Mix together well, then spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and level the surface.
  4. Bake for about 30 mins or until golden brown. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 mins, then mark into 14 bars and leave to cool completely. The bars can be kept in an airtight tine for up to 2 days. The cereal bars can be frozen and kept for 2 months - wrap them individually in freeze-wrap or foil. Then if you simply pack a frozen bar into a plastic container with wrapped sandwiches, it will have thawed by lunchtime.

Each bar provides:
kcal: 160
protein 3g
fat 10g (of which saturated fat 4g)
carbohydrate 17g
fibre 1g
vitamins: A,B1, B6, E, copper, zinc

PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 21/11/2007 20:13

Both versions are a hit. So much so that they had to be removed as DD started to refuse to eat anything apart from these ? I?ve just adapted it to have less sugar and more ?goodies? and it works really well. Passed the DD, DH and mummy test!

3 oz sugar (or 4oz and no coconut)
+/- 1 oz dessicated coconut
4 ½ oz Self-raising Flour
4 oz butter
1 Egg
8 oz chopped and stoned dates
Either 1 small packet of chopped walnuts OR nothing OR small handful / sprinkling each of chopped apricots, chopped prunes, raisins etc.

Mix altogether in a large bowl and put in to greased tin (7 x 10?) @160 (fan oven) ? check after 20 mins but may need up to 8 mins more. Golden brown + clean skewer test!

PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 21/11/2007 20:14

You could also throw in some porridge oats (handful) too I suspect

midnightexpress · 21/11/2007 20:39

How about granola (it's a bit like those crunchy oat cereals you buy, but nicer)? Would she eat that (even dry), do you think? Nigella has a good recipe for it in Feast, with apple sauce, oats, coconut and stuff. I can go and find teh recipe if you think it might be good.

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