Apple and Strawberry Puree
3 Red Apples – or sweet apples
8 strawberries
100ml water
Peel and core apples then chop into small pieces.
Hull strawberries and cut in half.
Place into TMX bowl – Add 100ml of water
Cook 100 degrees for 10 minutes on speed 1.
Check apples are cooked to your liking
Puree for 20 seconds on speed 6.
This is one of Jasper’s favorite puree’s and a great little desert! Mixes really well with plain yogurt for a healthy snack!
Is suitable for freezing.
Filed under: Baby Food Favorites
This is a meal that Jasper is HUGE fan of! I made it up after i cooked a roast for the rest of the family for lunch the other day – I added some cous cous and it was a great little healthy meal! Will definitely be using this one again and again!
Roasted vegetables are often sweater in taste then steamed or boiled vegetables and also have a great texture for baby food.
It’s so simple all you need to do is choose the roasted veg you wanted to use – I used pumpkin, sweet potato and potato plus some steamed broccoli. Make the cous cous as per the directions on the brand your using. Then simply roughly chop your veggies add to the cous cous and I mixed it all together with a couple of spoons of the bechamel sauce (white sauce) – this just made it a really nice consistency!
LOVE my Tummy Tub – it’s a bucket shaped baby bath that makes the newborn bub feel as though they are back in the womb.
Jasper loved his daily tummy tub – and i loved it as it uses HEAPS less water then the conventional baby baths and i could place the bath in the kitchen sink and place the change mat and all the supplies on the bench beside me – so the added bonus was no bending! Jasper had a habit of wanting to suck on my arm while he was in there!
It’s definitely on my ‘must have’ baby item list. The only drawback is that it only lasts till bub gets a bit too big for it – but i have found by then jasper rather have his ‘daddy’ time in the big bath with his big sister as well!
One of the best bits of the tummy tub is that it’s great to take the water straight out to the garden and use it on the plants! Be careful what sort of soap you use in it before you throw it on the garden!
Here are some of my favorite snaps of Jasper enjoying his tummy tub time!
Filed under: Lil Gems - Singlets!
All Singlets Designs $15 Plain tie dye $10 – for orders email – organicbabymuma@gmail.com
Filed under: Lil Gems - Singlets!
All Singlets Designs $15 Plain tie dye $10 – for orders email – organicbabymuma@gmail.com
Filed under: Lil Gems - Singlets!
All Singlets Designs $15 Plain tie dye $10 – for orders email – organicbabymuma@gmail.com
Filed under: Lil Gems - Singlets!
As a stay at home mum I needed to find a creative outlet to spend some ‘me’ time and lets face it at the end of the day it would feel nice to earn a little money on the side 
So i pulled out the sewing machine headed down to spotlight and got ‘creative’. I am working on some more designs but check out the stock of funky little singlets that i have ready to go!
Filed under: Going Green...
That’s right – Going Cloth!!! Who would have thought that I would make it a priority to switch to ‘modern cloth nappy’s with bub number 2! As if I wasn’t going to have enough on my plate with a 2-year-old and a new-born. However much to my surprise and delight it has been one of the best decisions I have made.
My nappy count at the moment is around 20 and that seems to be working fine in these summer months. Looking forward to getting back in for some newbies soon! My favorites so far have been the itti bitti’s – they are sized and so were on the mediums at the moment. The colors are just so cute and its also an added bonus that throughout the day they are a little slimmer then some other MCN.
My collection also include a couple Rumparooz – they are one size pocket nappy’s and they are brilliant as they have a gathered inner line down each side of the nappy so it keeps the poo’s in! They also dry really quick as you take them apart into three sections – outer, liner and booster. They also come in funky prints and colors.
The third brand that I use and love is Bum Genius – they do an organic nappy. It’s great on bubs skin! It’s probably my favorite nappy so long as you can get over a couple of little hurdles with it. It is a one size nappy but the inner is stitched in – it sort of has three separate layers so it takes the longest to dry. It’s also important to make sure all the inner is tucked in when putting it on bub other wise it will leak a small amount. Also because it’s an organic material it does discolor a fraction and it does have a small smell once it’s used. Having said all of this it’s probably still my favorite nappy.
The best advice I could give you is to head to booloobabe.com.au and arrange a catch up with Sam in Perth or Linda in Geelong (vic) and get your hands on approach to ‘going cloth’ with your own nappy consultant. It’s awesome being able to ask all the questions you have, and to see the nappy’s all up close so that you can choose the right nappy for your Bubba, lets face it those chubby little thighs come in all shapes and sizes They stock a massive range of nappies and nappy products. If your anything like me i had a tonne of questions from which nappy to use for day/night to the best way to wash and dry them. You won’t regret your call to booloobabe!!!
Here are a couple of pics of my cloth babies!
Filed under: Thermomix Recipes
Fruit Porridge: Banana and Sultana
1 Banana (small – medium in size)
3-4 tablespoons of organic oats
2 tablespoons Organic Sultanas
50g Water
- Place all ingredients into the tmx bowl.
- Set timer for 4 minutes
- Cook at 100 degrees on speed 1
- Mix for 15 seconds on speed 6
- Serve – Remember to check temperature before giving to baby.
I have frozen this recipe into meal size lots, once defrosted may require a small amount of extra water and mix through – makes 3 serves for a 6-8 month old.
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This is my first blog post – one of many hopefully.
My aim of the blog is to record all the little things that i love about being a mum and raising both a boy and a girl. My sole goal in life is to raise my children to be healthy, happy little INDIVIDUALS – i don’t want to change the world but i want to teach them that they can!
I am hoping to have at least 3 sections to this blog – the first being a bunch of healthy recipes using my Thermomix machine but i hope if you don’t have a TMX you still feel inspired by my kitchen creations! The main area of the recipes will focus on meals for little people and fussy little eaters.
The second area will review some of the baby products that i can not live a day without!
Finally the third aspect of the blog i hope is to give tips and tricks on saving money around the house. I want to stay home with my beautiful children for as long as possible. To me saving money around the house means that i feel as though i am contributing to the family financially.
My last aim of this blog is to keep a record for my babies to grow up and look back on and see how i attempted to ‘ride the crazy bumps’ of parenting – and may i enter the other side of this “newborn + toddler” stage with as much sanity as i can
