CatPoet

Digging, Not by nature, it is added and that has been proven not to be as good as the real deal. If we just see to sugar contain and not the bigger pictures most foods are bad for us. I just stay as natural as I can, I dont do ready made nor breakfast cereals , I dont think a daily dose of bacteria slime and synthetic vitamins is what the body needs.

Well everything is bad for you, it will be proven and there for we shouldn't eat. I just followed the Swedish word of lagom, everything in moderation And I dont see me as young parent, yes I have a young kid now but the other two are 20 and 23 years.... What fruit haters forget is that fruits are not pure sugar, they contain fibers, mineral and vitamins and this is good for you. It is better to eat 1 orange then juice made out 7.

After weeks of making 4 days Danish bread, Treacle loafs, potato bread , I just wanted something simple. So all I baked was a bit of a ugly semolina loafs. They taste yummy but doesn't look pretty. Most likely due to power going out mid baking and came back 5 minutes later.

No pics but I did a lovely pasta bake that the kid enjoyed. I got the inspiration from a recipe called a Simple dinner for the whole family, it is a new paper clipping a friend sent me in the 90:ties, the whole dinner back then would have cost 200 dollar for 4 people or a little more. Everything is organic, picked by virgins or milked by happy maidens and all is from Italy and very expensive for what it is, a pasta bake. I used spiral pasta, bacon, fresh tomatoes, peas , spring onion and normal onion, mixed it with cheese sauce ( loved it because it was more stock then milk) and sprinkled over some more cheese and baked it. Daughter at two plates of it and then had a strawberry for dessert.

My kids get ecologically grown and produce dinners at her daycare and the same goes for the school when she gets older and it paid by taxes. I have good chance of avoiding crap food . She has been to Burger King ones, but what do you do when a hail storm hits and it is right when we where trying to get to the good restaurant and the kid is screaming due to hunger? She hates fries so it got to be chicken nuggets and fruit and milk. And that the longest i spend in a Burger KIng, 1½ hours waiting for the rain to stop and guess what I can only eat fries , which I dislike at these places. And yes snacks here are fruit, nuts and vegs and it is on set times, sometimes it can even be a cold smoothie with yogurt and rare occasions a sandwich. We eat at set times every day, even the snacks are only offered at snack time. Well that isnt true, if we are at the market in town, people tend to let her taste strong cheese, ham, fruit and other foods, because she smiles and tells how yummy or yucky things are and she always goes for the strong stuff. Those days she doesnt want lunch. We do have dessert, most often on only Sunday but yesterday I was offered ecologically grown strawberries, first harvest senga sengana for half price because it was a punnet left and she knows my daughter so we had strawberries and cream yesterday as dessert. Yum. So when it comes to feeding a kid healthy, just start serving and eating it your self as if it was normal. I get my kid to eat most things if I eat it first.

CeeCee that how my parents did and I still eat cheap candy from time to time.

I hate plastic, i prefer wood and stainless steel but that is because I am old fashion and use cast iron for my skillets and my dutch oven and the rest is stainless steel. I dont know any one who has a nonstick pan that is over 10 years old and still working nor can it environmentally sound to use that much plastic, it ends up in our food change. I love my pancake skillet even if is 100 years old ( yeap just had its birthday) and I adore my 40- 50 year old skillet , still works as well as did for my father as it does for me and my dutch oven is pushing 60 and doing well.

We never ever force the kid, we dont nag and we dont bribe. She has been eating the same food as us ( minus the things she couldn't eat before one), same smell and same taste as us. She sees us eating and she eats it too. When it comes to veggies she tries everything on the table but will only eat peas, broccoli, beans, carrots and corn . I am happy with this and the food she is getting is healthy, home made and we try to keep candy to Saturdays only. She will however eat tomatoes but only for snack not with food. I also make sure she has fruit at home, right now there is peaches, apples and loquat. And when it comes to ice lollies, now during the summers, she gets home made ones so I know whats in them , I have a Zuko quick lolly maker, it so great.

It can also be due to the potatoes not properly maturing before harvest or because they are old.

Well there is always the ones who dont bow to the overlord. But if you buy stuff from IKEA you help the kids, small villages and old people in my province. I also do menu planning for whole month. Oh I forgot, half my family is Scottish, I married a Scot a while ago.

Who am I? Well that is the biggest question today I guess. I am Swedish, not named Inga or Helga, and no we dont make coo-coo clocks, have hot springs nor polar bears, more then in zoos. And yes we do have electricity and we do still speak Swedish and we comes in all shapes, sizes and colours these days. So now I have covered the most common questions I get. Oh yes, I forgot IKEA is our way of total world domination... ops the secret is out now.. *grin* Yes I do have sense humor too. I am still living in Sweden and loving it. I cook most type of cuisines , so long it doesn't contain ingredients I am intolerant too. Yes, I have intolerances and if I dont take care of them they will turn into allergies or kill me. Trust me being a food lover with restrictions is hell, but I make the most of finding ways of making my food heaven. I love cooking, baking and prepping food. I am also very frugal and have big problem throwing out good food, not a hoarder just wants to find ways of using it up. Our lunches are most often left overs made into something new and lovely, I even serve my guest leftovers and so far they haven't complained but asked for more. I love teaching people how to cook and did once work as a private chef, which was fun. I also been around on other forums but they have sadly died and that's why I am here now. If there is anything you want to know about Swedish cooking, just ask. I know most thing, from Grav lax to Kladdkaka. I hope this will be fun place to be.