HFI friendly kiddie snacks

[ukbill]

I think it would be helpful for to have a list of HFI friendly kiddie snacks and treats.

In particular I think new parents of HFI children need all the help and advice they can get so a list of recipes for easy to eat snacks and even party bags might be a good idea?

When I was a child I used to eat all sorts of things that today I know are unsafe.. they were "tolerated" I suppose in small amounts but the number of times I was being made ill from them is not a good thing to think about..

Nuts and peanuts for example.. not good.

[ukbill]

Starting thew ball rolling with cheese straws and pastry based snacks

To Plain pastry add the following:-
Finely grated hard cheese (Parmesan or similar)
and crumbled mild or strong Cheddar type cheese or any other sort you have in the fridge.. only not wet types like cream cheese

Mix in and roll out.

Cut using a pizza cutter or sharp knife into strips and after twisting them up place them on an oiled baking tray and cook in a preheated oven at usual pastry temperature.

They can be brushed with milk / milk & egg and have poppy seeds or a very few cellery seeds (they are VERY strong tasting of cellery) could be sprinkled on top as well.

This also works well with puff pastry.

Also they can me be made with very finely chopped fried bacon added to the pastry.

Instead of adding cheese simply butter the rolled out pastry with Marmite or Vegemite and either cut in strips like for cheese straws
or
Roll pastry after coating and then cut into thin slices (across the roll like slicing a Swiss roll up) which when cooked look like danish pastry's! and can be used as bisects with other toppings on them. Cream cheese is really good on them.

Plain pastry made into a sheet and filling pastry cases to make tart-lets, fill the pastry cases with cheese sauce, and a variety of fillings.

Volovants (can someone please supply the correct spelling for them?? ) can be made with lots of HFI safe fillings also.

Tuna and sour cream (instead of Mayo) is really good, cheesy scrambled eggs with chives is good also, as are all sorts of fillings using mushrooms.

Mashed Sardines with capers is more an adult choice as are sardines and chili sauce but very good to the adult taste buds.. Yum making me hungry thinking about them...

Pizza can be made without the tomato base and topped with lots of things and loads of cheese too its good to eat cold as well as hot.

I uses a standard bread recipe for the base.. I know its not authentic but easy and very tasty.

Hope this helps anyone with other suggestions?

[ukbill]

For christmas which is not too far away after all.. I used to really want to join in and eat a mince pie..

So how about making genuine HFI safe mince pies??

Make pie base as normal for mince pies (only NO sugar or sweetners of course)
Cook up some good richly flavoured mince beef (or chicken, duck, turkey, pork, Lamb) and make almost dry, ensure the stock thats left is quite thick and not watery (potato starch or corn starch to thicken) and fill the pies as normal top with normal pastry and brush with milk / egg to give them a nice golden finish..

DO not sprinkle them with iceing sugar or any other sort!

I cannot understand why I never had these when I was a child..

I am going to relive my childhood this xmas and make some for myself.

[charlie]

The traditional mince pie was made of mince (ground beef to our foreign friends) and suet but also fruit, cinammon and other spices that were available at the time. I should imagine without the fruit, and spices you will end up with a good stodgy mince beef pie - hardly good for your recent dieting plans!!!!

[ukbill]

Well you could leave them all for me to eat..

Will make some and prove you wrong.. Shhh the secret is its all in the part cooking of the pastry bases before filling

No more soggy bottoms..