Kids Menu Planner some help tips and suggestions to get started

Mother to Mother Cooking Tips:

Breakfast Ideas:

Pikelets or Pancakes:
(Make them plain or flavour them with banana,blueberries,strawberries,rainbow pikelets.) See Recipes
A great tip is to make up the mix and it will keep in the fridge for at least 5 days. You can just whip it out each morning, add a little water a cook. Fast and Easy Nutritious Breaky!! Photo above of pancakes cooking!
New Pancake Mixture available in May 2009

Toast and Egg or any other appropriate toppings- using Brighterlife Bread Mix- see tips
(The trick to get them started on this new bread is to add a little sweetner of what ever they are aloud in have. We are so used to having sugar in everything that sometimes they find the bread very bland. Alternatively add in salt and olive oil for a more savory flavour. Remember they are plain flour.
Go to recipe to share for more ideas.

Shape Toast is great for kids to :
Here you can slice your bread, make a hole in the middle with a shape cutter and lay your prepared eggs into the middle.

Commercial Gluten free Cereals
(There is quite a good range these days however many still have a lot of sugar, try and avoid if sugar is the first ingredient listed on the packaging) ..............a good tips is to top them with a dessert spoon of protein powder to improve the nutritional value or Use Brighterlife Premium Whey Powder which is higher in protein that milk and a great dairy alternative.
Great recipe for a great Gluten Free Breakfast Cereal and Cereal Slice Click Here.
Porridge (using Brighterlife's New Old Fashioned GF Oats - imported from USA )
Warm rice pudding is good for dessert and breakfast Baked Beans (Orgran have a gluten free variety) go to www.whatcaniat.com.au for more products

Also Brighterlife Muffins filled with fruit. Quick, Easy and nutritious. See Fruit Muffins

Lunch Ideas:

Corn chips and mince
Nachos
Pancakes with a variety of toppings (ideas in brighterlife recipe folder)
Breadrolls (bacon and cheese is popular for kids also from recipe folder under Bendy Bread)
Download recipe flyer from recipe page
Fried Rice
Wheat and gluten free pastas (a large range is available from stores)
Lasagna (Corn sheets available)
Savoury Muffins
Fastest Breadroll ( from b/life recipe flyer, link above)

Dinner Ideas:

Any meat/fish/chicken and vege combinations are great and easy.
Pancake Pizza (from b/life recipe folder)
Pizza (Premade glutenfree bases are readily available)
There are many gluten free pastas available on the market.
Garlic Bread made with bread rolls
Tacos

Dessert Ideas:

Yoghurt
Rice Puddings
Tarts
Pancakes with icecream or fruit toppings
A number of dessert cake recipes are available in the B/life recipe folder using Muffin Mix

Snack Ideas:
Favourite Recipes from B/life Recipe Folder: Many are listed in the Recipes to share
Jam Drops
Cheese & Potato chip biscuits
Muffins
Fairy Cakes Glutenfree muesli
Chocolate Cake
Basic-Two-Egg Butter Cake
Anzacs bicuits
Scones
Basic Biscuit Mixture
Pancakes/Pikelets
Muesli Bars

Commercial Purchases

Prepackaged biscuits
Fruit tubs
Vege Chips
Potato Chips (selected varities)
Popcorn (make your own to)
Rice cracker & dip
Rice or corn crispbread
Corn chips

Go to whatcanieat.com.au "Parntering People to Products"

Comments & Tips
This is recommeded for you to print off and use when you need a boost for ideas. I encourage anyone to email me with any other ideas or brands of products I can place on this list to help others.
Kids are sometimes a hard call. All I can suggest from experience is keep it simple. The most common mistake is to try and give them too much variety. Kids seem to be creatures of habit and just want the same foods over and over again.

Remember that all the Brighterlife Premixes are very very plain. The idea is to add flavours to your requirements. You are more than able to add more sugar to cakes or to bread even just to get them to eat the product, you can reduce this later on. Salt in the bread is another good flavour to add.

I will continue to add to this list but I would very much appreciate your helpkylie@wheatfree.com.au .

FEEDBACK: and testimonials

Huge congrats on creating the only bread mix that my son can tolerate... you have made my life so much easier and my son so much more satisfied!

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Hello Brighterlife, As a mum to five boys, we have one that needs a gluten free diet...finding somewhere to shop for all his food requirements can be hard.  Finding Brighterlife has made our job so much easier...we now can shop in one easier place, take advantage of the recipes provided and know that he will not be left hungry or feel left out from eating great yummy foods!!Thank you from Lisa Wood http://www.ourpathtoprosperity.com/ Lisa




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