Tuesday, August 27, 2013

unpacked


I often find miscellaneous empty food packets in miss E's lunch box, when questioned the answer is always the same, she's bought them home so I know what to buy for her school lunch.Hmm can't knock a girl for trying. It's just I really don't want to buy those reconstituted fruit gummy things that I'm assured "everybody" has except her.They seem more like a party treat, than an everyday in the lunchbox type food (if you could even call them a "food"), not to mention the price and excess packaging right?

 So when I saw this recipe I thought maybe I had the answer. A fruit gummy with no added sugars (just a wee bit of honey), just a few ingredients and homemade, not supplied in excess packaging! As a bonus I had everything I needed to try it. It makes a surprising amount of wee gummy things and they smell like a warm summer's day in the berry patch! I used a mixture of frozen raspberries and strawberries left over from our summer harvest. The texture is a bit firmer than I'd like  (that doesn't seem to worry the children though!) so next time I'll try making it with less gelatine. It's definitely a winner recipe and I'll have to hide the rest of them in the fridge as they are disappearing fast.

You can find the recipe for healthy fruit snacks here. Let me know if you try it!

7 comments :

  1. Hehe, love it! Also, that looks yum.

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  2. oh wow!! thats so cool Louana. I might have to give it a try. Mine don't get the gummy things (sugar laden crap) in their lunch boxes either.

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  3. Yum! Luckily we're not at the lunchbox-envy stage, but when we are...I'll be making these!
    Thanks so much for linking in with Fun with Food xx

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  4. oh they look amazing. My biggest 'no' is all the packaging - how much packaging is enough?? It does my head in. I don't even use glad wrap. Then there is cost and health. So much of those teeny packages are just teeny landfills of expensive tummy crap.

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  5. ooooo - will have to give them a go! they certainly look yum and very inviting to little people! Cant agree more about the rubbish in the food and the packaging for freeking Africa! thanks for sharing x

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  6. Nice healthy fruit snacks. I want to take this fruit snacks.
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  7. These look amazing - they are definitely going on my "to try" list :) xx

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