Muesli & Fruit Bars

These make an excellent snack and are not messy or sticky so can be eaten anywhere!

Ingredients

• 100g plain muesli (ie no added fruit or chocolate, and as little sugar as possible)
• 100g plain flour
• 50 – 100g sugar (depending on how sweet you want the bars to be)
• 150g chopped dried fruit eg raisins, dates, bananas, apples, cranberries…
• 75ml milk
• 75ml apple juice

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C and line or grease a small, square baking tin.
2. Mix together the muesli, chopped fruit, sugar and flour.
3. Add the milk and apple juice, and mix to a thick batter.
4. Pour into the prepared tin and bake for about 20 mins.
5. Allow to cool before cutting into squares or bars.

 

 

Dried Fruit

This isn’t a recipe, it’s just an idea for dessert or snacking (and, incidentally, explains how this website got its name):

Almost every day, my ds gets a “dessert” after either lunch or dinner, and this usually consists of a selection of dried fruit. I started doing this after reading that babies often get constipated when they start on solids for the first time, and you can avoid this by giving them a dried apricot every day. I did exactly this, and can report that we’ve never had any problems at all in the nappy department!

Anyway, the daily apricot eventually expanded to include all of the following:

• raisins
• cranberries
• mangoes
• apple rings
• pineapple
• banana pieces
• pears
• figs

You can basically offer any dried fruit that the baby can pick up and eat by itself. I buy organic, unsweetened dried fruit and it has proved to be an excellent “dessert” in the winter months when fresh fruit is hard to come by (I refuse to buy expensive and, usually, flavourless imported stuff out of season).