As a mummy we are constantly being bombarded with media telling us how important it is that our children eat only the best, healthiest, most organic, picked from a star in the milky way food ever – like we don’t know that anyway but still!! Now, there are some great brands out there that create some yummy snacks for kids like Ella’s Kitchen Tomato and Leek Puffs or Organix Strawberry Baby Biscuits or Kiddywiggles fruit wiggles… they’re all great. However, where I think it can sometimes be tougher is when you are looking to make your own snacks ( as when we make our own meals for them) I think it can be hard to find an easy and yet healthy snack to give them…
Now, I’m addicted to those bags of vegetable crisps you can get in the shops; beetroot, parsnip and sweet potato, oily, salty and delicious. I knew Alyssa would love these but I definitely wasn’t going to give her them covered in oil and salt so whacked my thinking cap on and came up with a plan. Now for this plan to work you will either need the knife skills of Marco Pierre White or a Mandolin (and no I do not mean the musical instrument!!) Now, I got a really cheapo one from a pound shop in case it didn’t work and now dream of a gorgeous one like the one available from
Joseph Joseph (actually anything from them is awesome to be fair!!) I think even
fussy eaters will love these. So get those chopping boards ready and away we go….
Ingredients for Vegetable Crisps (makes a lot):
1 Large Carrott
1 Large Parsnip
1 Large Fresh Beetroot  (with skin still on)
1 Large Sweet Potato
1 Large Potato
Lite Spray Oil
Paprika/Cumin/Peppers
Method:
1 – Preheat oven to 140 degrees. Peel all the vegetables and rinse clean.
2 – Line an oven tin with grease proof paper or use a silicone baking sheet instead.
3 – Using the Mandolin slice each of the vegetables on the second thinnest setting so they aren’t translucent but are very thin and lay them out individually on the baking tray/silicone sheet.
4 – Spray with a small amount of the literature spray oil and then choose your baby’s favourite flavour – Alyssa loves curry so we like to use cumin but she also thanks the smokey flavour of Paprika so we do half and half.
5 – Pop them in the oven for between 15-20 mins or until they have coloured and curled slightly.
6 – Leave the crisps on the baking sheet to cool and dry out slightly and then chomp away with
a nice fruity drink! These will keep for 2-3 days in a sealed container – for us adults once they’re cooled you can always toss them in a bit of salt too…. yum!
So there you have it – go grab yourself a Mandolin and make your very own healthy vegetable crisps that you and the kiddies can snack on all day!! We also tried this with apple and just ripe bananas and had them with yogurt for pudding…. YUM!
14 Comments
Oh wow! These sound lush. Nom, Nom.
Fab idea! Whack a bit of black pepper over them, yum! #triballove
These look exactly like the ones you’d buy in a shop! I can’t get into them myself but hope to get my little one into them and maybe it’ll rub off on me too! #foodiefriday x
Aha, so this is what I need a mandolin for! These sound great. I’m not overly keen on the ones you buy in shops, and nor is Piglet, but he might try home made ones. Maybe. He’s not the best eater to be fair! #foodiefriday
Sound gorgeous, I love veggie crisps myself but store bought are so expensive, will try my own for sure đŸ™‚ #foodiefriday
I will have to give this a try again…whenever I’ve tried to make them they fail miserably and end up soggy. Yours look fab #foodiefriday
I’d never thought of making my own veggie crisps but these look delicious and so much cheaper that those ones I sometimes buy in Pret! #foodiefriday
This look delicious. Right up my street. I’m going to be searching for a pound mandolin!
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Oh I love making vegetable crisps and the kids love eating them! I have never tried beetroot ones before, they look and sound yummy đŸ™‚ #foodiefriday
Ooh I need a mandolin! These look fab, Lucas would love them x #foodiefriday
I’ve not got a mandolin but these look so simple to do. Maybe I’ll investigate…#foodiefriday
Oh wow these sounds amazing and easy to do. I love vegetable crisps. Definitely going to get a mandolin as my next kitchen gadget.x #foodiefriday
these look so yummy, a great alternative to other salty snacks!
these look so yummy, a great alternative to other salty snacks! #foodiefriday