The Art of Making Homemade Treats for Your Sick Child: A blog about making homemade treats for your kids when they are sick. We hope you will enjoy these recipes and find them easy enough to make at home. Our goal is to provide you with the information you need to know what your children should be eating, and to provide suggestions on how to prepare it.
We would also like to thank our friend, and fellow mom, for helping us create these recipes. She has a passion for baking, and we just had to share her love of creating delicious treats with our readers!
Our goal is not only to provide the information you need, but also the recipes we have found helpful in finding the right foods to eat when your child is sick.
Our goal is not only to provide the information you need, but also the recipes we have found helpful in finding the right foods to eat when your child is sick.
The Art of Making Homemade Treats for Your Sick Child: A blog about making homemade treats for your kids when they are sick.
The Art of Making Homemade Treats for Your Sick Child is a blog about making homemade treats for your kids when they are sick. This site includes links to Amazon products and other affiliated sites. You will not pay extra for these products and we earn a small commission to help defray the costs of running this website.
If you are reading this, it means that you have a child who is currently sick, or that you want to be prepared if this happens in the future. Either way, I am happy that you have found this site, because I know from personal experience how difficult it can be to find the energy that you need when you are taking care of a sick child.
When my kids were young and miserable with colds, fevers, stomach bugs or other illnesses, it was hard enough just to get them out of bed without having to worry about what I would make them for lunch or dinner. Luckily, there are many easy recipes out there that can be made ahead of time and frozen until needed.
My goal with this blog is to help parents like myself plan ahead so they will have good food available whenever
The Art of Making Homemade Treats for Your Sick Child: A blog about making homemade treats for your kids when they are sick.
“It is the duty of man to raise up man.” -Aristotle
“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.” -Bill Gates
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.” -Everett Dirksen
“The best way out is always through.” -Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost
“When in doubt, use brute force.” -Ken Thompson
My last post was about making homemade Gatorade for your sick child. I received a lot of great comments and had some requests to make more of these posts. So, I thought I would start a new series of posts about making homemade treats for your kids when they are sick. For the first installment, we will be making homemade popsicles using ingredients from the pantry that you probably have on hand.
Ingredients:1-2 Cups Juice (I used apple juice)
1/4 Cup Sugar
Instructions:Mix all ingredients together in a bowl until sugar is dissolved. Pour into popsicle molds and freeze overnight. Enjoy!
You have a sick child. You feel helpless, so you make chicken noodle soup and cookies to make them feel better. But you can’t let them have the cookies because you feed them chocolate chips, which is not okay for a sick child. So you come up with a homemade treat that is quick, easy, and yummy.
You will need:
1 all-natural apple sauce container (Trader Joe’s applesauce has no sugar added and only real apples, but any brand of unsweetened applesauce will work.)
2 cups of uncooked oats
1/4 cup of mini chocolate chips (optional)
1 tablespoon cinnamon (optional)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pour applesauce into large mixing bowl. Add in oats and mix well until oats are covered with applesauce. Scoop out about 1 tablespoon of mix onto greased cookie sheet. Bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees or until golden brown on edges. Take out of oven and cool for 5 minutes before removing from cookie sheet. Cool on cooling rack for another 10 minutes before serving to your sick child (if they are old enough to eat the cookies without choking).
We have all had those days when we are running low on time and patience, our kids are sick, and we have to make a dish for a school event or some other thing that requires us to spend an hour in the kitchen. If you are like me, you might just throw in the towel and go and buy something at the store. I mean, who could blame us right? We often feel like we need to be super moms that can do it all!
As a dietitian, I am here to tell you that making homemade treats doesn’t have to be stressful, time-consuming, or difficult. In fact, most of the homemade treats I make really only take me 15 minutes of active time in the kitchen. That is less time than it would take me to go to the store and purchase something!
Here are 5 tips for making homemade treats easier and more fun:
The first thing to understand about dishwashers is that they all work pretty much the same way. The cleaning power comes from spraying hot water mixed with detergent through the dishes.
The second thing to understand is that this is utterly unlike washing dishes by hand, where the main cleaning agents are elbow grease and hot water.
It might seem like a dishwasher would save you a lot of time, but on average it doesn’t—unless you have a really big family, or throw a lot of fancy dinner parties. The reason is that it’s faster to wash most things by hand than to wait for them to go through a whole cycle in the dishwasher. If you have only one or two people in your household, you probably have only one or two of each kind of dish. Which means each load for the dishwasher has to be scraped and rinsed first.
So unless you already do that, you’re not saving any time by doing the dishes in the dishwasher rather than in the sink. If anything, it will take longer, because you’ll never fill up an entire sinkful with just your own dishes.
You can speed up the process somewhat by filling up with other people’s dirty dishes, but at some point the additional work starts