It’s mid way through the school holidays and my kids are eating me out of house and home!! They seem to be hungry every 10 minutes and as soon as I’ve finished up with breakfast (which is a little later than the usual school mornings), they’re asking me for morning tea!!
It’s so hard to make sure that they’re eating healthy snacks all the time and it’s so disheartening when you bake up a lovely batch of cookie’s and they’re gone in a half a day!! The holidays are TWO WEEKS!!
I discovered that dips were the answer!! Don’t get me wrong, I’ve still had to bake several batches of cookies and several banana bread loaves, but dips seems to fill in the gaps perfectly – and they’re healthy. I just left them in the fridge with some chopped up veg and a tin of crackers, and they just helped themselves when they were hungry. Well Master J has been helping the girls, relieving me of the constant sound of “Muuuuuuuuuuum I’m hungry!”
I’m a bit of a jar collector and so putting my dips into jam jars seemed the perfect thing to do. They look so cute and they’re awesome to take out and about if you’re heading to the park or the beach or even a BBQ.
I got my recipes from the Thermomix Every day Cookbook, but I have adapted them all slightly to suit us. I did use my thermomix to make these but don’t worry if you don’t have one, all you need is a good blender or food processor. Here are my versions of healthy dips in jam jars for kids snacks, picnics or BBQ’s.
TUNA DIP (an absolute favourite in our house)
you will need:
- 30g or a small handful of nuts (I use either almonds or walnuts)
- A large tsp of vegetable stock or a few sprigs of parsley
- 60g Mayonnaise (not salad cream) I use Helmans Light
- 1 block (250g) cream cheese
- 1 180g tin of tuna
- salt and pepper to taste
- 100g sun dried tomatoes
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 50g cashew nuts
- pinch of sugar
- 1 block (250g) cream cheese
- 400g tin of chick peas
- 1 fresh lemon
- 2 tbs Tahini
- 2 tbs olive oil
- 1 tbs cumin powder
- salt and pepper to taste
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Dora is such a snacker at the moment and keeps going to the fridge to get yoghurt out. I needed some new ideas and these are great!
Yum! My kids are eating me out of house and home too! I’ve just been throwing fruit platters into the fridge so they can snack on them. The tuna dip sounds yummy!
Hi Robyn, these sound yum. What a good idea. I just whipped up a batch of anzacs but something savoury in the fridge that’s easy for the kids to grab and go sounds like just the thing. I’m book marking these.
Oh, yummy, yummy, yummy! Definitely going to try that tuna dip! They all look bloody good, actually!
Yum! I love hommos and the sun dried tomato and cashew dip sounds wonderful. Thanks for linking up with us, look forward to seeing you next week x