Recipes

Below are some of yummy recipes to help tempt your child to eat. They’re also quick and easy to make – so you don’t have to spend time slaving over a hot stove!

Ingredients:

100g toffee
100g butter
100g marshmallows
100g rice krispies

What to do:

• Grease a 28 x 18cm tin
  
• Put the toffee, butter and marshmallows into a saucepan and melt slowly
  
• Stir in the rice krispies once everything has melted
  
• Smooth the mixture into the tin and leave to set
  
• Cut into squares to serve.

Ingredients:

Bananas
Chocolate
Sprinkles
Kebab skewers

What to do:

• Cut the banana into 3 inch chunks
  
• Put but the banana onto the skewers – like a lolly pop
  
• Arrange them flat on a dish and place in the freezer
  
• Remove from the freezer 5-10 minutes before they’re needed
• Melt the chocolate and drizzle it over the banana and add the sprinkles on top.

This recipe serves four.

Ingredients:

3-4 chicken breasts, cut into strips
½ pint of double cream
3 tablespoons of mayonnaise
1 tin of condensed chicken or mushroom soup
½ teaspoon curry powder (optional)
Squirt of lemon juice
Breadcrumbs or crushed crisps
Grated cheese

What to do:

• Cook the chicken thoroughly, then mix the first 6 ingredients together in an oven proof dish.  (If you wish you can add some vegetables such as carrots, sweetcorn or mushrooms).
• Fry the breadcrumbs or use crushed crisps.  Mix with the grated cheese and sprinkle the mix over the chicken mixture.  Cook in a medium oven for 30 minutes.
• Don’t let the dish get too hot! 

This meal can be served hot or cold.

Ingredients:

200ml (1/3 pint) full cream milk
1 – 2 tbsp vanilla ice cream or double cream
1 tbsp skimmed milk powder
Sugar to taste (optional)

What to do:

Mix all the ingredients together and add any of the following:

• Blackcurrant cordial
• Flavoured milkshake powder, eg. Nesquick
• Malted drinking powder, eg. Ovaltine or Horlicks
• Drinking chocolate / cocoa powder
• Coffee
• Small banana
• Pureed fruit
• Soft fresh or tinned fruit (with the skin and stone/pips removed), eg. pears, apricots, mangoes, peaches, mandarins, ripe melon, nectarine.

These recipes have been taken from issue 39 of Contact magazine. For more information visit: http://www.childcancer.org.uk/contact.  top of page

Ingredients:

1 supermarket pizza base
Tomato paste
Basil leaves, freshly chopped
Mozarella cheese, sliced
Mushrooms, sliced
Green, red and yellow pepper, finely chopped

What to do:

• Smear the tomato paste onto the pizza bases and then add laters of cheese topped with fresh basil, mushrooms and peppers
• Bake in a hot oven for five minutes or until the cheese melts. 

• Baked beans, cheese and tomato
  
• Bolognaise sauce, grated parmesan and rocket
  
• Ham, tomato and cheese with fresh basil (optional)
  
• Slices of roasted vegetables – red and green peppers, courgettes, onions and tomatoes with pesto.

These recipes have been adapted from the Leukaemia Foundations booklet, Eating Well.

Ingredients:

450g minced lamb
1 onion peeled and finely chopped
150g mushrooms, washed and finely chopped
220g tin baked beans
1 tablespoon tomato puree
2 teaspoonfuls of Paprika
1 tablespoon cooking oil

What to do:

• Heat the oil in a pan
• Add the chopped onion and mushroom and cook for 2 –3 minutes
• Add the minced lamb and cook, stirring until browned
• Mix in the baked beans and tomato puree
• Mix in the Paprika
• Cover the pan and leave to simmer, stirring occasionally, for 20 minutes
• Once cooked serve with either boiled rice or pasta or mashed potato
• Serve with small sprigs of broccoli or peas