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Little Tikes nutrition week - kefir healthy recipes

Our friends at Little Tikes childcare blog have highlighted that March is nutrition month.

According to them 22% of American children are obese! This is a very scary figure and i hope that we at Little Tykes can do our bit to help.

The team have posted a number of healthy recipes and so I am going to my bit and give you a few kefir recipes which are really healthy!

Blueberry Kefir Mousse
2 cups kefir, sweetener to taste, 1/3 c (or more) frozen wild
blueberries (thawed), 2 teaspoons xanthan gum

Mix kefir and sweetener with a wire whisk. Sprinkle xanthan gum lightly across the top, whisk thoroughly and repeat until all xanthan gum is incorporated. Don’t add too much at a time, or it will clump. Whisk in the blueberries, mashing some and leaving some whole. This
is very light and fluffy, especially after sitting for a while, although sometimes a layer of liquid forms on the bottom. If that happens, just stir it back in. Refrigerate.

Gingery kefir ale
cane (table) sugar [sucrose] (1 cup)
Freshly grated ginger root (1 1/2-2 tablespoons)
Juice of one lemon
kefir grain or whey
cold fresh pure water

Take a hunk of ginger and two tablespoons of organic lemon juice concentrate and toss in the blender with a bit of water. put your sugar in the container then your ginger lemon slurry. top off with water and shake well. let it sit with a tight cap and burp it every 12 hours. when it starts to give a nice burp loosen that cap so the c02 can get out on its own. taste it daily till its no longer too sweet. strain out chunks. tighten the cap for another 12 hours, burp, toss in fridge. comes out very carbonated and great tasting.

Ice Cream
4 cups of either kefir or kefir and cream or kefir, milk and cream in any combination I want. Add maple syrup. Can make milk ice, kefir ice if not adding cream. I add fruit, coconut, coconut milk, egg yolks, 1/2 cup of nuts, food grade oils like peppermint.

Orange Julius
To 8 oz of thick creamy kefir, in a blender, add 1-2 T orange juice concentrate (or more to taste and grated fresh orange rind), 1/2 tsp. vanilla and honey to taste to make an orange julius - I have left this mixed up in refrigerator for up to 4 days and it only gets creamier. In summer freeze some kefir into cubes and use part cubes and cold kefir to make it slushy.

Smoothie

8 Oz of Kefir.. The creamier, the better.
2 ounces of Coconut Milk
4 Strawberries
Raw Honey to taste.

Blend the ingredients at low to medium speed until smooth and creamy..Avoid High speed .. You do not need it to froth.

egg custard

half scrambled an organic egg in coconut oil to get the “baked” egg taste. I put the kefir in the blender, and added a pinch of nutmeg, and dash of cinnamon and a teaspoon of pure vanilla of which I thought I “may” have gone slightly over board but hadn’t, 1/2 a teaspoon of xantham gum and about 1/4 cup of sweetner. I added the egg after cooling a bit, and whirled in the blender.