After School Snacks

Whatever it is called, it doesn't taste the same if you have to use GF bread!!

kitty, I have now googled French Toast and find that my granny's version was quite likely something she just made up! It is, as you and others have said, eggy bread, and can be savoury or sweet, depending on the ingredients or topping. What's more, apparently it didn't even originate in France!

I think eggy bread becomes french toast when one adds cinnamon!

I only have my grandchildren once a week so I take them chocolate covered raisins for a treat - sort of half good/half bad. But I don't care - that's what a Ma is for!!

Hope you are feeling better now Othill - you need to be on top form to deal with grandchildren!

Ok, ok, calm down everybody.

First, I would like to thank you all so very much for your suggestions.

Second, I must apologise for not being on line for some time, I've had a bit of a bad time of it recently, a stay in hospital with my dicky ticker, must be all the worry over what to feed the GC!

Third, there has been some misunderstanding with regard to the "telling off", it's in the nicest way, I feed them too well and too much, they are not able to eat with mummy and daddy when they get home, that's why I was interested in snacks.

I must say the wraps have gone down a treat, sometimes we do actually wrap them into pockets or purses as the little one calls them. Sometimes we roll them up with cream cheese and ham then cut them into bite size pieces. They both like these so much, they make them up themselves. I do try to make life easy for myself but sometimes find it difficult when I am feeding little miss chalk and little miss cheese. One eats fruit and vegetables the other doesn't, one will have cream cheese on her wrap the other doesn't. One likes dry foods the other likes moist foods, so sauces and gravies for one but not the other. It's amazing, I've never seen anything like it and I know you are all going to tell me "when I was little I ate what was given to me or I'd starve", me too. I try my best and know I am loved, it's worth it when they "huggle" you and tell you "I love you" oh, and kiss your bruises to make you feel better. Nice

Our grandson is severely allergic to eggs and some nuts- and it makes it so difficult with snacks. So many things contain no egg or nuts but now carry a warning - this MAY contain traces of nuts, or egg. It is a nightmare. Can't even buy no egg, no nut biscuits, or even bread, as they have been made in a production line (bakery, or industrial) where other products are made with egg and nuts, so there may be contamination. VERY difficult.

Did she not notice? Is she feigning innocence?

Take his mind off the football....result!! You minxy GNs I had to go back and read it again......

No wonder he obeys willingly glamma!

Come on glamma come back and face the music!

Just had a very loud, laugh out loud moment! I went back and re-read Glamma's post---hadn't noticed it before!

Yes Jess,, of course, Jess, as you say Jess! I'm still trembling with the shock though

A hot dog in a long roll. What do people call those? My mum used to call them bridge rolls. Some people call them fingers rolls...

My granny (who was Fench) used to make what she called French toast by toasting a fairly thick slice of bread, then slicing it down the middle and buttering the untoasted side.
My DD loved what you describe, Jess - only we called it 'eggy bread'!

its a lazy way of making pizza for kids bags don't you think?
French toast good too - whisk an egg. Soak 2 bits of bread in it. Fry. Serve with ketchup, 1 per child.
Or... I am on a snack roll today .... get 1 wholemeal pitta bread. Put it in the toaster and heat up until starting to crisp. Cut in half and fill with some salady stuff.
I am waiting for glamma to return to this thread. Did she mean it? Will she blush? Did she watch Erin Brok on TV? Did mr G get his colloquial term or not, and if so, before, during or after the footie? Maybe in celebration? Unless he is perhaps Swedish?

We have all the wrong things for 'afternoon tea' - cheese sarnies, a few Pringles; mini scotch eggs; a piece of homemade cake and a red, yellow or purple Ella [yogurt in a sachet] or two. Keeps the wolves from the door anyway.

Hmm. That I can understand, though not on crumpets. I learned a lot of Maths in the early mornings sustained by pots of tea and wholemeal chocolate spread sandwiches.

Try telling that to my GS who is fanatically attached to Nutella. Yuk!

JAM and butter on crumpets! Anything else is sacrilege! Jess, I'm SHOCKED!

jess

glamma I second Anagram's comment - but my mind is absolutely boggling! If he is in the bedroom and you are in the lounge, where does that colloquial term actually take place?

Well that sound fun stansgran. How about bread pudding. The kind where you soak the bread and fruit and have a great time squiging it with your hands to mush up the bread. Lots of dried fruit, not too much sugar. Counts as one of your 5 a day
(You can buy this food of the gods in a place called Essington Farm near Wolverhampton btw)
My GKds also very much enjoyed making bread - they don't get bored with kneading it like I do. ANd ideally you have to knead it twice...
How about bruscetta for a snack - small but thick slice of bread, chopped up toms, bit of cheese or pesto? Spot of olive oil? Snack to cheer the hearts of the most PFAS parents?
Or use a single crumpet to make a mini pizza. One crumpet (they are low fat!) (yes i know until you put loads of butter on)
AN-Y- way one crumpet. grill both sides. bit of mushed tomato, and a teeny spot of cheese, herbs if child has sophisticated tastes, grill top. I have now made myself hungry.

I'm having GCs to stay most of the summer hols so I'm building up ideas-for snacks I was thinking about getting them to cook their own-and as they are not used to English food Iwas going to introduce Welsh cakes and Scotch pancakes. I have thought of Lakelands fairy cake maker the mini one -can anyone recommend this ?as I thought they could make the batter and cook and eat without spoiling dinner

glamma! Love your last sentence.....

We often had overseas visitors when I was little who would bring delicious food gifts. I remember pomegranate, turkish delight and baclava. Also given sugar and condensed milk sandwiches and oranges with 2or 3 sugar lumps pushed down the middle to suck the juice through! I agree that children should not become overweight but treats should be part of a balanced diet!

Thanks for that notso I will save for after my dinner when I am watching Emmerdale,I have banished mr.glamma to the bedroom TV as there is no way we are having football on in the lounge to-night !!! foot down with a firm hand job in this house.

Life is so unjust!

Yes, and when I was growing up what we ate was largely determined by what my parents could afford so, for instance, fruit was limited because it was often too expensive, but we always had vegetables. Biscuits were limited too. The rule was if a packet of biscuits hadn't been opened Woe Betide (remember that?) if any of us five kids opened it. Once a packet had been opened, my mum knew she'd have to lock them away (or us!) to keep us off them. Puddings were provided though, and some kind of cake at tea time. We were allowed to fill hunger holes with bread and jam/peanut butter, or cornflakes and milk.

Mind you, I think my youngest two brothers got away with stuff we older three couldn't have. I was still getting blamed for stealing the cooking chocolate when I was several hundred miles away .