My son doesn’t eat refined sugar. Refined sugar is a real poison and the cause of many silent, spreading diseases, including hyperactivity, often misdiagnosed and confused with sugar overdose, but also diabetes, obesity, and cancer. It may taste good but it’s bad for you, and as long as his father and I can choose, he won’t eat it. And the most interesting thing is that he doesn’t and never has asked for anything with refined sugar, so it doesn’t even make sense to give it to him. He delights in ripe fruit, he gets all messy, and he’s happy!

Teaching Healthy Eating Habits: A Christmas Story

This Christmas, when they put a plate full of French toast in front of him (among many other delights on the lavish Christmas table) and he looked at it without a care in the world, he took the raisins and pine nuts off the top of the French toast and ate them, among all the other sweets on the table. It wasn’t because they didn’t give him a taste, because unfortunately they did, but he refused. I think this has to do with the nutritional education we give him at home. It’s not restrictive or dictatorial, we simply don’t eat anything that is unhealthy, even before he was born, so he must have this engraved in his genes.

Healthy Desserts for Every Day: Our Family’s Sweet Tradition

At home, we never have big desserts, only on festive days, and what we do have is always healthy (they are always delicious from The Love Food, of course!). We usually eat fruit and recipes with fruit (baked fruit, fruit ice cream, etc.

Light and Healthy Apple Pie: A Family-Friendly Dessert

But sometimes you feel like making a special dessert, but not a sugar bomb. So I decided to try making an apple pie that was light, light, light, so that he could eat it and that it was appetizing. This one came out, which was made in no time and devoured in no time. It’s an excellent snack or dessert option for babies and children, but also for the rest of the family!

For mass

• 1 cup of fine oat flakes
• 1 cup fine buckwheat flakes
• ¼ cup date paste
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• ¼ cup water

How to Prepare a Healthy Pie Crust

Crush all the flakes, add the other ingredients, and pulse in the processor or knead everything by hand. I did it in the Thermomix, first crushing the flakes at speed 5, and then I added everything and mixed between speeds 3 and 5 until it was well combined. Line a tart tin or springform pan with baking paper. Flatten the dough on the bottom so that it covers the base and edges.

Bake at 150ºC for 10 minutes.

Carefully remove from the pan and let cool.

For the applesauce

• 1 kg of apples
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 30 g of water

Place all the ingredients in the Thermomix and program 10 min, temp. 100, speed 1.

When ready, blend at speed 8 until creamy.

You can make it in a pan, bringing all the ingredients to a boil until the apples are very tender (15 minutes), and then blend them with a food processor or hand blender.

Let it cool.

Place the filling into the baked pie crust and top with toasted flaked coconut or fresh fruit such as raspberries and blueberries.

Refrigerate before serving.

Delight the whole family.