Delicious milk-based dessert ideas packed with essential nutrients
Milk is an important part of all our diets and it’s an especially great ingredient for children who may struggle to get nutrients in their diet due to food aversions or other eating issues.
Milk naturally contains 8 essential nutrients including:
• Protein – contributes to muscle growth, development and repair
• Calcium and phosphorus – for maintaining strong bones and teeth
• Iodine – contributes to healthy cognitive function
• Vitamin B5 – contributes to healthy mental performance
• Potassium – contributes to normal muscle function and to help with hydration
• Vitamin B2 and B12 – to reduce tiredness and fatigue
And now Dairy Farmers A2 Goodness + prebiotic milk comes with added prebiotics to maintain your child’s gut health, by increasing the good bugs in your gut, as part of a balanced diet.
We think kids and their parents alike will love these after dinner treats packed with all the great nutrients milk has to offer.
Chocolate and Zucchini muffins
Sweet and moist muffins that sneak in some veggies. Eat them for dessert, breakfast or lunch box treats!
Ingredients
1 zucchini peeled and grated
1.5 cups of self-raising flour
3/4 cup of Dairy Farmers A2 Goodness + prebiotic milk
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of cocoa powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)
To make
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and gently mix
Spoon into muffin cases in a muffin tray and bake for about 20 minutes in a 180c oven
Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tray for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
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Mango Milk Ice Blocks
These four ingredient frozen treats are so simple to make and are packed with all the nutrients milk has to offer, protein and vitamin C.
Ingredients
4 mangos peeled and diced
1/2 cup Dairy Farmers A2 Goodness + prebiotic milk
1/2 cup of low-fat vanilla Greek yoghurt
Honey to taste
To make
This really is too easy – place all the ingredients together in a blender (adding honey to sweeten as you like) and blend until smooth and creamy. Transfer the mixture to ice block moulds and freeze!
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Chocolate Pudding
This one is fairly high in sugar and calories but some of our kids need all the calories they can get and we all have to treat ourselves and the kids sometimes, right?
This creamy pudding is great on its own or if you want to pack even more calories into your child’s diet you can top with whipped cream or serve over a brownie!
Ingredients
1/3 cup of white sugar
2.5 cups of Dairy Farmers A2 Goodness + prebiotic milk
1/4 cup of corn-starch / corn flour
3 tbsps unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tablespoons of butter
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
To make
Mix sugar, corn-starch, cocoa powder and salt together and place in a saucepan
Add milk and bring to a boil stirring gently over a medium heat until the sauce thickens (it should coat the back of a metal spoon).
Remove from the heat and add the butter and vanilla extract.
Can be served warm (let it cool a bit first!) or chilled in the fridge.
Pre-biotics – Did you Know?
Prebiotics can have a positive impact on your child’s health as they can help to replenish the good gut bugs that help keep their microbiome healthy.
Increasing the good gut bugs in the bowels, keeping your child’s microbiome healthy is important for keeping bowels moving and regular, and stools soft and easy to pass.
Supporting your gut microbiome will support the immune system, as the majority of your immune cells live in your gut.
Proudly brought to you by Source Kids and Dairy Farmers A2 Goodness + prebiotic milk – a super easy way to get prebiotics into your kids’ diet is through the milk they drink.
With milk containing only the A2 protein plus added prebiotics, Dairy Farmers A2 Goodness + prebiotic milk is goodness from free roaming, pasture raised cows. Dairy Farmers. Here’s to good.
