10.30.2008

Thrifty Green Thursday: Homemade Teething Biscuits

With little SoJo wanting to chew everything in site, I sometimes give him teething biscuits. He loves gumming and chewing them, even though I know he isn't teething right now (he finally got those two bottom teeth--my nemeses from early October).

Since we ran out of them and I didn't feel like trekking out to the health food store for organic ones, I decided to make my own. Unfortunately my camera has quit on me, so I can't show you how boring they looked. Let's just say they looked handmade.

There are plenty of recipes online, for everything from wheat-free to vegan. I modified a recipe and added breastmilk to it.

Maple Vanilla Teething Biscuits
1 cup All-Purpose Flour
1 Egg
1/4 tsp. Sea Salt
2 Tbsp. Maple Syrup
1/4 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1 Tbsp. Whole Wheat Flour
1 Tbsp. Breastmilk or Formula

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a cookie pan with oil (I used my Misto sprayer with canola oil). Beat together the egg, vanilla extract and maple syrup. Add the dry ingredients and mix well. Dump mixture out onto a floured surface and roll with a baking pin until it's about an inch thick. Cut dough into whatever shapes you'd like, either with cookie cutters or a knife.

Bake for 8 minutes, flip, and bake another 5 minutes. Allow to cool and store in an airtight container. Not sure how long these will last, but at least a week or two.

For other recipes, this site has teething biscuits covered. There are really simple recipes with just juice and instant baby cereal, and some more elaborate ones with bananas.

Not only are you cooking healthy and cheap for your baby, but you are reducing the packaging that goes into landfills from teething biscuits. The ones I've bought come wrapped in plastic, two in a package, which seems unnecessary. But that's another post.

For more Thrifty Green Thursday, visit The Green Baby Guide.


8 comments:

Gray Matters said...

I've never thought to make my own - duh - not much of a kitchen person. Great idea and maybe I'll get enough energy to try it one day.

Thrifty & Chic Mom said...

finding a recipe for teething biscuits has been on my to do list for a month now thanks for the help!

Diane Kidman said...

Love your recipe! This is the only one I've seen without added sugars. (I don't really count the maple syrup as "sugar".) I'm going to try this one, even though my son is done with all his front teeth. He likes to chomp on something, and I'd rather it be something healthy.

Thanks!

Rebecca said...

Brilliant idea! I like to bake, but I never thought of baking my daughter's teething biscuits. She never had many issues with teething, so I guess I didn't have the proper motivation.

Thanks for joining us for TGT!

Mon @Holistic Mama said...

Hi, found you via GBG.

Thanks for sharing this. My own little wildflower isn't teething yet, although she's been chomping and salivating for 3 months!

These should work with oat flour I imagine? Will keep this in mind for the time.....

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