Help with apples for a kid with braces
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Anonymous
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My kid can't eat hard, crunchy foods like apples, carrots, etc. with her braces. I want to do some sort of baked apple slices thing. I have a bag full of apple slices. I have cinammin (sp?).
Can I buy some sugar, mix the two together, lay the apple slices on tinfoil, sprinkle the shit on and bake it? For how long and at what temp? Will that soften the apples up? Halp! |
Anonymous
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In scouts, we just put brown sugar and butter in the core of a cored apple, wrapped it in tin foil, and cooked it in the hot coals of a campfire. I'd say that means you can experiment. I'd slice up the apple and make little foil packages of slices, a pat of butter, and some cinnamon or brown sugar or apple pie spices. I'd bake it at 350? 400? For maybe half an hour until nice and soft.
Also, when my daughter had braces, I'd dice up the apple or thin slice it. Peel it and cut it into small chunks, or slice into very thin pieces. We found apple was soft enough that if it was small/thin she was fine. Carrots pretty much had to be shredded in order to be braces-friendly. |
Anonymous
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5lbs Apples
1/2c brown sugar (or 3/4 white sugar) 2-3 tbsp cinnamon 1/4c orange/apple juice Combine apples (peeled, cored, and chopped) and toss into a crock pot/slow cooker on high for 3-4 hours for apple sauce, or 2-3 hours for soft baked apples. In the over mix the above but omit the juice, place in aluminum foil packet in a 400 oven for 20min. |
Anonymous
THanks! I don't have a crock pot but will buy sugar and try this tonight. So excited. |
Anonymous
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My children and myself all ate apples with braces; just peel, slice, and cut into chunks.
For carrots, slice the baby carrots in quarters. Between us, we had more than 10 years of braces and perhaps 3 broken brackets. |
Anonymous
| Cut the apples into thin slices. |