Clean Eating Jam

This Clean eating raw jam is one of the first recipes I made when we started eating Clean. I was convinced the kids would instantly know they'd been tricked and demand a jar of their usual store bought brand. I added very few Chia seeds in case they made a fuss, and I even put it in a jam jar right where the old one would sit on the breakfast table. And you know what? No one ever noticed :)

Clean Jam

Jam is something many if us feed our children at some point as they are growing up. It's an easy, well loved go-to breakfast: Thick buttered toast with a slathering of jam. And I really didn't want to take this away from any of us when we started eating Clean.

The problem is, jam is basically made by boiling sugar and fruit together. Add this together with the sugar contained in the fruit and you pretty much have a food that consists of 100% sugar. Every teaspoon of jam is a teaspoon of sugar, and that just wasn't going to work in a Clean eating way of life. It wasn't that I was cutting sugar out completely, I definitely wasn't, but this was way too much.

And so...introducing ... Raw Jam. Raw jam? Yes. Raw jam. Heat kills many of the vitamins and minerals in a lot of our food. By using uncooked berries to make our clean eating version of jam, we retain those important vitamins and can feel a bit better about adding that extra spoon of jam to our afternoon scone or muffin. And with only a small amount of added sugar in the form of Maple syrup, Raw Jam is a much healthier choice. Yay!

Adding Chia Seeds To Jam

I add a teaspoon of Chia seed to the jam mix because if you don't, the jam is more of a sauce than a jam you can scoop up and pile on a piece of toast.

I don't add too many, just enough for the Chia seeds to do their thing and help the jam 'set' into an altogether more jam like consistency. You can get away with the seeds here even if you think the kids are going to have something to say about Chia seeds in their jam. Why? Well, rather handily the seeds look exactly like the seeds in the fruit the kids are used to. They'll never know. It's a Mom win moment :)

What To Eat With Jam

What not to eat with jam! Jam can be an easy, stupidly fast breakfast: Throw some on a piece of toast and go, or use it on scones or muffins.

Here's some Clean eating ways you can eat this yummy jam:

• On these 3 ingredient scones
• On a thick toasted piece of wholegrain bread
• With these healthy muffins
• On these raspberry muffins

How To Make Raw Jam

Ingredients

• 1 cup Frozen mixed berries
• 1 tbsp Maple Syrup Or Rice Malt Syrup
• 1 tsp Chia seeds

Instructions

• Pulse the fruit BRIEFLY in a food processor (or mash with a fork) until a chunky texture. Don't over mix or the jam will be too runny.
• Stir in the chia seeds and maple syrup
• Transfer to a clean jam jar and leave to set for a couple of hours at room temperature

Raw Jam Recipe

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