tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31835995896348515512024-02-08T02:38:28.923-08:00Baby FoodAfter the introduction of solids in your baby's diet, When you start thinking that your baby needs more than what he is eating and you want to give him some thing new here are a lot of recipes for you. And if you want to add any new one which I have missed please feel free to do so.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-13365586676984026552015-05-01T11:50:00.000-07:002015-05-01T12:17:50.509-07:00MOVING MY BLOG<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-19086886247699739502012-03-16T01:27:00.003-07:002015-05-01T12:21:41.100-07:00Oatmeal Dosa / uttapam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">This is one of the </span>favorite<span style="font-size: 100%;"> in my house very easy to make and very yummy to eat. One more oats dish that is loved in my house is oats idly that too is a very easy to make will post its recipe some time soon. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Oatmeal Dosa<br /><br />you will need :</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;">1 tblspoon Oats</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;">2-3 tblspoons Rawa</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;">1 tblspoon Curd.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Mix well and let it ferment for 10-15 mins.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Add water, salt and make dosas.</span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-58346020856127651422011-04-05T13:16:00.004-07:002015-05-01T12:22:44.876-07:00EGGS ---------- Incredible Protein<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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EGGS : I have known they are 2 types of people either they love eggs or they hate them never found any who say they are okk. AS they advertise its indeed incredible protein. I personally love eggs and so does my husband so we always have them in stock.<br />
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I love to make eggs for my kids too becoz Eggs are a ubiquitous part of breakfast and provide the highest-quality protein, versatility and convenience. Its easy to make a very low cost way to introduce them to the high quality protein. Just look at the Nutrient Content of a Large Egg and you will now how gud it is<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">When can I start EGG</span><span style="color: red;"> :</span><br />
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This is the biggest argument that comes when i say egg to every one. White first or yoke first. When I started baby food for my son ( who is 3 now) they said that you have to give yoke as white can cause allergy now when i started it for my daughter my doctor allowed me to give her both at the age of<br />
6 months and said that the latest research shows that you can give it to kids at small as 6 months both white and the yoke.<br />
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The best way to start egg is scrambled egg.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">Scrambled egg</span>:<br />
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Egg<br />
milk<br />
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In a pan heat some butter or ghee<br />
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beat egg and milk together and keep aside<br />
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when it is hot add in the mixture and keep mixing till they scramble and are nicely cooked .<br />
remove off heat and mix in salt and pepper and serve.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">Boiled EGG:</span><br />
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egg<br />
water for boiling<br />
salt and pepper (optional)<br />
2tbsps milk<br />
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boil the egg completely till hard. ( the eggs will spin if it is completely cooked from inside )<br />
remove the shell and grate it on to the grater and add in salt and pepper if you like and milk for some consistency. it is ready for feeding your kids<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-35869124254970311972011-04-05T13:16:00.003-07:002011-04-08T08:45:29.763-07:00French toast<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c6QxPiL3Iz8/TZ4WZ-Yp0ZI/AAAAAAAADSI/uuLcdZy23Xg/s1600/french_toast_1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c6QxPiL3Iz8/TZ4WZ-Yp0ZI/AAAAAAAADSI/uuLcdZy23Xg/s400/french_toast_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592932422739677586" border="0" /></a><br />In my egg series this is the easy breakfast for the kids. easy to make and I guess every kids will love it.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">You need :</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gb8HSsENkQ4/TZ4XQrQ8iiI/AAAAAAAADSY/3ZKSbZ6bMzs/s1600/EBAY.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br />2 slices of brown bread.<br />1 egg<br />2-3 tbsp milk<br />2 tsp sugar<br />cinnamon or cardamom powder as per choice .<br />ghee /butter<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Method :</span> Beat the egg with milk and sugar nicely till the suger mixes nicely with the egg.<br /><br /><br />Add in the cinnamon / cardamom (elichi) powder.<br /><br />heat a pan with ghee or butter.<br /><br /><br />Dip the brown bread in the egg and toast on both sides. I preffer brown bread but you can use any bread you like. they are gud to eat.<br />Here are some of my creative ideas for serving them to fussy kids who do not like to eat it or if you want to serve them with fruits.<br /><br /><ul><li> You can just serve them with fruits with them<br /></li><li>or just cube up the bread after you toast them and skew them on to the kabob skewers alternating them with fruits of your choice.</li><li>spread cream cheese or jam inside and add in some fruits between 2 breads and then dip them in to the egg and toast.</li><li>Use cookie cutters to cut bread into different shapes or just cut triangles or rectangles and serve. Any fussy kids would love to eat it if the presentation is gud.<br /></li></ul><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YE7o4uiRYWI/TZ4ZN9OuUNI/AAAAAAAADSg/5AdLotMH1dU/s1600/EBAY.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YE7o4uiRYWI/TZ4ZN9OuUNI/AAAAAAAADSg/5AdLotMH1dU/s400/EBAY.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592935514806046930" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-11473026821352617682011-04-05T13:16:00.001-07:002011-04-08T08:45:29.764-07:00Anda paratha !!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5sIHDvilZFc/TZ4lzwcXpzI/AAAAAAAADSw/EP1IOwhJyJI/s1600/egg%2Bparatha.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5sIHDvilZFc/TZ4lzwcXpzI/AAAAAAAADSw/EP1IOwhJyJI/s400/egg%2Bparatha.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592949358348183346" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CKQ-lCMt_es/TZ4b_Fg7QEI/AAAAAAAADSo/FbAgPPTrEec/s1600/egg%2Bparatha.JPG"><br /></a><br />This is the lovely recipe that I recently learned and my son loves it.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">you need:</span><br /><br />1-2 eggs<br />2tbsp cheese<br />salt<br />pepper<br />flour to make rotis.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Method: </span><br /><br />Beat the eggs in a bowl and add in salt and pepper and cheese and keep aside. You can also make it more nutritious by adding in veggies or adding some cold cut meats too.<br /><br />Mix the flour for the rotis as normal and set aside for atleast 15 mins.<br /><br />roll out the rotis and apply the oil and fold them into a triangle or square and then roll them out again.<br /><br />heat a tava and start to cook the paratha once you have cooked on one side then turn it bubbles start forming on the paratha and then separate the paratha and then pour in the egg mixture into it and close it and apply some ghee or oil on top of the paratha to cook. The egg cooks inside the paratha.<br /><br />I learned this recipe from a you tube video adding in the link here so that you can understand it easily.<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kOhyL9dlMms?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="640"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-65350988853609020042011-03-28T10:24:00.000-07:002011-03-28T14:37:11.013-07:00My Daughters scheduleThis is one thing that most of us keep thinking how to manage my child schedule, I am no expert in it as well as I also used to wonder how to manage it. The first thing I started doing was asking moms around and my friends how do they manage their time with their kids and try to get the best of them into my schedule ( this is the far best trick that worked for me and my son the elder one ) the second i did was read blog and forums for more details on how I can manage more time with them ( this is what actually inspired me to do what I am doing now :D ). Being a mom of two and the experience I have gained with it I have varied the schedule from time to time with the kids and my convenience ofcoz to put it in words for other to understand i would actually divide them into age groups that would help us. this is mostly the food schedule of my kids they are both a lil different for both my kids so i would just put in the general one that for food.<br /><br />Newborn to 4 months breastfeed (BF)every 2 hours.<br /><br />4-6 months: both my kids are late risers they get up around 8am-9am .<br /><br />6 am : BF<br /><br />8am : or the time they get up normally after my last breastfeed she gets up in 2 hrs her internal clock ticks i guess.<br /> <br />8:15/8:30 : between this time i make sure i give her breakfast that is ragi porridge or any other porridge .<br /><br />she plays and then goes to sleep by 9:30 - 10 after I BF her.<br /><br /><br />12 noon : lunch would be any veggie puree with rice porridge, dal rice<br /><br />2 pm : BF and put to sleep again<br /><br />4 pm : I feed her some fruit puree/ or fruit yogurt/ if its cold then soups.<br /><br />6 pm : dinner would be again some veggie pure with rice porridge <br /><br />8 pm : BF and sleep<br /><br />As she grew older I only changed the menu items. I made her lunch more of Dal rice and curd rice with veggies cooked with lil oil spices. Introducing them to blander Indian stuff. I pretty much give her all this till she turned one.<br /><br />1yr and above: This is when I started to completely wean her from my breast and start her on the whole milk. They start geting out of their comfort zone. It took longer for me to put her to sleep. she got more active and more energetic. <br /> <br /><br />8 am : 5-8 oz milk<br /><br />10 am : ragi or kanji porridge ( with fruits and milk if sweet or milk and salt)<br /><br />12 noon: lunch time dal and rice or any thing I think I can feed her with less spices with rice<br /><br /><br />3:30 pm : milk shake or plan milk<br /><br />5:00 pm : juice / , soup<br /><br /><br />7:00 pm : dinner that would be more of porridge initially but as she grows will change it.<br /><br /><br />8 :00 pm sleepUnknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-18138076904239561082010-09-22T23:19:00.000-07:002010-09-22T23:22:28.007-07:00Back to the blogging world....had been soo busy for so long that could not blog at all so I am starting again now. As i am making food for my daughter now i can surely hope to upload my recipes with photos and also update my old recipes with new pics as I will have to relook and learn them all over again to make for her.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-40413694465667081142009-05-01T23:06:00.001-07:002009-09-07T20:32:34.082-07:00Soyabean Dosa<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Ingredients:</span></strong><br /><br />Soyabean-soaked in water for 8 hours,<br /> followed by sprouting which increases their vitamin E content.<br />Ginger<br />jeera<br />Salt<br />Chillies (optional)<br />Rice Flour-1-2 tsp,<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Method :</span></strong><br /><br />1. Grind the soyabeans in a grinder, with ginger, jeera, salt and chillies to taste.<br />2. Add water till the consistency is of idli-atta.<br />3. Heat the coated pan. Pour soyamixture on the hot pan, about 2 large spoonful. Spread with a spoon. Cover. Cook for 2 min, on medium heat.<br />4. Invert and cook other side, without cover.<br /><br />Additions: Adding Onions, Tomatoes, Grated Carrots, Grated Raddish, Cumin seeds make the dosa more delicious. Oil can be sprayed on pan while cooking, but is not a must.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-32010484045670931422009-05-01T23:05:00.000-07:002009-09-07T20:29:19.458-07:00SPINACH DOSA<strong><span style="color:#660000;">Ingredients</span></strong><br /><br />Par-boiled rice: 1 1/2 cups<br />Chana dal, Tuvar dal, Moong dal and Urad dal (combined) : 1 cup<br />Curry leaves: 5<br />Jeera 1tsp<br />Dry red chillies: As per taste(optional can be made without them too)<br />Spinach : 1/2 cup, chopped<br />Onion: 1/4 cup, finely chopped<br />Salt: to taste<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Method:</strong></span><br />Soak rice and dals seperately for 4 hours. Grind rice and spinach and make a smooth batter. Coarse grind the dals along with curry leaves, jeera and dry red chillies. Mix dals, finely chopped onion to the rice batter. Then make dosas (pan cakes) out of it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-28140655899027024342009-04-25T14:50:00.000-07:002009-04-25T15:10:32.717-07:00Soups .........Soup is an easy and delicious way to combine healthful ingredients such as whole grains, vegetables, and protein choices. Its super easy to make and very less time taking . It makes the whole process of cooking food for your baby enjoyable and easy and not to forget full of wholesome ingredients.<br /><br />You can me a broth and freeze so that you can use it later. The broth by itself is a clear soup and can be given by themselfs.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">Vegetable broth:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;"></span></strong><br />3 cloves of garlic; pealed and smashed<br />2 celery ribs chopped<br />fresh sliced mushrooms<br />1 cup carrot chopped<br />2 cups leeks<br />2 large potato cubed<br />10 springs of parsley<br />2tbsp of rosemary, dill or thyme<br />1 bay leaf<br />10 black pepper corn<br />1 large onion cut in big slice<br />water<br />1/4 tsp ground clove<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">Method:</span></strong><br />Rinse and put all the above in a pressure cooker with water and cook them for 20 mins. After it cools remove and strain them ... use into any soup.<br /><br />you can use the carrot and potato in other dishesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-51902451233663629432009-04-22T13:31:00.000-07:002009-04-22T13:40:05.684-07:00Palak soup<span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Ingredients:</strong></span><br /><br />1 cup of palak,<br />1/2 potato<br />1/2 onion<br />1 clove of garlic<br />salt to taste<br />half tsp butter<br />pepper little<br />1 tsp cream for garnish<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Method:<br /></strong></span><br />wash and cut the palak, potato and onion into small pieces and pressure cook them with some salt and water and garlic for 2-3 whistles. After it cools blend them and let it boil with some butter and pepper for 5 mins. The spinach soup is ready.. serve it with some cream on top of it.<br /><br />the potato in the recipe helps the soup to get thick. You can serve this with a toast of brown bread or rice.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-12055874638153072952009-04-22T13:20:00.000-07:002009-04-22T13:40:29.663-07:00Mixed Vegetable soup<strong><span style="color:#990000;">Ingredients:</span></strong><br /><br />Half carrot<br />1 potato<br />1 Onion<br />3-4 pods of garlic<br />1 tomato<br />1 small size floret of clauliflower<br />small piece cabbage<br />small piece of lauki(bottle gourd)<br />few leaves of palak<br />salt to taste<br />half tsp butter<br />pinch of black pepper<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#660000;">Method:</span></strong><br />Cut all vegetables in small pieces. Put them in pressure cooker along with salt and water (water level -so much that all vegetables are soaked) Pressure cook for 3-4 whistles. Allow to cool put the content in the blender along with water and make a puree.Let the puree boil in an open vessel(u may add water if u feel the soup is thick) once boiled, check for salt, if needed add more along with butter and black pepper.<br /><br />the soup above is a very good option for the bigger children as they fail to eat vegetables normally even half a cup of this soup would be great for the child's nutrition. It is not always neccessary that all the above vegetables should be there you can add or substract any veggiee ...<br />you can add any number of vegetables to this soup.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-74891395695438409502009-04-22T13:15:00.000-07:002009-09-12T00:11:36.125-07:00PEA'S SOUP<span style="color:#ff0000;">Ingredients:</span><br /><br />500 gm shelled peas or you can use frozen ones<br />1 onion finely chopped<br />2.5 cup vegetable or chicken stock<br />1 tbsp olive oil<br />2 tsp fresh creamsalt<br />and pepper to taste<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Method:</span> Heat some ghee in a pan then add the onion and saute till pink. Then add the peas and saute or a further 5 minutes. Add seasoning and vegetable stock. Boil and simmer till the peas are cooked. Puree in a grinderor if your kid is a little older you can just mash it with a laddle and serve. Serve hot topped with fresh cream.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-12771677749454142792009-01-07T13:15:00.000-08:002009-01-07T13:21:14.522-08:00Fruits and oats porridge<span style="color:#990000;">you will need :-</span><br /><br />2 tbsp of rolled oats<br />150 ml milk<br />1 banana<br />1 apple<br />1tsp honey/ jaggary<br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">method:-</span><br /><br />cook 2 tbsp of rolled oats in150 ml milk in a microwavepeel n core an apple and microwave it on high for 1 minchop 1 banana ann add to the cooked oats along with the cooked apple<br />mix it and make it to a smooth paste according to your childs need ( as per age) adjust consistency by adding more milk according to the child's needadd 1tsp honey to sweeten or jaggaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-18920768666557801802009-01-05T12:25:00.000-08:002009-01-09T15:17:30.374-08:00Finger FoodsFinger foods are any small size food bites that your baby can pick and eat by themselves.<br /><br />This is one thing that we keep thinking about giving our kids and keep thinking when to start. Finger foods can be started as early as they can hold any thing in their hand and can eat. That would be around 7 to 9 months. Initially to start with you can start with<br />1> Murmura Or What You Can Say Puffed Rice.<br />2> Parle G Biscuits or marie biscuits Broken Into Small Pieces<br /><br />I prefer to start with puffed rice because they get mushy in their mouth immediately when they put in their mouth and can’t chock them.<br /><br />As they master to eat then we can try lot more stuff like<br />1> Potato cut into fingers and baked or boiled<br />2> Boiled carrots, green beans , sweet potatos<br />3> Toasted brown bread with cheese<br />4> Small cut fruits like apple banana<br />5> Roti cut into small pieces<br />6> Soup sticks , Rusk or toast which we eat with tea<br />7> Small cut pieces of paneer/tofu and cheese<br />8> Nicely boiled pastas.. they come in nice different shapesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-75480402529649451602008-12-16T13:54:00.000-08:002015-05-01T12:23:48.169-07:00Health mix<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Kanji / health mix … it’s a mixed grain porridge high in nutrition for your kids .. it can be started as early as 8 months and be given to older kids or even adults. Its called a health mix as it has all the essential components for good health and overall child development.<br />
The different porridges I have in my blog are<br />
<a href="http://indianbabyfood.blogspot.com/search/label/Porridge">http://indianbabyfood.blogspot.com/search/label/Porridge</a><br />
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I already have a kanji mix recipe in the blog<br />
<a href="http://indianbabyfood.blogspot.com/2008/02/kanji-mix.html#links">http://indianbabyfood.blogspot.com/2008/02/kanji-mix.html#links</a><br />
but this one has more added ingredients<br />
Both of them are good and can be given at different stages of child development. If you are in the USA you can get most of the ingredients in whole foods or sprouts where you get bulk grains and you can buy in little quantities. As we are using lot of ingredients we need only need 100 gms each.<br />
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1. Ragi … you can use ragi powder if you don’t get the whole ragi<br />
2. Bajra<br />
3. Maize<br />
4. Jowar<br />
5. Wheat<br />
6. Fried gram<br />
7. Brown rice.. I preffer brown rice you can use the normal ones<br />
8. Green gram<br />
9. Soya beans<br />
10. corn<br />
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all in equal quantities say 100 gms then the below items you need in less quanties say 50gms<br />
11. Sago<br />
12. Barley<br />
13. almond / badam<br />
14. pistachios<br />
15. cashew / kaju<br />
16. peanuts<br />
17. cardamom for flavor just a few. Its optional and can be avoided.<br />
Dry fry the above all the items and grind them fine and store it in an air tight container.<br />
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sweet Kanji<br />
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Take 1 Spoon Of This Powder And Add 1 - Cup Of Boiled And Cooled Water To It. Dissolve It Without any Lumps . Keep This On The Stove And Stir Continusly Till U Get A Shining Coat On Top it Will Become Pasty Add Sugar And Milk To It . Cool To Room Temp And Feed Ur Baby.<br />
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Salt Kanji<br />
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Do The Same Procedure Instead Of Sugar And Milk U Can Add Salt And Curds And Feed Ur Baby. you Can Make The Consistancy Thick And Feed The Baby In A Spoon (Will Last For 3 - 4 Hrs<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-73879391011033432372008-10-24T22:42:00.001-07:002009-01-09T15:18:35.310-08:00Daliya ... Broken Wheat!!!For most of us who wonder what daliya is and can we give it to our kids/babies must know that daliya is nothing but broken wheat or the rava form of wheat .<br />it is high source of energy and a easy dinner for kids/babies.<br />Wheat can be introduced to babies as early as 6 months but better consult your docter. My doctor was always fine me giving any thing for my son from 6 month only to make sure he does not chock himself. I give this as a dinner for my son and he loves eating it. Making food enjoyable is the key aim as they get fussy after they normally turn one and start getting a fussy eater.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-12883958075675032042008-10-24T22:28:00.000-07:002009-01-09T15:18:35.310-08:00Sweet Daliya Pongal<span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">You will need :</span><br /></strong><br />½ cup of daliya<br />2tbsp if ghee<br />Jaggery<br />water</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;color:#990000;"><strong>Method :-</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Take around 1/2 cup of daliya roast well in around 2tbsp of ghee on a slow flame in a pressure cooker. Till you get a nice aroma. Add jaggery to it around same quantity or as per taste your kid takes. Let it melt. Add 3-4 cups of water and cover the cooker and cook for at least 2 whistles on fast and 2 on slow flame. Open once cool it should be like smooth and shiny formation. You can either serve this like this only or with milk it is great source of energy and kids who love sweet simply love this.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-555570642906176792008-10-24T22:18:00.000-07:002009-01-09T15:18:35.310-08:00Veggie Daliya<span style="color:#990000;">To make you need:-</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Veggies ...French Beans, Onions, Tomatoes, carrots, spinach, potatoes, Gourds, tomatoes ...etc...All Grated</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">2tbsp Daliya</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">green gram dal soaked or normal moong dal</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">1/2 Tbsp- Ghee</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">1 Tsp - Chili Powder(Optional)<br />1 Tbsp - Cumin Seeds<br />Salt To Taste</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#990000;">Method:-</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Take half spoon of ghee in a cooker,Add cumin seeds after it spluters now add daliya(dont wash daliya) to it and roast it for one minute,when it starts changing color,add washed dal,and vegetables to it,and add 4 times water the amount of daliya+dal to it,add pinch salt .cook on sim flame in cooker for 6-7 minutes and here is nutritious and tasty daliya ready..... </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-44547826226114631032008-09-12T13:21:00.000-07:002008-09-26T20:31:34.558-07:00Precautions For Winters and Healthy Eating.<div><div>Winter is here and the nice weather also gets lot of things other than festivals with it. Our children are more likely to get cold, cough, flu, viral with the change in weather. We need to take special care of them as their immune system is not yet built totally. So I guess we need to take care of lot more things like clothes, food, ready medicines and home remedies. </div><div> </div><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Clothes:-</span></strong></div><div>• Make them wear many layers of clothes. Multiple layers of thin clothes are much more effective then a single layer of thick clothes. Multiple layers help keep the body heat insulated, and protect them from outside cold.<br /></div><div>• Make sure that you cover their three vital heat leaking parts of the body: the head, the hands and the feet. let them wear a warm woolen caps at all the times ( I know they are fussy about it but we have to make them wear) . socks, preferably woolen, and never expose the hands. If you are going out, make sure that they wear gloves, or at least keep your hands inside the jacket packets to help them keep warm<br /></div><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Medicines:-</span></strong></div><div>Take a Doctor appointment for flu shots. Make sure you have the kids medical boxes full with the medicines they use as prescribed by the Pediatrician. I always prefer them in a box handy near the bed so that it is accessible any time you think you need it. NEVER USE ANY MEDICATION WITHOUT THE DOCTORS CONSENT.<br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-44370449996401610792008-09-12T13:07:00.000-07:002008-09-26T20:33:16.974-07:00Healthy ladduWinter is here and this is a very good way to start for our kids to have a great immunity <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">towards</span> the cold and can be given any time. But this should be taken with a glass of milk. I used to eat this daily as a kid and loved it. This was kinda bribe for me to have the glass of milk as I used to hate drinking it. So for fussy moms this is my moms trick to give me milk. Another thing I remember eating as a kid is soaked almonds overnight and drinking the water first in the morning after you brush and eat the almonds they help in regulating the body <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">temperature</span>.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Healthy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">laddu</span> ... healthy snack..</span></strong><br />3 spoons of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">ragi</span> flour<br />2 spoons of whole wheat flour<br />1 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">tps</span> of olive oil ( good for health when eaten raw)<br />2 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">tps</span> each of cashew nut powder, almond powder and<br />4 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">tbps</span> groundnut powder<br />3<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">tps</span> of cornflakes and oats <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">powder</span><br />3 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">tps</span> spoons of roasted <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">moong</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">dal</span> powder<br />2 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">tps</span> of pure ghee<br /><br />grated or crushed <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">jaggery</span> as per your sweet taste <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">please</span> try to put <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">jaggery</span> then sugar as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">jaggery</span> is good for health.<br />you can also add some more things as you feel like raisins, small small pieces of dry dates, some more dry fruits powder. All this should be fine powder so as children should not find lumps while <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">eating it. Mix</span> it well and you can roll them into small <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">laddoos</span> and not big ones so that the children will hold them in their hands. if they are not consistent to be rolled in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">laddoos</span> add more ghee and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">jaggery</span> . they will form into <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">laddoos</span>. and give 1 in morning and 1 in evening for healthy n nutritious snacks.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-69401911800729391852008-09-12T12:57:00.000-07:002009-05-01T23:00:00.961-07:00Ragi Idly<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">You will need:-</span></strong><br /><br />Whole Ragi Grain- 1 cup<br />Idli rice (parboiled) – 1 cup<br />Whole skinned Urad dal – ¾ cup<br />Methi seeds -1 tablespoon<br />Salt to taste<br />Oil- to grease idli moulds<br /><br />washes soak the ragi for 3-4 hours (longer than you soak the rice) Soak the rice, urad dal and methi seeds in separately 4-6 hours or overnight.<br />In a mixie /blender, grind the urad dal till light and fluffy.<br />A test for fluffiness is to keep a bowl ofwater and drop a tiny pinch of batter. If it floats, it is light enough.<br />Then add and grind the Ragi grains and Methi and finally the rice.<br />The rice should not be ground too smooth. It should be of Rava consistency. Alternatively, you can use rice Rava instead.<br />Take the batter in a vessel, add in some salt to taste and leave it to ferment. Next morning, lightly stir the well-fermented batter.<br />Grease Idli moulds and steam in a pressure cooker for 12-15 minutes till done.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-13520272787849443342008-08-20T12:00:00.000-07:002008-08-29T21:45:26.524-07:00OATS... AND ITS GOODNESS...<p>Oats are a supergrain – they have all the goodness of other wholegrains plus extra benefits.<br />Oats are the only wholegrain recognised to actively lower cholesterol<br />Oats provide soluble fibre (called beta glucan) which acts like a sponge during digestion, soaking up and removing cholesterol from the body. This can help to lower the blood cholestrerol, so eating a diet containing oats, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and a healthy lifestyle, can help to maintain a healthy heart.<br />Oats are one of the most filling grains<br />The beneficial combination of soluble and insoluble fibre found in oats helps to fill you up and helps to keep you going.</p><p>source: <a href="http://www.quaker.co.uk/Benefits.aspx">http://www.quaker.co.uk/Benefits.aspx</a></p><p>To read more about oats <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat</a></p><p>With so many goodness of oats . It makes a very good first food for babies. Oats porridge is the best first food to start with for babies other than rice cereals. Here are some of the recipes of oats which will surely help you moms for some fussy kids for some healthy and tasty evening snacks or morning breakfasts. My kido and me both like these recipes especially the oats uthapam we love it at our place and all of us have it. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-549950238870961412008-08-20T09:35:00.000-07:002008-08-29T21:45:26.525-07:00Oats UpamaIngredients for Cooking<br />500 gm instant oats<br />3 cm piece ginger minced<br />3 tsp ghee curry leaves<br />2 tbsp sesame oil<br />41/2 cups water<br />1 tsp urad dall<br />13/4 tsp salt<br />2 tsp channa dall<br />a pinch of asafetida<br />1 tsp mustard seeds<br /> 3 green chillies sliced<br />2 dried chillies<br />1 onion sliced<br />Method:<br />1. Heat ghee in pan and dry roast oats till fragrant. Keep aside.<br />2. Heat oil. Add mustard seeds, urad dall,channa dall and dried chillies. 3. When dall has turned golden brown add sliced onions, ginger and curry leaves.<br /> 4. Saute onions till limp.Add water salt asafoetida and green chillies<br />5. When water is boiling add oats a little to prevent lumping. 6. Keep stirring uppuma till water is absorbed and the oats are thoroughly cooked.<br />7. Serve hot with coconut chutney.<br />in a kadai tamper some rai,urudh dhal and mix all the veggie and oats .. add little ghee and salt to taste..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3183599589634851551.post-7633034262958820802008-08-20T08:56:00.000-07:002009-04-22T13:39:12.766-07:00Oats Soup<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">you need :</span></strong><br />oil or butter 1 tsp<br />oats 1 cup<br />finely chopped onion 1/2 cup<br />green chillies slit 1 (or you can avoid if your kid does not have chilli)<br />cilantro leaves finelychopped 1/2 tsp<br />veggies as per choice grated 1cup<br />milk 1 cup<br />water 1 cup<br />salt to taste<br />pepper powder to taste<br />corn flour 1 spoon<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Method:</span></strong><br />In a pan add oil and fry the onions and green chilies then add in the veggies cook for a min.<br />Then add in the oats and fry for 1-2 mins and water and cook for 3 mins. Mix the corn flour with ½ a cup of milk and add to the pan and cook till it thickens and then add the remaining milk.<br />Garnish with coriander leaves and salt and pepper to taste and serve.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2