Nourish your new born with nutrients

Your young kid is totally dependent on you, so take the responsibility of giving absolute care. The food which is feed to your kid helps to determine his or her mental and physical health. The food which contains all the nutrients in itself is yet to be found or discovered. So we must opt for variety of food which gives the sufficient nutrients required for kid’s growth.

There are different food groups like

Cereals
Green Vegetables
Fresh Fruits
Milk and Milk products

It is more necessary to feed your kid with Calcium and Protein rich food items.

Some of the calcium rich foods are Milk, Cheese, and Yogurt.
Some of the Protein rich foods are Fish, Poultry, Eggs, Dry Beans, and Nuts.


Mentioning preferable diet plan for Four to six year old kid

Cereal Group:
1 Slice of Bread
½ cup of cooked rice
½ cup of cooked Cereals

Green Vegetable Group:
½ cup of cooked or raw vegetables
1 cup of raw or cooked leafy vegetables

Fresh Fruit Group:
1 piece of Fruit [Can be apple, Banana, melon etc.]
¾ cup of Juice
¼ cup of dried fruit

Calcium Group:
1 cup of milk or yogurt
1 piece/ounce of Cheese

Protein Group:
1 piece of cooked fish
1 egg
2 tsp of Peanuts or any nuts
½ cup of dry cooked beans.

Beware of the limit of fats and sweets that you include in your child’s diet, although fats are necessary for early growth and development of kids.

A good diet is the one which is low in carbohydrates and sugar. Nurturing includes providing a balanced and varied diet for your child. Children’s appetites change with their growth patterns. Each child’s metabolism is different with its own food requirements. Children grown up as lean or fat, this is normal. But kid will eat as much as his or her system demands at any time if you provide enough varied food at appropriate intervals.

Your attitude toward food can encourage your child to develop a healthy and good food habits.

So enjoy feeding your kid with healthy and nutritious food and see them growing in a healthy manner.

Healthy Eating Habits

First let me share some diets for your healthy diet:

• Include very less of non-vegetarian items in your diet.


• Avoid eating frozen and processed food items


• Increase the frequency of your intake at the same time in every intake reduce the serving size


• Avoid Deep fried and items which has more fat/Cholestral in it.


• Try to make your intake timings punctual, that will make your metabolism grow stronger .


• Have atleast 8 cups of water daily, to be more specific in that fill your used sprite/Coco cola 2 litre bottle every morning and try to finish it before you sleep. By doing this you are making sure that you water intake in sufficient for digestion and other activities happening in your body.

Below is the diet list which you can follow, to build healty eating habits:

Morning:[Around 8 am]

• Oats/Brown Bread/Idlies - 2 nos/Corn flakes with milk - 1 cup


• Fresh Fruits - just 5 pieces - Mixed fruit will surface


• Lime juice

Afternoon:[Around 12:30 - 1 pm]

• One small bowl of rice


• Vegetables [ 2 ] - Preferrably no fried vegetables


• chappathi's, small bowl of Dal [ Any of any variety of Dal]

Evening:[Around 4 pm]

Have either of them

• Fresh corns


• Fresh salad - Carrot/Cucumber


• Fresh fruit juice

Dinner - Have you dinner [between 7:30 - 8:30]

• Avoid intake of rice during dinner


• Can have Chappatis with vegetables


• Wheatrava Upma mixed with vegetables


• Small bowl of fresh fruits.

Aleast allow gap of 2 hours between your dinner and sleep

This will reduce the amount of toxins produced in your body.
Exercise regularly
Do brisk walking

I hope these tips will guide to build up a strong metabolism.

I will write more on diet for small kids what is good for healthy growing of your loving ones. Keep referring and commenting.

Cook and Feel

What is Cooking:

It is an art of presenting the nutritions provided by the nature in a consumable form.
Consumable form can be solid, liquid or semi solid form.

Cooking, once you say the word you get any things popping in your brain.

Example: your kitchen, your gas stove, any vegetables etc. The list can go on.

I am writing this article to just get awareness about cooking and in the mean time I will also learn by reading and collecting information on that.

More about cooking:

• Cooking is the act of preparing food for consuming by the application of heat or cold. It encompasses a vast range of procedures, tools and Mixing of ingredients to alter the flavor or digestibility of food.


• It is the process of selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort to achieve the desired result. Factors affecting the final outcome include the variability of ingredients, ambient conditions, tools, and the skill of the individual doing the actual cooking.

Our ancient times includes cooking by different techniques, different tools/vessels, obviously they were difficult to handle but the taste that we could acquire after the hardwork is awesome and simply unbeatable

We can start understanding what is a healty food plan in a routine life in the next brief article.

Pooricha Kuzhambhu/No puli sambhar

This sambhar is prepared without tamarind.
Ingredients:

Onion - Chooped
Tomato - Chooped
Mangai[Mango],Murungai[Drum stick],kathirikai[Brinjal] - Mixed[1 cup]
Cooked Toor Dal
Chilli powder
Vadagam - Thalika
cocunut milk - 1/4 cup
Oil.

Preparation Method:

Heat Tava
Add 1 tsp of oil, Add Kaduku
when Kaduku Spilts, add chopped onion.
Once the Onion becomes transparent, add Tomato and salt
Let the Tomato get mushy.
Then add all the vegetables, add some water - allow it to cook for 2 min[closed]
Now add Chilli powder to taste - some water [ allow it boil, till the chilli smell goes]
Then add the cooked dal.
In the mean time - Grind the coconut[2tsp] with water - Add the coconut to the boil mixture
Allow it to boil for a minute
Finally Vadagam Thalithu Kotavum.

Serve with hot rice,Briyani or Dosa.

Green Kurma

Ingrediants:

For grinding :
Corriander Leaves with stem - 1/4 bunch
Green chilles - Taste
Ginger
Garlic
Coconut - 4 Tsp[Big Spoon]
Others:
Onion chopped - 1
Tomato chopped - 2
oil for frying
Sombhu - 1/2 tsp
Pattai - 1/2 inch
Kiranbhu - 2 nos
Chilli powder - taste
Tumeric powder - little
Garam masala powder - taste
lime juice - 2 tsp

Preparation Method:

• Grind all the ingrediants in the mixe and keep it aside.


• Heat oil in the pan, add sombhu,patti and kirambu, then add chopped onions - once they become transparent.


• Add Chopped tomato and salt, once the Tomato becomes mushy.


• Add the grounded paste, add it boil till the raw smell goes, with glass of water


• Then add tumeric powder, chilli and Garam masala powder again allow it to boil till the raw smell goes. and the liquid thickens


• Finally add lime juice.

This can be served with hot rice, chappati,poori,parota and Idlis

Dal Palak

Ingrediants:

Palak/Spinach - 1 bunch [washed and cut into pieces]

Toor dal - 150 gms [ cooked ]

Onion - 1 finely chopped

Tomato - 2 finely chopped

Dry red chilles - 3

Hing - Pinch

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

tumeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Ghee - 2 tsp

Salt - Taste

Preparation Method:

• Wash and cook toor dal. keep it aside


• Keep ghee in a kadai, once it is hot add Mustard seeds,cumin seeds,dry chillies hing and tumeric powder


• Now add the chooped onion, fry till they are light brown


• Add the chopped tomatoes and salt, mix well


• Close it and cook for 2 min


• Once the tomatoes are mashy, add the Palak leaves mix well.


• Close and cook for 3 min


• Now add the cooked dal, add water if required


• Adjust salt and spicy.


• allow it to boil for 5 min.

Serve hot for chappatis or plain rice. Palak is rich in Iron and dish is easy to cook.

Gobi 65

Ingrediants :

Cauliflower - 1
Maida/All purpose Flour - 1/2 cup
Ginger Garlic paste - 2 tsp
green chilli paste - 2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1tsp
Salt - To taste
Oil - To deep fry.

Preparation Method:

Cut the cauliflower into separate florets, Make sure the florets are medium in size with the stem.

Boil the florets in water for about 10 min. Drain and keep aside

Make a thick batter with Maida,ginger garlic paste,green chilli paste,pepper powder and salt adding required quantity of water.

Heat oil in the kadai.

Dip each floret in the batter and deep fry in the hot oil.

Garnish with curry leaves.

Excellent Snack with Coke or sprite!!!