5 Reasons to Make Your Own Baby Food

Many parents feed their infants store-bought baby food, and why not? They are convenient, cheap, and come in an assortment of flavours for a baby to enjoy.

When I was pregnant with our first son, I decided to do some research about the food I would be putting into his mouth when the time came. I drew some interesting conclusions.

For a mom that is exhausted from frequent feedings and diaper changes, it’s easy to aim for options that are both quick and convenient. While we definitely deserve rest and quality ‘me time’, a few extra minutes to purée won’t only save money and time in the long run, but also help our babies to grow healthy and strong, and develop a pallet for food they will soon be eating in solid form.

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A Recipe for Salisbury Steak With French Fried Onions and Tasty Sauce

Salisbury Steak is an elegant hamburger with seasonings and sauce. Though the steaks resemble hamburgers, the flavors are quite different. In fact, families may adapt the traditional recipe to suit their tastes. Some cooks form the patties into ovals instead of rounds.

I’ve made Salisbury Steak many times. One recipe, which I only made once, called for the addition of a can of deviled ham, which added a smoky flavor to the patties.

Myra Waldo’s historic work, The Complete Round-the-World Meat Cookbook, published in 1967 and still on my book shelf, contains an entire chapter on ground meats. According to Waldo, the hamburger has become a symbol of America. The ground meats chapter contains recipes for Mexican burgers, Burgundy burgers in wine sauce, Danish Beefsteak, Finnish Beef Patties, Italian Pizza burgers, Russian Hamburgers with Heavy Cream, and yes, a recipe for Salisbury Steak.

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The Procedure to Make Basic Gelatine Jelly

1) To make 1 litre of gelatine desert gel, you will require about 20gm (1 sachet) of Halal gelatin. Soak gelatine in about 700ml water (not boil water) and stir until swells. Add about 160gm sugar or to taste. Heat up the solution until gelatine and sugar dissolve. Add flavoring and coloring. Done! Simple isn’t it? Try to do it couple of time just to make you get use to it, and later on, try to do this simple task that I prepared for you. And practise with this one…

2)Simple task :-

Ingredients

1 sachets of Halal gelatine (6 teaspoons)

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The Benefit of Beans, Peas and Lentils

The word is out, beans are in! Legumes(beans, peas and lentils) are not only nutritious but delicious. Though beans have often been neglected in the Western diet, they have long since been an important part of traditional diets around the world. Many people in North America are discovering that beans are not only tasty, easy to prepare, economical but are good for you. Legumes are an important food source. They are an excellent source of protein, are low in fat, high in fiber, loaded with complex carbohydrates and have many essential micronutrients.

We do not know the exact relationship between diet and disease however it has become accepted that healthy eating can improve our chances of preventing diseases such as heart disease, strokes and some forms of cancer. Substituting beans, peas and lentils for foods that are high in saturated fats and refined carbohydrates is likely to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. Research is showing that plant protein helps protct the heart by lowering blood cholesterol levels in many people. Continue reading “The Benefit of Beans, Peas and Lentils”

Benefits of Healthy Eating For Kids

Children’s growth and development depend very much on the foods they are fed and the benefits of healthy eating for kids is detailed in this article to alert parents to the dangers of neglecting this aspect of the child’s development. Balanced, nutritious meals are a must for every growing child because the benefits transcend into adulthood. Poor diet leads to obesity and a host of medical and psychological problems for the child.

For those of us not aware of it there is a good guide pyramid, which can help us better understand the different food groups. All of our food is divided into grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy products and meats, beans, poultry, fish and nuts. Your child gets a balanced diet when all the food groups are covered. There are some groups where the intake needs to be lesser than the others, such as the oils and meats.

The benefits of healthy eating for kids will not be felt if you blindly follow the food groups. For example an apple in its natural state will do more for your child’s well being and overall good health than an apple pie with sugar would. Continue reading “Benefits of Healthy Eating For Kids”

How to Start a Keto Diet Plan

The keto diet plan is a high-intake, high-fiber, sufficient-potassium diet which in medicinal circles is often used primarily to treat childhood epilepsy in very young children. The keto diet forces your body to use up fat instead of glucose for energy. This results in reduced hunger and allows you to stick to a reasonable diet even when you are highly hungry. It can be practiced by anyone, even if you have had a heart or kidney disease or diabetes in the past.

The keto diet plan is not designed for long-term weight control, as it puts a lot of emphasis on fats. The ketogenic diet pyramid is based around eating a wide variety of different carbohydrates and proteins. A lot of people don’t like the idea of eliminating carbohydrates from their diet and would rather focus on proteins, so the use of the MOST PROBABLY IMPORTANT carbohydrates are typically ignored in the process. By eliminating certain carbohydrates you can achieve ketosis easily, however this can be quite hard at first as your body gets accustomed to the absence of the carbohydrates you were once consuming. Continue reading “How to Start a Keto Diet Plan”

Eat Guts & Grease For Increased Strength & Vitality

I hate diets. I hate people who talk and teach about diets even more. If you can’t tell, I’m a bit angry and confused. For thousands upon thousands of years we as a race of humans have walked the earth in extraordinary health living WITH nature and sharing of her abundance. No diets, just eating.

Instinctual Eating

Food, water and shelter were all provided by her… all our needs were met. We were rugged, intelligent and extremely vital well into our older age. A strong example of this reality are the Hunzakut people of the Himalayas. This “lost race” of people, when interviewed by Renee Taylor in the 1906’s were found to:

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It’s A Pyramid Scheme

Let us forget for a minute about “the who”, or “they” and let us look at the facts and the “whys”. Yes, this article is about sales and marketing. But sales is all about thinking logically and educating people so they can make their own decisions. Here is what “they” say about multi-level marketing and direct marketing, “It is a pyramid scheme”. “They” say a lot of things, don’t they? “We” accept what “they” say without any thought or consideration, don’t we?

History of the Pyramids

What of the pyramids? Did the Egyptians of old erect these marvelous structures? “They” seem to say so. But here are some facts about Pyramids: The world’s largest pyramid was discovered in El Mirador, Guatemala. It is the size of downtown Los Angeles. The Grand Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has 2,300,000 stones, weighing more than 40 tons each, built upon one another to a 135 foot elevation over 13 square acres. There are pyramids in China, Bosnia and Japan. Continue reading “It’s A Pyramid Scheme”

No-Bake Biscuit And Banana Pyramid Cake

If you would like to start baking, the best way is the easy way. To become a baker or a cake enthusiast, I would first recommend to develop a few necessary basic skills. How to prepare the ingredients, how to mix them well or just simply to get more familiar with equipment and ingredients.

I would like to share this dead simple no-bake cake recipe. You do not need to have any baking skills to make this cake.

This unbaked cake’s ingredients are biscuits, bananas, creamy cheese filler and chocolate glaze. Let’s call it No-bake biscuit banana pyramid cake. Looks interesting and trendy, is fun to make and the best part is, that you can create it with your children and have a great family time together. Continue reading “No-Bake Biscuit And Banana Pyramid Cake”

Awe Nuts – Just the Healthy Ones! Part One

Healthy Nuts: The Best Ones

Which are best healthy nuts available in the market? The perfect answer is not available currently.

From one study, around 32% of nuts consumed were peanuts, 16% walnuts, 29% almonds and 23% are other types. But researchers could not judge whether these nuts were oil-roasted, dry-roasted or fresh.

From another study, peanuts, technically known as ‘legumes’, help to reduce heart disease risks’ as of tree nuts. Experiments were done by giving nuts to volunteers in daily diet for a couple of weeks.

Almonds, walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts and pistachio nuts all affect blood composition in different ways which lower coronary disease risks. Chestnuts, having low fat, are still not studied properly. Continue reading “Awe Nuts – Just the Healthy Ones! Part One”