10 Snacks you should be giving your toddler/preschooler….

What do you give your toddlers and preschoolers for snack? Crackers? Fruits? Cookies?  Fruit Juice? It turns out that most of the parents give snacks that are full of carbohydrates or sugar. What you give them for snack is very important as it puts them through till the next meal. Typically you need to feed [...]

Peanut Butter Balls made by a preschooler

These cereal peanut balls were made by my 3.5 year old. I am so proud of her. She put the ingredients together and made these balls. So, this recipe is so simple that a preschooler can make it. She loved the fact that she put the recipe and the ingredients together and she couldn’t get [...]

Coconut Fish Curry

The biggest challenge with having both parents working and young kids is how to put a healthy meal on the table that the whole family will love.  I made this quick coconut fish curry for dinner today in less than 5 minutes and the whole family loved it. This dish is inspired by the Thai [...]

Seasoned Peanuts

We are a peanut family. My father develops new varieties of peanuts for a living that are then given to countries, organizations and farmers to grow in their local markets. The one variety that I am really proud of is the one that has Vitamin A in it. Vitamin A is needed for preventing blindness [...]

Recipe: Cinammon Almonds

If you like nuts you will like this recipe.  If you don’t give your kids nuts then you should give them nuts as nuts are a great source of omega 3 (the good stuff for brain and heart) and protein (especially if you are a vegetarian). Unless your child nut allergies in which case this [...]

Recipe: Orange Avocado Mint Salad

Here’s another fun recipe for the kids.  This is inspired from a grapefruit, avacodo, fennel , mint salad I usually make for the adults. I really like how the salad takes on the flavor of the citrus fruit but of course Grapefruit is too tarty for the kids.  So here’s a kid friendly “salad” recipe [...]