Raagi Porridge for Toddlers - Step by step procedure

    Raagi is always known for its high fiber and calcium content. Calcium serves as a important nutrient for the preschooler/toddler aiding in their physical growth, which happens in this stage predominantly. However it is one of the baby's first foods, there is a different method that has to be adopted for babies younger than one year. Click here to know the step by step procedure of the same. For children above one year the digestive system would be prepared to digest the high amount of fiber content in raagi and hence the raagi powder can be used directly to make porridge.

Procedure

1. Add 3 to 4 tea spoons of raagi powder to the bowl and add 200 ml of water to it.

2. Bring it to boil and add one tea spoon of panag kalkandu to the mixture.

3. Stir it continuously till it attains a semi solid consistency. 

4. Allow it to cool and add less quantity of boiled milk (make sure the semi solid consistency is maintained even after adding milk for your ease of feeding using spoon)

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How to give Raagi Porridge for babies less than one year? - Step by step Procedure

              Raagi is one of the baby's first foods which is high in calcium and fiber. It can be given to your child as early as his fifth month completion. But since it has high fiber it makes it little difficult for the child to digest if the porridge is prepared with the powder directly. There is another unique preparation method for babies younger than one year which I used for making Raagi Porridge until my son turned ten months old. 

Procedure

1. Wash and soak one cup of Raagi overnight in a bowl.

2. Wash twice and drain the water completely.

3. Add it to the mixer and add few drops of clean water to it.

4. Grind it well and extract the milk from the raagi using drainer and by squeezing it completely using spatula or hand (similar procedure used to extract coconut milk from grated coconut).

5. Repeat steps 4 and 5 once again to get the full extract out of the soaked Raagi.

6. Add the extracted milk to a bowl, add one tea spoon of 'Panag Kalkandu'(palm extract similar to sugar) and heat it.

7. Continuously keep steering until the milk thickens to a consistency of semi solid. 

     Looks like a tough process! Is it? But when your child's tummy is filled completely with this porridge all your efforts will be paid. When given regularly to the child, he/she will be offered with immense unbelievable health benefits. 

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Avacado Fruit and its nutritional values.

          I couldn’t stop myself talking about this fruit to all my friends who are having a child at their home. This fruit contains so many nutritional values and it is also a very important food that has to be given for children. Having said that I should also confess that making someone (especially for the younger ones) eat this fruit is not at all a easy talk.

Nutritional values

• Rich in good and essential fatty acids.
• Shows good weight gain in children when given regularly especially  for those children who do not get these essential fatty acids.
• One single fruit is said to have all necessary nutrients for one adult for one single day
• Helps in both physical and mental development of the child.
• When it is said to have fat, don't hesitate to give it for children. Because kids should not be on "low fat diet". Not only that avacado contains only mono-saturated fatty said making it a suitable fruit to add even in adult's diet.

 Avacado fruit for Infants less than 1 year

              A fully ripe avocado could be peeled off and could be given freshly after removing the big seed in the centre. It doesn’t need any grinding process since a fully ripe avocado itself is very smooth.

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Avacado milk shake for children > 1 year and adults

           At one certain stage your baby would refuse eating the plain avacado due to the growth in the taste buds. But still you can provide them with this highly nutritional fruit by simple adopting some other preparation steps. Scoop the fully ripen avocado and grind well along with some milk,water and sugar. Strictly do not filter anything out of the mixture. Serve it just like that.

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Small Onions or Shallots

    Small Onions also known as shallots  are said to have high anti-oxidants. Experts also say that if used on regular basis these onions can prevent cancer.

   Eating it raw is not a very easy job and it could not be done by kids especially. Here are few tips on how you could add it in regular food.

• While making porridge (raagi, pearl millet, multi-grain) you can add finely chopped onion and butter milk to it and give it to drink
• While making vegetable curries the normal (bigger one) onions could be replaced with these small onions.
• While making sambars these onions could be added along with the vegetables that would enrich the taste also.

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Green Tea

           Do you have a dull toddler at home? Doesn’t he show much interest in outdoor games? In spite of giving all nutritional foods the toddlers may lack of energy that is needed for the outdoor activities.

          Try giving those toddlers a cup of green tea twice or thrice in a week which is known to have high anti – oxidants. Apart from making them active, it also refrains the kids from getting cold and fever often.

Procedure.

1. Add 100ml of water to a bowl and boil it.

2. Add a pinch of green tea leaves and a small piece of ginger to the boiling water and boil it for few minutes.
3. Allow it to cool slightly and drain the green tea.
4. Add one t.spoon of honey and few drops of lemon juice to the tea and give it to drink.

Note:

• Prefer buying original green tea directly from factory outlets instead of packed ones.
• Add honey for sweetness and avoid white sugar.
• Ginger and Lemon are added for extra fragrance and taste and depending upon the person it could be changed.
• Make a cup for yourself and your spouse also which would create an interest in your toddler to drink it along with you.
• Toddlers who are introduced to bitter taste before their first birthday will really become fond of green tea very soon.

• Unlike Adults Green tea cannot be given as a replacement for milk, because milk has its own nutritional values that cannot be compensated by green tea.

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