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Jumat, 03 April 2009

Healthy Recipes For Children

Healthy Eating for Children
Executive Summary about Healthy Recipes For Children By Trevor John

We all know that we are supposed to eat healthy foods. We try to make sure that our children are eating healthily. But how do you know that the healthy eating ideas for children that you're preaching are actually being followed by your children? To a large extent, healthy eating for children needs to become the natural way for your children.

How to make healthy eating for children into a habit

You won't be able to preach healthy eating for your children if you're constantly snacking, eating chocolate cakes and slurping down sugary drinks. If your children have become used to not eating healthily, you may need to start training them gradually. Cut out the sweet snacks, replacing them with healthy fruit instead. Variety is key. Ring the changes and your children will start to eat healthily as a matter of course.

At breakfast time, wean your children off sugary and chocolaty cereals. Again, variety is the key to healthy eating for children and adults alike.

Evening meal is another time that you can start introducing healthy food. If your children turn their noses up at vegetables, consider using your blender to mix the vegetables into the gravy or sauce that you're serving. Mushrooms can be eaten cooked or raw.

If your children won't eat foods like cabbage when they're cooked, think of using it in coleslaw instead. Raw cabbage has lots of vitamins and tastes nothing like the cooked version. When you're thinking about healthy eating for your children then you sometimes need to be sneaky like that!

Find lots of healthy eating recipes for kids at http://healthy-eating-for-kids.com

The recipes are designed to be easy to prepare as well as healthy and fun to eat!

Healthy Food For Kids - Innovative Ways To Make Your Children Eat Healthy Food
Executive Summary about Healthy Recipes For Children By Abhishek Agarwal

The modern world, with its innumerable fast food joints, can really wreck a child's health and well-being. Due to the growing popularity of fast foods, parents find it very difficult to inculcate healthy eating habits in a child. In spite of this obvious fact, a child, when given a choice between fast food and healthy food, will invariably choose fast food.

You could try some of these ways to make your child eat healthy food.

Use Fruits and Vegetables to Make Your Child's Favorite Dishes
You might not be successful in making your children understand the importance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables.

Rename Fruits and Vegetables
Children love it when you give funny names to usual fruits and vegetables. Children enjoy eating food that has unusual names.

Experiment with Food
Modify recipes so that you come out with exciting dishes. For instance, you could top broccoli with ranch dressing and celery with peanut butter. Vegetables can be combined in any number of ways to make them taste great. You can even permit your children to select a topping for a vegetable of his or her choice, even if you don't really appreciate your child's taste.

Create Funny Designs
Children enjoy food that looks attractive. While some people don't like playing with food in this manner, it sometimes helps to make the child eat healthy.

You have just looked at a few ways of making healthy food interesting for your child. Children normally don't like food that is good for their health. But, if you can make healthy foods look and sound as attractive as fast foods, there is every chance that your child will learn to eat and appreciate fruits and vegetables throughout his or her life.

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Healthy Muffin Recipes

Finding Great Muffin Recipes
Executive Summary about healthy muffin recipes By Mike Selvon

Just imagine a piping hot muffin, fresh from the oven and gooey with butter. Blueberries, strawberries or chocolate chips just add to the overwhelming taste sensation. Muffin recipes are out there for you to make.

Pancake recipes, roll recipes, sweet bread recipes and even free bread recipes are all just a click away. But let's concentrate on your muffins. One great website for recipe ideas is "Muffin Recipes".

They offer a wide selection of recipes for muffins and a wide palate to fit every taste bud and flavor desire you may be craving. A popular muffin on many people's baking list is blueberry. You can find great homemade blueberry muffin recipes online along with a variety of other pancake recipes or sweet bread recipes. It is a great way to satisfy those blueberry cravings.

Spray your muffin tins with a non-stick spray. Add enough batter to fill the muffin tins half-way. Then place in an oven that is preheated to 350 degrees.

Note that some muffin recipes call for you to butter and flower the muffin tins. Bake for thirty minutes and then enjoy fresh hot blueberry muffins anytime of day.

Mike Selvon portal offers free articles on bread making. Find out more about muffin recipes, and leave a comment at the bread making flour blog.

Tropical Muffins and Healthy Carb French Toast Muffins For Diabetics and Others
Executive Summary about healthy muffin recipes By Linda Carol Wilson

Muffins are a wonderful treat but one that diabetics are always watching because of the sugar and carb content. Now that we are into fall, and a muffin is perfect with a hot cup of coffee, hot tea, or hot chocolate, I thought I would bring out a couple of muffin recipes that are perfect for diabetics as well as dieters or anyone wanting to eat a more healthy muffin. Following are two ideal muffin recipes for the above mentioned persons. Tropical Muffins is exactly that, a reminder of being in the tropics, eating tropical fruit and enjoying the warm sunshine and ocean breezes. Healthy Carb French Toast Muffins are as the title indicates. Healthy with a bit of flaxseed and whole wheat and yet the tempting taste of French toast. Yum!

TROPICAL MUFFINS

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup Equal Sugar-Lite OR Splenda
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup unsweetened coconut
3 medium ripe bananas, mashed
1/3 cup unsalted butter
1 egg, beaten OR 1/4 cup egg substitute
1 tsp orange zest
1/3 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
Vegetable oil spray

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray 12 muffin cups with vegetable oil spray and set aside.

HEALTHY CARB FRENCH TOAST MUFFINS

non-stick cooking spray
1 1/2 cups egg substitute
1/2 cup fat-free half and half cream
1 tsp ground cinnamon
3 tbsp Splenda Granular
2 tbsp milled flaxseed
1 tsp vanilla
6 slices whole-wheat bread, cut into chunks

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray muffin pan with cooking spray. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together all ingredients except bread chunks. Gently fold in the bread. Let set 5 minutes to soak the bread chunks. Divide the mixture evenly among the muffin cups, overfilling slightly. Bake 25 minutes or until puffed up and set. Serve immediately.

Per muffin: 140 calories, 17 g carbs, 11 g protein

For more of Linda's recipes and diabetic information go to http://www.diabeticenjoyingfood.squarespace.com