Healthful kids recipes are the source to a proper healthy diet.

Whether it is healthy kids drinks or main meals we all appear to have our weaknesses. We do have our jobs cut out for us because wherever we turn there are fast food chains popping up on every corner.

The other evening on the way home from soccer my 6 year asked if we could go to the “Golden Arches” for a big meal. My reply was “no we are going to eat something healthy for dinner”. The reply was “chicken nuggets and fries is healthy”! I next realized that perhaps helping our family understand why we require to eat well is also a worthy part of the equation to good diets.

At the moment permit me be to be clear that this is no comfortable task because when trying to explain the profit of minerals and vitamins and the consequence of nutritious foods they stare at you like a deer caught in the headlights. I merely explained that there are fine foods that provide us energy and make us physically powerful and protect us from getting sick. This sounds better than explaining antioxidants and all the other ‘technical’ side of nutrition

Accordingly I decided to share my ideas on well food, well living and a healthy lifestyle. The basis to healthy kids diets is healthy kids recipes. Now if we parents eat healthy we will set a good example, you know, do what we preach. For example, I am a sucker for BBQ chips, I love my BBQ chips. If the family observes us eating these snack foods they naturally consider that its completely all right to eat chips as a snack. Last time I looked BBQ chips is not exactly a recommended ingredient in well kids recipes.They need fresh vegetables and fruits, milk and cheese. less oily cooking and sugar and more boiled foods and raw

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The nutritious little seed tastes great and is fast and easy to prepare. If you want to eat healthy foods try cooking quinoa. Quinoa is very nutritious. It tastes great and is fast and easy to prepare.

With a taste somewhere between rice and lentils with a nutty flavor it is a very good replacement for rice, pasta, couscous or potatoes.

Quinoa is very nutritious and a good source of:

• vitamin E
• vitamin B
• vitamin C
• calcium (contains more than milk)
• phosphorus
• iron.

Since quinoa contains all essential amino acids it is a complete protein. But it is still much easier to digest than proteins from meat and dairy.

Want to lose weight? Then quinoa is perfect for you. Quinoa is gluten-free and has a low Glycemic Index (GI) which makes it prefect for anyone with diabetes or anyone who would like to lose weight.

How To Prepare Quinoa:

To bring out the great nutty flavor prepare it like this.

1. Most quinoa needs to be rinsed before you boil it.
2. Boil the quinoa according to instruction on the package. Usually you need 2 cups of water for 1 cup of quinoa . Boil until the water has been absorbed (10-15 min).
3. Alternative to bring out the nutty flavor: Take the boiled quinoa and fry it gently with sliced garlic in wok or frying pan.

Other spices that work really great with quinoa are cumin and coriander and fresh herbs.

Quinoa is prefect to add to soups, stews and chili.

When you make a quinoa salad cook the quinoa according to step 1 and 2 above. Let it cool. Then simply add your favorite salad ingredients. Truffle oil and basil makes your quinoa salad absolutely fabolus.

Or why no start you day with hot quinoa cereal.

Ingredients (serves 4)

2 cups water
1 cup quinoa
1/5 cup raisins
1/5 cup dried apricots
2 teaspoons of chopped almonds

Bring the water to boil. Add quinoa and boil at low temperature for 5 min.
Stri in the other ingredients and heat gently until all the water is gone.

Another way to get a really healthy breakfast is to drink a Loaded Quinoa Smoothie. The protein is prefect to kick start your metabolism in the morning. It is also a great drink before and after exercise.

For more healthy cooking ideas with quinoa, try for example Quinoa Paella.

The Incas worshiped quinoa and referred to is as mother of all grains . The seed is seen as one of the reasons that the Incas became so powerful. When the Spanish came they banned quinoa to weaken their opponent.

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