EARLY FOODS Organic Cookies review

The tiger who came for tea, Ate all the cookies!!!!!!! . . As boo has started school, there is constant need of snacking especially during cab time..I recently received these cookies from EARLY FOODS ; what better way to lure this newly turned picky eater with some healthy yummy cookies. . I am in love with…

Early learning tool- Sensory Bins

A child’s sensory education begins at birth when she is first held by his mother. Her exposure to sensory experiences continues as she take in the comforting aroma of her mother’s skin; the sight and sound of everything around her ; clothing against her tender skin; the taste of first food. Montessori believed that we…

Marbled banana bread

Last time I did any baking it was in May; on our 5th anniversary I baked Walnut Pie. Post that i had lost interest in baking as most of the new recipes came out to be catastrophe; instead of repeating the disaster(remember Barley Cookies ) time and again it was best to take a break….

Pad Thai Noodles with Roasted Peanuts

After my last post Vegetable Noodles With Grilled Cottage Cheese , many people have messaged me asking why am allowing noodles to Boo. Well, its a personal choice. As long as I have the control on what goes into my boo’s plate and his nutritional needs are met , I am not worried about guilty…

Vegetable Noodles With Grilled Cottage Cheese

Planning a meal for Baby Boo is becoming challenging day after day. Is the portion size ok?, Is he getting all the nutrients, what about the calorie count, what about weight gain and immunity and above all will he eat what is being given to him, is the food satisfactory to his taste buds???, can…

Spinach and Cottage Cheese Ravioli

Recently Baby Boo has learned to say “thank you” though it sounds more like ‘danke’. Or perhaps he is on his way to learn German. Anyway, to practice this German influenced thank you, he keeps bringing onion,potato, remote, books anything within his reach to us, so that we say thank you to him. This little…

Sweet potato latkes

It’s one of those cosy winter morning where getting out of bed will be considered as cardinal sin. But I have to drag myself out as baby boo is already up and running around and my house looks like it’s been hit by a tornado. Sometime I wonder how is it physically possible for a…

What’s in my Diaper Bag?

This post is originally for Babychakra. The World Health Organization defines an emergency as the state in which normal procedures are interrupted, and immediate measures need to be taken to prevent that state turning into a disaster. Emergency planning should aim to prevent emergencies from occurring, and failing that, should develop a good action plan…

Almond Barley Cookies

The baking class continues and this weekend it was all about cookies. I have had fair share of cookie disasters in past. One time they were hard as rock,few other times they refused to bake, once I used granulated sugar and Mr.D swore never to eat my experimental cookies ever in future. But I was…

Essential “saviour” oil

This post is part of BLOG-A-THON for Babychakra Coming from a family, who prefers natural remedies over medicine, I was bound to follow the similar path when I delivered my boy. It’s been 13+ months and I have refrained myself from visiting pediatrician for reasons other than vaccines. Most of the baby related ailments and…