Acai Berry Recipes for Superfood Meal Time Health

July 9, 2009

Acai recipes have gathered wide popularity in the US. Americans cutting across all ages have consumed them in one form or the other. Some have created their own recipes.

Most acai recipes have acai pulp as the main ingredient. Acai is fragile and is hence preserved in frozen form. It can either be consumed as smoothie or eaten straight from a bowl.

Lots of possibilities can be explored with acai smoothies. They can be mixed with other fruits such as apples, bananas, blueberries and mangoes. Acai berry puree and cocktails mixture is a high energy alcoholic drink. Try Acai berry puree, Rum and guava juice blend.

You can even enjoy berry recipes the Brazilian native way. A typical native recipe contains acai puree, strawberries, yogurt and granola.

With little creativity and experimentation, making new acai recipes is simple. Acai puree and oat meal mix keeps one energized the whole day. Also try adding acai to the morning bowl of cereal. You can even prepare acai pancakes just like blueberry pancakes.

Healthy Snacks Your Kids Will Love

June 27, 2009

Getting your kids to eat healthy foods can be a challenge sometimes, but one that you must overcome to protect child health over the long term.  So how can you encourage your kids to eat healthily?  Kids want to have fun, they need stimulation in things that they do so that you can capture their attention.  Food that they eat need to be presented in a way so that even meal time can be play time for them as well.  They don’t care about vitamins and minerals and carbohydrates, what they want food they can relate to.

To introduce food to a child, you need to think like a child.  A little imagination in this case would go a long way.  If you want your child to eat fruit, don’t just slice and dice away and put them in a bowl.  A little creativity and imagination might entice your little one to eat more heartily with lesser encouragement.  Instead of offering a simple bowl of fruit, ask your child if he wants The Happy Face Snack.  You cut up some bananas, oranges, pineapple, strawberry and apples, the colourful the offering, the better.  You can arrange the fruit in a plate to look like a happy face.

You can take this further as he becomes familiar with the different shapes and flavours by asking them to make their own Happy Face Snack themselves, or you can ask them to make one according to their own interest, be it sports, outer space, nature, you and your child’s imagination is the limit.

Teach Your Kids to Avoid Swine Flu

June 16, 2009

School is a place of learning and fun for your children, but the current times has made it a melting pot of diseases.  With swine flu practically in everybody’s doorstep, we should take extra vigilance in keeping our child’s health a priority.  This highly communicable disease is spread person-to-person and can easily infect a large population such as our children that go to school.

Although some schools has taken the initiative to announce the suspension of classes in the event of an infection.   The responsibility still lies with the parents to safeguard their children’s health.  Teaching your kids good personal hygiene practices is one way to prevent infection.  Couple this with instructions on etiquette and you may just win the battle yet against swine flu or with any communicable disease for that matter.  Children should be taught how to properly wash their hands with soap and water and if possible, also, how to use an alcohol based sanitizer.

Prevention is truly better than cure, and arming our children with practical knowledge that they will be using for their whole lives is one way to help safeguard their health.