Kid approved Indian weekly breakfast

Life keeps on changing. Season come and goes quickly. Ones you start enjoy every season of life you will be the happiest version of yourself. And you will surprised to see how  you evolved through the time. 

I remember how calm my life was before my twinee. Me and my daughter used to hang out most of the time. We laughed a lot, roam here and there, enjoyed our scooty drive to school,  errands and had dance session together.😊

Beautiful memories !

New season of my life begin with twins. We do laugh together a lot with them. Play a lot and dance a lot! Only difference is we dance when my babies get frustrated or we need to do some body workout. Moving my body is the need of my present time. And I do try to spend most time with my elder one. (That is the most difficult task -currently😓)
In all these we are missing our meal. After almost 9 months I am able to back on my home shef costume. The most favourite part is I am going to feed my family again with variety of food. It is still difficult for me to cook elaborate breakfast but I am trying out my best. My daughter is a foodie and breakfast is the first meal of the day. I want to make sure that before going to school she have her meal. Am I missing to say, yes, she is having lots of natak😇 too. (Picky eater) We moms do know very well how to feed them, right Mommies !! 

So without a further ado let's jump to the post. 

Our weekly kid approved Indian breakfast. : 

Funny part that our moms never take our approval while making a meal😁 for us. We have to ate whatever she gave us. Do you feel we pampers our kids? Comment below.

From my point of view, sometimes yes, I do pampering. But sometimes only, because it took lots of effort to make our kid eat. 😓

I do not prepare anything special but yes I make her understand the importance of the breakfast and make her eat. My funda is kid learns when they see 😎 so we both eat together always. My babies love to eat with us and I always give them whatever we eat. Yes, they do enjoy our food rather than baby food😉.

This week we have yummy breakfast. Monday is the difficult day for me. I make sure to keep the Monday breakfast simple and her favorite. So that we can  have peaceful Monday morning and then whole week goes smooth.😉 

All breakfast can be ready in 15 minutes with little bit of meal planning.

Monday : Paneer Paratha :

A simple breakfast which can made in 15 minutes, only if you have little bit pre-preparation. Knead a dough one day before.

How to prepare it?

Take paneer from the fridge and grate it. Add finely chopped onion and lots of coriander and kasuri methi with some spices ( haldi, cumin powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder, and salt ). Squeeze half lemon to the mixture and mix it very well. Your stuffing is ready. Make the paneer paratha using this stuffing and roast on hot tawa using lots of butter. Yummy paneer paratha is ready. Serve it with pickle, ketch up or curd.

Tuesday : Rava Upma 

Pre-preparation : I always dry roast semolina and put it in a air tight container in the freezer. Yes I store it in a freezer so that it will not have any worms. 

Everyone knows the upma recipee. I try to do with variation : sometimes plain, sometime with carrot and peas, sometimes add haldi and tomato. if you want to feed your child granish upma with fried peanuts, bhujiya and tomato ketch up. Kids will finish quickly. 

Wednesday :  Omlete Paratha

It is simple everyday breakfast. Whenever there is nothing to make just make the omlete. My daughter love to have plain without onion and spices but I add coarinder to her omelet. I used to keep dough ready at least for 2 days in the fridge. Just take out dough, roll plain paratha and roast it with ghee. Roll the omelette in paratha. Sometimes I apply mayo and ketch up to the paratha and then put omlete and roll it tightly. Yummy for kids😋. This is one of the kids tiffin items too.

Thursday : Puri bhaji 

Pre-preparation : Keep boiled potato in fridge and dough is ready. 

I made Maharaahtrian style potato bhaji. 

How to prepare?

Heat the oil and add crushed garlic with chopped green chillies followed by curry leaves, haldi and coarinder. Add potato and fry at least for 5 second, mix it well. Cover for 5 minutes on low flame, add up grated coconut and cover for 5 seconds. It is ready in 10 minutes. Fry some puri. It is one of the best kids tiffin options too.

Friday : Sabudana Khichadi

Pre preparation : Soak sabudana at night.

Roast peanut on tawa and grind it in mixer to make the crushed powder. Make sure not to make smooth powder. There should be crunch. It is our family favorite. 

How to prepare ?

Heat the oil and add up jeera, green chillies and curry leaves. Fry till it change chillies color. Then add sabudana and peanuts mixture with salt and lemon. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. And serve with cold curd. Yummy ! 

And finally we reach towards the end of week. Weekend are lazy and we do have special breakfast. Sometimes order from the local vendors and sometimes I made. It is totally depends on our twin babies schedule. 😑

What is your favorite breakfast? Do you have this kind of routine? Share your yummy breakfast items.

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Saee turns 9

Publishing this post in September, quite a late because this birthday was low and so I  was not ready to post anything from my side. Her dad already posted a letter for her. Check it here. Then I realize it is memory flies and how could I deny to post such a beautiful memory. So here I am...

Indian diet for Twin Pregnancy

Having a second baby is my dream and we tried it for so long time. Finally when we decided not to have the universe gave us the blessing. From this point, I started to believe that if you wish for something from the bottom of your heart the whole universe will try to give you the same thing. This is called the law of attraction.

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Finally, we were pregnant with twins and I was in the air. The whole family was happy. Everyone was suggesting what to eat and how much to eat. You are going to give birth to two babies so you need to have a diet for three people. Everyone was giving advice on the well-being of the mother and baby in the womb. This happens with every mom, right mommy?

Mr. Hubby asked my Gynecologist regarding my diet and he strictly told me not to do any google searches. I also nodded like a good girl. 😊 I always wonder how these two babies get enough nutrition. Do mothers of twins really need to eat an excessive amount? What kind of problems she is facing? She is having twins so problems must be double like this and many questions are traveling in my monkey mind. But when I got pregnant and consulted my gynecologist she simply told me, Be positive and eat all homemade food as per your requirement.  Do not eat in excess. Drink milk and have a balanced diet.

 

Twins pregnancy is a challenging period. Our bodies have to go through a lot of problems like nausea, eating dislike, and many more.  Sometimes we are unable to have our favorite food and sometimes we carve for the food which we don’t like at all in our life.  All we need to eat properly otherwise the baby in the womb will not get proper nutrition. Our babies' growth is totally dependent on the mother's diet. A mother’s diet should include all vitamins and minerals then only she can have a healthy baby. In my case, I was totally normal till the mid of my first trimester. Then the roller coaster started and it was stop at the end of my 9 months. I had evening sickness and was so unable to have my morning and evening tea as I am a tea lover. Unable to eat a lot of fruits and non-veg food. My babies were not ready to take any external (hotel-made) food or junk food. Even if I eat that my babies immediately throwing it out. 😇

 

Disclamier : I am not a professional or nutrionist. I delivered a twin baby in the month of December 2021. Whatever I am sharing is the advice given by my gynecologist. Before having these diets consult your gynecologist.

 

My doctor suggested having a balanced diet and also explained to me the benefits of a balanced diet.

Why pregnant lady should take a balanced diet?

# With a balanced diet you consume the required nutrients in the right amount.

# Mother remains healthy throughout the pregnancy.

# The growth and development of the fetus is appropriate.

# The growth of a pregnant ladies' uterus and milk gland is in the right way.

# The pregnant lady gets the strength to have a normal delivery.

# The mother can able to have proper milk after delivery.

# Apart from physical health a pregnant lady can have happy mental health too.

When I went in the third month I started to have vomiting and acidity issues. But still, my doctor advised me to have plenty of water. Eat-in short duration can say after every 2 hours.

How to eat when you have several health-related problems during pregnancy?

The first point is you have to take your prenatal supplement. Some women have a tendency not to have it. But it is the requirement of our body and hence you have to take it. I am still taking these supplements of iron and calcium.

With this supplement, you have to take a food enriched with calcium and iron.

Drink Kokum Sarbat (Juice) to reduce the dehydration and acidity in your body.

Eat-in small proportions, after every 2 hours. I used to have this kind of eating habit and still I am following it. Now my babies are 6 months old but still, I had to take a meal every 2 hours. Breastfeeding makes me hungry.

Drink lots of water it helps to keep you hydrated and also reduces the constipation problem. I prefer to keep a 1 ltr bottle everywhere in my bedroom, on the dining table, and in the kitchen so that I am having a proper amount of water. If possible try to drink boiled water.

Eat green vegetables and fruits as much as you can. Have 1 bowl of each every day. Do wash it properly before having it. I love to eat leafy vegetables and during pregnancy, I had most of them. From leafy vegetables, you can get iron and calcium. This also helps to avoid the constipation problem.

Eat salt in a moderate amount. I was carving mostly for chips which finally increase my blood pressure. The doctor advised me not to have pickles, papad, chips, and salty food items. So please control your salt intake.

Do not eat any spicy and oily food. It will increase acidity.

Try to eat fresh food. If you are a non-vegetarian like me try to cook meat fully and make it less spicy.

Have milk twice a day. I didn’t drink it because I had a vomiting issue. But I consume curd, lassi, and yogurt.

Here I am sharing my diet chart for one day which is provided by my gynecologist.  

Time	Food items	Measurment /Comment
Morning 7 :00 a.m	Milk	1 cup  (sometime I drink )
9:00 to 9:30 a.m.	Tea Palak Paratha/Alloo paratha/ Methi paratha Curd	1 cup ( I don’t drink it) 2   ½ cup
11.00 a.m.	Lemonade/orange juice Or Fruit Or Nuts	1 glass   Seasonal 1 Fistful
Afternoon 12.:30 p.m.	Roti Sprout (Maharashtrian usal)	2 1 cup
2:30 p.m.	Rice Lentil (Maharashtrian varan/Amti) Ghee Vegetables	1 cup (I had 2cup) 1 cup  1 Tsp 1 cup
4:30 p.m	Tea/coffee Biscuit/Toast	1 cup (I had it in my last trimester) 2/3
6:30 p.m.	Salad-fruit /sprout Or Soup	1 cup   1 cup
9:00 to 9:30 p.m	Ragi roti Green vegetable Pulav/Khichadi Salad Fruit	1 no 1 cup 1 bowl 1 cup 1
Before sleep night  11:00 p.m	Milk	1 glass (Sometimes I had )

 

You will get an idea of what to have in your diet. You can have plenty of vegetables and fruits. I used this chart throughout my pregnancy. Only I was unable to have dinner in the third and fourth months due to a vomiting issue. But I try to have at least soup, khichdi, or bhakari. I never kept my stomach empty. In the last trimester, I was able to have proper milk.

Following are the options which I used. I am Maharashtrian so giving out the same food items.

Breakfast options: Upma, Poha, Paratha, Puri bhaji, Sandwich – very few with only whole wheat bread, thalipeeth, sabudana khichadi, dhokla, missal paav, vada paav- homemade, dosa, idli, uttapam.

Lunch /Dinner options : Khichadi, Sprouted khichadi,  vegetable pulav, green leafy vegetables, Dal, rice, amti, all kind of green vegetables, paneer.

Non-veg: chicken, mutton, egg – all this should be made in less oil, less spicy, and fully cooked.

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Hope this chart and food options are helpful for the pregnant lady. Whether you have a single baby or have twins this is the right amount that you have to consume. If you want to eat more you can always eat. This is the basic measurement of the meal. I consume rice 2 to 3 cups and love to drink dal at least 2 cups.

If you find this post helpful. Do share with your pregnant mothers. I must say not a pregnant but every mother should have at least this kind of meal in one day.

What kind of food do you eat during your pregency? Do you find the diet chart helpful? Comment below.

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Saee turns 8

As soon as New Year starts we used to count months 😀. We mean Saee used to eagerly wait for her birthday month and we as parents love to see her eagerness and excitement. Birthday is one of the special things in kid’s life and hence celebration should be memorable. It is not necessary to throw a big birthday party but try to make it fill with lots of love.  We love to do all such things on her birthday which she likes, apparently, we are blessed to have such a mature girl who is not that demanding. Her tiny demands are so special. 

 

Saee turned 8 in this month which is half teen 😊 and it sounds crazy for us. She first time demand a surprise birthday party and me and Mr. Hubby struggling what kind of surprise we should give her and the most important thing she should like. When we asked she said, mumma, I want surprise and why you are asking me? 😝so stupid I am !

Her birthday was on 14^th August 2021 and so she already clear about her birthday gift. Ha, ha, ha, yes, she is blessed to have her KAKA (uncle) who fulfilled her gift demand. She is not stubborn but it is a ritual for the last 7 years. They used to ask her what she wants and she gives out the list. 

For the last two to three years, she is getting a designer dress 😊by her favorite mai (Aunt). Saee used to ask her in the month of May only. Browse different types of dresses and demand her masi to make the same one. We are blessed to have Masi like her, who loves her very much.

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This time we decorate the house with letters balloons. Due to social media kids used to know the birthday decoration. Neither she demand nor she cried for that but yes once she said to her papa, we should decorate like this, that's it… her papa then on air. You all know how much he loves Saee.

 

So this is the decoration. As I told, her birthday party is a family get-together. So this is our big family. Grandparents and Uncle.

Tiny little friends who enjoyed it a lot. 

We had a coloring activity and then a small game. 

Fold the eye and drew the tail of the elephant (On her demand only). Not only kids but we adults also enjoy this game.

So time for the SPECIAL SURPRISE of the birthday. 

This doll cake - on her demand, I made it for the first time.

I bought 8 gifts for her and hide them in the house. On her birthday we asked her to find the gifts. Trust me this was her favorite surprise she liked it so much.  We check her patience and then finally her papa gave her a little bit clue. She was so much happy to see this tiny girly gift.  It is the end of August month and still, she asked me how do you manage to hide from me and how do you think about this gift?

 

The third surprise was the decoration and her grandparents. 

She was sad as her favorite mama and mami not able to join her. That was another surprise we planned for her but due to some reason, it didn’t happen. Never mind.

Finally Mission Successful!😎😎

 

And now lovely facts about my 8-year doll. 

She is a quiet child but sometimes her frustration goes on a high peak. Generally, she is not an angry person but yes she is kind-hearted and her confidence goes on high when attempting a new task. 

Love the way she guides her papa by telling how things work 😁. Conversation between her and her dad is always melting my heart. Both of them used to talk for an hour and I still wonder what they are talking about?

Her love language is physical touch, snuggling, kisses, and hugs. 

She is a determined and decision-maker. She loves to choose the things for her and very firm on her choice.

Currently, her favorite activity is playing with playdough, puzzles, and of course dance. (Thanks to her School )

She always had lots of questions in her mind. Like how the clock works? How our army works? Why earthquake is there and then what will happen? And many more…husshhh…!

She loves to indulge in a new vocabulary as she is always curious to know new words. Sometimes I used Google.

Being a girl she doesn’t like to wear any make-up 😇 This is something that surprises me. Her love is only to polish the nails and that’s it. She doesn’t like to wear lipstick, eyeliner, or anything. Seriously sometimes I insist to have especially for function but she said a big NO and I respect her choice.

She loves to help me in the kitchen. Always ready to bake a cake and cookies with me. She knows each measuring cup and ingredient too. My little chef is adorable. Always eager to learn cooking. The first time she made an omelet all by herself under my supervision for her dad. She wants to give a lunch box to her dad. 😍

She loves to read and also loves to read aloud with me most of the time. She gets eager to know what happens next in the story and gets so hyper and insists to tell me what is in the story?

I adore it when she used to read in the quiet time in the afternoon. Yes, she has a small amount of sleep like me.

Height has been increasing up to my shoulder (this is something memorable instead of writing in numbers). Want to wear all my clothes. Surprised to see her maturity level and wondering how can she achieve all this?

Her favorite food is Sabudana Wada, omelet, chicken and Paneer. Do I mention she loves chicken biryani too?

Mumma and Pappa love you our babrie doll.  We love watching you grow!

 

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High school Reunion 2019

“ Reunion reveals friendship potential that haven’t yet been emerged in the past.”

-Toba Beta

True !! Yes…it is. We really surprised when we saw the real person in our close friend. Glad to have each one of you as a nice human being, which is very difficult to find in today’s world.

A big “Hi” and a warm welcome to all my readers who missed my post. Thanks a lot for your love and support. It is only you who inspire me to write though I am not a good writer…ahh…ahh… I am not a writer. This is a place where I can hang out with my feeling and words with lot of mistake. 😅 I am trying to treasure every memory and sometime failed too but you readers get me back to drive it.

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At each stage of our life we came across with many friends but the school friends are always near and dear one. I want to pen it down as much as possible to treasure this sweet memory.

Let me introduce my high school friends with whom I enjoyed my school life. Yes this is my school friend’s reunion 2019 which is hit among us after having lots of trial and error 😊

This is our “10 D” batch. Some of them are in the same division from standard 5 and some of them joined from 8^th grade. Our “10 D” is always remains special throughout our school “NEW HIGH SCHOOL”, right or wrong guys? Still we missed our school days and our teachers too. 

Whenever we meet, we tend to virtually sit in our school division which was on 3^rd floor beside the library. This picture comes in front of eyes and makes everyone happy. The most important thing that we are united as a whole batch till date and will remain forever.

Reunion is become a fad now days.  Credit goes to Social media where everyone able to find out there dear ones. It was in 2012 when my three friends and I gathered all friend contact numbers from facebook and other social media and successfully had our first reunion. How many of you  remember this? I still remember how much we were excited for our first reunion and happy to see the same excitement in this year too.

And the tradition still going on and will continue for coming more exciting years. We will make every meet up as much as exciting. The most thrilling part of this reunion is Aplana who came all the way from Nagpur.👍 

This 2019 reunion is our “10 D” first official picnic, I would say it is official because after many trial and errors we successfully made it.😓 It was really annoying when you decide to go by bus and  don’t know how many are really going to join us. We supposed to gather at 6:30 a.m. but somehow manage to depart around 7:45 a.m. with so many hick-ups😝 and finally reached at our destination- Pune. It was really funny because our school never had a picnic and finally we made it. Special thanks to Swapnil and Bipin who make the picnic more enjoyable.

What is Reunion?

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For me, meeting after so many years and try to find out whether he or she is the same buddy? You will realize remarkable things about them. Some of them not even utter a single word in a school but now they are the spokesperson 😮 who gives motivational speech. Some of them used to be very naughty but now become a sincere guy. Some of them are as it is the way they were. Happy to see those guys who have achieved their childhood dreams. This is we called “FOCUS” which very few people have. 😔  We came to realize that there are vast career options, apart from regular career, like IT, Medical, Food, Education, Engineer, etc. Every one of us has a remarkable career and I wish all of you to have more success in your life.

Not every student got such type of friends group at this stage of life. I am really blessed to have each one of you.  Delight to see that everyone is able to beat up the life obstacles and reached towards their goal.  Be Happy and always united with our group without having any quarrels😂 

Let me share some glimpse of our special day:

 Re-intro session

This is the special gift to everyone. Love to see our whole group on it.

Special thanks to Jayshree and her team who made a nice arrangement. Stay tuned for every reunion as we grow old we tend to become smaller again. Don’t miss out that fun of reunion.

I would like to sum up by giving our special thanks to each of us who make this 2019 Reunion successful. Many more years are waiting for our celebrations.

Cheersss guys!!!!

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