Wednesday, May 29, 2013

When a child don't eat brown rice

My son is a food picker, I have to crack my brain everyday to cook his meal and have to mix and match varieties so he will not get sick. He used to only eats broccoli, cauliflower, seaweed, toufu and grains. Now he is better as he gets older, more sensible and can accept more food. At least he takes carrots, cai xin, ect... For mothers out there, no worry if he don't eat at young age, keep trying and he will eat them one day. Children grows very fast and they changes very fast, even with food, speech, actions ect. It is fulfilling to see them grow and developed new skill and he gives me surprises all the time and it delighted me (that is my rewards) :)    I would suggest to create a Happy environment all the time at home, including during his mealtime, I know it is hard but have to try because when they are happy, their body also absorb nutritious better. Children learn from caregiver and parents, if they are grow up in a caring and loving environment, they will become a Happy adult in the future.

My son does not eat Brown Rice, he will spit it out as it is rough, no matter how I cook it, despite it is soft porridge. Therefore I come out with soft multi grains rice, although he is not eating brown rice but at least something more nutritious. Here I share with you my recipes, feel free to leave any comments.

Grains
Millet  - 30%
Quinoa  - 30%
Red Lentil  - 20%
white rice  - 20%

Mix all the grains together and wash and cook in rice cooker.

Dish
Broccoli
Carrot
Tou Boa

Add a little water in pot and boil it. When it is boiled, add in all the ingredients and cook until cooked then off the fire and add in black bean soya sauce and sesame oil and mix it up.

I like tou boa because the ingredient only states water and soya beans. Sometimes I marinate with black soya bean sauce and pan fried it and it looks like chicken slices.


Thereafter put them together as shown in above picture and sprinkle raw wakame flakes and sesame seed on the rice and serve.

Wakame Flake - I bought the dried wakame in a package and grind them into powder for easy consumption.

Sesame seed is for Calcium, do you know that the calcium in sesame seed is more than milk?

Simple little meal from my humble little kitchen.............


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