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This jelly is prepared for the picky eaters including the kids. They eat little when refuse to eat the food they dislike. This nutritious jelly is made from agar-agar may attract them.

Ingredients:

1 (37.5 gm) packet agar-agar strip
150 gm rock sugar
1500 ml water
1 cup Milo
1/2 cup hot water
1 packet full cream milk or low fat

Method:

Wash agar-agar strips and boil together with sugar till done. Meanwhile add hot water to milo and stir to dissolve. Add milk and pour mixture into agar-agar and stir to mix well. Remove from heat and let cool. Pour into moulds and leave to set.

Kids love to eat pizza. Prepare pizza crust when you are have time. Freeze them and take out when you want to eat. Add any topping you like.

Ingredients:

1 cup water
3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoon Active dry yeast
1 teaspoon minced garlic
2 teaspoons parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
parmesan cheese to spinkle

Method:

Add all ingredients (except) second parmesan cheese to breadmaker in order listed by the breadmaker machine recipe book. It is better to put the garlic down inside the flour so that it does not slow down the yeast. Set breadmaker on dough setting. When complete, form two crusts on pizza pans. sprinkle with pamesan cheese, cover and let to rise again. Bake 5-10 minutes at about 450 F until light brown. Cool. Wrap tightly in foil and freeze pizza. You can prepare more to freeze so that when you have not much time to prepare dinner, pizza is the best meal to eat. Add the toppings of your choice.

Jelly in dessert or eat it with fruit are just wonderful to the children. Jelly can be prepared and add fruits, colour and flavouring to taste better. The hot days without rain are just the right time to make more jellies to cool their bodies.

Ingredients:

1 packet agar-agar powder
1 can longan, discard the syrup and cut each longan into 4 pieces
400 gm brown sugar
3 liters water
2 pandan leaves

Method:

Boil agar agar in a sauce pan, adding water, pandan leaves and sugar. Bring to the boil and stirring till the ingredients dissolve. Discard the pandan leaves. Mix in the longan fruit and stir evenly. Pour the contents into trays and let cool before putting into the fridge. Cut into diamond shapes and serve.

Kids love smothie very much. You can prepare smoothie at home in your spare time. When you do your weekend shopping, stock up some packets of low fat milk and yoghurt. Fruits of various types such as green apples, oranges, mangoes, grapes and bananas to name a few, they can keep for somtime. Enjoy preparing this nourishing drink!.

Ingredients:

1 green apple, clean and cut into wedges
1 orange, cut of the skin and cut into wedges
2 bananas (pisang mas or berangan), peeled skin
100 ml low fat milk
50 ml natural yoghurt
Some ice cubes, can break it smaller

Method:

Put all the ingredients in the blender and mix evenly and smooth. Pour into glasses and serve immediately.

This cheese stick recipe is an enjoyable snack for kids. Mothers can give them to keep them quiet and busy nibbling the cheese sticks. It is a healthy snack. Store them in air tight container and will last some time. Make them yourself now.

Ingredients:

200 gm flour
10 gm fresh yeast
2 tablespoon corn oil
4 tablespoon milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
80 gm Parmesan cheese

Method:

Mix flour and yeast. Knead for 10 minutes. Add salt and cheese and knead into a smooth dough. Rest till it doubles in size. Roll out to 3mm thick and cut into 5mm by 20mm. Place in the baking tray and rest till it doubles in size. Bake at 200 degrees C for 15 minutes. Cool and store the cheese sticks in airtight containers.

Christmas is around the corner. Are you thinking of what to prepare for the kids to eat?. Well, here I suggest how to make muesli bars with nut and fruits. You can buy a box of muesli with nuts and dried fruits in a supermarket and try to prepare this bars.

Ingredients:

250 gm butter
450 gm muesli with nuts and fruits
100 gm chopped almonds
50 gm pumpkin seeds
8 tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 cup thick honey

Method:

Grease a tray enough to put in the ingredients to bake. Melt butter with honey and golden syrup. Stir in muesli, nuts and pumpkin seeds. Mix well and spoon in the prepared tray. Bake in a preheated oven, 180 degrees C for about 30 minutes. Leave to cool for 5 minutes and cut into bars.