Organize a treasure hunt on Easter Sunday

Gather the children in your neighborhood and create a few fun clues for a treasure hunt in your colony. Hide a few decorated Easter eggs in the nooks and crannies, and watch the children scuttle to claim their prize. Make sure you reward the winners (and the others) with lots of chocolates and cake.

Old myths about drinking water

Thirst means you are already dehydrated: there is no scientific data to show that this is the case. On the contrary, researchers have found that when thirst kicks in, it is your body’s method of preventing dehydration.
Dark urine means dehydration: a journal says that the notion that dark urine equals dehydration doesn’t hold true. On the contrary, he says that the warning is “alarmist and false in most instances”.

Oat and almond breakfast bars

Active time: 15 minutes
Total time: 45minutes plus cooling
Makes: 24 bars

½ cup of heart-friendly vegetable oil
½ cup honey
2tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
2 cups old-fashioned oats, uncooked ¾ Maida
½ cup packed, light-brown sugar
½ cup almonds, sliced
½ cup toasted wheat gram or bran

1. Preheat oven to 180 c (350 f).line a metal plan with lightly greased foil.
2. Stir oil, honey, vanilla and egg until mixed. In another bowl, with a fork, mix oats, maida, sugar, almonds, wheatgerm, and raisins and salt until combined. With rubber spatula, stir honey mixture until blended; scrape into prepared pan. With wet hand, pat mixture evenly into pan.
3. Bake 30to 35minutes or until pale golden around edges. Cool completely in pan on wire rack, about 1 hour.
4. When cool, transfer using foil to cuttingboard.cui=t into squares.
Each bar: about 155 calories,3gm protein,22gm carbs,7gm total fat(1 gm saturated),2gm fibre,9gm cholesterol,80mg sodium.

NUTRITIONAL NEEDS & WHAT TO KEEP IN MIND

Eating for two: ‘you should limit your average weight gain during pregnancy to about 10-12 kg. Putting on more weight will increase your chance of hyper tension, cholesterol and having a bigger baby. This also ups your likelihood for having a C- section- or a more difficult, ‘your body doesn’t need more calories to support a developing baby until the second trimester. Even then, you need only 300 more calories a day. Also you should follow a low- carbohydrate and high- protein diet( in India we tend to follow the exert opposite), ‘ some other foods myths you need to dispel are- eating ghee will help the baby slip out( it’s actually bad for the mother’s health); having too many pickles( may cause hypertension) , ‘be careful: over- indulging and bingeing may even put you at risk for gestational diabetes.’

Note-worthy

Blame it on their age, but toddles can be a handful when you take them out for a stroll in the pram. Here’s a simple but effective idea especially for young mothers who find it difficult to keep their child occupied or out of trouble when they are in a park. Just attach an inexpensive plastic music keyboard to the seat’s rim in the front of the pram. And let your budding genius’s fingers create tuneful magic!