Healthy Cereal Bar

     Let’s make your own Cereal Bar.
I always keep nuts, dried fruits and muesli in my pantry. It makes great breakfast and contains lots of fiber. If you like the nutty taste of cereal bars, why don’t you make your own? It’s very simple to make and it’s also great if you have kids for their snack pack in lunch box.

By Bellalean

I have tried many different recipes on cereal bars or muesli bars but this one suits my taste buds best. It is crunchy and ideal for keeping it crisp for several days.

Ingredients

50g   Butter
2:1(ratio)    Glucose Syrup and Honey (e.g. if you add 10g glucose syrup, add 5g honey)
Mix of dried fruits, nuts, muesli and cereal of your choice

Note: You don’t need accurate quantity in this recipe. You will know how much you want to add when you actually boil the butter, glucose syrup and honey mixture.

1. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius.
2. Add butter, honey and glucose syrup in a sauce pan and bring it to boil.
3. Add your choice of dried fruits, nuts, muesli and cereal of your choice into the pot.
4. Mix it well. While the mixture is still warm, spread it onto an oven pan. Make sure the surface is evenly spread out.
5. Put the oven pan in the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
6. When it’s completely cool, take it out of the pan and cut it into bars.

If you try, it’s not complicated at all. Kids will love the bar in their lunch box.

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Illustration

I got some great designs for stickers and cards from one of my blog friends. I copied them for my personal use to make it into some stickers for kids. Feel free to get these great designs here.

 

 

Baby organic apple tea

By Bellalean

     I used my slower cooker to make some organic apple tea and kept it in a baby food container.
Keep it in the fridge or freeze it.

Please refer to my other post on Apple and lemon tea. It is exactly the same except I used organic applies only this time.

You can view my post on Apple and Lemon Tea here.

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What I love to buy for me and my kids

Mums love to buy things on kids. How can you resist a tiny little finger pointing at something they want. They point their magic fingers to anything they desire regardless of the price tag. But I often find myself choosing kids’ choice over mine. Even toys come to our house all carefully re-selected by me. I don’t know if my children are happy with my choice. I say I buy things for kids but in a way, I buy what I choose to satisfy my status as mum.

Let’s look at what other mums love to choose for their kids!!!
Love to buy’em for us one day.

ZIGO LEADER X2 INTERGRATED BIKE AND PRAM

What a great thought! I showed this picture to my kid and she was thrilled to see it and pointed her magic finger yet again. “Mummy! I want this, please.”

Of course, I love to get it for me too, darling. It will surely let my lazy body get into some exercise won’t it?

I hope my kids stay as long as young till I can buy this great gift for us all.

You can get this great Bike pram at http://www.myzigo.com.au/index.html

Here’s the sneak peak mum and kid in action.

http://vimeo.com/6486233

The Taga Hybrid Bike – Stroller

Here’s another one. I would prefer this one since my kids are very active. This will allow them to enjoy the breeze and the views all at the same time. I won’t worry if it’s raining or cold. I won’t go out with kids in such weather anyways. I would also prefer to use this one when I stroll to get some groceries with kids. But where can I store my goods then? It looks like there is no basket attachment.

Taga-Baby

This one looks fancy if your kids are young still. But I am a bit concerned in case of an accident. Will the infant need to wear a safety helmet too? I would look into safety issues more carefully when it comes to enjoying sport with a baby. But if the side bar in the picture prevents the whole bike from tilting off to the side completely in an accident – I am not sure if that is the purpose of the side bars though – then this can be another tick in my wish list for a present. Unfortunately, my kids are too big to fit in now. Only if I knew such a product a few years back, I would have been heaps healthier.

Now, the next pick is not in my preferable choice list but certainly, I wouldn’t mind get one as a gift. This elegant looking pram-bike resembles somewhat like a chariot.

TrioBike

Let’s hope my kids stay young till I get any one of these. Until I can afford one, here are my alternative options.