Popy Foods

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of Bambino vermicelli
• Water as per required
• 1 cup of sliced potato and carrot
• 1 teaspoon of ground nut or almond powder
• 1 teaspoon of ghee
• Salt to taste
• 1 green chili

Procedure:

• Heat some ghee in a pan and add some mustard seeds.
• If needed have one green chili without cutting it.
• Add potatoes, carrots and one teaspoon of almond or ground nut powder to it.
• Stir it well.
• Add some water to it and some salt to taste.
• Add the vermicelli to the boiling water and remove the chili from the mixture.
• If you are interested in making this mixture sweet then add cardamom powder instead of potatoes.
• Finally add sugar, honey, date syrup which makes it delicious for children.

NOTE:

During morning hours, if chillies are used as ingredient in preparing the breakfast then it may lead to acidity problems. So, it is better to avoid them.

Nutritional values:

• Energy-460cal
• Proteins-10g
• Carbohydrates-66g
• Iron-3g
• Fat-19g

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of milk
• 2 tablespoon of corn flakes
• 2 to 3 soaked almonds
• One small cup of fruit pieces (banana, apple depending upon season)
• 1 or 2 tablespoons of date juice

Preparation steps:

• Take one cup of corn flakes and add date syrup and boiled milk to it.
• In four to five minutes the corn flakes gets soaked.
• After eating the above corn flakes, children are given the fruit pieces and in between they are asked to eat the soaked almonds.
• This not only gives the needed diet but also provide the desired taste.

As this contains four to five types of taste children don’t feel vapid and they will complete the breakfast. If the above said things are not available then below given substitutes can be used instead of them.

• Corn flakes- oats, barley
• Almond-walnut
• Milk-soya milk, flavored milk
• Fruits can be mixed with milk and can be served as milk shake.
• Date syrup-honey, sugar

Nutritional values:

• Energy-354cal
• Proteins-9g
• Carbohydrates-55g
• Fat-12g and
• Iron-5mg