Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Festivals of 2012

Festivals are integral to a culture rich upbringing. I am glad that schools are reinforcing the same by celebrating all festivals irrespective of the faith and belief. Festivals make ordinary days special and here is a glimpse of how Sparsh celebrated the recent festivals-





Tuesday, August 14, 2012

What goes in the tiffin??!!

Big school means big infrastructure which means a little distant location..long bus rides..longer time away from home and therefore need for a filling snack in the tiffin! All this is very unlike a two hour playschool where tiffin is more meant to teach sharing and less focused on really eating!

Well the early attempts to give healthy food like dosa and paranthas were futile as the tiffin came back almost untouched. I next resorted to dry and cruncy food like chikkis, pop corns, honey loops, etc.. But how long can we put the same stuff so slowly started introducing fruits..and to my surprise the tiffin can empty..fruits seemed to have worked. But again everything gets repetitive after a period of time and just when I was running out of ideas, this came to my rescue-

http://www.archanaskitchen.com/kids

real simple, real easy and real healthy...well i guess I am not running out of options till the time that Archana is around :-)