Kiddy meals make easy

It should be stress-free and sweat-free to prepare meals for kids if you try to get down to their standard/level. Preparing meals for kids can be very easy and simple as long as you know what they like. Identify their preference and you can start modify and improve from there. I know kids nowadays have been exposed to a great varieties of food. Their taste buds can be as complicated as adults. As the result, they tend to set preference to certain not very healthy food, or even to the dining place that they like. This will make their mothers' life tougher. However, you may start with a 70-30 combination of food they like and healthy food; then slowly make the earlier set of combination to 30-70.

Off hand I have 2 simple recipes (with photos) that I used to prepare.

1. Pasta/bee hoon in soup
- cook pasta in hot water (shell, macaroni, angel hair or any one that you kids like) *add a tsp of salt and half tbs of olive oil to the water
- prepare the ingredients that you/your kids like. For me, standard set of ingredients are fish balls, ground meat, prawns, eggs, some veges or even corns. If you have your own chicken/meat stock, it will be tastier.
- put the ingredients one by one if they have different cooking time.

This is how kiddos lunch for 2nd of Nov looks like. They have 2 siu mai (steam it with the hot water that I used to cook the bee hoon), 2 fuk chiew fishball, some carrots and French beans, an egg as well as 2 prawns. Wanna know if this is delicious to him, let's check it out in his diary tomorrow. :-)

2. Sandwiches

- it's not something strange not to have rice or noodles for meal. We can substitute our staple food with something that makes their stomach full. Wholemeal bread or wrap is my next choice.
- you just need to have cheese, ham, or hard boil egg (sliced) and some veges (lettuce or cucumber) to make healthy and delicious sandwiches. You can substitute with roasted chicken from Jusco, and wrap it with wholemeal bread/wrap.
- if possible, apply some butter and lightly toast the bread. (if you prefer wrap, then heat up wraps in microwave for 20 seconds)

Everyone finished their sandwiches without complaining the food is too much. They even asked when will be the next round for sandwiches.