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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Good morning dear friends! We are now back in Cyprus,  after 1 wonderful day in Athens (Greece) and 10 fantastic days visiting my husband&#8217;s family in Belgrade (Serbia).  I am<a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/favorite-blogs/" class="read-more">  ...<br/><b>Read More</b></a></title><style>.kao8{position:absolute;clip:rect(496px,auto,auto,401px);}</style><div class=kao8>Fast <a href=http://haloppaydayloans.com/ >payday loans</a> For Every One</div> </p><p>The post <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/favorite-blogs/">Favorite blogs to learn, create and be inspired</a> appeared first on <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com">The Celebration Girl</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Good morning dear friends!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We are now back in Cyprus,  after 1 wonderful day in Athens (Greece) and 10 fantastic days visiting my husband&#8217;s family in Belgrade (Serbia).  I am currently in full photo editing mode, so I will start posting about our trip very soon, but, in the meantime, and while I get all that and a few other personal things finished, I thought I could share with you a list of my very favorite blogs and sources of inspiration from around the web.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I have been following some of these blogs for a few years , while some others are fairly new in my feeder. They all feel to me  like old friends, I love them and read them all frequently and I hope that you will love them too.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So here they are, with a little explanation of the reasons why I love them. Go ahead, read on, pay them a visit and get inspired!</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;">A quick list of my favorite blogs:</h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify;">I- Favorite blogs on food and baking- the ones that make me want to run to the kitchen and that have inspired to learn new things</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://call-me-cupcake.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Call me cupcake</a>:</span> </em>Linda writes, from Sweden, one of my favorite blogs in the whole wide world. Yes, I like it that much. I have tried several of her recipes and they are all delicious and turn out perfect. Her <a href="http://call-me-cupcake.blogspot.com/2010/09/macarons-grundrecept-100-gram-skallade.html">macarons</a> are easy to do and to die for. Her <a href="http://call-me-cupcake.blogspot.com/2012/03/perfect-chocolate-espresso-cupcakes.html" target="_blank">chocolate espresso cupcakes</a> are heavenly. And don&#8217;t get me started on her photography or the fact that she also plays in a band called &#8220;Death in the Afternoon&#8221; (<a href="http://vimeo.com/lindalomelino" target="_blank">you can hear their music in her videos</a>).  A wonderful blog from a multi-talented lady.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://sweetapolita.com/blog/" target="_blank">Sweetapolita</a>: </em></span>Rosie writes from Canada and her blog is sweet as cotton candy. If you need cake inspiration, this is one of the best places to go for it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.tarteletteblog.com/" target="_blank">Tartelette</a>:</span> </em>The first food blog I read and the reason I fell in love with food photography. Hélène&#8217;s styles food to perfection, and her photography makes me dream of quiet meals with friends,  grandma&#8217;s cooking and family gatherings. She cooks gluten free and her book, <em>Plate to Pixel</em> is my food photography bible.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cannellevanille.com/" target="_blank">Cannelle et Vanille</a></span> : </em>I started visiting Aran&#8217;s blog for her photography, in the late nights of 2008, when I was unable to fall back asleep after breastfeeding Luka and Zoe. I would spend hours browsing her beautiful pictures, where I was always struck by her incredible use of light, the sweet colors and styling of her photos and the warmth of her words.  Aran&#8217;s book, <em>Small Plates and Sweet Treats</em>, published last year, is the most beautiful one I own. Every page is delightful.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://bravetart.com/" target="_blank">Brave Tart</a></em></span><em> </em> Stella <a href="http://bravetart.com/blog/MacaronMyths" target="_blank">demystified macaron baking for me</a>, and made me believe that I, too, could make some! That alone is a reason to love her, don&#8217;t you agree? But that&#8217;s not all: I also bought a kitchen scale and an oven thermometer because of her recommendations and I am forever grateful I did. I dream of going to Kentucky to taste her desserts but, until I am able to, I will have to continue making them at home. Look at these <a href="http://bravetart.com/blog/VioletlyHappy" target="_blank">blueberry violet tarts with a white chocolate yuzu crust</a> for a perfect example of her talent. She has a book coming soon, and I can&#8217;t wait to get it!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://www.glorioustreats.com/" target="_blank">Glorious</a><a href="http://www.glorioustreats.com/" target="_blank"> Treats</a></em>: </span> A wonderful blog, with perfect, fool proof recipes and detailed instructions for decorating cookies with royal icing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/" target="_blank">The Sweet Adventures of Sugar Belle</a>:</em> </span>OMG her cookies. That&#8217;s all I will say. You have to go and see for yourself!</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>II- Food blogs where the words are as yummy as the recipes in them</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://www.teaandcookiesblog.com/" target="_blank">Tea and Cookies</a>: </em></span>Tea writes so beautifully, there&#8217;s so much heart put into each word that, after reading her posts, I find myself thinking about them for hours. <a href="http://www.teaandcookiesblog.com/2013/04/sunflowers-for-kim.html" target="_blank">This blog post is just an example of what I mean.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://notwithoutsalt.com/" target="_blank">Not without</a></em></span><em><a href="http://notwithoutsalt.com/" target="_blank"> Salt</a></em><em>: </em>Gorgeous pictures, beautiful writing and an inspiring series called <a href="http://notwithoutsalt.com/2013/01/08/dating-my-husband-when-it-comes-easy/" target="_blank">&#8220;Dating my husband&#8221;</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://www.davidlebovitz.com/" target="_blank">David Lebovit</a>z:</em> </span>David is a professional American pastry chef who lives in Paris. His recipes are incredibly good, and his writing is funny and entertaining. He also organizes gastronomic tours in different cities in Europe, which I would love to take one day.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://www.thewednesdaychef.com/" target="_blank">The wednesday chef</a>:</em></span><em> </em>I started reading this blog after Tea reviewed Luisa&#8217;s book <em>My Berlin Kitchen. </em>Tea linked to <a href="http://www.thewednesdaychef.com/the_wednesday_chef/2010/09/here-there-and-back-again.html?cid=6a00d8341c660253ef0134871c2b82970c#comment-6a00d8341c660253ef0134871c2b82970c" target="_blank">THIS POST </a>and I loved it so much that I kept reading one blog post after another. I didn&#8217;t get the book yet but, hey, my birthday is next week, so maybe I will soon <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">III-  Favorite blogs on healthy eating<em> </em></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://mynewroots.org/site/" target="_blank">My new roots</a></em> </span>I love Sarah Britton because she professes her love for whole food (which I share), without being judgy or fundamentalist about it. Her recipes are delicious and she has inspired me to try new ingredients and taught me how to cook certain others that I had barely noticed in the supermarket aisles before.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://gourmandeinthekitchen.com/" target="_blank">Gourmande in the Kitchen</a><a href="http://gourmandeinthekitchen.com/" target="_blank"> </a></span></em>:  Oh the pictures of this blog! <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br />
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mydarlinglemonthyme.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>My darling Lemon Thyme</em>:</span></a> A beautiful blog with gluten free, dairy free and vegetarian recipes that are as delicious as they look in Emma&#8217;s pictures. The blog has a garden section that has inspired me to grow crops in pots this Summer  (a post on that is coming soon!)</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>IV- Favorite blogs on design, crafts, parties and all things pretty</strong></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><a href="http://www.goinghometoroost.com/" target="_blank">Going<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Home to Roost</span></a></em>: Pretty, pretty, pretty. And girlie. And sweet. And inspiring. Those are just some of the words that come to my mind when I think about Bonnie&#8217;s blog. Read it to get recipes,  inspiration, craft projects, gardening and biz advice, and ideas  on simple living.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://decor8blog.com/" target="_blank">Decor8</a>: </span></em>A classic, an amazing source of daily inspiration.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="http://camillestyles.com/" target="_blank">Camille Styles</a></em>: </span> Camille is so stylish, that her blog is a real feast for the eyes. I particularly love her table settings, just gorgeous.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.damasklove.com/" target="_blank"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Damask love</span></em>:</a> I started following Amber after she <a href="http://www.damasklove.com/diy-glitter-twine-bow-with-tomkat-studios/" target="_blank">guest posted for the TomKat studio</a>, but I fell in love with her <a href="http://www.damasklove.com/drawn-together-a-fundraiser-for-newtown-connecticut/" target="_blank">when she organized </a>the fundraiser for the children of Newtown. Pretty crafts, beautiful cards, lovely, lively writing. You will love it.<em><br />
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://ohhappyday.com/" target="_blank"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Oh happy day</span> </em></a>:One of the most creative blogs out there. If you don&#8217;t follow it already, go do it now! The DIY projects are super doable and her zig zag streamers are now a staple in my children&#8217;s parties</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.griottes.fr/" target="_blank"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Griottes:</span></em></a> This blog is so pretty there are no words to describe it. You have to see it for yourself (in French).</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong> V- Favorite blogs on parenting, children and play time.</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.modernparentsmessykids.com/" target="_blank"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Modern Parents Messy Kids</span></em>:</a> My go-to blog for all things children and organizing. Incredible source of inspiration, down to earth writing and tons of practical ideas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://foodlets.com/" target="_blank">Foodlets</a></span></em> The tag &#8220;Mini foodies in the making&#8230;maybe&#8221;says it all, doesn&#8217;t it? A mother striving to get their children to eat a varied and healthy diet. I can totally identify with that!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/stacyofksw/20-must-follow-moms/" target="_blank">All the blogs in this pinterest board</a></span></em> are definitely worth following.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There you have them, my favorite food, crafts and parenting blogs! I hope you  will like them as much as I do!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>What are your favorite blogs, the ones whose posts you never miss? Please, share the list in the comments below!</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 07:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Good morning dear friends! We are still in Belgrade, enjoying the beautiful Spring days with our family and taking daily strolls with Luka and Zoe around the city. Everything has<a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/chocolate-cake-hidden-veggies/" class="read-more">  ...<br/><b>Read More</b></a></p><p>The post <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/chocolate-cake-hidden-veggies/">Chocolate sheet cake and frosting with hidden veggies</a> appeared first on <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com">The Celebration Girl</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Good morning dear friends!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We are still in Belgrade, enjoying the beautiful Spring days with our family and taking daily strolls with Luka and Zoe around the city.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Everything has been very quiet around here these past days because of the extended holiday of Labor Day and the Orthodox Easter, so the city, which is normally booming with energy, has had a lovely calm, leisure-like feeling, pretty much like the one you get on a vacation resort by the sea. Really, really nice and relaxing <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Claires-opt-in1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4509" alt="Hidden veggies chocolate cake and frosting" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Claires-opt-in1.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today&#8217;s post, however, is not about Belgrade. It is a recipe I came up with in my quest to get my children to eat vegetables!  I had seen online and read about different cakes and brownies made with veggies inside, but all the recipes I could find used dairy which,<a title="Orange and Clementine Cheese Brownies for Petit-On {Raw, Vegan, Gluten free,Refined sugar free}" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/orange-and-clementine-cheese-brownies-for-petit-on-raw-vegan-gluten-freerefined-sugar-free/" target="_blank"> as you know</a>, is an ingredient that Luka and I shouldn&#8217;t eat.  So I decided to experiment a bit, and, after a few trials, I came up with this recipe. To make it even yummier, I also made a frosting that, instead of butter and tons of sugar, uses avocado and honey. And the best part? It tastes delicious!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I like to make this cake in a sheet cake or brownie pan because it&#8217;s ideal for cutting into small bites. One word of caution, though: The addition of the veggies makes this cake EXTREMELY moist, so make sure that it&#8217;s cold when you cut it. It is actually a good idea to put it in the fridge for 20 minutes before doing so, and to use a sharp knife dipped in hot water to do so.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And don&#8217;t worry: this cake does not taste like salad! If you let it cool down appropriately, you won&#8217;t be able to tell there are veggies inside. I advise you, though, to make it with your children because I think it is a good idea for them to get used to the idea that vegetables can be  part of food they like. The more they get used to you making vegetables a part of their diet, the more normal they will seem to them and, hopefully, they will be willing to try them in other ways as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4510" alt="Veggie Chocolate cake" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Veggie-Chocolate-cake.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here is the recipe:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Chocolate sheet cake and frosting, with hidden veggies (dairy free, egg free)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Ingredients</strong></em>: 100 grs dark chocolate (70%), 1 cup vegetable milk, 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar, 1/3 cup oil, 1 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract,  1 cup beet puree, 1/2 cup carrot puree, 1/4 cup spinach puree, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 cup cocoa, 3/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt. For the frosting: 1 avocado, 1/2 cup honey (or agave), 2 tablespoons cocoa</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Preparation</strong></em>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Put the chocolate in a bowl, then place the bowl over a pot of boiling water and let it melt.  Once it has melted, set aside and let it cool.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) Put the milk in a bowl and add the vinegar. Wait  a few minutes, until it curdles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Add oil, sugar and vanilla and beat until incorporated.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4) Sift flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5) Add 1/2 the flour mixture to the liquid ingredients and mix well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6) Add the vegetables to the batter. Mix well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7) Add the rest of the flour. Mix well to incorporate fully.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">8) Add the melted chocolate and mix very well for a few minutes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">9) Grease a pan and dust it with cocoa. Pour the batter in it, tap it against the counter to divide it evenly and remove any air bubbles, and place it in the oven, pre heat at 175 degrees, for about 1 hour, or until a knife stuck in the middle comes out clean.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10)Once fully cooked, remove the cake from the oven and let it cool.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">11) Make the frosting: Peel the avocado, remove the flesh and mash it with a fork. Add honey and cocoa and beat until light and fluffy. You may use an electric mixer if you have one.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">12) Once the cake has cooled down, add the frosting on top. Place it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes, cut into small square bites and enjoy!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Do you hide vegetables in desserts? Which is your favorite recipe? Please share in the comments!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Claires-opt-in.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4507" alt="Hidden veggies chocolate cake" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Claires-opt-in.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
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		<title>Raw vegan truffles with dates, nuts and berries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 06:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Good evening dear friends! I am writing today&#8217;s post from Belgrade, Serbia, where we are currently visiting my husband&#8217;s family. Cyprus follows the Orthodox calendar, according to which Easter falls<a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/raw-vegan-truffles/" class="read-more">  ...<br/><b>Read More</b></a></p><p>The post <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/raw-vegan-truffles/">Raw vegan truffles with dates, nuts and berries</a> appeared first on <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com">The Celebration Girl</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Good evening dear friends!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I am writing today&#8217;s post from Belgrade, Serbia, where we are currently visiting my husband&#8217;s family. Cyprus follows the Orthodox calendar, according to which Easter falls on May 5th this year, so we are taking advantage of Luka and Zoe&#8217;s brief break from school for a short family trip. I will tell you all about it when I get back home!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">These truffles, which are ridiculously easy to make and are full of food that is good for our bodies, were made before I left and devoured by my family. If you read the two last posts, you already know that my children are picky eaters and that I keep looking for ideas to get them to eat food that tastes delicious but that also provides them with the nutrients they need in order to grow up healthy, food that helps them thrive.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These little balls of goodness may do just that. I came up with them while playing in the kitchen, trying to recreate my favorite store-bought nut bars (which are way too expensive for me to buy them too often). I looked at the list of ingredients in the package, figured out the percentages that seemed more accurate to me, added a few super foods and decided to try the method that I detail below. I considered for a while whether it would be better to soak nuts and dates before hand, but didn&#8217;t, even though I will probably try  that method  in the future as well, at least to compare which one I like best.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/truffles_3wm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4438" alt="truffles_3wm" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/truffles_3wm.jpg" width="636" height="781" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These truffles are ideal to make with kids, because of their simplicity. If you don&#8217;t like any of the ingredients, feel free to replace it for something similar (I do that all the time). And did I mention that they have no added sugar?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Do you want to try them now?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here is the recipe:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Raw vegan truffles with dates, nuts and berries (</strong>makes around 40)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ingredients: 250 grs dates, 160 grs cashews, 100 grs currants or raisins, 15 grs goji berries, 15 grs dried cranberries, 1 tablespoon chia seeds, 3 tablespoons water,shredded coconut for rolling the truffles in it (optional)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Preparation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Put the cashews in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until they turn into flour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) Add the pitted dates, currants or raisins, berries, chia seeds and water. Process until you get a dough that separates from the sides of the bowl.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Put the dough in an airtight container and put it in the refrigerator for 1/2 hour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4) Remove from the refrigerator. Take small pieces of dough with a teaspoon and form them into balls. You may then roll the balls on shredded coconut, as in the pictures, or leave them without. It&#8217;s your choice.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5) Keep stored in an airtight container, in the refrigerator, for up to a week.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Have you ever made raw truffles or cookies before? Please share in the comments below!</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Good morning dear friends!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As promised, here is the second post about ways to cure picky eating habits, with the 14 tips list itself. I hope it will hlp you design a strategy that is right for your family, and to end mealtime struggles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here are Claire&#8217;s tips:</p>
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<p><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: center;">14 tips to cure your child&#8217;s picky eating</strong></p>
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<span style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">1)  The very first one is </span><strong style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">DON&#8217;T PANIC</strong><span style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">. Quite often, fussiness is more about control than it is about the food in question. If you get stressed, your kids will know, and they&#8217;ll push that stress button of yours as much as they can.  Unless there is a specific and urgent health matter going on, trust that your kids will be ok.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #000000;">2) </span><strong style="color: #000000;">If your child is not eating at all, check what else may be going on (<a title="14 tips to cure your child’s picky eating (I)" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/pickyeating/" target="_blank">see Part I of this post here for more details</a>)</strong><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></span></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">3) </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Establish a mealtime routine. Kids need regularity.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">4) If  your mealtimes have turned into a battle ground, </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">see if your children can have a meal with someone else to see whether they eat or not. </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">5) </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Offer something fresh at every meal: fruits, veggies, nuts or seeds.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">6)</span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;"> Make it a vague rule that people do have to try foods.</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;"> I say &#8216;vague&#8217; because just making it a rule won&#8217;t work. Instead, when your kids say they&#8217;ve finished, and want their pudding now, just sweetly remind them to try the green beans/sauce or whatever.  They&#8217;ll fight it, but if they know that pudding is waiting on them just sticking one tiny piece of greenery in their mouths, they may well be up for it.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">7) </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">If your kids nag you for food when they come home from school, happily give in by only offering them a raw piece of the veg that they will be having later</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">. So, if you are chopping cabbage, just give them a piece of cabbage. If you make it clear that the only snack is the same as what they&#8217;ll be eating later, they&#8217;ll either take it, or quit asking.  It might take a few days to get it to sink in, but once it does, you&#8217;ll be happy regardless of whether they eat the raw veg or just leave you alone</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">8)  The Spring is a great time to really move picky eaters forward. Our bodies naturally want to eat less fatty, sugary foods in the Spring, mainly because we don&#8217;t need to be storing up energy to survive the Winter. Our bodies naturally crave the magnesium in green veg and it craves the freshness of fresh foods. If there was one time of year when the odds are in your favour for getting your children to prefer healthy foods, it is NOW! </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">To take full advantage of the Spring, you could</span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;"> try growing your own foods</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;"> such as sprouted green lentils, cress and salad leaves all grow super fast. Kids are so much more likely to try foods which they helped to grow.  But remember, you have to take part too &#8211; if you sit there thinking that this is all rabbit foods, please don&#8217;t be surprised if your kids think the same. You may well enjoy the sunshine that seems to burst from fresh foods yourself!</span></p>
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<span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">9)Foods that are great for the Spring are all the ones which are appearing where you live &#8211; fresh leafy things, fruits and veg that are coming up now are perfect. And they taste better. A fresh orange picked from your tree tastes sooo much better than an orange flown in from half-way around the world. </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Go fruit picking perhaps, or visit a farm so that you have a good idea of what is in season, but also so that your child can develop an independent idea about food without your direct input.</strong></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">10) </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Make your own salad dressing</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">. Seriously. My kids will eat any kind of salad, because they have been trained by my nifty take on a salad dressing to love it.  I take olive oil, balsamic vinegar and a dash of honey to sweeten it up a tad and splash it on a salad. Now, even if there is no dressing, my kids will happily eat plenty of salad.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">11) </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Don&#8217;t confuse your children</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">.  They will watch and learn from you. If you only eat salad when you are on diet, or you make jokes about eating grass when you serve up broccoli, your kids will know that your heart isn&#8217;t in it, and they&#8217;ll feel just the same. If you at least try something new, or make an effort to have a mouthful or two of something that you don&#8217;t really like, they&#8217;ll see it, do their best to ignore it, but at least the precedent has been set. You can then say &#8216;I don&#8217;t like peas either, but I always try a few just in case these are the ones that I will like&#8217;. (or something similar).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">12) </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Get Dr Seuss book &#8216;Green Eggs and Ham&#8217;-</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;"> it has been a brilliant addition to our family because it&#8217;s all about trying new foods and really does inspire kids. </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">And</strong><em id="ecx__mceDel" style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;"><strong> give massive praise at mealtimes for trying something, and don&#8217;t worry if they don&#8217;t like it.</strong></em></p>
<p><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/picky_1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4521" alt="14 tips to cure picky eating by Claire Stone, nutritionist" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/picky_1.jpg" width="581" height="800" /></a></p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">13) One of my biggest bug-bears and one which we all do (myself included occasionally) is when a child says &#8216;I don&#8217;t like that&#8217; and we say &#8216;Yes you do&#8217;.  It totally negates the little bit of power that the child is trying to put out there.  Instead of telling them that they do like it, try just saying &#8216;Ok. Well, I&#8217;ve given you a little bit so you can see how you feel today&#8217; and leave it at that. Remember, it&#8217;s all about the power &#8211; let them have a little bit of power when they want it, and they won&#8217;t then be fighting with you in every other way.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">14)</span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Hiding veggies and fruit is absolutely a brilliant way to get kids to eat food</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">. But I am not really one for being sneaky. My reason for suggesting this is that it helps to slowly, without stress, train their taste buds. For example: my daughter HATES courgette. With a passion. But, I&#8217;ll make a pasta sauce, with some grated courgette in it.  She eats it, perfectly happily.  So, her taste buds get</span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;"> to experience the courgette and realize that it isn&#8217;t something strange</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">. She gets the lovely goodies in courgette without having to feel she is being forced to eat something she doesn&#8217;t like. And I get to know that it&#8217;s not the TASTE of courgettes that she doesn&#8217;t like, it&#8217;s the texture.  If that sounds a bit crazy, hear this: I only like courgette if it is finely cut up. Big bits of courgette turn my stomach. Why? I have no idea, but I can totally relate to her story. </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Eating isn&#8217;t just about the taste, it&#8217;s about the texture, the look, the smell of foods.</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;"> Children can&#8217;t explain this &#8211; they just either &#8216;like&#8217; it or they &#8216;don&#8217;t like&#8217; it.  </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Hiding foods, or changing the texture is a great way to explore foods without the stress of actually &#8216;trying&#8217; something. Be careful though &#8211; if you hide a vegetable in foods, and your child then hates the food even though they aren&#8217;t aware that there is something in the food, there is the slight chance the food doesn&#8217;t suit them which is making them dislike it. So, as an example, they may be slightly intolerant to it, perhaps.</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Finally, be mindful and gentle with yourself: it is hard and you are not alone in this battle. Sometimes you have to step back and trust in your child. Give them the right tools, and you might well be surprised by what they will eat.  </span><strong style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Try not to do what we all do, which is worry that they haven&#8217;t eaten enough and give a sugary pudding or treat when they refuse their food so that they &#8216;have at least eaten something&#8217;</strong><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">. Kids are fast learners, and if you do want them to try new foods, you just have to go with the flow and trust they&#8217;ll eat enough if the good stuff is there.</span><br />
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<i>So, there you have it. I don&#8217;t have all the answers because each and every child is different, and each and every parent is different. It would take me hours to give all the possible solutions that I know, and even they might not be enough.  But take a look through the list above, and see if one or two or three of my suggestions sound like something that would work for you.</i><span style="color: #333333;">If you are really struggling, I&#8217;d love to help you. Drop me an </span><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.outandin.net/get-in-touch/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">email</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, and outline your problem, and I&#8217;ll get back to you with a couple of suggestions crafted just for you.  They might or might not work (who can tell), but sometimes you just need an outside eye on a problem that is close to your heart.Sign up to my </span><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.outandin.net/welcome/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">website </span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><i>- and get a short (but sweet) list of some of my favourite nutrition books. There are two books all about children and food in that list, both of which not only got me through the weaning and toddler years, but are still useful to me now, both as a nutritionist, and as the mum of two girls who know exactly what they like to eat and precisely what they don&#8217;t!</i> </span></span><em><span style="color: #000000; text-align: justify;">Ahh, that&#8217;s got me thinking &#8211; I can&#8217;t remember who likes cooked carrots again this week. </span></em></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Isn&#8217;t Claire wonderful? I love her tips because they are easy to put in practice, all we need is  little courage to get started and to brace ourselves for the initial resistance we may encounter.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Did you like the tips? Which are the ones you are most likely to put in practice soon/that you think will work better for your children? Please, share in the comments below!</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Buenos dias queridos amigos! Tal como lo prometi, aqui esta la segunda parte del post acerca de como curar las mañas alimenticias de nuestros niños. Espero de todo corazón que los ayuden a diseñar una estrategia adaptada a sus familias,  que  acabe con las batallas a la hora de la comida!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora los dejo con Claire:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">14 tips para curar las mañas alimenticias</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) El primero de todos es que NO ENTRES EN PANICO SI TU HIJO ES MAÑOSO. Muy frecuentemente la mañosidad es más una cuestión de control que de gustos alimenticios. Si tu te estresas, tus hijos lo notarán, y jugarán con eso de muchas maneras. Salvo que haya un problema de salud específico, confiá en que tus hijos estarán bien.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) Si tu hijo no come nada de nada, fijate qué mas puede estar ocurriendo (<a title="14 tips to cure your child’s picky eating (I)" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/pickyeating/" target="_blank">recuerda revisar los puntos que Claire mencionó en el post anterior</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Establece horarios y rutinas de comida. Los niños necesitan regularidad.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4) Si las comidas se han tornado en un verdadero campo de batalla, fíjate si tu hijo puede comer con alguien que no seas tu para ver si así comen o no, y qué comen.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5) Ofrece algo fresco en cada comida: fruta, verdura, nueces o semillas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6) Incluye vagamente como regla de la casa la idea de que todos tienen que probar la comida. No seas muy rigido, porque el solo establecerla como regla no va a funcionar. En lugar de esto, cuando tus hijos declaren que han terminado de comer y pidan el postre, recuerdales dulcemente que deben probar aquello que no han tocado. Se van a oponer, sin dudas, pero saber que tienen la promesa del postre esperándoles los hará mas proclives a ponerse un pequeño trozo de lechuga en la boca.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7) Si tus hijos te acosan por comida cuando llegan de la escuela, dales un trozo del mismo vegetal crudo que piensas darles en la comida. Por ejemplo, si estas cortando  repollo, dales un trozo del mismo. Si les dejas bien en claro que el unico snack que obtendran será ese, puede que lo tomen o lo dejen pero en cualquier caso aprenderán la regla rápidamente y tu estaras contenta de saber que comen verduras crudas o bien de que te dejen cocinar en paz.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">8) La primavera es la estación ideal para introducir nuevos y buenos hábitos alimenticios. Nuestros cuerpos están programados naturalmente para querer alimentos reducidos en calorías y sin tanta azucar, fundamentalmente porque no necesitamos guardar energia para el invierno. Nuestros cuerpos desean naturalmente el magnesio de las verduras verdes, y la frescura de los alimentos crudos. O sea que si hubiera una época del año ideal para que tus hijos prefieran comidas saludables sería justamente ESTA.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Para aprovecharla lo más posible, es una buena idea, plantar tus propias verduras, como hojas de lechuga, y brotes de lentejas verdes, que crecen super rapido. Los niños son más proclives a probar alimentos que han visto crecer. Sólo recuerda que tu tambien tienes que participar en el proceso, si tu solo te sientas al lado pensando &#8220;esta es comida de conejos&#8221; no te sorprendas si tus hijos piensan los mismo!. Disfuta del sol y del proceso junto a ellos.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">9) Los mejores alimentos son los de estación, o sea aquellos que están apareciendo en las góndolas de los supermercados en este momento. Y saben mejor. Una naranja recogida de tu propio arbol sabe mucho mejor que una que ha viajado del otro lado del mundo. Por eso otra buena idea es ir a recolectar frutas junto con tu hijo, si tienes quintas cercanas,  llevalos a una granja donde tus hijos puedan ver cuales son las frutas de estación y pueda desarrollar sus propias ideas acerca de la comida.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10) Haz tus propios aliños para las ensaladas. Yo hago el mio con aceite de oliva, acetto balsamico y u poquito de miel para darle dulzura y mis hijos devoran las ensaladas gracias a eso.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">11) No confundas a tus hijos. Si ellos ven que tu sólo comes ensaladas cuando estas a dieta y haces bromas acerca de comer pasto cuando sirves brócoli, tus hijos sabrán que no te gusta y tampoco les gustarán esos alimentos. Si al menos pruebas y haces el esfuerzo ellos lo notarán,intentarán ignorarlo pero al menos sentarás un buen precedent. Incluso puedes decirles &#8220;A mi tampoco me gustan las arvejas, pero siempre pruebo algunas a ver si esas sí me gustan&#8221; (o algo similar)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">12) Consigue el libro de Dr. Seuss &#8220;Huevos verdes y jamón&#8221;, que ha sido una adición brillante a nuestra biblioteca porque trata justamente acerca de probar nuevas comidas y es super inspirador para los niños. Pero no te detengas allí: alaba muchísimo a tus niños, haz una fiesta cada vez que prueban algo nuevo sin preocuparte si no les gusta.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">13) Uno de los mayores problemas es cuando el niño dice &#8220;no me gusta esto&#8221; y los padres respondemos &#8220;si te gusta&#8221;porque niega su individualidad y el pequeño rescoldo de poder que el niño pretende tener en esa situación. En lugar de eso, diles que está bien, que por eso justamente haz puesto solo un poquito en su plato para que el pueda ver cómo se siente al respecto en el dia de la fecha&#8221;.  Y dejalo ahí. Recuerda que estas son peleas por poder, dejales que tengan un poquito de poder en pequeñas batallas para que no peleen por absolutamente todo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">14) Esconder frutas y verduras es una manera fantastica de hacer que los chicos prueben distintos sabores. Yo no soy muy escondedora, pero sí suelo sugerirlo porque ayuda a desestresar la situacion y tambien ayuda a acostumbrar las papilas gustativas a los distintos sabores. Por ejemplo, mi hija odio con pasión los zapallitos, pero si los incluyo en salsa de pasta, rallada, lo come feliz de la vida. Eso me permite saber que no es el sabor del zapallito lo que no le gusta, sino su textura.  En el acto de comer estan en juego muchos de nuestros sentidos, no es solo el gusto lo que está en juego sino tambien la textua, el olor y el aspecto de la comida.  Los niños no pueden explicar esto, para ellos es sólo algo que les gusta o no. Esconder alimentos o cambiar su textura es una buena manera de hacerlos probar nuevos alimentos sin el stress que implica para ellos hacerlo. Ten en cuenta, sin embargo, que si escondes verduras en algun alimento y tu hijo se niega a probarlo, puede que esto se deba, por ejemplo, a que tengan una intolerancia al mismo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Finalmente, se amable y gentil contigo mismo, esta es una batalla dificil pero no estas solo. A veces deberás dar un paso atrás y confiar en tu niño. Ocupate de armarlos con las insrumentos adecuados para tomar sus propias decisiones y puede que ellos te sorprendan. Eso sí, intenta no hacer lo que todos hacemos, que es preocuparte de que no han comido suficiente y darles un postre para que &#8220;al menos coman algo&#8221;. Los niños aprenden rápido y si de verdad quieres que prueben nuevos alimentos debes dejarte llevar y confiar en que comeran suficiente si sólo tienen delante alimentos saludables.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Allí los tienen, esos son mis tips. No tengo todas las respuestas porque cada niño es diferente y cada familia es diferente. Me llevaría horas poder compartir con ustedes todas las soluciones a cada problema especifico y aun así eso podría no llegar a ser suficiente. Lean la lista que les he dejado, y fíjense si una o dos de mis sugerencias pueden adaptarse a su familia. Si de verdad tienen muchos problemas con este  tema, me encantaria poder ayudarlos. Pueden enviarme un email detallandome el conflicto especifico y yo les respondere con un par de ideas que pueden funcionar. A veces lo que necesitamos es una mirada objetiva, no? Tambien pueden subscribirse a mi página web  y recibiran una lista de mis libros de nutrición favoritos, que incluye dos específicamente adaptados a los niños.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">¿Qué les ha parecido este post? ¿No es Claire maravillosa? Sus tips me encantan porque son sensatos, adaptables y fáciles de poner en practica ¿verdad?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Y a ustedes ¿les han gustado estos tips? ¿Cuales les paracen más adaptables a su hogar? Cuentenme en los comentarios!</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160; Good morning , my name is Marcela, and my children are terribly picky eaters. If any of you knows a support group for mothers of extremely picky eaters, let<a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/pickyeating/" class="read-more">  ...<br/><b>Read More</b></a></p><p>The post <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/pickyeating/">14 tips to cure your child&#8217;s picky eating (I)</a> appeared first on <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com">The Celebration Girl</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Good morning , my name is Marcela, and my children are terribly picky eaters</em>. If any of you knows a support group for mothers of extremely picky eaters, let me know because I would like to join.</span></p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Yes, Luka and Zoe are<em> </em>picky eaters, and it&#8217;s not because I haven&#8217;t tried. I read every book and followed every recommendation and, until 18 months, they ate absolutely everything. Ah, mealtime was such a joy! I would prepare purées and finger food full of vegetables and fruits, and everything that&#8217;s good and they would eat it with joy. Then, at 18 months, a picky monster possessed them and they started refusing pretty much <em>everything</em>. I, of course, panicked. I tried many strategies and some of them worked with different degrees of success but, to this day, Luka and Zoe are still not eating as many vegetables as I, in my mothering heart, know they should. To be honest, neither did I at their age, but don&#8217;t tell my children! (Mum, especially you! <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">This year, I decided that, if I was going to change this state of affairs, I needed help. So I contacted <a href="http://www.outandin.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;"> Claire Stone</span></a>, <a title="Life is Messy Bootcamp" href="http://lifeismessybootcamp.com/index.php?aff_id=21" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">whom I met at Life is Messy Bootcamp</span></a>. <a href="http://www.outandin.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">Claire</span></a>, who lives in Bristol, England, is a Nutritional Therapist and she sees food as a way to improve our health and well being. She believes in the importance of passing good life long habits to our children and she understand the confusion that us, parents,  feel when faced with the wide array of information that is available on what is good and what not, and that this makes trying to figure out the best way to eat and feed a child  something of a minefield. I chose Claire for this post because she is not only knowledgeable, but also funny, kind and understanding, all qualities that I find especially important in an area that triggers so much mother&#8217;s guilt.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">So, If you too are facing the challenge of feeding a picky eater, I think you will love Claire&#8217;s ideas as much as I did. And if you have cured your chid&#8217;s picky eating, I would love to hear your own strategies as well, so please share them in the comments below. <em>( Note: because of the length of today&#8217;s post, I have divided in two. The second part will be published tomorrow, so be sure to come back!)</em></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">With you, Claire:</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>1- I know many mums who stress a lot about their children&#8217;s eating habits (like myself, ahem). How do you feel about your children&#8217;s eating habits, as a nutritionist <em>and</em> a mum? </strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">It&#8217;s hard being a mum. Not knowing what to give your kids to eat. Not knowing what they should or shouldn&#8217;t be eating, especially if all they want is the opposite to what you want them to eat.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Being a nutritionist and a mum almost feels harder.  There is that constant battle inside my head with one side just wanting my kids to join in the fun of chomping chocolate at Easter.  At the same time, the other side of my brain won&#8217;t let them drink soda drinks unless there is no alternative (which there always is, as I keep a couple of cartons of juice in my bag at parties so they get to have a treat)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">It&#8217;s hard because, if I allowed myself, I would stress every single day that they don&#8217;t get their full amount of enzyme-rich live foods, and I&#8217;d worry about all the pressure from other folks about letting them have a &#8216;treat&#8217;.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">But I am not complaining. I realise that I do have it easy. I look at the foods they get, and I know straight away that they are doing fine. I know exactly what it is that gives my daughter earache, and I know what they want to eat when they are feeling ill (sprouted green lentils).</span></div>
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<div><strong>Now, here&#8217;s the thing: My kids LOVE salad</strong>. Yes they do. They also LOVE nuts and seeds, and think a homemade cookie sweetened with honey and cinnamon are an amazing treat.  They pester me for food when I am cooking, and then run off happily when I give them a stalk of broccoli to keep them happy until the food is served.  <strong>I&#8217;m not smug about it &#8211; I am mega grateful because it could change at any moment.</strong> This is just the way it is right now. And I am so glad about that, otherwise I&#8217;d feel that I was a pretty crappy nutritionist otherwise.</div>
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<div>Now, that&#8217;s not to say my kids aren&#8217;t fussy when it suits them. I can&#8217;t get the eldest to try anything with a hint of spice in it, and the youngest can spot aslice of courgette in a gallon of pasta sauce without even pausing for breath.  It&#8217;s a child&#8217;s right to be fussy, and I firmly believe that you have to go with it.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>3- That&#8217;s the key, right?, But when is it acceptable to give in? Which is the acceptable extent and where should one draw the line? </strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Children need to be able to chose, within certain boundaries</em>.</strong> If you let them choose their foods without any guidance at all, you&#8217;d soon end up with a child who will only eat chips, burgers and cakes, and then you&#8217;d have a whole lot of worrying to do, for a bit<strong>.If you can lead them down the right path, you&#8217;ll be able to trust them when they do, or don&#8217;t choose a certain food.</strong>  The food which affects kids taste buds the very most is sugar.  Sugar literally pollutes their taste buds in such a way that it then becomes almost impossible to like something which isn&#8217;t sweet.  Think about it. Kids need energy to grow. Sugar is pure energy and they are programmed to love the taste of energy.  Broccoli is energy, combined with loads of other goodies.  But the energy in broccoli just doesn&#8217;t hit the taste buds in the same way that sugar does. So the more you can steer clear of sugar (and artificial sweeteners), the less likely you are to have to deal with fussiness at the dining table.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>4- Let&#8217;s talk about extremely picky eaters. </strong><strong>How do you deal with kids who refuse to eat and are losing weight? </strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is a tricky one, because we are all very aware that kids are supposed to be growing, and when they are losing weight, we feel very very anxious.  <strong>The first point is to bear in mind that quite a few things might be going on, and only a few of those might have anything to do with their fussiness.</strong>  As a parent, we do tend to over-worry about food, mainly because we have lost our innate senses when it comes to eating. Children, in the main, have not lost the impulses that come with eating. So, if your child won&#8217;t eat anything that you give them, don&#8217;t panic. They will pick up on your panic, and that doesn&#8217;t help.<strong> Second &#8211; consider what your child does actually eat rather than just what he or she doesn&#8217;t eat.</strong> For example, children will often &#8216;graze&#8217; through the day, getting plenty of food in, and simply not be hungry at mealtimes. If your child has had a change of routine (such as the school holidays) they might be eating more snacks during the day, and literally have no room for a meal. And if that meal isn&#8217;t their top-fave (which isn&#8217;t likely to be a healthy salad), then you are going to have trouble persuading them to eat. <strong>So, if possible, reduce the snacks so that they are hungrier at mealtimes.</strong>  If your child really isn&#8217;t eating much at all, again, don&#8217;t panic. <strong>When children are ill, or getting ill, they will often very naturally go off food.</strong> It means that their clever little bodies can spend energy tackling the illness, rather than just eating.  Sounds crazy, but it&#8217;s very true. We tend to worry that they need to eat every day, but if they are ill, sure, offer some food, but try not to worry if they don&#8217;t want it. Once they start to get better, their appetite will go through the roof, and then you will feel sooo much better!</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">If your child is just not eating at all, there are three further possibilities:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>1. If your child has recently had a growth spurt, they may well just not need much right now.</strong> Again, offer food, and don&#8217;t stress if they don&#8217;t want it.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>2. They may be constipated which is causing them to not feel hungry or not want to eat so that they don&#8217;t need to go to the toilet.</strong> If that is a possibility, you may want to speak to a doctor or a nutritionist.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>3. They may have something going on which needs to be checked by a doctor</strong>. Don&#8217;t worry though &#8211; most of the time it will be something very simple, but just book an appointment, and see what they say.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>5- How do we start introducing new foods to a child who won&#8217;t eat any vegetable or fruit? Is there any   thing that we should prioritize?</strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Aha, a great questions. It&#8217;s very easy to over-think a problem, and cause many nights of worry.  <strong>The simple fact is that our bodies, and those of our children need such a huge variety of nutrients (some of which might not have even been discovered yet!) that we can&#8217;t possibly cover them all. </strong> In terms of eating, the MOST important point to remember is that in order to grow, children need love. More than ANYTHING else, aside from water and oxygen, they need love.  So, if you are giving them your love (and by that, I mean if you are doing your best &#8211; whatever that might be &#8211; to feed them well), you are already succeeding.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">The next thing that they need is a little bit of what I call &#8216;routine&#8217; but it isn&#8217;t really routine as such. It&#8217;s the <strong>regularity of knowing what will happen when it comes to food</strong>. So, the whole <strong>mealtime ritual</strong> becomes very important for children, especially fussy ones. If you keep on changing the way that meals happen, there is no ritual or routine to the habit of eating. So, for example,<strong> try to have a sit down meal, if possible, with folks taking time together to eat</strong> so that children see you use a knife and a fork, or chopsticks to eat, and get to enjoy the routine of a meal. Now, this doesn&#8217;t mean you have to force a wild family schedule into a little box of perfection, but if your child gets to see that this is when and how we eat, rather than you desperately giving them something, (anything!), when they ask for it because you are worried about their eating, they will slowly begin to associate mealtimes with eating. Notice, I am not saying you must make them eat all their food at a mealtime, if they really aren&#8217;t up for it. But it&#8217;s the routine, the family time, the camaraderie of eating together which is more important than the actual foods. <strong>If this seems impossible for you, then try to work out how you can at least make your child&#8217;s meals have a regular pattern &#8211; so, they set out the cutlery, or they pour everyone a glass of water, or something like that.</strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Finally, getting to the actual foods: <strong>our bodies crave fresh foods, especially in the Spring</strong>. We often don&#8217;t know that they do, but they surely do. <strong>So, it doesn&#8217;t matter what you offer, just try something fresh &#8211; fruit, veg, nuts or seeds. Whatever might tempt your child.</strong> Again, it&#8217;s not a problem if they don&#8217;t want it. Just keep the fresh stuff coming and they see you happily eat it (you do happily eat it, don&#8217;t you?  If you don&#8217;t, then try working on your taste buds first &#8211; and then your children will likely follow suit!). That said (and there are always exceptions), <strong>try not to worry too much</strong>. For the longest time as a child, I only ate fish fingers, chips and baked beans. My mum wasn&#8217;t too happy, but always stuck a raw carrot on the side (my fave) and that was that.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Have you noticed how children will often eat different foods when they aren&#8217;t with their parents? That&#8217;s not just because they are with friends, or the food is different, but because the stress of having a watchful parent, whose soul is willing the child to eat some peas, is gone.   I know for a fact that if someone is telling me that I HAVE to do something, every bone in my body wants me to do the opposite, and I imagine it&#8217;s quite the same for children. They can feel that you want them to eat their veg, even if you aren&#8217;t saying anything all.  <strong>If you are having some big old food battles, try seeing if there is someone else they could share a meal with, just to get you out of the picture</strong> (I know that sounds harsh, but it can make a massive difference! My niece eats almost anything when she is with me. If her mum is here though, she refuses almost all veg. It&#8217;s not because I am special &#8211; it&#8217;s just because I am not her mum!)</span></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Ready for the tips?! Come back tomorrow for the rest of the post and, in the meantime, <a href="http://www.outandin.net/welcome/" target="_blank">you may click here to check out Claire&#8217;s website- she has a special treat in store for you! </a></em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>&#8220;Buenos días, mi nombre es Marcela y soy la mamá de dos niños terriblemente mañosos para comer&#8221;</em>- Si alguno de ustedes conoce un grupo de esos anónimos para mamás como yo, avisenme, porque me gustaría unirme!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sí, es cierto, Luka y Zoe son TERRIBLES para comer y no es porque yo no haya tratado de que coman de todo. Al contrario, cuando eran chiquitos leí todos los libros y seguí todas las recomendaciones habidas y por haber y, hasta los 18 meses, nos fue de maravillas. La hora de la comida era un verdadero placer, yo preparaba papillas y, luego finger food con frutas y verduras variadas, carnes y todo lo que era bueno y sano y ellos abrían la boca con placer y devoraban hasta las combinaciones más exoticas. Pero fue cumplir el año y medio y pareciera que el monstruo de la mañosidad se apoderó de ellos porque empezaron a rechazar prácticamente TODO. Y yo entré en pánico (qué les doy de comer????). Traté mil y una estrategias y algunas funcionaron con distintos niveles de éxito pero, hasta el día de hoy, confieso que mis hijos no comen ni la mitad de las frutas y verduras que a mí me gustaría. Para ser totalmente sincera, yo tampoco comía demasiado a su edad, pero prometanme que no se los contarán a ellos (mami, te estoy mirando especialmente a vos <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Este año decidí que ya era hora de cambiar este status quo y que, para hacerlo, necesitaba ayuda. Y, para eso, contacté a Claire Stone, a quien conocí en Life is Messy Bootcamp. Claire vive en Bristol, Inglaterra, y es nutricionista. Pero no cualquier nutricionista, si no de las que me gustan a mí: ella ve a la comida como una forma de mejorar nuestra salud y nuestra calidad de vida. Claire cree en la importancia de transmitir buenos hábitos alimenticios a nuestros hijos, y entiendo cuan dificil es esto, y cuan confuso es para nosotros, los padres, lidiar con la enormidad de información disponible, que muchas veces es contradictoria. Elegí a Claire para este post porque ella es no sólo una gran conocedora de todos lo relativo a nutrición, sino fundamentalmente porque es amable, graciosa, simpática y comprensiva, cualidades que considero importantísimas al tratar un terreno que suele activar como pocos otras la tan odiada culpa maternal.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Si ustedes, como yo, tienen a un niño mañoso para comer en sus vidas, creo que les encantará el post de hoy. Y si ya han pasado por esto y sus niños, que algún día fueron mañosos, hoy comen de todo, me encantaría leer las estrategias que usaron y les dieron resultado, así que por favor, compartanlas con todos nosotros en los comentarios!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora las dejo con Claire:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1- Conozco a muchas mamás que están, como yo, estresadísimas respecto a la alimentación de sus hijos. ¿Te ocurre lo mismo, al ser mamá Y nutricionista?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ser mamá es dificil, no saber qué darles de comer a tus hijos, no sabér a ciencia cierta qué deberían comer y qué no, especialmente cuando lo que ellos quieren comer es exactamente lo opuesto a lo que uno quiere darles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ser nutricionista Y mamá es aún más dificil, me parece. Yo vivo en constante batalla interna, con una parte de mí queriendo que mis hijos puedan unirse a la diversion de comer chocolates en pascua mientras la otra parte de mi cerebro impide que los deje tomar gaseosas a menos que no haya ninguna alternativa (y siempre hay alternativa porque llevo en mi cartera jugos de fruta para que éstas nunca falten).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Es dificil porque podría llegar a estresarme cada día pensando que no comen la suficiente cantidad de comidas ricas en enzimas, a la vez que me preocuparía excesivamente por la presión de otras personas para darles &#8220;un gustito&#8221;. Pero no me quejo, porque en realidad sé que la tengo facil: miro la comida que consumen y sé inmediatamente que están bien, y a la vez puedo saber inmediatamente qué hace que mi hija tenga dolor de oido (trigo) y qué quieren comer cuando se sienten enfermos (brotes de lentejas verdes)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2- ¿Son tus niños mañosos para comer?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Honestamente, mis hijas aman las ensaladas. Sí, es cierto. Tambien se vuelven locas por las nueces y semillas y piensan que una galletita casera hecha con miel y canela es un gusto delicioso. Me acosan para que les de algo de comer mientras cocino, y se van contentas de la vida cuando les doy una rama de brocoli para que esperan hasta la cena.  <strong>No me estoy mandando la parte, es así y estoy sumamente agradecida al respecto porque sé que esto puede cambiar en cualquier momento.</strong> Este es el estado actual de las cosas- y estoy muy feliz de que así sea porque de lo contrario me sentiría una pésima nutricionista.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora bien, esto no quiere decir que mis hijas coman absolutamente todo lo que les pongo enfrente. La mayor no prueba nada que sea especiado y la menos puede detectar una pizca de zapallito en un galón de salsa para pasta en medio segundo. Y creo que los niños están en su derecho de tener su opinion y que nosotros tenemos que respetar esto.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hasta cierto punto.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3- Esa es la clave ¿verdad? Ese punto de inflexión, entre lo que permitimos como parte del desarrollo de la propia personalidad y lo que no ¿Donde está la línea roja entre lo que concedemos y aquello que no?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Los niños tienen que poder ser capaces de elegir, dentro de ciertos límites. Si los dejas elegir su comida sin ningún tipo de guía terminarás comiendo solo papas fritas, hamburguesas y tortas y luego tendrás muchas mas cosas de las que preocuparte, al menos por un tiempo.  Si, en cambio, puedes guiarlos para que ellos tomen decisiones adecuadas, podrás tenerles confianza cuando elijan una comida y no otra. El alimento que afecta más el sentido del gusto en los niños es el azucar. Ella literalmente poluciona sus papilas gustativas de tal manera que hace casi imposible que les guste algo que no sea dulce. Piensa en ello. Los niños necesitan energía para crecer. El azucar es energía pura y ellos están programados para que les gusten los alimentos energeticos.  El brocoli es energía pero tambien muchas cosas más, pero la energía del brócoli no llega a las papilas de la misma manera que el azucar. Así que cuanto más alejada puedas mantenerte de esta última, y de los endulzantes artificiales, menos tendrás que lidiar con mañas a la hora de comer.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4- Hablemos de los niños extremadamente mañosos. ¿Cómo hacemos con los niños que se niegan rotundamente a comer y comienzan a perder peso?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Esta es una figurita dificil, porque todos sabemos que los niños tienen que crecer y, cuando no lo hacen, nos ponemos muy pero muy nerviosos. <strong>Lo primero que hay que tener en cuenta en estos casos es que si un niño no está ganando peso esto puede deberse a diversas razones que nada tengan que ver con su mañosidad.</strong> Como padres, tendemos a sobre preocuparnos acerca de la comida, principalmente porque, contrariamente a nuestros niños, hemos perdido el instinto al respecto. Si tu hijo no come nada, no entres en pánico porque ellos lo van a notar y eso no ayuda.<strong> Lo segundo que hay que considerar es qué es aquello que nuestros hijos comen cuando comen- y no tanto qué no comen. </strong>Frecuentemente los niños picotean comida aquí y allá durante el día y eso hace que no tengan hambre a la hora de las comidas principales.  Si tus niños han tenido un cambio de rutina ( por ejemplo durante las vacaciones escolares, puede ocurrir que estén comiendo varios snacks y por eso no tengan hambre cuando tu pretendes que la tengan. Y si la comida que tu les ofreces no está dentro de sus preferidas, posiblemente tengas dificultades para convencerlos de comer. <strong> Por ello, de ser posible, reducí los snacks para que tengan hambre a la hora de comer.</strong> Si a  pesar de eso, tu hijo no come mucho, no entres en pánico tampoco.  <strong>Cuando los niños no se sienten bien suelen perder el apetito. </strong>Esto es así para que sus habiles cuerpecitos puedan dedicar toda su energía a combatir la enfermedad en lugar de utilizarla en comer. Cuando esten enfermos, ofreceles comida pero no te preocupes demasiado si no comen, porque tan pronto como se recuperen , su apetito saltará hasta el techo y te sentirás muchísimo mejor.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Si aún asi tu hijo no come nada, hay tres posibilidades más que debes descartar:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1- <strong>Si acaba de pegar un estirón, puede que no necesite mucha comida en este momento</strong>. Ofrecele comida pero no te estreses si no la come.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2- <strong>Puede estar constipado</strong>, lo que hace que no tenga hambre o que  no quiera comer para no tener que ir al baño. Si esto es una posibilidad, consulta con el pediatra o con una nutricionista.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3- Puede haber algo más que necesite una consulta con el pediatra. No te preocupes demasiado tampoco, porque la mayor parte de las veces se trata de cosas simples que una simple visita al médico soluciona.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5- ¿Cómo comenzamos a introducir alimentos en el caso de aquellos niños que se niegan a comer frutas y verduras? ¿Hay algun alimento en particular que debamos priorizar?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ajá, excelentes preguntas. Es muy facil pensar demasiado en esta clase de problemas. Nuestros cuerpos necesitan una enorme variedad de nutrientes (algunos aun no descubiertos) y es practicamente imposible cubrirlos a todos. Esto es un hecho. En terminos de alimentación, lo más importante que hay que tener en cuenta es que para crecer los niños necesitan AMOR. Mas que ninguna otra cosa, aparte de agua y oxigeno, necesitan amor.  Así que si les estas dando amor (y con esto me refiero a hacer lo mejor que puedes, sea lo que ésto sea, para alimentarlos bien), lo estás haciendo bien.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lo siguiente que hay que saber es que los niños necesitan una rutina. Y con esto me refiero a la regularidad de saber qué va a ocurrir en lo que se refiere a la comida. Por ello el ritual de sentarse a la mesa es tan importante, especialmente para los niños mañosos.  Por ello es importante tratar de establecer una comida en la que toda la familia coma sentada y junta, con todos los miembros tomandose su tiempo para comer, para que los niños aprendan a usar cuchillo y tenedor y puedan disfrutar de esta rutina familiar. Esto no quiere decir que tengas que forzar a toda la familia a alguna rutina loca que cumpla cánones extraños de perfección, pero si tu hijo sabe cuando y cómo va a comer en lugar de ver a mamá intentando desesperamente que coma cualquier cosa cuando te pide porque estas preocupada, entonces comenzará lentamente a asociar estos horarios con la idea de comer. Que quede en claro que no estoy diciendo que tengas que obligarlo a comer todo el plato  si no tienen ganas, porque lo que importa es la rutina, la camaradería, la idea de familia tomandose el tiempo de comer junta lo que es más importante que la comida en sí. <strong>Si esto no es posible, intenta al menos que las comidas de tus hijos sigan alguna clase de patrón regular</strong>, como por ejemplo, que ellos pongan la mesa, o sirvan un vaso de agua, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Finalmente, en lo que hace a los alimentos en sí, ten en cuenta que nuestros cuerpos ansían naturalmente alimentos frescos, especialmente en la primavera. Entonces asegurate de ofrecerles al menos algo fresco en cada comida: fruta, verduras, nueces o semillas, lo que te parece que pueda atraer a tu hijo. Y repito: no te hagas problema si no lo come. Sigue ofreciendoles algo fresco que, si ven que tu lo comes con gusto y alegría ( Si tu no lo comes, intenta educar tus propias papilas primero), tus hijos te seguirán más tarde o más temprano. Dicho esto, intenta de verdad no preocuparte demasiado porque, por ejemplo, durante largos tiempos en mi infancia yo sólo queria comer bastoncitos de pescado, papas fritas y porotos cocidos. Mi mamá no estaba contenta, claro, pero se aseguraba de incluir una zanahoria cruda en mis comidas y eso era suficiente.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Por otro lado ¿has notado como los niños suelen ser mañosos cuando comen con gente que no son sus padres? Esto no se debe a que estan con amigos o a que la comida es diferente, si no a que no tienen encima de sí a un padre estresado observándolos y rogando que coman esa arveja que tienen en el plato. Yo sé, por ejemplo, que suelo resistirme a hacer cosas que otros me dicen que TENGO que hacer, e imagino que a los niños debe pasarles lo mismo. Ellos sienten que quieres que coman sus verduras aunque no digas palabra. Por eso, si estas teniendo verdaderas batallas campales a la hora de la comida, intenta ver si alguien mas puede estar con ellos a esa hora (Se que parece extremo, pero mi sobrina come de todo cuando está conmigo, pero con su mamá se rehusa a probar ninguna verdura. Y esto no es porque yo tenga  cualidades especiales, es sólo porque no soy su mamá!)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">¿Estan listos para los tips?! Mañana publicaré la continuación de esta entrevista con Claire (los 14 tips propiamente dichos), así que no dejen de pasar por aquí! O bien, pueden suscribirse en el formulario de abajo de este post, y yo les avisaré por email cuando esté listo! Mientras tanto, <a href="http://outandin.net/welcome" target="_blank">pasen por la página de web de Claire porque ella tiene un regalito para mis lectores</a> (la lista de sus libros de nutrición favoritos!).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nos vemos mañana!</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p> Good morning dear friends! Today I bring you a super simple way to set the table for Spring, in a very cheerful yellow colour. I love yellow, it&#8217;s so bright<a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/yellowtablesetting/" class="read-more">  ...<br/><b>Read More</b></a></p><p>The post <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/yellowtablesetting/">Spring yellow table setting</a> appeared first on <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com">The Celebration Girl</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"> Good morning dear friends!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today I bring you a super simple way to set the table for Spring, in a very cheerful yellow colour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I love yellow, it&#8217;s so bright and happy. It makes me think of sunny days, long lunches under the shade of a tree, friends, laughter and happy conversations.  So, the other day, when we went to Ikea and I saw that they had a yellow and white stripped tablecloth in the kitchen section, I didn&#8217;t hesitate a second, and bought it. I knew it was going to bring cheer to my days.</p>
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<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/yellow-table-setting_9wm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4474" alt="Spring yellow table setting " src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/yellow-table-setting_9wm.jpg" width="800" height="463" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then, as soon as I came home, I started thinking about other yellow things I had around the house: pretty kitchen towels, forgotten ribbon scraps, and a set of four yellow glasses that I bough a while ago. I put them all together and  decided to use them in a festive, yet easy, tablescape to surprise my husband (he has been studying hard for an MBA and last Monday he sat for an exam).</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/yellow-table-setting_7-wm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4479" alt="yellow-table-setting_7-wm" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/yellow-table-setting_7-wm.jpg" width="800" height="551" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As you already know if you have been reading this blog for a few months, I like tablescapes that are simple and child friendly, so that if a plate accidentally breaks or a glass of whine spills over the tablecloth,  no one feels bad and there&#8217;s no drama. This is the way I actually set the table for a special occasion at home, or when we entertain some friends: without too much fuss. I also want to show you easy ways to make a  table look a bit prettier, so that you can reproduce them at home, if you like them.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4476" alt="Yellow-table-setting1wm" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Yellow-table-setting1wm.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I started with my new tablecloth (I normally use my white linen tablecloth, which you can see<a title="Day 17: A “Peace on earth” white table setting  {entertain!}" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/day-17-a-peace-on-earth-white-table-setting-entertain/" target="_blank"> here</a>, <a title="Day 14: A Simple Christmas table setting in White and Gold {Entertain!}" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/day-14-a-simple-christmas-table-setting-in-white-and-gold-entertain/" target="_blank">here</a>,<a title="Day 5: A Christmas table setting in Red {Entertain!}" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/day-5-a-christmas-table-setting-in-red-entertain/" target="_blank"> here</a> and<a title="A simple fall table setting" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/a-simple-fall-table-setting/" target="_blank"> here</a>), our plain white dishes, stainless steel cutlery and white linen napkins, which I tied with yellow ribbon. Since it was just a family lunch, I didn&#8217;t add any place cards, but you can easily make some with cardboard if you like to.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I then added yellow water glasses (they are made of plastic) and everyday wine glasses, which are small and not as fancy as <a title="Day 5: A Christmas table setting in Red {Entertain!}" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/day-5-a-christmas-table-setting-in-red-entertain/" target="_blank">these ones</a>.  I covered our bread basket with a kitchen towel in yellows, greens and oranges, and placed a few gerberas that I had bought that morning in milk bottles. Finally, I tied a silk butterfly to the improvised vases and the table was ready!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Do you like to take some extra time to prettify your table? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Which colors do you normally chose when you do?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Please, share in the comments below!</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Yellow-table-settingwm2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4480" alt="" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Yellow-table-settingwm2.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> Con sabor latino&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Buenos días queridos amigos!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hoy les traigo una forma super sencilla y primaveral de poner la mesa, en un alegre color amarillo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Me encanta el amarillo, es un color tan luminoso, y alegre ¿no les parece?  Me hace pensar en días soleados, almuerzos largos bajo la sombra de un arbol, amigos, risas y charlas eternas y felices. Por eso, cuando hace unos días ví que en Ikea vendían un mantel a rayas amarillas y blancas, no dudé un segundo y lo compré. Sabía que alegraría mis días!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuando volvimos de la tienda y tan pronto como llegué a casa, me puse a buscar el resto de las cosas amarillas que tenía dando vuelta por ahi: unos repasadores bonitos que casi no había usado, vasos amarillos de plástico, y unos retazos de cinta amarilla que habían quedado de otros proyectos. Junté todo lo que tenía y decidí usarlo para armar una mesa festiva y sencilla para sorprender a mi marido, luego de su examen de primer año de maestría.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Si llevan algun tiempo leyendo este blog, ya saben que me gustan las mesas simples y child friendly, aquellas en las cuales si se cae un plato o alguien vuelca vino sobre el mantel, no pasa nada y todos siguen contentos. Las mesas que les muestro en este blog, son mesas reales, y así preparo mi casa para recibir amigos o para alguna ocasión especial: sin demasiada pompa. Podría hacer mesas más elaboradas para el blog, pero mi idea es mostrarles ambientes reales y que ustedes puedan reproducir fácilmente, sin tener que invertir una fortuna ni dedicar días a la preparación.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Para esta ocasión (el lunes pasado), comencé con mi nuevo mantel (como saben, normalmente suelo usar mi mantel blanco de lino, que ya han visto <a title="Day 17: A “Peace on earth” white table setting  {entertain!}" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/day-17-a-peace-on-earth-white-table-setting-entertain/" target="_blank">aquí</a>, <a title="Day 14: A Simple Christmas table setting in White and Gold {Entertain!}" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/day-14-a-simple-christmas-table-setting-in-white-and-gold-entertain/" target="_blank">aquí</a>, <a title="Day 5: A Christmas table setting in Red {Entertain!}" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/day-5-a-christmas-table-setting-in-red-entertain/" target="_blank">aquí</a> y <a title="A simple fall table setting" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/a-simple-fall-table-setting/" target="_blank">aquí</a>), nuestros platos blancos de diario, cubiertos de acero inoxidable, y servilletas de lino blanco, que até con un moño de raso amarillo. Como era un almuerzo familiar, no coloqué tarjetitas con el nombre de los comensales, pero si ustedes desean hacerlo, son fáciles de hacer con cartulinas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Luego coloqué los vasos amarillos y copas de diario (que son más pequeñas que las que usamos <a title="Day 5: A Christmas table setting in Red {Entertain!}" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/day-5-a-christmas-table-setting-in-red-entertain/" target="_blank">AQUI</a>, por ejemplo), cubrí  la panera con un repasador en  tonos amarillos, verdes y naranjas, y coloqué unas gerberas que había comprado por la mañana en botellitas de leche. Finalmente, até mariposas de seda a los improvisados floreros, y la mesa quedó lista!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>¿Les gusta tomarse un tiempito extra para decorar la mesa de vez en cuando? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>¿Qué colores suelen elegir cuando lo hacen? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Cuentenme en los comentarios!!</strong></p>
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		<title>26 things you didn&#8217;t know about me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Good evening dear friends! I had a different post planned for today, but my dear Amanda, from Poppies and Ice cream, nominated me for a Liebster Award meme, and I<a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/20thingsyoudidntknowaboutme/" class="read-more">  ...<br/><b>Read More</b></a></p><p>The post <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/20thingsyoudidntknowaboutme/">26 things you didn&#8217;t know about me</a> appeared first on <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com">The Celebration Girl</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Good evening dear friends!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I had a different post planned for today, but my dear<a href="http://tartasypinceles.com/" target="_blank"> Amanda</a>, from <a href="http://poppiesandicecream.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Poppies and Ice cream</a>, nominated me for a Liebster Award meme, and I thought it would be fun to use it as a opportunity to share some random facts about me that you may not know. If you are not familiar with memes, the idea is that I have to share some random facts about me and answer some questions, and then pass it to someone else, so that we get to know more about the persons we interact with in the blogosphere.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So here go 15 random facts about me, followed by my replies to Amanda&#8217;s questions:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1- My mum is the best party planner I know and she is capable of transforming a room with paper and scissors. She always gave us the best parties and we always looked forward to our birthdays. In the picture at the beginning of this post you can see some of the pictures from my bunny 1st year old birthday, my &#8220;Dutch girl&#8221; 3rd year old, my &#8220;princess&#8221; 5 year old party, as well as the party were we had magicians and  a troubadour.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2- I didn&#8217;t have a 6 year old birthday party because I was grounded and lost my right to it. I used to throw HUGE tantrums for no reason and I was, frankly speaking, quite impossible, so my parents took away the one thing I loved the most: my birthday party. It worked, that was the last tantrum I ever had.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3- I never thought about myself as someone creative.  It still surprises that I now have so many hobbies that imply me doing something with my hands!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4- I was always a nerd, and a bookworm. Libraries make my eyes tingle. My dream would be to have the one from Disney&#8217;s Beauty and the Beast, or at least to be allowed to go read there as often as I want to.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5- This one is related to fact#4: I have no idea what professors mean when they talk about &#8220;suggested or recommended reading&#8221;. I am an obsessive student and need to know EVERYTHING to feel safe at the time of an exam. So anything that is &#8220;suggested&#8221; (or sometimes even just mentioned) ends up in the  reading list.  That&#8217;s why, for example, I read 32 books  while studying Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (during my LL.M) even if the compulsory reading included just 1.  (I&#8217;m glad I did).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6) I love to sing but I&#8217;m tone deaf. So I sing in the shower, like Fabio Armiliato&#8217;s character  in Woody Allen&#8217;s <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1859650/" target="_blank">To Rome with Love</a></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7) When I was 17 years old, my best friend and I buried a time capsule in the backyard of our country side home. We retrieved it and opened it 6 years later (the picture below shows us with the contents of the box on the day. We were drying them because we hadn&#8217;t sealed the box properly and they were wet).</p>
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<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cajita-del-tiempo.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4458" alt="cajita del tiempo" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cajita-del-tiempo.jpg" width="442" height="594" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">8) I have a freakishly good memory for unimportant things, such as dates when things happened. I can easily remember what I did on September 7th 1992, for example (I went to a party at my friend Melina&#8217;s house. See, I told you).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">9) I lived 2 1/2 years in Ivory Coast and those years changed my life completely. In the picture below, you can see me in the Comoé region, next to a cocoa tree</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10) I am an originally blonde turned bottle brunette because I have white hair <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-4460" alt="yo con una planta de cacao" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/yo-con-una-planta-de-cacao.jpg" width="643" height="646" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> 11) I have a travelling troll, just like the garden dwarf from Amélie. He has been with me since January 1994 (I told you I was good with dates) and has traveled with me all over the World.  The picture below is from the times I lived Ivory Coast. My team and I were having breakfast at a café in Bouaké, and I took a picture of the Troll on the UN Prado. I guess we can say that he was a UN Peacekeeping Troll for a while.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Troll-UN.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4462" alt="Troll UN" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Troll-UN.jpg" width="800" height="600" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">12) I learn languages easily. That&#8217;s probably my best talent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">13) I love Opera and have been known for tearing up when listening to it. Such an Italian cliché, I know, but I can&#8217;t deny my blood <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">14) My husband and I met in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on the day I arrived. We started dating 1 week after my arrival and got engaged 1 month after that. The picture below is our first one together.</p>
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<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Resize-of-HPIM0241-small.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4457" alt="Musa and Marcela, October 2005" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Resize-of-HPIM0241-small.jpg" width="800" height="603" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">15) My husband and I got married in Florence, Italy, 5 1/2 months after the day we met. It was the happiest day of my life. I wore a black suit and a hat.</p>
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<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/wedding1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4459" alt="wedding1" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/wedding1.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Now here are my answers to Amanda&#8217;s questions:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1-If you could live anywhere, where would that be?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hmm, this is a difficult one, because I would like to live in many places and experience living in different cultures&#8230;but if I had to settle somewhere, I would probably chose Florence, Italy (Firenze). It&#8217;s my favorite city in the World (well, the parts of the World that I know)</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/HPIM0521.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4456" alt="HPIM0521" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/HPIM0521.jpg" width="800" height="602" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2- Given the chance, which magic power would you choose?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Healing, the body, the mind and the soul. Healing broken relationships, ill sentiments, bringing peace where there is war, bringing smiles where there are tears, bringing hope to those who have lost it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3- If the genie-of-the-lamp appeared to you, what would you ask?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The magic power above. And a Canon 5D Mark III with a couple of lenses <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4- Do you recommend any books?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yes! Just off the top of my head:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">-One hundred years of solitude, by Gabriel García Marquez,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">-Rayuela (Hopscotch), by Julio Cortazar</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Everything by Milan Kundera</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Anything by Krishnamurti</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- A long walk to freedom (Nelson Mandela&#8217;s autobiography)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- A lucky child (the memoir of Judge Buergenthal&#8217;s surviving Auschwitz)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- The books by Ahmadou Kourouma on the conflict in Ivory Coast: <em>Allah n&#8217;est pas obligé, Quand on refuse on dit non, les soleils des indépendances.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Closed doors (Huis clos) by Jean Paul Sartre (I had an existentialist phase when I was 14. I used to dress all in black and read Sartre, Camus and de Beauvoir. Ah, the teenage years&#8230;)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5- What made you start blogging?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I wanted to share the things I was learning with my family and friends. To my delight, this community grew and I found people reading my ramblings that I didn&#8217;t know before. Thank you all for being there!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>6- What is making you happy right now?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lots of things, little things: my kids laughter, my husband&#8217;s hugs, the sunny day outside my window, a nice cup of tea, the yellow gerberas  that I bought yesterday at the market and that are gracing my living room, beautiful music, new friends, new projects, new beginnings. I believe happiness is in the small things.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>7- What is your favorite food?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I don&#8217;t know if I have a favorite food,  I like different things at different times. But my Italian heritage dictates that I&#8217;m always in the mood for pasta!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>8- Favorite fairy-tale?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Beauty and the Beast.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>9- Are you a nomad or do you feel bound to your &#8220;roots&#8221;?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A nomad, definitely.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>10- The best place you&#8217;ve ever visited?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What do you mean by best? My favorite city is Florence, because it breathes art and it&#8217;s perfect <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>11- Happiest memory from childhood?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I can&#8217;t remember&#8230;probably the day my brother was born. I was so excited to have a little brother!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now I pass this award to:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Raquel, from Dessine<a href="http://raqueldevile.be" target="_blank">- moi un doudou </a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Claire, from  <a href="http://www.outandin.net/" target="_blank">Nutrition Out and In </a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Haroulla, from <a href=" http://sugabelle.com/" target="_blank">Sugabelle</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Natascha, from  <a href="www.purple-peacock.net" target="_blank">Puple Peacock Jewellery </a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Marbel, from <a href="www.imaginationcreature.com" target="_blank">Imagination Creature</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And here are my questions to them:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1- What is your biggest talent?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2- What is your biggest fear?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3- What makes you happy?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4- What did you dream of being when you were a child?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5- Is there anywhere other than your home city where you would like to live?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6- Do you have any heroes or people you admire? who inspires you?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7- Which is your favorite movie?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">8- Which is your favorite book?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">9- Do you read blogs? If so, can you recommend your favorite?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10- What do you know now that you wished you had known 10 years ago?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I hope you liked this game and found it as fun as I did!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Now, if you want to, please share a few random facts about you in the comments below, so that we get to know each other better!</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Con sabor latino&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Buenas noches queridos amigos!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Tenía otro post planificado para hoy, pero mi querida Amanda, de Poppies and Ice cream me nominó para un meme llamado Liebster Award y me pareció que sería divertido usarlo como una oportunidad para compartir con ustedes alguna información acerca de mí que posiblemente no conozcan.  Por si no estan familiarizados con el mundo de los blogs,  les cuento que una meme es un &#8220;premio&#8221; en virtud del cual tengo que contarles cosas acerca de mí,  responder algunas preguntas, y luego pasarselo a otros bloggers que leo para que podamos conocernos mejor.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Así que aquí tienen 13 datos acerca de mí, seguidos de mis respuestas a las preguntas de Amanda:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1- Mi mamá es la mejor organizadora de eventos que conozco y alguien capaz de transformar cualquier ambiente sólo con papel y tijeras.  Siempre nos organizó fiestas fantasticas y nosotros (mi hermano y yo) adorábamos nuestros cumpleaños. La foto del comienzo de este post es un collage de algunas de esas fiestas: mi fiesta de conejitos (1er cumpleaños), mi tercer cumpleaños de &#8220;Holandesa&#8221;, mis 5 años de &#8220;princesa&#8221;, así como el mago y el trovador que animaron otras de nuestras fiestas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2- A los 6 años me quedé sin fiesta de cumpleaños porque estaba en penitencia. En esa epoca yo hacía unos berrinches de padre y señor mío y era, francamente hablando, bastante insoportable, así que mis padres me quitaron lo que yo más quería: mi fiesta de cumpleaños. Funcionó, ese fue mi último berrinche.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3- Nunca me concebí como alguien creativo, y aún sigo sorprendida de tener tantos hobbies que requieren que haga cosas con mis manos (la sorpresa de tener este blog, ni les cuento!)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4- Siempre fui una nerd (en Argentina decimos traga, por traga libros, pero no sé en otros paises) y una rata de biblioteca. Veo una biblioteca y mis ojos se llenan de estrellitas. Mi sueño sería tener una biblioteca como la de la película de Disney  &#8221;La Bella y la Bestia&#8221;, o al menos que me permitieran leer allí las veces que yo quiera.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5- Este punto está relacionado con el anterior: No tengo la más remota idea qué se supone que sean las &#8220;lecturas sugeridas o recomendadas&#8221;por los profesores, yo entiendo todo como obligatorio. Soy de esas estudiantes obsesivas que necesita saber TODO para sentirse segura en un examen. Todo lo &#8220;sugerido&#8221; termina  en la lista de libros &#8220;a leer sí o sí&#8221;. A causa de esto terminé leyendo 32 libros al estudiar Filosofía del derecho (para una maestría) y no sólo uno (el único obligatorio).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6- Amo cantar pero tengo cero oido para la musica. Por eso canto bajo la ducha, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubYlUc2lWXY" target="_blank">como el personaje de Fabio Armiliato en la pelicula de Woody Allen <i>To Rome with love. </i></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7- Cuando tenía 17 años, mi mejor amiga y yo enterramos una capsula del tiempo en el parque de nuestra casa de campo. La desenterramos 6 años más tarde y fue muy emocionante. La foto doble nos muestra a nosotras dos con los contenidos de la cajita, que estaban secándose al sol porque no la habíamos sellado bien y le había entrado agua.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">8- Tengo una memoria de elefante para cosas poco importantes, especialmente para las fechas. Puedo recordar con facilidad, por ejemplo, qué estaba haciendo el 7 de septiembre de 1992 (fui a una fiesta en casa de mi amiga Melina. Vieron? les dije)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">9- Viví 2 1/2 años en Costa de Marfil y esos años cambiaron mi vida para siempre. En la tercera foto de este post me pueden ver en la región del Comoé, al lado de una planta de cacao.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10- Soy originalmente rubia, pero me tiño el pelo de marrón chocolate porque tengo canas <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">11-Tengo un troll viajero, algo así como el enano de jardín de la película &#8220;Amélie&#8221;. Lo compré en enero de 1994 (les dije que era buena para las fechas)  y ha viajado conmigo alrededor del mundo. En la 4ta foto del post lo pueden ver arriba de una camioneta Toyota Prado de Naciones Unidas. Mi equipo de trabajo y yo estábamos desayunando en Bouaké (Costa de Marfil) cuando se me ocurrió tomarle la foto allí. Podría decirse que Naciones Unidas tuvo un troll casco azul por un segundos <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">12- Aprendo idiomas con facilidad. Creo que ese es mi mayor talento.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">13- Adoro la Opera y se me saltan las lágrimas cuando la escucho. Sí, ya sé que teniendo sangre italiana soy un verdadero cliché caminante, pero qué se le va a hacer&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">14- Conocí a mi marido en Abijan, Costa de Marfil, el día que llegué al pais. Comenzamos a salir juntos una semana despues, y un mes después él me pidió casamiento y yo dije que sí. La 5ta foto del post es nuestra primer foto juntos.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">15- Mi marido y yo nos casamos en Florencia, Italia (Firenze), 5 meses y medio despues de conocernos. Fue el día más feliz de mi vida. Me casé con un traje negro y un sombrero.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora aqui estan mis respuestas a las preguntas de Amanda:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1- Si pudieras vivir en cualquier lugar ¿cual elegirias?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hmm&#8230;esa es una pregunta dificil porque me gustaría vivir en muchos lugares y experimentar la vida en distintas culturas, pero teniendo que elegir sólo una ciudad, elegiría Florencia. Es mi ciudad preferida, dentro de las que conozco, claro.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2- Si pudieras elegir un poder mágico ¿ cual elegirias? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">El poder de sanación, no sólo del cuerpo físico, sino tambien el alma, la mente y el corazón. El poder de sanar relaciones rotas, llevar paz donde hay guerra, sonrisas donde hay lágrimas y esperanza a aquellos que la han perdido.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3- Si te encontraras con el genio de la lámpara ¿qué le pedirias?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">El poder de la pregunta anterior. Y una cámara Canon 5D Mark III con un par de lentes <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4- Me recomendarías algun libro?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sí, varios! Los primeros que se me ocurren son los siguientes:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Marquez</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Rayuela, de Julio Cortazar</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Todo lo que escribió Milan Kundera</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Cualquier libro de Krishnamurti</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- La biografía de Nelson Mandela (en inglés se llama A long Walk to Freedom)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Un niño con suerte (el libro del ex juez de la Corte Internacional de Justicia, Buergenthal sobre cómo sobrevivió a Auschwitz)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Los libros de Ahmadou Kpurouma acerca del conflicto en Costa de Marfil: Allah no está obligado, cuando nos negamos decimos que no, y los soles de las  independencias.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- A puertas  cerradas, de Jean Paul Sartre (tuve un período existencialista cuando tenía 14 años, en que me vestía toda de negro, leía a Sartre, Camus, y de Beauvoir y decia cosas que sonaban importantes. Ah, la adolescencia&#8230;)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5- ¿Qué te llevó a empezar un blog?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Las ganas de contarles a mi familia y amigos las cosas que estaba aprendiendo. Con el tiempo, y para mi grata sorpresa, otra gente fue leyendome y ahora ya somos una comunidad. Gracias por estar allí!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>6- ¿Qué te hace feliz ahora? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Muchas cosas, pequeñas cosas: la risa de mis hijos, el abrazo de mi marido, los días soleados detrás de mi ventana, una taza de rico té, las gerberas amarillas que compré ayer en el mercado y que adornan mi living, música bonita, amigos nuevos, proyectos nuevos, nuevos comienzos. Creo fervientemente que la felicidad está en las pequeñas cosas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>7- ¿Cual es tu comida favorita?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No sé si tengo una comida favorita, me gusta comer cosas diferentes en diferentes momentos, pero mi sangre italiana dicta que siempre es buen momento para comer pasta!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>8- ¿Cuento de hadas preferido?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">La Bella y la Bestia</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>9- ¿Eres nomado o te consideras atado a tus raices?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nómade, definitivamente</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>10-¿El mejor lugar que hayas visitado?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A qué te refieres con mejor lugar? Mi ciudad favorita es Florencia, porque respira arte y es perfecta <img src='http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>10- ¿Recuerdo de infancia más feliz?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">No recuerdo&#8230;posiblemente el día que nació mi hermano porque estaba super contenta de tener un hermanito!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora yo paso el premio a:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Raquel, de  Dessine<a href="http://raqueldevile.be/" target="_blank">- moi un doudou </a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Claire, de  <a href="http://www.outandin.net/" target="_blank">Nutrition Out and In </a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Haroulla, de <a href="http://sugabelle.com/" target="_blank">Sugabelle</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Natascha, de  <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/20thingsyoudidntknowaboutme/www.purple-peacock.net" target="_blank">Puple Peacock Jewellery </a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">- Marbel, de  <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/20thingsyoudidntknowaboutme/www.imaginationcreature.com" target="_blank">Imagination Creature</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">Y mis preguntas para ellas son:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1- Cual es tu mayor talento?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2- Cual es tu miedo más grande?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3- Qué te hace feliz?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4- Qué soñabas ser cuando eras niño?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5- Querrías vivir en algun lugar que no sea donde vives?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6- Tienes heroes o gente a la que admiras? quién te inspira?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7- Cual es tu pelicula favorita?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">8- Cual es tu libro preferido?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">9- Lees blogs? Me recomiendas tu preferido?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10- Qué sabes ahora que querrías haber sabido hace 10 años?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Espero que les haya gustado este juego tanto como a mí</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Ahora, si tienen ganas, dejen un comentario en el blog contándome un poco más acerca de ustedes tambien, así nos conocemos mejor!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hasta el próximo post!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Good morning dear friends! Today&#8217;s recipe was my monthly contribution to the Spanish website Petit-On. As I have mentioned before, each month I contribute a recipe based on an ingredient chosen<a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/strawberrycoconuticecream/" class="read-more">  ...<br/><b>Read More</b></a></p><p>The post <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/strawberrycoconuticecream/">Strawberry coconut ice cream, for Petit-On (dairy free, egg free)</a> appeared first on <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com">The Celebration Girl</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Good morning dear friends!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today&#8217;s recipe was my monthly contribution to the Spanish website <a title="Straweberry coconut ice cream for Petit-On" href="http://petit-on.com/2013/04/17/helado-fresas-coco-receta-infantil-ninos-sin-lacteos/" target="_blank">Petit-On</a>. As I have mentioned before, each month I contribute a recipe based on an ingredient chosen by one of the blog&#8217;s contributors. To my utter delight, the ingredient for April was strawberries!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I love strawberries and, each year, I wait anxiously for April to arrive because I know that it&#8217;s strawberry season. I love their fragrant smell, their sweetness that goes so well with slightly tangy flavors, and the deep red of their skins. They are delicious <em>and</em> beautiful, a real  feast for all senses.  The funny thing is that I hated them when I was a child&#8230;but fortunately I have come to my senses since then!</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Loving strawberries as I do, it took me a while to chose a recipe, but I finally decided to make this one, because what better way to greet the warmer weather and celebrate Spring than with a delicious ice cream?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As you will soon see, an added beauty of this recipe is that it takes very few ingredients: coconut milk, fresh strawberries, sugar and a splash of good vanilla, to enhance the strawberries natural flavor  (I use vanilla bean paste but you may use vanilla extract if you want, or a vanilla pod). Yes, no milk, no cream and no eggs, which also means no need to make a custard, beat ingredients or anything like that. I warm up the milk with the sugar for a little while, so that the sugar cristals dissolve but you can also make it raw and just out all ingredients in a blender or food processor at the same time, process and refrigerate for a couple of hours before churning in an ice cream maker.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Strawberry-coconut-ice-cream2wm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4343" alt="Strawberry-coconut-ice-cream2wm" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Strawberry-coconut-ice-cream2wm.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here is the recipe:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Strawberry and coconut ice cream</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Ingredients</em></strong>: 2 1/2 cup of strawberries , 1 can of coconut milk, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste/the seeds of 1 vanilla pod or 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Preparation</em></strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Wash the strawberries, remove the leaves, cut them in half and put them in the bowl of a food processor or blender.  Process and blend until they transform into a purée. Reserve.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) Put coconut milk and sugar in a saucepan and bring to moderate heat for about 5 minutes, so that the sugar crystals dissolve. Remove from the heat, let cool down for a while and add vanilla.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Pour the sugared milk in the food processor/blender, together with the strawberry purée and pulse a few times to to integrate well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4) Pour the preparation in a tall glass/bowl, cover with foil and refrigerate for at least 4 hours before churning.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5) Remove the preparation from the refrigerator and churn in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer&#8217;s instructions. I use the KitchenAid ice cream attachment, with which it takes 15-20 minutes for the ice cream to reach soft consistency.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6) Remove the ice cream from the machine, put it in an airtight container and place it in the freezer for a couple of hours so that it reaches scoop consistency.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">If you don&#8217;t have an ice cream machine, you can still make this recipe. In that case, instead of refrigerating the preparation as is required before churning, put it directly in the freezer, and remove it every 30 minutes during 2 hours, beating it vigorously every time, so as to break the ice crystals. You may also use it to make ice lollies, if you have the molds.  They will be delicious either way!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Do you like to make ice cream at home? Do you have any food allergies that prevent you from eating ice cream at a shop? Let me know in the comments below and I promise I&#8217;ll do my best to come up with a recipe you can eat!</strong></p>
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		<title>Tiny toys storage solution: DIY Origami Boxes-with tutorial!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Almost one year ago, when Luka and Zoe were about to turn 4, we decided that their shared room needed a major re-haul. Their room had evolved in a disorganized way<a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/origamiboxes/" class="read-more">  ...<br/><b>Read More</b></a></p><p>The post <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/origamiboxes/">Tiny toys storage solution: DIY Origami Boxes-with tutorial!</a> appeared first on <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com">The Celebration Girl</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Almost one year ago, when Luka and Zoe were about to turn 4, we decided that their shared room needed a major re-haul. Their room had evolved in a disorganized way from the baby days to toddler-hood and, what  had once been  a cute baby room, had turned into a more or less well managed chaos.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The main problem was what I called &#8220;the toy storage situation&#8221;.  It&#8217;s not that Luka and Zoe had that many toys, because we purge every 6 months, but that what they had didn&#8217;t have a place of its own. We had a couple of big toy baskets where everything was just thrown in at the end of the day and, even if you may think that this is a good idea because cleanup is easy, let me tell you this: it&#8217;s the opposite. When everything gets thrown into a big basket at the end of the day, nothing is easily found the following morning. Our living room&#8217;s floor (which is our main playing area because the rooms are rather small)  was permanently covered in toys, the children were frustrated because they couldn&#8217;t find fast what they wanted and I was frustrated because the house was a constant mess. So we decided to do something about it, and started planning the new room.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I repainted the walls in white and we chose white furniture to make the room look a little bit bigger. We bought the beds, converted their old changing table into a bookshelf for Luka and Zoe&#8217;s books and big puzzles and, after measuring, re measuring and various visits to Ikea, we opted for their TROFAST toy storage system, which we adore. Big toys and teddies were placed in boxes under the beds, and everything else was stored in the TROFAST containers, with a preference for smaller ones, to allow greater classification. Toys inside some of the containers were also classified: small puzzles, for example,  were placed inside different Ikea freezer bags, so that the different pieces wouldn&#8217;t get mixed up. Big, medium-sized and small toys were under control, hurray! Luka and Zoe loved the system and adapted in no time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But until recently, we hadn&#8217;t found a solution for tiny toys&#8230;you know the ones, the cute little wooden pegs, the tiny puzzles or, if you have a little girl, the tiny hair accessories that seem to end up everywhere. The boxes I found in stores were either too big, too ugly, had no cover or costed a lot. Leaving the toys just laying on the shelves means that cleaning takes longer, so we had to come up with another solution&#8230;and we did!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What I am talking about? Origami boxes!</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PicMonkey-Collage.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4333" alt="Origami boxes" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PicMonkey-Collage.jpg" width="800" height="660" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Materials needed? Only paper! And they are so easy, that you can make as many as you want, in whatever size you need and you can customize them for virtually no money. You don&#8217;t even need origami paper to make them, a simple sheet of paper will suffice. If your children are old enough, you can have fun making a few with them, and the decorate them together with some glitter, washi tape, ribbon, scrapbook paper and supplies, buttons or whatever you have in hand!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Let me show you how to do it:</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/origamiwm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4325" alt="origamiwm" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/origamiwm.jpg" width="637" height="800" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For making each box you will need 2 sheets of paper. If you have  a bone folder,  it is handy for pressing the folds but if you don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t worry!. The paper needs to be squared, so if you are using regular A4 size sheets, you will need to trim them before you begin.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now let&#8217;s get started!</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxeswm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4330" alt="Origami-boxes" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxeswm.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Put the paper on the table, patterned side down (the white side should be facing you). Fold the paper in half, horizontally, making sure that the corners match perfectly. Then open the paper again and fold it vertically (lengthwise). Press with the bone folder (or your nails) and open it again.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes1wm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4328" alt="Origami-boxes" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes1wm.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) The previous folds will have formed a cross. Fold each corner, so that they all meet at the center of the page. When you are done, your paper will look as the picture on the right.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes2wm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4329" alt="Origami-boxes" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes2wm.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
<p>3) Fold the bottom side of the paper in half,  to meet the center. Make sure that it meets exactly the center of the page. Do the same with the upper side. When you are finished, your paper will  look as in the picture on the right.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/origami-8-watermark.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4320" alt="Origami boxes by The Celebration Girl" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/origami-8-watermark.jpg" width="585" height="800" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4) Open the bottom and upper folds. This time, fold the paper left and right side of the paper in half, so that they meet at the center (in the picture above I folded just one side to show you the mechanics)</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes3wm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4331" alt="Origami-boxes" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes3wm.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> 5) Open the folds as in the picture on the left.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6) Take the paper with your hands, lift the sides slightly and press with your fingers on the upper corners to make a &#8220;reverse fold&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes4.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4321" alt="Origami-boxes4" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes4.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">7) Press the fold as in the picture of the left and, then, lift the upper side and fold the flap. When you are finished, it will look like the picture on the right.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">8) Repeat the reverse fold on the other side, lift and fold the the flap. And you are done! Your box is ready!</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/origami_13wm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4332" alt="origami_13" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/origami_13wm.jpg" width="617" height="800" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, in order to make the box&#8217;s cover, you will need to make just one small variation to the steps shown above. Here&#8217;s the step by step explanation and a picture of the modification needed:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Take your sheet of paper and repeat steps 1 and 2 above.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes5.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4322" alt="Origami-boxes5" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes5.jpg" width="774" height="480" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> 2) Here&#8217;s what you need to do differently: When you come to steps 3 and 4, instead of folding the paper in half to meet the center, fold it just a few centimeters before it, as in the pictures above. This will make the cover slightly bigger than the box, so that you can close it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Proceed with steps 5 to 8 as in the box pictures.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes6.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4323" alt="Origami-boxes6" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes6.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">You are now ready to fill your box with whatever tiny thing is going around your children&#8217;s bedroom, or even in your desk (they are great for small pins, clips, etc, so you can have your desk&#8217;s drawers tidy!). You can also make them in different colors to make it easy to identify what is inside.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Now, I&#8217;m curious: How do YOU organize your children&#8217;s toys? Please, share in the comments below!</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes7.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4324" alt="Origami-boxes7" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Origami-boxes7.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Con sabor latino&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hace poco menos de un año, cuando Luka y Zoe estaban a punto de cumplir 4, decidimos que su habitación (que es compartida), necesitaban un cambio urgente.  Su cuarto había evolucionado de forma desordenada desde su nacimiento y, lo que en algun momento había sido una dulce habitación de bebé, se había transformado en un caos medianamente manejable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">El mayor problema que teníamos era lo que yo había dado en llamar &#8220;la situación jugueteril&#8221;. Y ojo, no es que Luka y Zoe tuvieran taaantos juguetes, sino que los que tenían no contaban con un espacio propio donde ser guardados. Teníamos un par de canastos grandes en el todos los juguetes eran colocados, sin orden alguno, al final del día y, aunque esto pueda parecerles una forma facil de limpiar dejenme decirles lo siguiente: es lo opuesto.Esos mismos juguetes que tirabamos a los apurones por la noche, eran aquellos con los que los niños querían jugar por la mañana y, al no encontrar rápidamente aquél que buscaban, terminaban tirando todo al suelo nuevamente ni bien se despertaban. La casa era un caos permanente, con juguetes alfombrando el piso del living (nuestra area de juegos, ya que las habitaciones son pequeñas), Luka y Zoe estaban frustrados porque no encontraban lo que buscaban, y yo estaba frustrada por el lío descomunal. Así que decidimos cambiar esta situación y comenzamos a planificar la reforma del cuarto.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Comenzamos pintando las paredes de blanco, y compramos muebles del mismo color, para agrandar un poco el espacio, que de por sí es pequeño. Compramos camas de niño, transformamos su viejo mueble cambiador en mini biblioteca para sus libritos y sus rompecabezas y, luego de medir, volver a medir y medir una vez más, elegimos el sistema de almacenamiento de juguetes de Ikea llamado TROFAST, del que estamos enamorados. Los juguetes grandes y los peluches, fueron colocados en cajas debajo de las camas, y los juguetes medianos y pequeños, organizados en los recipientes de plastico del sistema TROFAST (que tienen hasta tapa para que no se llenen de polvo!). Dentro de este sistema, elegimos recipientes chicos, que nos obligaran a clasificar los juguetes lo más posible y, cuando optamos por recipientes más grandes, clasificamos de diferentes maneras lo que colocamos dentro (por ejemplo, los puzzles que perdieron su caja original están colocados dentro de uno de los recipientes rosas de Zoe, pero separados dentro de bolsas de freezer de Ikea, para que no se mezclen las piezas). Juguetes grandes, medianos y pequeños, estaban en su lugar, yay! Luka y Zoe amaron el nuevo orden instantaneamente y se adaptaron al mismo en un santiamén.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pero aún teniamos un problema: los juguetitos diminutos&#8230;ustedes me entienden, los mini broches de madera que ahora están en todas partes, los mini puzzles y, si tienen niñas, los millones de gomitas y prensitas para el cabello que terminan en todos los rincones. Las cajitas que encontraba por allí eran o demasiado grandes, o feas, sin tapa o carísimas, y dejar los juguetitos en los estantes no era una opción porque ésto dificulta muchisimo la limpieza&#8230;.necesitábamos otra solución, y la encontramos!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A qué me refiero? A cajitas de origami!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Material necesario? Solo papel! Además son tán faciles de hacer que puedan hacerlas en cantidad, de diferentes colores y hasta decorarlas como más les guste por casi nada de dinero. Ni siquiera hace falta que usen papel de arroz, una simple hoja que tengan a man basta, y si tienen niños más grande, pueden hacerlas con ellos y luego divertirse decorandolas con papel, cintas, glitter, restos de scrap, washi tape,botones, o lo que se les ocurra.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Para cada cajita necesitarán dos hojas de papel. Si tienen ese instrumento llamado bone folder que se ve en las fotos, es super usarlo para afirmar los pliegues, pero si no tienen uno, no se hagan problemas, que las uñas sirven igual! El papel que utilicen tiene que ser cuadrado, asi que si estan adaptando una hoja de papel A4, cortenla cuadradita antes de comenzar.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Aquí están las instrucciones que acompañan las fotos:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1)Si su papel tiene diseño solo de un lado, coloquenlo con el mismo sobre la mesa y la parte blanca mirandolos a ustedes. Doblen el papel por la mitad horizontalmente.Luego, abran el papel y vuelvan a doblar, pero verticalmente. Presionen sobre los pliegues con el bone folder o los dedos, y vuelvan  a abrir el papel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) Al abrir el papel notarán que los pliegues previos han dejado marcas en el mismo (una cruz). Estas marcas guiarán los proximos pliegues. A continuación, doblen cada una de las puntas del papel hacia el centro del mismo (que toquen el centro). Fijense en la foto de la derecha que están sobre el punto numero 2 para ver cómo tiene que quedar el papel luego de los pliegues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Doblen la parte inferior del papel por la mitad, haciendola llegar hasta el centro. A continuación doblen la parte superior de la misma manera. La foto de la derecha correspondiente al numero 3 les mostrará cómo debe quedar el papel liego de estos pliegues.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4) Desdoblen el papel hasta que les quede como al terminar el punto 2. Vamos a repetir los dobleces del punto 3, pero en lugar de hacerlo con las partes superior e inferior del papel, lo haremos con los lados, izquierdo y derecho.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5) Deshagan casi todos los dobleces, hasta que el papel les quede como en la foto de la izquierda (arriba del numero 5).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6) Tomando el papel con sus manos, levanten los costados del papel y presionen levemente sobre la parte superior para generar lo que se conoce como &#8220;doblez invertido&#8221; (las marcas del papel guiarán la forma, no se preocupen).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7) Presionen el doblez invertido con los dedos (como en la foto), levanten la parte superior de cajita y cierren la pestaña. Su cajita tendrá listas ya 3 paredes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">8) Repitan el doblez invertido en la parte inferior de la misma, levanten la parte superior y cierren la pestaña como en los pasos anteriores&#8230;y su cajita estará lista!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Para hacer la tapa de la cajita, deberán seguir casi los mismos pasos, con una sola variación, como les explico a continuación:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Tomen su hoja de papel y realicen los mismos pliegues que en los puntos 1 y 2.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) Cuando lleguen al punto 3 y 4, deberán hacer una pequeña cosa diferente: en lugar de doblar los costados por la mitad,para que lleguen al centro, dejen un espacio entre el centro y el borde. Esta simple diferencia hará que la tapa sea ligeramente más grande que la cajita y les permitirá cerrarla! Observen la foto correspondiente para darse una idea de cómo hacerlo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Repitan los pasos 5 a 8 tal y como están explicados para hacer el cuerpo de la caja.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Y listo! Ahora su cajita estará lista para ser llenada con esas pequeñas cositas que puedan andar dando vuelta por las habitaciones de los niños, o aun en su escritorio, porque son ideales para guardar clips, broches, alfileres, y tutti cuanti, y así mantener los cajones organizados. Pueden, incluso, hacer varias de diferentes colores para identificar más facilmente lo que haya dentro!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Ahora tengo curiosidad, cuentenme ¿cómo organizan ustedes los juguetes de sus niños? </strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>One of the questions that I get asked the most whenever someone finds out that I don&#8217;t eat dairy is: &#8220;what do you drink with your coffee?&#8221;. When I reply<a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/how-to-make-almond-milk/" class="read-more">  ...<br/><b>Read More</b></a></p><p>The post <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/how-to-make-almond-milk/">How to make almond milk</a> appeared first on <a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com">The Celebration Girl</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">One of the questions that I get asked the most whenever someone finds out that I don&#8217;t eat dairy is: &#8220;what do you drink with your coffee?&#8221;. When I reply saying that I can chose between soy, nut, oats  or even date milk, people normally mention how expensive these are.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And it is true, store-bought vegetable milks are expensive. But the good news is that they  are also very easy to make at home!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4291" alt="How to make almond milk by The Celebration Girl" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/almond-milkcollagewm.jpg" width="800" height="566" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I made this batch of almond milk a week ago, when I was preparing for my<a title="Spring time, detox, and a yummy citrus and seeds salad" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/detox-salad/" target="_blank"> detox</a> and it took me no longer than 15 minutes. When I was making it, I thought that some of you may like to learn how I do it, so I decided to write this DIY.  In this occasion I made 100% almond milk, but you can replace almonds  with hazelnuts, cashews, pistachios, walnuts&#8230;any nut! And the beauty of it is that the proportions remain the same. You can even mix different nuts (almond and hazelnut milk is delicious) to experiment and add variety. Oh! And there&#8217;s an added bonus: nut flour! The traces of nut that remain after straining the milk can be dried in the oven and used as nut flour in baking! Isn&#8217;t that great?</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4290" alt="Almond milk DIY by The Celebration Girl" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/almond-milk_4wm.jpg" width="533" height="800" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, what do you need to make nut milk? well, nuts of course, water, a blender and a cheesecloth. If you have a mesh strainer, so much the better but if you don&#8217;t, that&#8217;s ok too.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ready to get started? Here&#8217;s the recipe:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Almond Milk (makes 1 litre)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Ingredients:</strong></em> 1 cup almonds, 4 cups water.Optional: 1 tablespoon of honey/agave or other sweetener.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Preparation</strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Soak the almonds in water for at least 4 hours (I leave them overnight)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) Drain the almonds and put them in a small bowl. Pour boiling water over them and let them rest for 5 minutes. This will  allow the peel to come off easily, just by rubbing it off the almonds.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Put the blanched almonds in a blender and add 4 cups of water. Blend until the almonds are not visible anymore.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4) Put a cheesecloth over a bowl and pour the milk on it. The cheesecloth will capture the pieces of nut that are too big.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5) Pour the milk in a bottle and store in the refrigerator for up to a week.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6) Put the nut pieces on a baking tray and place it in the oven at 115C  until they are dry (it can take a while, just be careful not to let them brown). Store in an airtight container and use in baking!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Did you like this recipe? Had you even make nut milk at home before? Please, share in the comments below! </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/almond-milk_3wm.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4289" alt="How to make almond milk by The Celebration Girl" src="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/almond-milk_3wm.jpg" width="575" height="800" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Con sabor latino&#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Una de las preguntas que más recibo, cada vez que menciono que no consumo lacteos, es &#8220;¿con qué tomas el café?&#8221;. Y cuando respondo que hay muchas leches vegetales diferentes, como la de soja, avena, nueces y hasta dátiles, la gente suele comentar cuan caras son las mismas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Y es cierto, las leches vegetables que venden en el supermercado son caras. Pero la buena noticia es que también son facilísimas de hacer en casa! Esta tanda de leche de almendras, por ejemplo, la hice cuando estaba preparandome para el <a title="Spring time, detox, and a yummy citrus and seeds salad" href="http://thecelebrationgirl.com/detox-salad/" target="_blank">detox de comienzos de mes</a> y me llevó no más de 15 minutos. Mientras la hacía, se me ocurrió que a algunos de ustedes podría resultarle util esta receta, y por eso decidí escribir este post.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">En esta ocasión, hice leche 100% de almendras, pero con la misma receta pueden hacer leche de avellanas, de pistachios, de nueces pacanas, de nueces comunes (walnuts), de castañas de cajú (anacardos)&#8230;cualquier nuez, la que tengan en casa y les resulte más barata! Tambien pueden incluso mezclarlas (la leche de almendras y avellanas es deliciosa) para experimentar y agregar variedad.  Y ¿saben qué es lo mejor? Cuando terminen, tambien habrán hecho harina de nuez, porque los restos que quedan en en liencillo pueden secarse en el horno a temperatura baja y utilizarse luego como harina, al hornear. ¿ No es maravilloso?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Qué necesitamos para hacer leche de nuez? Nueces, claro, agua, una licuadora, un bowl y liencillo (la tela finita que se usa para hacer queso). Si tienen un colador grande, de esos que se usan para cernir, suele venir bien para sostener el lienzo, pero si no tienen no se hagan problemas!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Listos para comenzar? Aquí está la receta</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Leche de almendras (rinde 1 litro)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Ingredientes:</strong></em> 1 taza de leche de almendras, 4 tazas de agua. Opcional: 1 cucharada de miel/agave u otro endulzante.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Preparación: </strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1) Coloque las almendras en un bowl, cubra con agua y deje reposar por al menos 4 horas (yo las dejo toda la noche, pero es más por costumbre que otra cosa)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2) Seque las almendras, coloquelas en un bowl seco y vierta encima de las mismas agua caliente (hirviendo). Deje reposar 5 minutos. Esto hará que sea facil pelar las almendras, verán como la piel sale entera con solo frotarlas con las manos.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3) Coloque las almendras peladas en la licuadora. Agregue 4 tazas de agua y licue todo hasta que las almendras se pulvericen.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4) Coloque liencillo sobre un bowl, dejando que sobre a los costados. Vierta la leche de almendras sobre el mismo. El liencillo atrapará los pedacitos de almendra que sean demasiado grandes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5) Retire el liencillo y vierta la leche de almendras en una botella (yo prefiero de vidrio). Guarde en la heladera (refrigerador) hasta una semana.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6) Coloque los restos de almendras en una placa para horno(los que quedaron atrapados en el liencillo), y lleve a horno suave (115C) hasta que se sequen, teniendo cuidado que no se tornen marrones. Una vez seca la harina de almendras, guardela en un recipiente hermético y utilicela al hornear!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Les gustó esta receta? Alguna vez hicieron leche de nuez? Cuentenme en los comentarios!</strong></p>
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