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Indian food made Simple 1. Combination of Talk on Indian Culture & tasting and preparing Indian food
Preparation of
2. Talk on common spices used Indian cooking and create ‘art’ with them.
Participants, having familiarised themselves with the unusual and interesting shapes of spices, will be using them in creating fascinating designs on cardboard based cloth covered frames.
3. Health and growth Make a Smiley Egg cucumber sandwich and understand how foods of different colours can take special care of different parts of your body.
Healthy vegetables to toss in your salad
Understand the benefit of the vegetables such as carrot, tomato, cucumber and relish it with tangy yogurt dip. Participants will prepare the dip and have it with salad.
Fruits
Foods of different colours can take special care of different parts of your body.
Talk on different fruits and participants get to make a ‘Mango fruit delight’ (fruit salad) and relish it too 4. Coconut: The Tree of Life Uses of coconut tree and fruit
Explanation on how the fruit is used in different ways, such as coconut cream, drink, desiccated etc The different functions of a coconut tree-from root to fruit Participants get to see
5. Mango and spices
Know more about mangoes and learn to make refreshing mango drink
Participants get to see, feel and smell spices and lentils which are used commonly in Indian cuisine relish poppadum.
6. Changing State Science experiment: States of matter 1st experiment
Experiment on changing salt water into salt crystal through evaporation.
Next adding water to the salt crystal to make it revert into salt solution
2nd experiment
How to make butter from cream and ghee from butter.
Healthy Lifestyles Day Programme
7. Qi Gong exercise, goal setting and destiny map workshop
Qi Gong is an exercise that works our vital energy. Qi (pronounced ‘chee’) means vital energy or breath. Gong means work.
Qi gong exercise helps us to be healthier by improving our concentration and feeling calm, thus reducing stress. It keeps us healthy from inside out.
The work shop will compose of 10-15 minutes of breathing exercise and visualisation of ‘what you want to be and have when you grow up’.
Destiny map workshop
Remember that a destiny map represents the life that you want to live.
Get a large poster…… Go through the magazines etc and cut out any images or symbols that represent the things you would like to have and become in your life and stick on the poster. In realizing goals, it’s important to have a clear mental picture of what you want, and by seeing this ‘destiny map’ daily, you imprint it upon your unconscious mind thus helping you work towards accomplishing it.
Healthy Indian food
Kheema chapatti is eaten as part of a healthy diet because it provides plenty of nutrients to your body such as protein, fats and fibre.
Participants will be involved in heating chapathi, warming Kheema, making chutney and preparing salad.
Participants will make chapathi wraps with delicious filling and enjoy it.
8. Talk on rice- the different types, texture- what is polished rice, broken rice?!!
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