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    Home » Beverages » Child Nutrition and Cooking – Course overview

    Child Nutrition and Cooking – Course overview

    Posted on June 22, 2015 · Last Updated on June 22, 2015 · By Srividhya G · 12 Comments

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    These are my personal opinion and I have not received any remuneration for these.

    BerrySmoothie

    Coursera and Udemy are my go to sites these days. These online courses make learning and our life easy. When I was browsing the courses in coursera, I found this course called “Child Nutrition and Cooking”  offered by Stanford University. It is a self-paced and a free course too, so signed up right away. (It took me 3 months to complete a 6 hrs. course)

    It was a great course and the title explains it all. The course starts with why home cooking matters and it gradually moves on to balanced meal and USDA terms and technologies associated with that and food allergies. The term natural food and organic food has become magic words but this course clearly explains what it exactly means and how do we interpret the labels. I really enjoyed the entire course and glad that I let Vaandu to listen and watch the course along with me. He learnt a lot too and I was able to explain about junk food and what a healthy meal is and especially about sugars. These sugars play a major role in kid’s health. The course had quizzes too and that was the fun part.

    This course also has great recipe videos and here is a simple one that I tried –  Berry smoothie. I never added yogurt and milk together. I have always added either one. But this recipe called for adding both and it came out really well. It’s a simple recipe. Take a handful of blue berries, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries. Blend it along with milk and yogurt. There are many more recipes like this.

    BerrySmoothie2

    The main thing that I learn from this course was how to eat in moderation. Portion control and balanced meal is the key to healthy life style. It’s a great course and worth the time.  Ending the post with Julia Child’s quote –

    You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.

     

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    Filed Under: Beverages, Non-Recipe Tagged With: berry smoothie, child nutrition and cooking, course review, smoothie with milk and yogurt

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    1. sangeetha menon says

      July 04, 2015 at 10:24 pm

      As a parenting blogger I should also do this course. Thanks for sharing this info.

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      • Vidhya@VVK says

        July 06, 2015 at 9:10 am

        Its an interesting course Sangeetha. Do try it.

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    2. freakyveggie says

      June 26, 2015 at 10:48 am

      Hey even I liked the courses on Coursera quite a lot, but I couldn’t complete any course that I started :(
      Should try and complete this one :)

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      • Vidhya@VVK says

        June 26, 2015 at 9:57 pm

        Hey nice.. Same with me too.. took 3 months to complete this 5 hrs course. They have nice collections naa.. Udemy has good IT related courses.. Try this one.. you will like it.

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        • freakyveggie says

          June 26, 2015 at 11:59 pm

          I tried something on Udacity, is this Udemy a different one ?

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          • Vidhya@VVK says

            June 29, 2015 at 11:02 am

            Yeah FV…

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    3. Mullai Madavan says

      June 25, 2015 at 10:17 am

      Looks like a great course with lot of info, luv the smoothie too!

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      • Vidhya@VVK says

        June 26, 2015 at 9:58 pm

        yeah Mullai. Thanks

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    4. coconutcraze says

      June 24, 2015 at 10:43 am

      It looks like an awesome course and you have gained a lot of valuable information!

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      • Vidhya@VVK says

        June 24, 2015 at 4:10 pm

        oh yeah absolutely. Thanks

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    5. chcooks says

      June 23, 2015 at 2:42 am

      Portion control and balanced meal is the key to healthy life style – this sums it up for me! :)

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      • Vidhya@VVK says

        June 23, 2015 at 9:29 pm

        True GB :-)

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