The most important meal of the day will now be more tasty and complete with this incredible idea! Placing together simple ingredients that we usually have in the morning we can prepare a different dish that will let your family mouthwatering. Have a look in pour instructions and bon appetite!

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To make this delicious idea you will need:

–          1 loaf of sliced bread

–          Butter or margarine

–          4 eggs

–          3 tomatoes

–          400g of ham

–          150g of cheese

–          150 ml of milk

–          Salt, pepper and nutmeg

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Start spreading a thin layer of margarine in each slice of bread. Place the slices into a round greased pan letting some gaps between them.  Now fill the gaps with slices of tomatoes and ham.

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In a bowl mix the eggs, the milk and the spices (salt, pepper and nutmeg). Blend it well and pour the liquid over the bread carefully. To finish sprinkle some flakes of cheese on top of everything.

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Take the pan to the oven until the eggs get hard and the cheese melted. Serve it hot!

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If you have kids going to school, probably one of your daily tasks is preparing their lunchboxes! It sounds an easy activity but we know that sometimes it is not! Prepare something kids like but at same time in a healthy and attractive way demand creativity and patience. Because of this we decide to select some easy and cool tips to help you in this challenge and let your kids’ lunchboxes interesting avoiding the waste of food in the end of the day.

Funny Snacks Lunchbox Ideas

Their snack time will be much more attractive if they found something like this inside their lunchbox.  It doesn’t need to be something professional, just some funny faces made with some slices of egg and tomato are enough to make them eat all!

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Sliced Fruit Lunchbox Ideas

Much easier for your kids to eat than entire ones, peeled and sliced fruits are more attractive and practical. To make this idea better you can use cookies cutters to give nice shapes as hearts and stars to the fruits.

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Small Portion Lunchbox Ideas

Try do prepare the lunchbox with a great variety of snacks and fruits. Don´t put more than they can eat! Divide small portions of everything and make the snack time healthier! If your kids’ lunchbox doesn’t come with division you can use cupcake liners to do that and avoid the mess!

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Draw On Sandwich Bag Lunchbox Ideas

If you are short of time to decorate the sandwiches you can use a permanent marker to make some funny draws on the sandwich bag. Use your imagination and creativity and surprise your kids every day! They won´t wait until lunch time to see what do your prepare for them. 

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 Butterfly Snack Bag Lunchbox Ideas

A creative idea we found on net is the butterfly snack bag! It is practical, easy to do and can keep two different kinds of snacks at same time without mess. It is only separate a plastic bag with a clothespin decorated as a butterfly! Creative and cute!

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Love Message Lunchbox Ideas

Maybe the most important thing inside a lunchbox is the love that you put inside it. And why not show them writing small messages of love, courage and stimulus. You can do this in many different ways, a paper note, written on the sandwich bag and even on the banana peel! I am sure the lunch time will be much happier for you kids with this caress.

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Ice cubes are the easiest thing to make on earth. Just pour water into ice trays and freeze them. And you are ready with your ice cubes to be used as you want, in your drinks, smoothie or just like that. But what if we could add something to the water we want to freeze and make some cubes that are pretty as well as useful?? Let’s see how differently we can stuff things into your ice tray and make them awesome.

ICE CUBES WITH FRUITS & BERRIES

You can just put any berry or fruit according to your choice to make fruit ice cubes. They look beautiful when you put them into your glass plus you get you favorite fruit as and when you want.

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ICE CUBES FOR HEALTH AND BEAUTY

Did you ever think that ice cubes can make your skin wrinkle free? Yes it does. And if we add some more ingredients to it, it can make your skin as awesome as you want…just add green tea or some parsley or rose water or even aloe Vera gel and freeze. You get an instant glow after you use them directly on your face.

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ICE CUBES FOR FLAVOR

You can get any flavor at any moment of time for your drink if you preserve them in your ice cubes…you can always freeze lemon, strawberry or any juice into cubes…

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You can even have some mint and basils freezed into cubes for your drink. This is an excellent way to preserve flavor for your food or drink.

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CREATIVE ICE SHAPES

Let’s get creative and have fun with some creative ice shapes. You can always get creative ice trays from markets and get your own awesome and funny ice shapes. Your children will love them.

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Try them for your next party and see how compliments shower on you.

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Looking for a diferent but at same time easy dish that everybody will love? Today we are going to show you how to cook delicious pasta in a creative way.Vertical placed Italian Rigatoni Pie!

Ingredients:   

• 1 lb rigatoni pasta
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/3 lb ground beef
• 1 can crushedtomatoes
• 1 tsp dried parsley
• 1/2 tsp dried basil
• Garlic
• 1/4 tsp dried oregano
• 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 c shredded mozzarella cheese
• Parmesan cheese
• Butter to use for springfrom pan
• Salt
• Pepper

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Fill a large pot with water and boils it. Then add salt and the rigatoni pasta. Cook it for some minutes(check the label of the pasta) and then drain it, rinse out with cold water and drain again. Add 1 tbsp olive oil, stir gently and set aside for a while.

• Peel the garlic and crush them. The amount of garlic is up to you!
• Grate the parmesan and mozzarella chees
  

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Now, it is time to prepare the sauce. Take a large size pan and put it over a medium fired cooker and add 1 tbsp olive oil. Wait until the oil gets warm. Add the ground beef, salt and pepper. Stir and cook it until beef gets pink. Then add the crushed tomatoes, dried parsley, grated garlic, dried basil, oregano and pepper flakes. Season with salt and pepper again, and then stir it well. Then low the heat and keep cooking for 20 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 220 ˚C. Take a springform pan and apply butter on the bottom and edges.Toss the pasta with the grated parmesan cheese. Then place the pasta vertically inside the pan as shown in the picture. You should do it one by one and try to avoid squeezing them. There should be space inside the pasta, because you are going to fill it with the sauce.

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Pour all of the sauce on the pasta and sprinkle the grated mozzarella cheese all over it. Take the pan into the oven cooking it for about 15 minutes.

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Then take it from the oven. Set aside for a 10 minutes. Now, your vertical placed rigatoni pasta is ready. The rest is removing it from the pan carefully. Take a knife and run it along the edge of pan separate the pasta from the pan. Italian Rigatoni Pasta Pie is ready to serve! Bon Appetite!

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Pictures taken from here :http://noblepig.com/2009/03/when-the-moon-hits-the-sky/

If you are looking for an idea to enjoy your weekend with your kids we have an idea that will be memorable for you and for them! Today we are going to show you how to make rainbow pasta using food coloring.

Rainbow Pasta

The materials you will need are:

• 1 packet of pasta
• Different food colorings (the number of them is up to you but five or six will be enough forthis project)
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Grated parmesan cheese (to sprinkle on pasta before eating )
• Ziploc plastic bags

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Take a large pot, fill it with water, add a pinch of salt and one tablespoon of olive oil and then place on a high-heat cooker. Wait until water boils and add your pasta. Wait for it to be ready(check the time on the label of it) and pour the pasta into a colander to drain the water.Set it aside and start preparing the food coloring.

Drop around 15 drops of food coloring and two tablespoon water into a Ziploc bag (each color in a different bag). Shake it and distribute the food coloring homogeneously. Then divide your pasta in theZiploc bags, zip them and shake each one of them a bit. After that the pasta marinate for about5 minutes (this time can change for each brands of food coloring).

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After 5 minutes take them out and douse them with cold water (this will help you to remove the rest of the food coloring from your pasta to not mess your hands).Then drain the water and your pasta is rainbow colored now.After this step, the rest is up to you.You can cook your pasta back in a pot with olive oil, salt and a bit of cheese.Then decorate with basil or parsley and serve it for your kids.

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Looking for something simple and easy to prepare but still delicious? We are going to present you a recipe that will let all of your family and guests mouth watering! Sliced baked potato! Actually, this recipe doesn’t consist on fixed ingredients and you can adapt it to the taste and wishes of your family. The basic ingredients are potatoes, olive oil, and sea salt but you can add anything you want to this ingredients list such as cheese, spices, meat, bacon and vegetables. Today we are going to show you how to bake sliced potatoes in different creative and tasty ways.Hope you will find way for you and your family.

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Simple Sliced Baked Potatoes

Ingredients:

• Big sized and long-shaped potatoes
• Butter (to use between the slices of potatoes)
• Olive oil (To drizzle on potatoes)
• Sea salt
• Black pepper

This idea is the simplest one.You won’t need any different ingredients or follow difficult steps.Firstly, adjust the heat of your oven to 220˚C and let it warming up.

Wash the potatoes well and wait for them to get dry.  Slice the potatoes carefully without separating them. Do not cut until the end of it, you should slice them with a ¾ depth.If it is difficult for you to do that, you can use two wooden spoonsto help you.Put the potatoes between them and make the slices. The spoons will prevent the knife to go until the end.

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After cutting the potatos, place them on a baking tray.Apply a pieces of  butter between the potatos segment and sprinkle sea salt and black pepper on it. Drizzle the olive oil on the potato and take to the oven.  Wait for about 40-50 minutes.Your simple sliced baked potatoes are ready.Bon Apetite!

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Sliced Baked Potatoes with Cheese

This idea will rock for people who love melted cheese on food.To make this idea, you have to follow the same steps of the previous recipe. After baking the potatoes, take them out from oven and put some grated cheeseon them. Return the potatoes to the oven and wait for the cheese melt.

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Sliced Baked Potatoes With Bacon and Cheese

Wash, slice and spice your potatoes as in the first recipe. Place some slices of bacon between them and take to the oven to bake. When the potatoes are baked removed them from oven and sprinkle with grated cheese. Return to the oven until the cheese is melted.

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Do you want to surprise a person you love? Looking for a creative idea? What do you think about a heart shaped delicious cake?You will get his/her heart and also stomach with this idea! If you don’t have a heartshaped pan, don’t worry.Today we are going to show you how to make a heart-shaped cake without a shaped pan.

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The materials you need to use:

• 1 package cake mix (2-layer size)  any flavor except angel food
• 1 cup of  milk
• 1 package (4-serving size) Vanilla flavor Instant Pudding and Pie Filling
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tub (8 ounces) Whipped topping, thawed
• 1/4 teaspoon  food coloring
• Small candies,  sprinkles or anything you want to decorate your cake
• 2 pans (one square and one round) on the same size
  

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Firstly, you need to prepare the cake mix following the directions on the label. Then pour the batter into both pans (be sure that height of the batter is same for both of them). Take them to the oven. When the cakes are baked, take them out of the oven and wait for some minutes to get cold. Remove the cakes from the pans and cut the round shaped one exctaly in the half.

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Place each half of the rounf cake on the sides of the square cake forming a heart shape.  You can use bambo skewer or a bit of frosting to “glue” the parts of the cake together.

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For the frosting you have to pour the milk into a big bowl and add the pudding mix and sugar.Beat with wire whisk for some minutes until it gets firm. Add the whipped topping and your preference food coloring  and mix for some more minutes.

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Place the and supply the frosting between the cakes to fasten them better.Gently apply the rest of the frosting on the cake using a spatula. Use colorful sprinkles and small candies to decorate your cake. You can write little lovely words or draw a simple figure on cake using a frosting bag.Also you can decorate with pieces of chocolate bars!After decoratimg, take your cake to the fridge and wait for it until gets hard.

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Source:http://www.betterrecipes.com/blogs/daily-dish/2012/02/08/valentines-day-heart-shaped-cake/

Nowadays, chocolate is one of the favorite delights either for kids or adults. Now imagine serving other tasty desserts as ice creams and fruit salads in bowls made of this incredible ingredient? It is an unique idea that will certainly surprise your guests in special days and celebrations . If you are interested in preparing these delicious chocolate bowls have a look in this easy, simple and enjoyable idea that we prepared for you!

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You will need:

• Small water bomb balloons
• Chocolate (It can be dark, white or milk chocolate)
• Cooking (parchment) paper
• Cookie sheet

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Before starting your work you have to fill the balloons and knot them. Then wash the balloons with soap and clean water to remove any dirty from them. While the balloons are drying you can melt the chocolate: break a chocolate bar in small pieces and put it in a glass bowl. Melted it in bain-marie for some minutes always stirring with a spoon.

After that, place the parchment paper in a cookie sheet and pour some portions of melted chocolate on the parchment paper (round circles) where you will place the balloons. These round parts will serve as the bottom of the bowl.

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Take a balloon, hold it from knotted part and dip the bottom part into chocolate bowl (be sure that the chocolate is not so hot that can explode the balloon). If your chocolate is a bit hard, you can also use a spoon to supply the chocolate on the balloon.Then put the balloon on the chocolate circle you have made it before. Repeat this procedure until you have enough bowls to your party.Now it is time to wait for the chocolate cool down placing them into the fridge.

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After the chocolate got frozen take them out and explode the balloons with a needle.Remove the rest of the balloon from chocolate bowl carefully.

Now your bowls are ready to be served with some special desserts! And if miraculously some bowls be left over you can save them in the fridge for some days.

Summer time is there and if you are looking for an easy and delicious way to cool yourself fast you will love this idea: Fruits popsicle! There are lots of ways of making popsicles at home, with different ingredients and flavors but they are not always healthy and tasty. Because of this we selected some recipes that take real fruits and juices and are still delicious!

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To start with, you need select what kind of fruit you are going to use in your popsicle: you can use strawberry, peach, kiwi, blackberry, pineapple or any fruit that you like. You can also mix different fruits and use them together to increase the taste and the energy of your popsicle.

Firstly, wash your fruits well and slice them into pieces that will fit in your popsiclemold.  After filling the mold with the fruit pieces you will have to use something to fill up the remaining space and also giving it a better taste.You have many alternatives to that, for example, you can pour milk, yoghurt orfruit juice.It is completely up to your taste.Then place the popsicle stick and put it into your freezer. A few hours later, take it from freezer and it will be ready to be enjoyed!

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Notes:

• Do not fill the entire mold! It should be filled only ¾ because the mixture will expand after being frozen.
• During preparing the mixture you can use fruits slices or you can also blend the fruits and use only their pulp.
• If you are a sweet lover, you can also add honey to make it sweeter.
• Before removing the popsicle from mold, pour some hot water on it to be removed easier.

Looking for some nice ideas to use with your kids during their free time at home? School holidays are always difficult for parents since kids always want something nice to do and they don´t be distracted easily. What about using some things you have at home to entertain your kids and at same time rise their creativity and imagination? Painting is always a good option to that and they love it but, to make this idea funnier, you can use some pieces of vegetable as stamps! Look at these creative ideas we selected for you:

1) Celery Stamp

Use the bottom of celery as a stamp to create big and beautiful flowers! If you want smaller ones you can tie the celery to make it

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2) Apple Stamp

Easy and perfect to work as stamps, apples can be used in children activities but also to print fabrics! A nice table towel or a bag would be good ideas for this!

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3) Pepper Stamp

When you cut a pepper in the half you came across a different shape that looks like something between a flower and a clover. This is a nice idea for St. Patrick’s Day activity with kids.

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4) Okra Stamp

If you prefer more delicate and cute stamps you can try an okra! When cut in the middle they become perfect small flowers that can be used to decorate cards and letters!

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5) Potato Stamp

The most versatile vegetable, the potato, can be transformed in any kind of stamp. Cut them in the half and use a sharped knife to carve the shape you desire. A nice idea is using a cookie cutter to help you molding the shape.

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