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Share your recipes for toddlers

Please share your recipes for toddlers. Mine one is really fussy with food and I am running out of ideas in terms of what to cook for her.

First round of discussion with Caritas

Hello Lovely Ladies,

Last week I visited one of the Caritas second hand shop and spoke to the shop head. The gist of the conversation is:

• She did not seem to be very convinced letting unknown group of girls in her shop.
• They mostly need volunteers to work as sales person and you need to speak good German for that.
• She needed more commitment and a well defined plan of when, where and how long are we available.
• We need to speak to the higher management level and explain who we are and why do we want to work for such a cause.

I checked Caritas web-site http://www.caritas-zuerich.ch/helfen (please check the link "

Freiwilliges Engagement").  

They do not only need volunteers in their second hand shop but also for other purpose as well like to teach German, to teach basic computer skills etc. There is a contact person for each topic.

Kontakt: Sandra Hürlimann, Leiterin SecondhandLäden, 044 366 68 51, s.huerlimann@caritas-zuerich.ch

This is the contact person to work in second hand shop.

I was thinking to write to her in German but my German skills are not so good.
Any volunteers for writing this email??

Also, our work is/should not be limited to one institution. We should try options with other NGOs, old orphanage. Contacting rotary club might also be useful.

Ease up your cooking tasks

Cooking from scratch is time consuming and tough. Making rice and daal still manageable but making curry is what takes a lot of time. But what if we have all the ingredients ready. Ginger- garlic paste and all other spices are available in market already. If we get chopped vegetables then process of making sabji is also not so tough. Follow these tips and this will prove quite useful

• When buy vegetable like carrot, cauliflower, cabbage etc, buying a bigger packet is always economical. In your free time, chop these vegetables and store them in zip-lock fridge bags. They last for quite long time and you have ready ingredients to cook
• While enjoying your favorite TV show, you can peel of garlic pods and store them in air tight container in fridge or any fridge bags
• You can also store cut vegetables in deep freezer and they will last even longer.