Instant food and instant play ideas while travelling with twins:
Travelling with a baby is not an easy task as everyone
thinks. Only a mom can understand it is difficult than a roller coaster ride
and we’ve got to manage the ride to be peaceful. Planning each and everything
in advance and having a checklist before we start to travel will make our
travelling easier. Here are some easy to make food ideas that we can prepare in
advance so that feeding the baby or searching for food is no more a hassle. We
can avoid unhealthy food that are available outside by taking our home made
food from home.
Readymade food ideas while travelling with twins:
Purees are the best:
Make some home-made fruit or veggie purees and carry it with
you. Make sure you store it in a food gradable air tight container to keep it
fresh for a long time. If your twins are toddlers you can pack some snacks or
freshly cut fruits for them. You can go with purees to make your work easy.
Take boiled potatoes or steamed apple so that you can smash it while you use.
Fussy eaters will mostly demand tasty foods so you can prepare some mixed fruit
and veggie purees to make them mouthwatering. Purees are easy to prepare and
easy to digest as well.
Avocado Puree:
Take a ripe avocado peel out the skin, while selecting the
avocado make sure its skin is black, these kind of avocados are fully ripe the
dark green skin colored are usually raw, now take out the flesh and put it in
the blender, transfer the puree to the container. You can do the same with
chikoo and apple mixed together. Avocado and banana is another great
combination loved by kids.
Mango and banana puree:
Peel out the skin and take the inner part from mango and
banana, make a puree using a blender and your baby is going to be a fan of this
taste. Make sure the mango is sweet enough and ripe so that you don’t need to
add sugar for that extra sweetness.
Papaya and peach puree:
Look for some bright yellow colored papaya cut the fruit
into two halves and remove the seeds. Now take the peach and remove the seed
inside it. Put the fruit in a blender and make a puree using it. If peach is
not available you can use papaya alone.
Porridge:
You can make ragi or multi grain porridge very easily if the
porridge powder is ready, there are several porridge powders available in the
market that are made especially for kids. You can just mix the porridge powder
with hot water and then make porridge. This will be filling and healthy food
for the kid.
Roti:
You can make soft roti at home using a very minimum oil.
This can be stored for a day or two and it will remain fresh.
If you are travelling by car or train, it is always good to
take induction stove with you so that it will be easy for you to boil milk or
sterilize the food containers and milk feeding bottles. If you are traveling by
flight, you can check with the airways before airticket booking itself. You can also do some basic recipes like rice or dhal
for the child and feed it for the child whenever you are free. By following
these type of food recipes you can make sure that the child has had hygienic
food and need not worry about food allergies or any other health problems. We went to Jaipur
last time and Ramada Jaipur had excellent food options for my
little ones while a few did not. However, this is the case in most places so
please check with your hotel before booking.
Yes we are done with food, and what next? Our kids are going
to start troubling us without any reason once their stomach is full. The
difficult task is to find out why are they crying for now? You know what the
actual cry is for that they are feeling bored. They want to keep themselves
busy all the time, they get easily bored of everything, they look out for
different activities all the time. Let’s see about some activities that can
keep the kids busy.
Take their favorite
toy:
Every child will have a favorite toy, you can manage most of
the time with that favorite doll or a car as they keep meddling with. Stacks,
wooden puzzles may also help them spend a lot of time on that as their
concentration is totally on that.
Don’t forget their
Rhymes or story books:
Pack a separate bag of their favorite story books and rhymes
book. Singing along with them or reciting stories for them will be a relaxation
for them and you too.
Colors will make you
feel easy:
Take a set of crayons or color pencils, drawing and coloring
books ready. You can easily manage a child who always throws tantrums as
coloring makes their mind to relax and this will help you and the kids a lot.
They can keep themselves occupied for a long time in coloring or painting.
Limited Screen time
might help in tough situations:
Prolonged screen time is actually bad for the kids, but you
can restrict it for some time and make use of your tablet or mobile phone to
play their favorite rhymes or stories. Make sure there is no quarrel between
your twins asking for two mobile phones. Also don’t forget your charger, keep
your phone fully charged so that you can stay fully charged.
Indoor games:
If you have a grown up kids you can take chess, business
games or Lego blocks for the kids so that they can involve themselves in those
indoor games. This will also make the boring travel time easy for them.
Outdoor play ideas:
Carry a ball, shuttle bat and cock, and ring ball so that
you can help them play outside if you are planning to visit a resort. You can
conduct various activities using a ball like passing the ball when the music is
played and the person who has the ball while the music stops should perform a
task. This is a fun filled game to play while we are in a big group. You can
conduct musical chair and many other games to make sure the kids enjoy their
travel.
Yes so we have discussed about the food ideas and play ideas
to follow while travelling with twins and make your trip a pleasant one.
Prepare a checklist and make sure you have not missed out on anything. Have
medicines on hand so that you need not suffer in search of a pharmacy. Be sure
you give only hygienic food to the kids and teach them about cleaning their
hands and importance of sanitizing as they will easily learn things when they
are thought practically and especially when they are out of the routine. This
will help them follow these habits regularly even after they are back home.
Take enough of clothes so that you can change them frequently, but be sure it
is packed properly and there is no need to carry a huge bag with you always.
The more the number of bags the more is the burden for you, you pack it
properly and keep in mind where you have kept what to avoid mess in searching
for things.
I love ragi Porridge. It's quick to make and super duper healthy.
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