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The snack Manifesto: 8 rules for a perfect snack – Italian Cuisine

If you too are parents who have always wondered what the perfect snack for your children is, then you can get a good bit of inspiration from The Manifesto of the Snack, developed by Unione Italiana Food and Istituto Bambino Gesù for the health of children and adolescents. A guide to immediately learn the correct eating habits and discover the pleasures of food.

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The Infant Jesus Institute for the Health of the Child and the adolescent point of reference in Italy for issues concerning nutrition education for the youngest, he pointed out eight good practices to keep in mind together with an unpublished article weekly planning of 56 snacks, divided for four age groups (4-6 years, 7-11 years, 12-14 years, 15-17 years) with the aim of providing parents with ideas to better organize it. "The basis of a correct diet in all ages and in particular in the pediatric age, he claims the Dr. Giuseppe Morino, Head of the Food Education OU Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, there is the variety that for snacks can be represented by sweet proposals alternating with savory ones, different every day, at least within a week. Two varied and nutritionally adequate daily snacks represent a necessary contribution to harmonious growth, without favoring the overweight or related metabolic diseases ”.

The rules of the perfect snack
Here are the eight words used by the "Manifesto" to describe the snack for children and teenagers:
daily: the snack is a habit, it should be done every day mid-morning and mid-afternoon
Appropriate: different according to the age of the children and energy needs
moderate: it is a snack that must not weigh down, therefore it is forbidden to overdo it
filling: in order not to get to the next meals too hungry it is good not to skip it
Varies: never repeat the same snack every day
Sweet: yes to consumption (moderate) as a snack of a slice of homemade cake or a snack Salata: it is good to accustom children and young people to different flavors, then to a slice of bread with oil and tomato
Serena: it is a moment to live with the right calm, at home, at school or in the park, with parents, grandparents or friends.

Pairings: alternate sweet and savory
Among the combinations and suggestions suggested by the Bambino Gesù Institute is fruit (fresh and dry) it must never fail. It is certainly important to alternate and vary foods, both sweet and savory, such as yogurt, bread, homemade cakes (or packaged), ice cream, smoothies, vegetables. Among the 56 suggested proposals there are also some snacks suitable for a vegetarian food style such as "white pizza with chickpea and tomato hummus ”. Or the introduction of vegetables into snacks with foods of animal origin, for example in the classic sliced sandwich, where the rocket is added. In practice, there is no snack that is too little or too nutritious but different according to the age of the children and the energy requirement: we talk about 150 Kcal for children 4- 6 years, 200 Kcal for children 7-11 years, 260 Kcal for children 12 – 15 years and 285 Kcal for children 15 – 17 years.

Children and young people must learn to love food and this moment of consumption must also be stimulating. In this regard, dr. Morino does not demonize packaged snacks, but to be consumed very moderately and always combined with fresh products such as fruit and vegetables. "Nhe last years the confectionery industry – as emphasized Mario Piccialuti, General Director of Unione Italiana Food – he worked a lot for the improvement of the products and in particular of the snacks ”.
All the suggestions to put into practice the good rules of the perfect snack can be found online at www.merendineitaliane.it.

Mariacristina Coppeto
November 2019

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14 rules for preparing very crispy fries at home – Italian Cuisine

Is there anything more delicious than fries? Make them at home crunchy like those in fast food

French fries are considered a junk food par excellence, perhaps because they are usually prepared in fast foods with poor quality oil and served with a thousand types of sauces.
What more conquest than a good chip is the crunchiness, very difficult to reproduce at home without professional deep fryers.
But we want to give you some suggestions to prepare delicious and very genuine chips that have nothing to envy to those of fast food.

French fries: a joy for young and old!

Which potatoes to choose?

To prepare very crispy French fries it is important to choose the right variety of potatoes. The one with the red peel and the yellow ones are ideal because they are low in starch. To avoid new potatoes instead.

With which oil to fry

Better sunflower oil. Extra virgin olive oil makes them less digestible.

In the gallery above all our tips to fry the chips well

the rules of boiled chicken – Italian Cuisine

Light and delicate, it is a simple preparation that becomes delicious if cooked with a savory broth or served with an accompanying sauce

It is given to children in the weaning phase because its white flesh is light and delicate, but the boiled chicken also like to grown-ups. Often, however, it is not cooked in the best way and the dish is tasteless or, on the contrary, with a too strong flavor. Therefore, even a simple preparation such as boiled chicken has its rules to be cooked to the fullest! Here are our tips.

Which cut to use for boiled chicken?

If you don't want to prepare a boiled in style, it will be enough chicken thighs boned, which boiled are soft and tasty, or of the chicken breasts. Choosing the right chicken cut also depends on the dish you want to get. For example if you want to serve boiled chicken simply seasoned with oil and salt and accompanied by vegetables, the thighs will be the most suitable parts. If instead you will be using boiled chicken for asalad, the chest is the ideal: with a single cut you will have more meat and then you will just have to fray it to have some strips to flavor. What ingredients can you use? Definitely peppers in oil, capers, celery, olives, croutons, cheese cubes.

An aromatic broth to flavor chicken

To give the boiled chicken more flavor, boil it with other ingredients, such as carrot, celery, onion, potato it's a bay leaf (or cloves is star anise, according to your tastes). Put everything raw in cold water, add salt and cook for about half an hour. Check the cooking of the chicken by piercing it with a fork. Of course, don't waste your time broth obtained: it will be perfect for one hot soup or for tortellini.

If at home someone does not like the taste of boiled chicken, try to prepare it by boiling it in Apple juice (a part of water and one of juice). Softens the meat of the chicken and makes its taste sweet.

How to serve boiled chicken

If the boiled chicken continues to look like an unappetising dish or only suitable for when you have the flu, you will change your mind with the right ones sauces Accompanying. The original Piedmontese green sauce it is perfect for every boiled and also gives flavor to chicken. A simple Dijon Mustard is also excellent. Or one more Cremona mustard. Complete with agreen salad or with vegetables that you have boiled with the chicken and … voila, other than a boring dish, the boiled chicken will surprise you!

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