Theme: Easy Red and Green

Left: squid stir fried with spring onions, red and green pepper

Right: 7 fruits jelly in watermelon

First, empty the watermelon with spoon and make a shape of a watermelon bowl.

Then, cut into pieces 7 types of fruits and put them nicely in the watermelon bowl.

Prepare jelly mixture as usual.

Believe it or not, my six year old daughter was the one in charge of this fruit jelly dish :D

Five Types of Fruit A Day

Since today, July 1st, is noted by the European society as the Fruit Day, i thought it is appropriate to talk about fruits. Fresh fruits contain lots of vitamins as we all know.

Needless to say that to stay healthy we need to consume various types of fruit and vegetables. Those who are not vegetable lovers, may prefer taking "five types of fruit a day!" to eating a combination of five fruits/vegetables a day. Not quite easy in practice ..... actually.

For more about fruit check out:

http://internationalfruitday.jimdo.com/

In Japan every summer around this time we enjoy fruits such as:

1. Cherry

2. Peach

3. Plum

4. Nectarine

5. and coming soon.... Grapes of many colors and sizes.

Some facts:

! Do you know that in most cases it is healthier to eat fruits without peeling because the peel has lots of vitamin? Just be careful when you eat fruits grown with unregulated use of pesticide.

! ! Fruits with many seeds have anti ageing benefits. Five types of fruits a day and pick each of different color. Also choose seasonal fruits because they are more fresh and therefore have the highest content of nutritions.

! Fruits are best eaten in the morning at breakfast and lunch, moderately at dinner time for most effective absorption of vitamins.

Finally, for some funny facts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKp7mhKrQQI