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During the convalescence of a patient every effort should be made to see that meals are tempting and as varied as the nature of the illness allows. Food should be served in small quantities, very nourishing and easily digestible. The following are recipes for dishes suitable for invalids: Sour milk junket When milk has 'turned' but has not yet become thick, pour it into custard glasses. When it becomes solid, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and serve as junket. To hasten the process of souring, a little buttermilk may be added to fresh milk. This dish is much used in Africa and is most excellent for children and invalids, as the lactic acid developed in the milk makes it more easily digested than fresh milk. Note: Buttermilk is the milk which remains after the butter has been separated from the cream by churning. Arrowroot cup Ingredients 1 teaspoon Castor sugar 300 ml of milk 1 teaspoon arrowroot flour (crushed arrowroot) Method Mix the arrowroot with a little cold milk Boil...

Knowledge is power, and agriculture is no exception. Mobile phones and the Internet are strengthening the bargaining power of smallholder farmers, whose biggest headache is often how to sell their produce for a decent price. Producers working without good market intelligence are easy prey for dishonest traders; ill-informed and helpless, they are often forced into accepting the lowest offer, especially if they have travelled to take their goods to the market. Access to computers and mobile phones can help farmers' groups to launch direct marketing campaigns. E-commerce offers opportunities to advertise to a larger audience and sell direct to customers. For example: In Kenya , A farmer can subscribe to SMS alerts on daily prices of a given commodity. Even better, he can find out who is looking for products like his, and make the deal before he leaves his farm. Kenya Agricultural Commodities Exchange uses Safaricom SMS platform to link farmers to buyers, they also organise transport...

Making hay while the sun shines  is an old English saying. Basically it means using good times to provide for the bad times! The same is true for providing enough feeds to your dairy cows during the good times ( the wet season when grass grows well) and during the bad times (the dry/ winter season or droughts). During the growing season grass grows at a fast pace. It is at its greatest nutritive value when all leaves are fully developed and seed or flower heads are almost mature. At this stage the pasture is cut. Hay cut too early will not cure as easily due to its high moisture content. It will also produce a lower yield per acre than longer, more mature grass. But hay cut too late is coarser, loses some of its nutrients and has a lower feed value. There is usually approximately a two-week window of time during which hay is at its ideal stage for harvesting. During the drying period, which should take 1 to 2 days under East African conditions, the process can be spaded up by turni...

In home based remedies, the idea is to use substances naturally present in spices, herbs and other foods to deal with minor ailments and infection instead of cleansing the body with strong prescribed drugs. Though essential for chronic conditions, drugs are not always necessary and are best avoided. Home remedies are gaining a lot of attention due to its nature of cure: inexpensive, no side effects, simple plus the satisfaction of being able to cure yourself!  Sounds to good to be true? well, read on to equip yourself on how people are using these home made remedies in their daily lives to stay fit and healthy. To hold in your appetite all day long, eat sweet potatoes for breakfast. Bruises: If you shut your finger or foot in a door or bruise it in any way, put it in water as hot as you can bear, then in cold water and hot alternately. Sleepless nights? Drink a glass of warm milk with one teaspoon of honey dissolved in it half an hour before bedtime. Fish bone in throat: If fis...

If you have your mind set on a vacation this coming holiday, the question of foreign exchange arises. Apart from paying your way through your vacation by cash, there are other forms of money available which are safer and ultimately cost less in terms of converting to stronger foreign currency. Cash Apart from being risky to carry around is that you will spend more because you will be charged to exchange local currency into the currency you need. A small amount of cash is however recommended for small payments such as buying items like drinking water and taxi fares. Local debit cards For a stay of several days or longer especially in self-catering accommodation, a debit card in the currency of the country you are staying in the least costly option. Your bank at home should be able to set up a debit card in the country you are visiting and ATM withdrawals, as well as other transactions will be at local rates that are fair Traveller's cheques These are cheques of fixed amounts that ar...

Just as people like milk for nutritive value, bacteria that cause milk spoilage also do. Milk has nutrients that make it suitable for the rapid multiplication  of bacteria that cause spoilage. Milk from the udder of a healthy cow contains very few bacteria. To ensure that milk remains fresh for a longer time it is necessary to practice good hygiene. Below is some advice that farmers and milk traders should follow to ensure good quality: Maintain clean and healthy cows Keep a clean milking environment Wash hands with soap and clean water before milking Wash the udder with a clean cloth and warm water Dry the udder with a clean dry cloth Make the first draw into a strip cup to check for mastitis and throw away from the milking area even it appears clean Use clean containers for milking Cows with mastitis should be milked last and their milk discarded Milk from cows under antibiotic treatment should not be sold until 3 days after last treatment or advised by the veterinarian After eve...

What you eat has a direct effect on how you feel. Eating the right foods can improve mental health, lessen mood swings, anxiety and even depression. Cutting down on food 'stressors' such as sugar, caffeine, alcohol, chocolate, additives, dairy products and saturated fats and increasing the amount of 'supporters' such as vegetables, water, fruits, oil-rich fish, nuts, lean protein and whole grain food have a beneficial effect on ones mood. For this much, you should be putting healthy wholesome meals on your table. Many however, consume foods like fast foods, more sugar than necessary to cereals and beverages like tea and juices. No wonder during cold and wet weather, more people than usual can not fend off viruses and bugs in the air because their bodies are low in immunity. Tips to improve your mood and sense of emotional well-being Cut down on white bread, cookies, crisps, margarine and butter, and other snacks. Foods that release energy at a slower, more sustained rat...

We recognise that perfumes should be the final touch in getting ourselves to feel and look to face a new day, but our shopping experience for fragrance entails walking into a shop, sniffing two or three tester bottles, settling for one and buying it. We also don't know how to find the scent that best expresses our personality and lifestyle and we do not consider factors like climate and skin type to make good choices. How to wear your perfume right     Perfume rises when applied, so it is vital that it is  applied on pulse points such as the elbow bend, ear lobes wrist, in between the breasts and behind the knees. Sweat and heat can cause a fragrance to be more pronounced so use a light scent on a hot day and on a day when you will be doing heavy physical work. When it is cold, the skin is drier, giving the perfume no base to cling to which means that it evaporates faster. The best option on such a day would therefore be a heavier scent. Tips on how to retain the scent fo...

Have you ever noticed when you go to a supermarket to pick just one item, and by the time you get to the check-out point you have more than five things in the basket and a bill bigger than you had expected? The reason this keeps happening is because supermarkets or retailer stores use a range of methods to get you to pick those items up. How you are tricked to get spending In most supermarkets, shopping carts are placed right at the entrance and although you may have wanted to buy only one or two items, you find it handy to have the trolley so you can lean on it while moving around and putting stuff in it. Psychologically, it becomes easy to toss in an item you do not need. After all there is room for plenty more. You may also have noticed that the items you are likely to buy on impulse are placed at the check-out points.This is where you will find the latest DVD releases, lifestyle magazines, along with over-priced beverages and candy. Most retail chains locate the most expensive bran...

It takes approximately 500 shrubs of calliandra calothyrsus ( Kalibwambuzi in Swahili) to feed a cow for a year. For 3 kg of calliandra and 1 kg of dairy meal, a farmers can get an extra two litres of milk for his/her cow. With the plant maturing in approximately 12 months, calliadra can be pruned and fed to livestock for up to 20 years. The shrubs can be grown in hedges around the farm perimeter or along the contour ridges to reduce erosion. The major advantage of this fodder shrub is that farmers do not have to stop growing other crops to make room for them.It is best to prune the shrubs to a height of about one metre to avoid shading nearby food crops. With lack of inexpensive high protein animal feed, grazing land in short supply, and because of periodic drought, raising animals in Kenya is a risky business that can easily defeat the most skillful farmer. Fodder shrubs such as calliandra (milk shrub) could be the solution to these plagues. Produce more milk Fodder shrubs do not i...

A woman would browse through shops for hours for nothing in particular, or that item in a particular shade or size or design. Men, on the other hand, walk into a shop and go for the kill, and will be done with 'shopping' in a matter of minutes. Money is a loaded topic; perceived differently by men and women, how it is earned, spent and what it symbolises. More often than not, conversations about money among couples amount to arguments about it. Usually, there is one who hoards and the other one spends too much. Of all factors that drive couples apart money is a huge factor. One basic difference in the outlook about money is that men see the world as a battle field where there is a winner and a loser. We are aggressive about how money is sought and having all or most say in how it is spend. Women, on the other hand, concentrates on and would spend big on sprucing up herself and of course her home.thus the uncountable pairs of shoes, constant browsing for home and other items and...

What are your chances of buying an original phone, taking into consideration that we are swamped with fake mobile phones? Fake phones are often practically the same from genuine ones, since they are made with the intention of misleading buyers that they have the real product while fake product are made to look as close as possible like the real ones but have a twist, only noticeable at closer look. In Kenya for instance, it could be a tainted  brand name for example, Nokia for Nokla, hi phone instead of iPhone, samsvng instead of Samsung. While there are a handful of people who knowingly buy fake phones, mostly because they are cheap, most people are unsuspecting victims of counterfeits because they cannot distinguish the real from the fake. Some of the ways to differentiate between which of the phones are genuine and which are fake include: Made in China does not always mean fake. Many international corporations manufacturing handsets have factories in different parts of the World...

Are traditional vegan food less nutritious than exotic ones? This misconceptions has led to a sharp increase of nutrition related diseases and conditions such as diabetes, obesity, cancer and heart diseases due to poor eating habits. Traditional vegan food have the potential to eliminate nutritional deficiencies among vulnerable groups such as children and expectant mothers such as anaemia, ulcerated conditions of throats and ring worms. They have also been effective in management of HIV-AIDS. Why African Leafy Vegetables? For 100 g of mchicha (Amaranth), you  are likely to get 13 times more iron than a similar helping of cabbage; nine times more calcium, two and a half times as much phosphorus and 57 times as much vitamin A precursor. Cabbage on the other hand, is 90 % water! Red terere (Amaranthus sp.) common in Uganda, and popularly known as edoodo , is good for your eye sight. Among the Luo people, managu (black nightshade) forms an important part of the diet to protect aga...