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Whether you’re in the kitchen for you or a close friend, these gluten-free baking tips will help you navigate the road without wheat flour. Flour is one of the most essential ingredients for baking and thus can make gluten free baking quite the challenge. Formerly a pastry chef, Carolyn is the writer and owner of Caramel and Cashews – a gluten free food blog that delivers tested gluten free recipes that taste delicious. She was diagnosed with Celiac Disease six years ago and since then has transferred her avid love of baking to a love of gluten-free baking.

As we get older, we typically require less sleep and find that sleep may be harder to achieve (especially after having children!), but sleep is absolutely essential to maintaining a healthy immune system. Fresh fruits and vegetables contain high levels of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other essential nutrients that help support a healthy immune system. High-quality multivitamins contain all of the essential vitamins, minerals and other nutrients children need to build up their immunity — including vitamins A, B, C, D and E, as well as zinc and iron — While natural supplements shouldn’t replace healthy diets, plenty of playtime and enough sleep, one chewable vitamin sweet or one sachet of powdered vitamins can top-up your kids’ diets and compensate for anything they might lack, preventing the likelihood of illness and maintaining their health long into adulthood.

The Channel Islands are an archipelago of 8 islands in the Santa Barbara Channel, 5 of which were designated the Channel Islands National Park in 1980. Ferry service is available from Ventura Harbor and takes you on an enjoyable 1-2 hour ride through the Santa Barbara Channel—a literal playground for schools of marine life including California sea lions, harbor seals, common and bottlenose dolphins and various species of whales such as humpbacks and blue and grey whales, depending on the season. Channel Islands National Park is comprised of 5 islands: Santa Barbara Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Rosa Island, Santa Cruz Island and Anacapa Island. The second largest island in Channel Islands National Park, Santa Rosa is a popular island and easily accessible by ferry.

We have gathered some of the best and easy DIY Easter basket ideas and Easter basket filler ideas to make this holiday super fun for kids of all ages! The baskets were filled with their Easter feast, and the goal was to have the baskets blessed by the priest. There is, however, no reasons to not give Easter baskets and both practicing Christians and non Christians tend to give Easter baskets. These are fun Easter basket stuffer ideas to put in your children’s DIY Easter baskets.

You can use use white chocolate chips and food colouring to colour them in different pastel colours or use coloured candy melts. Simply melt chocolate chips, add the food colouring, or melt the candy melts in a bowl and dip the OREO cookies one at a time. 3 cups of white chocolate chips or Easter candy melts colours (pink, green, purple, etc.) Drop an Oreo cookie into the candy melts and use a spoon to cover completely with coating.

The National Park Service controls the recreation and protection of 4 areas: Redwood National Park, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Over 90% of the old-growth redwoods that grew along California’s northern coast were logged in the early 1900s prior to protection of this area. Walk amongst the giant trees at Big Tree Wayside Located right off Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway in nearby Prairie Creek State Park, this short, flat walk takes visitors to “Big Tree”, a 1,500 year old, nearly 300 foot tall redwood. The family-friendly hike at Trillium Falls in Redwood National Park takes you through old-growth redwoods, ferns, fir trees, maples, and trillium flowers to a small waterfall deep in the forest.

However, there is no more enjoyable way to break with tradition than the breakable hallow chocolate egg when you discover the hidden Peeps, jelly bunnies, bubble gum, candy eggs, or other small Easter candies inside. If you question the value of silicone molds dedicated to just one holiday, there are plenty of things you can use them for such as Easter hot chocolate bombs, and even a sweet chocolaty take on deviled eggs, the Chocolate Easter Eggs Stuffed with Frosted Brownie Bites. I just could not resist making these chocolate bunny lollipops and add 1 to the breakable Easter chocolate egg. Gently remove the chocolate bunnies from the mold and put 1 lollipop inside the Easter chocolate egg.

The next time you are stuck indoors because of the rain, I highly recommend you pull the craft paper, glue, and scissors out of the art cabinet and start to work creating a colourful scene that features the Easter Bunny. How to Make Your Own Easter Bunny Craft Scene Make sure you have all of the following supplies and you will have a blast following these 8 simple steps to making your own Easter Bunny craft with hideaway Easter items. You can use the steps in making this Easter Bunny scene as inspiration to create a scene and activity of your own. How To Make the Easter Bunny Craft Scene Select 3 different shades of green coloured craft papers for the bush layers and blue coloured craft paper for the background.

It’s always the right time for hot chocolate, especially when you have a special occasion like Easter and Easter Egg Hot Chocolate Bombs to match. Making an Easter Egg hot chocolate bomb is even more fun than a traditional hot chocolate bomb and it’s as easy and simple as switching out the mold. The biggest surprise of these Easter Egg hot chocolate bombs is the marshmallow rabbits inside the Easter Eggs. This recipe requires 12 rabbits and you will also need three Easter Egg molds to get the ingredients exactly right for these particular Easter Egg hot chocolate bombs.

If your ideal day includes chilling out on a sun lounger by the beach (Kuta Beach is one of our favorite things to do in Bali), getting a $5 massage before heading out to the bars, and dancing the night away, Kuta could be the perfect place for you to stay. It’s the ideal area for a surfer’s getaway, a lover’s retreat, or a beach bum’s break. Nusa Dua is For: Family Trips, Luxury Resorts, and All the Wining and Dining Nusa Dua, feeling a world away from all of the hustle and bustle happening on the West Coast, is the perfect vacation spot for those looking to indulge in a bit of full-service luxury, and for those dreaming of that quintessential family holiday. Think a little town full of world-class resorts featuring private white sand beaches (home to Gunung Payung: one of the best beaches in Bali) with a calm ocean perfect for swimming, perfectly manicured acres of gardens, water-sports of all kinds, and fine dining overlooking the ocean.