New Recipes for a 9 month old

I’m looking for new recipes for an 8 month (almost 9) old. I have given all the standard veggies and fruit dishes so far (mixed vegetables, squash, dal, khichadi, avacado, pear, bananas, apples, mango, sweet potato, peas, beans, potato, carrots,asparagus, yobaby yogurt, wheat germ sprinkled on vegetables ). Any tofu, …

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Which Dandia to goto?

Navratri is Sep 30 – Oct 10. And there are lot of Dandia-Garba going on in the Bay Area. SEF Dandia in Santa Clara Convention is on Oct 4 and Oct 11. Which Dandia should we go for as a group? Vibha Disco Dandia on Oct 4 and SEF on …

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Special ossasion spending

Dassera and Diwali come once a year and so do birthdays and anniversaries . During dassera and diwali, there is a tradition to buy gold. Do you follow the same tradition here? I know of some friends, who do. Or are you like me 🙂 who doesn’t follow these? With …

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Do we need to worry ?

Just read this article – http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/56994/Top-Economist-Americans-Should-Worry-About-Bank-Deposits-if-Congress-Doesn’t-Act?tickers=LEH,MER,BAC,AIG,WM,%5EDJI,%5EGSPC . I keep hearing that the money in banks is insured upto 100,000$. But as the article mentions, how can the FDIC insure $1 trillion in assets when it has only about $50 billion ?

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Caveat emptor, “let thee buyer beware”

This weekend we got into an interesting discussion about various payment plans on purchase of furniture,etc. One of the purchase plans we often come across is ‘You sleep free on the mattress for the first year’-plans where buyer does not pay anything for the first ‘x’ period and then makes …

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