A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
I have never like capsicums or bell peppers. Knowing how powerful this fruit is, I am beginning to fall in love with this fruit. I try to add capsicums into my veggie dish or simply eat them raw in stave off hunger pangs. I will throw in some of these colorful peppers into my bi-weekly…
Baby has a bad habit of peeling her finger nails and toe nails with her hands. I think this bad habit from her favorite che che had rubbed off on her and the consequences have been disastrous and painful. Check out what she had done to her little toe nail with her own hands: Her…
Before the kids came along, I was a health freak who would diligently make fruits and vegetables juice several times in a week for my hubs and myself. After the kids’ arrival, everyone in the house including the helper have never been busier. Within a time span of 5 years, I popped 3 babies. Life…
There will be a reunion dinner organized by my former classmates. This will be the first ever big reunion dinner thrown ever since we left school 21 years ago! I would love to attend the dinner but I dread the thought of bringing along my 3 girls to the dinner as the venue is not…
The man whom I normally buy vegetables and meat from on the mobile market van sells sour sop fruits occasionally. He told me that sour sop can be used in soups and extolled the health benefits of sour sop, citing that it is good for reducing cholesterol, killing cancer cells, etc. So for the second…
Another meal on the menu that my girls never get tired of : fish soup with fish balls. A wok of nutritious fish soup boiled for over an hour with pumpkin, tomatoes, 3 big chunks of fish, anchovies, garlic, a slice of ginger and Chinese cabbage … A bowl each of Udon with yummy fish…
Blame it on the hormones or lack of sleep? Sometimes, I feel really tired and sleepy despite getting 6 hours of sleep at night. I wonder if this is caused by the hormones at certain time of the month. Or is it because my body actually needs more rest and sleep than I am getting…