A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
Nursing a bad strep throat, I cooked a big pot of ‘purple soup’ today. My ‘purple soup’ consists of 1 huge beet root, half a head of organic purple cabbage, 6 carrots, a big chunk of lean pork and several chicken feet. My kids will have ‘purple soup’ for dinner tonight together with oven-grilled…
This is probably a controversial issue. I used to love eating deep fried super crispy salmon skin. That’s until I read that salmon, and all big fish from deep seas are probably tainted with mercury. I discourage my kids from eating fish skin but sometimes I get lambasted for doing so! Oh well, it’s better…
Health supplements are a great way to keep your body working the way you want it to. The internet has made it much easier to get access to health supplements, which are generally only sold at specialized stores. However, the reasons to shop online are only increasing with time. The first reason to shop online…
I boiled a big pot of chickpeas yesterday. I love chickpeas in all edible fashion — from boiled to toasted or fried, in humus, cooked in curries, dhals, in Indian snacks and much more. I also like chickpeas thrown into salads and this is just what I did yesterday, in our broccoli salad. Chickpeas are…
When I was a teenager, I used to hate my left upper snaggletooth. Some people call snaggletooth ‘vampire’s teeth’. In layman’s term, it is actually overlapping teeth. I hated the vampire’s tooth so much that at one point in time, I kept trying to pull the tooth off with my bare hand! My perspective of…
The other day, my friends and I were discussing about boops and how being a mother and breastfeeding our babies have changed the size and appearance of our breasts. I used to have pretty ‘full’ boops before marriage. After I had Alycia, the boops were even fuller *GRIN* Then came Sherilyn. After breastfeeding her for…
Last week, Sherilyn seemed to have lost her enthusiasm in ballet. I asked her if she was willing to quit class and she said ‘yes’! Instead, she told me that she wanted to learn violin and asked me to get her an exceptional suzuki violin at musician’s friend. That was definitely a rash decision from…
I love ‘lei char fan’, minus the rice. I will get my supply of ‘lei char’ from a stall inside a coffee shop near where I stay and have the ‘lei char’ for lunch. “Lei Cha Fan” is a cuisine to the Hakka. It is lauded as a health food, with a plethora of beneficial…
If you are someone or you know someone who is dealing with problems of psychosis, then you are fully aware of the expense that can quickly occur because of treatments for those conditions. The pharmaceutical industry within the United States loves to charge a great deal of money for medications that do not cost that…
Cass loves to eat bread and her favorite is white bread from the 2 leading bread manufacturers in our country. She eats bread everyday. On days that we run out of the mil’s homemade bread, I will buy brand G or M bread from the supermarket. The other day, one of my friends shared in…