A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
While my girls tucked into their spaghetti noodles with chicken bolognese sauce for lunch yesterday, I had my kind of spaghetti, free from carbohydrates – with organic alfalfa sprouts 😉 This tasted SO SO good and not cloy at all. There’s something about durum wheat noodles that give me a cloy feeling after…
Today I made overnight oats for the first time after I got inspired by my friend, Barb. She posted a picture of her overnight oats in Facebook and I really wanted to try it as it looks wholesome and delish. I then did a google search to read more about overnight oats and was even…
The colon, a part of the digestive system is responsible for extracting water and salt from the solid wastes prior to release. At times the colon does not function properly and causes a build-up of harmful toxins along the colon walls. This can cause headache, skin allergy, low energy level, vomiting, bloating and so on….
I love chu kiok chou (pig’s trotters cooked with black vinegar). Chu Kiok Chou is a Chinese dish where pig’s trotters are cooked with black vinegar. It is a popular dish for Chinese women in confinement after child birth. The confinement ladies whom I hired to care for my babies and me would throw in…
It’s been a while since I last whirled out some refreshing and healthy fruit smoothies for my girls. Since there were quite a bit of fruits in the fridge, I swirled up some refreshing fruit smoothies for the girls for their lunch last week. On the left is orange, apple, passion fruit and chia seed…
This was my mid-morning breakfast yesterday… Fol Epi mild French cheese + organic cashew nut butter + cucumber slices on a slice of wheat germ + bran bread. Hmmm, this slice of goodness was so yummy and wholesome and sure beats nasi lemak, kuih and noodles nutritionally. iLike!
After fetching Cass from kindy just now, I brought the MIL to a nearby plant nursery to get some ‘chau choe’ or stink grass. She wanted to dish out a popular Hong Kong dessert consisting of mung beans + stink grass + shredded kombu seaweed. Â This Hong Kong sweet soup concoction is well known…
Healthy eating has become the booming new trend and many people are becoming vegan in order to comply. According to the Vegan Society, being vegan is about protecting the environment, animals, and humans in order to create a sustainable world. Vegans do not eat or use any products that come from animals. The vegan lifestyle…
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…
This morning, I made this raw jam for my breakfast. Ingredients used: 1) 1 ripened avocado 2) 1 ripened Del Monte banana 3) A handful of raw hazelnuts 4) About 1 tablespoon of maple syrup Put everything into my Shimono blender and pulse for about 30 seconds and I had a very delightful raw jam…