A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
What do you do with your unfinished takeout rice? Or if you have just a few tablespoons of unfinished rice from dinner and do not feel like keeping it in the fridge? Most people would just bin the unfinished rice. But wait, don’t throw the unfinished rice just yet! You can squeeze out a lot…
Fermented dairy products have long been considered to benefit digestive health and yogurt has even been associated with lower risk of obesity and cardiometabolic risk in both children and adults. Yogurt can be a fantastic addition to a healthy and well-balanced diet, as long as you choose the right kind, and don’t suffer from an…
The beautiful and bright colour of beetroots can make anyone fall in love with it, yet it is often ignored, perhaps because of its distinctive earthy taste. Beetroot has been gaining amazing popularity as the new superfood around the world. It’s low in fat, full of powerful antioxidants, rich in Vitamin C, and helps in the absorption of…
My brothers and I grew up eating Marmite and Bovril. We ate it with our porridge. On days when my late maternal granny didn’t cook any soup, we would have instant soup of Marmite or Bovril. When our daughters were toddlers, I used to substitute dark soy sauce with Marmite. It’s been a while since…
My chef wannabe daughter #2 dished up this dessert for her granny, my mum, on her 69th birthday several days ago… It’s a small slice of the birthday cake (green tea cake with sweetened adzuki beans), with a huge chunk of cream scraped off coz she knows that granny can’t take dairy products, topped…
Here’s just one of my typical breakfast ideas on a weekday… Organic oat bran with chia seeds and baked almonds with chilled chocolate milk. Weekday breakfast is very simple, healthy and easy on my innards before I put in slightly unhealthy stuff over the weekend with something like this for a breakfast on Saturdays… See…
My low-carb + high fiber lunch today after 20 laps in the pool this morning 🙂 East Meets West salad, composing of Royale butterhead, pink and white pomelo, satay sauce as dressing and 3 forkfuls of my favorite Mee Siam (Thai-style stir-fried vermicelli). Satay sauce (sauce made from peanuts, spices and chillies) is from the…
Goooood morning world! If you’re tucking into some not so healthy breakfast right now, like a couple of greasy sausages, spam meat, ham or bacon (I know how good they taste), go easy on processed meat and artery-clogging food. A little of something unhealthy everyday can accumulate into something really nasty inside you over time….
These are some light snacks for Cass yesterday while waiting for me to bring her out for breakfast of bitter gourd + minced pork vermicelli, which is our absolute favorite on a Saturday morning… Izumio hydrogen water (to zap away free radicals), toasted almonds and toasted organic pumpkin seeds… And of course our smoothie…
It’s the most dreaded time of the year again. The time when it is sweltering hot and water rationing looms again. Yours truly, the ‘puteri lilin’ gets nauseous each time she comes back from the outdoors, after getting grilled by the murderous heat. This afternoon I made a mistake and brought the girls to the…