A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
Our smoothie-of-the-day for today… 3 oranges + 1 green apple + handful of cherries (seeds removed)+ juice from 1 lemon. Simply love the zesty lemony taste from the lemon! Cherries are on offer at our neighborhood supermarket and hubs managed to grab a huge punnet at only RM29.90. What a steal it was! I…
Despite a chilly morning and having a slight runny nose, Cass went swimming with her grandma this morning. On Thursday, she told me that her throat hurt a little and on Friday, she was sneezing with slimy worm-like goo oozing from her nostrils. Many moons ago, I would have panicked when my girls had…
My passion in passion fruit was unleashed during my holiday in Lake Toba, Indonesia with my mother circa 1992. In Indonesia, passion fruits are called Markisa. We were served Markisa juice everywhere that we went to — from the hotel to the restaurants and on board the plane. Since then, I have always bought passion fruits….
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…
The other day, I bought 2 large cucumbers from Tesco at less than a dollar for 2! As I still had some mint leaves and ripe tomatoes in the fridge, I decided to make a cucumber + tomatoes + mint leaves + green apple smoothie for myself and the mil. After whirling the smoothie for…
Today is Cass’ kindy’s sports day. We left the house at 8am and I left with only some fruits and a cup of milk in my tummy which I took earlier. By the time we reached home at 10am, we were all very hungry. I quickly whipped up orange + chia seeds smoothie for the…
Smoothies for my girls today: Red dragon fruit + strawberries + fresh coconut water + chia seeds smoothie for Alycia and Cass & Orange + purple grapes + chia seeds smoothie for Sherilyn! Loving my Shimono food processor to bits!