What I found in the grocery this week just made my husband love me more. His favorite “pulutan” is tofu or tokwa (not necessarily actually that he drinks alcohol, he just likes something to munch as he work on his computer) and my latest find made it easier for me to prepare what he likes. Datu Puti ToyoMagic is your perfect companion for “tokwang baboy” and it costs only P25 per bottle as I bought one from Puregold this week. It’s soy sauce combined with vinegar and onion (without the bits and pieces) and...
I will never forget Vicks Vaporub because it had been part of my childhood. I remember how my lola used to put Vicks ointment over my chest and on my back when I couldn’t sleep due to colds. We always have a tiny bottle of Vicks available inside the cabinet so I can just put some on my nostrils whenever I couldn’t breathe. I also remember the Vicks candies, the small green triangular (if I am not mistaken) menthol candies that I used to buy in sari-sari stores when I was still a kid. Until these days, we have Vicks in our...
Smelling good is one thing I always want my daughters to be conscious of themselves. When it comes to being ma-“kikay”, my daughters aren’t not that so much into that thing, but I told them that even if they are not that fashion savvy like most of their peers, they always need to at least smell good. Of course, that should follow naman because they have good personal hygiene habits but sometimes when they are at school, they do all these activities that they can’t avoid being “amoy-pawis”. That’s...
We were all brought up with cakes as one of the most special symbols of celebration, particularly birthdays. Filipinos love cakes and no matter how cake designs had evolved these days, the simplest cake will be enough to bring happiness to the celebrant. But Red Ribbon—one of the leading bakeshops in the country—wants to make Filipinos feel more special by offering a double treat to celebrants with their latest Double Deck Dedication Cake. Have you tasted a Red Ribbon cake before? I bet you will agree with me that their chocolate...
As my kids are growing older, they get busier with their school stuff, their increasing number of friends, music, arts, etcetera. But I don’t loathe these stuff. These are all part of growing up. So what we do as a family to make up with our “bonding” moments, we go on family food trips. We call it “food trips” because we plan it just like our travel trips : we scout the place, we check the price, the food, the opening/closing time, and then we get the map. Even if it means just going to the nearby malls and...
Was so happy to find the latest from Quaker when I did the grocery this week. Quaker Oaties Mini Oat Cookies Baon Buddies. Buy 5 Get 1 Free! Oaties cookie flavors are Apple Cinnamon, Chocolate Chips and Honey Nuts. Quaker Oaties are only the oat cookies which my kids like to eat and bring as snack in school. Their favorite, of course, is the chocolate chips variant. What can I do, they love chocolates! These oaties are perfect because of the size of the cookies. They can finish the whole pack easily. It’s important because my kids...
When it comes to owning a home, I choose to dream big. After all, dreaming is free. But I don’t say that we plan to let our dream house be only a dream forever. Apart from praying a lot, we are working very hard to save to be able to buy a piece of land or a property that we can finally call ours. The house will not only be a home of love but it will also be a legacy for my daughters. We feel that we owe it to them to have a place where they can always come to even when they have their own families in the future. As parents, you...
Absent ba lagi ang anak nyo sa school? Try giving them a serving of pineapple a day. Yes, actually, a clinical study was held recently to check the effects of canned pineapples as immunity booster. For 9 weeks, a group of 98 students from Paco, Manila were chosen to participate in a case study where a number of them were not given any canned pineapples and compared them to the rest who were given Del Monte Pineapple tidbits. After the test, those students who ate pineapples showed increased resistance to disease and infection. Good news...
