:Thursday Challenge: Beverage-Banana Milk Shake

Thursday Challenge

BEVERAGE (Water, Lemonade, Juice, Beer, Coffee, Tea,...)

I love drinking natural fruit juices whenever I went to restaurants and any dining  place.  I also want to to taste each restaurant's version of my favorite fruit shakes. I love natural fruit shakes because you can taste the real flavors of the fruits and it's very healthy too!

My Fruit Shakes entry is from the combo meal of Outback Restaurant where we dined in one of my last meetings with my boss, days before I left.

I just described it by myself lol! From the pic above you'll have an idea how yummy it is!

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Little Jewels' Nutrition Day

I’m so tired that I wasn’t able to do any work online today. I attended my little boy’s nutrition day program. He’s one of the boys in Filipino costumes in white camisa tsino and red pants with the letter of N in NUTRISYON (nutrition) saying what the letter stands for. There are many presentations and I can say they’re all in good concept. All PTA officers prepared foods for all students representing each grade level with one healthy recipe food. We presented soup, pancakes, ice cream, menudo, pasta and chicken. All booths were decorated with nutritious fruits and some even put balloons. It was very festive and at the end of it we parents and teachers ate what’s left and had our group picture taking. 

Update:

To see the yummy foods we had on that day visit my post at Feel at Home.

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Healthy Ways on Getting Slimmer

As you grow older your metabolism decreases and slows down. When I was younger I could eat large amount of carbohydrate-rich foods without getting heavy and fat. I’m a sporty person and I think that helped too but the main thing that really helped me was my fast metabolism. Now after having three kids and being married for fourteen years I noticed that everything I eat added up to my weight. This is an alarming thought and I have to make a healthy balanced diet without fat, have some exercise and move as often as I can to at least prevent myself from being too fat.

I have tried many ways of losing some weight but I tried to do my dieting the healthy way as I don’t want to be slimmer but sickly. Anyway I heard about this hCG weight loss Spokane from a friend and noted to inquire about it. Now I’m trying to start a diet of fruits, veggies and fish only on lunch and dinner. I only eat meat and rice during breakfast which I can’t give up because I’m a morning person who gets strength on breakfast meals. I’m energetic when I have full breakfast and the succeeding meals are easy on me. I can eat whatever I want without craving for more. I discovered that fruits can cleanse your body system and it’s the best for removing bad toxins. I’m preparing myself for a real cleansing diet of raw foods and fruits only.

For now I’m reducing my intake of rice and meat. I’m actually quite successful about it and I’m enjoying it just like my friend is enjoying her hCG diet Spokane as she’s very excited at the results. Well I have yet to see her now but she’s living very far from us. She said she’ll talk about her weight loss Spokane when we meet next month after the summer season. She’s not fond of traveling in this very hot summer heat and she’s protecting herself from any sickness that may arise when she’s tired herself in visiting far away places. So I’ll wait for another month until I get to see this friend of mine.

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:TC - Food : Complete Birthday Foods

Thursday Challenge

for fun and learning

"FOOD" (Meals, Restaurants, Eating, Vegetables, Unusual Foods, Cooking, BBQs,...)

This is a quarter-old photo of my husband's birthday food photos which I selected for my entry this week. I choose this shot because it's a complete meal for us , we're a lover of pasta, chicken lollipop, fruit salad and oh so yummy cakes! Well we also have double dutch ice cream but we didn't put that out in case it melts immediately. I don't need to prepare elaborate recipes because my family especially my 3 kids love all these foods above. It's a complete treat for them.

Visit my green spider grass entry here! For more 'food' themed photos click the title badge!

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Tips on Limiting Cholesterol

My daughter is so fond of eating sunny-side up eggs but I limit her intake and cook eggs as breakfast twice a week only because I learned that it's high in cholesterol. But did you know that you only need to limit your intake of egg yolks and not the whites. It's the egg yolks that's high in cholesterol. Egg whites are OK. So you can make a little substitution when you're cooking eggs. Say if your recipe calls for three eggs you can make it one whole egg and two or three whites just to limit the cholesterol level. Now if you're going to cook scrambled eggs try taking out some egg yolks and it will be just fine, nothing to worry about. It's best to do it than suffer from sickness brought about by too much cholesterol.

Image from glitter-graphics.com

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Expression of My Love Through Quick Recipes

Did you know the old secret of keeping your man to your side? Well my Mom told me that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. It’s not as if your husband will not love you if you don’t cook for him but through cooking you’ll make him feel special. The old folks told me that women tend to put their heart in the food that they cook and it extends to the people that she cooks for. So I think it’s one of the main ingredients in making your man fall in love with you more because they feel special when you serve him the best of your efforts.

With my own experience with DH every time he goes home tired and weary from his work a steaming hot soup and delicious dish with dessert erases his tiredness. Anyway I don’t have to prepare special meals everyday because as he says Quick Recipes from me is good enough for him because I’ve worked hard for it. Well same goes for my kids as they look forward to my cooking and always asks what I’m planning to cook the next day. Sometimes I took them out for lunch or dinner but I always see to it that I can also cook whatever we eat in the restaurant because I don’t want them longing for other recipes lol! I want them to know that I can do it all for them because that’s my way of showing my love.

So that’s cooking and food is all about. It’s an expression of love for your family so if you’re not the professional or the best cook in town you could start with simple quick recipes that will not require too much preparation and easy on the budget too. You can make these simple recipes taste as good as your other special recipes as long as you put your heart on it. Start searching and learning new recipes now! Here's one of my quick recipes!

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Clever Cupcakes!

I was looking for some ideas on our upcoming birthday occasions and look what I've found! It's actually for a wedding but I stopped all the same because I find it truly special and unique to have a cupcake tower instead of traditional cake that will be cut one by one before serving. Here cupcakes are ready for serving and eating, no need to wait that long.

See each cupcake is hand crafted and designed. You'll see sunflower, polka dots and striped cupcakes designed to match the big cake. Wow! this is really beautiful! It's also easy to take it home lol! This creation is from Elizabeth Marek and you can see all of her beautiful cakes in Artisan Cake Company.

Well as I'm looking for kids' birthday party cakes I've found these cute clever cupcakes to match the kids' taste.

She's now having her 2010 Cake giveaway. Check out artisancakecompany.com!

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PH#207 : Sweet 'Cake'

This is my yummy entry for this week's photohunt. It's the Sweet Choco Mocha Crunch from one of my fave bakeshop - Red Ribbon where we bought all cakes every birthday celebration in our office (when I was still working there). We almost rounded their list of cakes saved for the new and latest cakes they have.

Choco Mocha Crunch is a medley of rich chocolate chiffon cake and mocha marble cream with delicious honeycomb crunch. The 'crunch' at the center of the cake here is so sweet you can't eat them without drinking water lol! I remember my childhood candies when I see the crunch it's like the 'tira-tira' candy we buy in sari-sari stores in the 80's. Maybe some of my Filipino friends who were children and teens in the 80's know what I'm talking about.

For more photo hunt 'Sweet' entries just click on the badge above.

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New Community Pizza House

There’s a new pizza parlor five blocks away from the house and since I just got my salary from my work I told my kids that I will treat them so we can have a taste of the new store’s pizza, fruit shakes and other foodies. So here I am again thinking of new restaurant and foods while I should be finding some quick weight loss remedy for my gained pounds. It’s hard not to think of foods because my kids have no classes today and when they’re all here at the house we’re all thinking of some good and new snacks. Sometimes we cook or bake some muffins or ordinary pizza made from big bread but now we want to try the new pizza store of our neighbor. It’s just a 2-minute walk from the house and my kids are all waiting up for me to leave my PC now. Well then I should get a break.

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Jelly Animals

My kids love this jelly animals I made last week on Gen's birthday. I've actually reserved these animal shapes for them as I made all of my gelatin in big molds. These jelly shapes in dove, elephant and fish are a sure delight in my kids' eyes that they love it more than the others which I made with more fillings like raisins and pineapple. Kids really love shapes in any form and any size and these animals attracts their attention. These jellies are super yummy too as I've put milk and eggs on it just like leche flan. How about you, are you fond of eating animal-shaped jellies?

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Five Foods I Never Want To Eat

Give Me Five foods you never want to eat.

1. All kinds of bugs: some considers it as a delicacy but it's yucky for me!
2. Cow tongue: I can't erase my imagination when I see one.
3. Snake: can't bear to look at it, it's so ew!
4. Chili: I can't stand the heat on my mouth if eaten directly but if put into soy sauce it can enhance your dipping soy sauce.

5. Eating Ginger and drinking its juice..... I can't stand the taste and smell no matter how good it is to condition the throat and voice, it can give you a beautiful voice or it can maintain the beauty of your voice though I used to saute it in some dishes I know.

View other foods people never want to eat here.

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