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Krispy Kreme Egg-Shaped Donuts

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:32:05 +0000

Aside from Krispy Kreme’s usual delighting offerings of confections, check out their daily deal starting March 29. It’s the time of the year again when boys and girls fill up their Easter baskets with goodies. But instead of real eggs, Krispy Kreme came up with these egg-citing limited edition egg-shaped donut treats. Available in chocolate variants of Hershey’s Dark Chocolate, Hershey’s Cookies and Crea, Peanut Butter and Kreme, Snickers classic, Chocolate Custard Filled, Chocolate Kreme Filled, Cinnamon Apple, Caramel Kreme Crunch, Chocolate Iced with Sprinkles and a lot more. It’s just Php 365 per dozen.

My son loves donuts and this is something he can look forward to on Easter Sunday after having our Easter activities.

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Snack Foods With Less Calories But Makes You Feel Fuller.

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:04:50 +0000

School is over for some students and getting ready to hit the beach is probably making them busy right now. Aside from shopping for swimsuits, their preparation also includes slimming their bodies through engaging with weight loss regimens and workouts.

For those of you who want to shed off those extra pounds, the trick with regards to food choices is very simple. To help fire your metabolism, try snacking on foods that have just about 200 calories or less but will leave you feeling fuller for a longer time. These snack foods include popcorn, kamote fries, oatmeal, veggie burgers, sugar-free popsicles and apple slices.

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Avoiding Diarrhea

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:39:22 +0000

Unless it’s not chronic and not accompanied with fever, vomiting and extreme pain, the occasional bout of diarrhea can usually be prevented with just a change in diet and of course personal care precaution. Here are some tips I’ve collected from my internet research and those that I’ve constantly read from parenting books (in connection with preventing viral and bacterial infections on children):

1. Carefully wash hands after using the bathroom and after changing a baby’s diaper.
2. Practice safe food-handling. Always wash the hands before and after handling food.
3. Avoid raw or rare meat and poultry. Always cook them thoroughly to their recommended temperatures.
4. Thoroughly rinse with clean water raw fruits and vegetables that will be consumed.
5. Regularly clean water dispensers and replace your wf2cb water filter periodically.
6. Avoid diarrhea at breakfast by not drinking caffeinated coffee, tea, or soda pop. At lunch, skip the raw fruit or vegetable salad. At dinner, go easy on the fatty foods.

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Coffee Latte Art

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:11:45 +0000

How would you want to be served with artful coffee lattes such as these?

Coffee Latter Art or simply Coffee Art refers to the practice of making artful designs and patterns using espresso and frothed milk in a cup of coffee. It takes a great skill, patience and numerous practices before one can expertly come up with such an art.

More Coffee Art masterpieces can be found at Weirdomatic.

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All About Yogurt

admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:53:04 +0000

I used to avoid and abhor the sour taste of yogurt. But when my 19 month old son’s pediatrician included this in his dietary intake, my mindset changed because of the following benefits:

* Tolerance to Milk. According to studies, yogurt enhances lactose digestion in individuals with low intestinal levels of lactase which is the enzyme necessary to digest lactose or the milk’s sugar.

* Avoids Cancer. Yogurt improves the enzymes in intestine and liver and helps in the production of white blood cells. These helps fight off cancer (specifically colorectal cancer and possibly breast cancer) and improves one immunity.

* Balances Weight. It makes our digestion functions smoothly and prompts maximum nutrient absorbing.

* Prevents Diarrhea . It kills harmful bacteria in our intestines. A particular strain of bacteria used in yogurt, Lactobacillus strain GG, aids in treatment and prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, traveler’s diarrhea, and acute diarrhea in children.

* Prevents Ulcers. It suppresses the growth of Helicobacter pylori, a known ulcer-inducing bacteria.

* Reduces Cholesterol. Good bacteria in yogurt absorbs the cholesterol in small intestine and also helps in decreasing cholesterol in blood.

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Food Attitude.

admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:21:54 +0000

Have your realized what your food attitude has been? Well, if not yet, check out and try this wonderful and helpful food diary sample (from here) and you might be surprised how healthy or unhealthy your diet is. Ideally, keep a food diary for at least three consecutive days and from the results, do notice the patterns and that’s where you’ll start taking action on.

Some realizations may include:
- a tendency to overeat because you miss a mealtime
- whole day meals from breakfast to dinner consist of fast food meals (hello whopping calorie and fat contents!)
- responding to stress through mindless munching

Finding out your food habits can help you make conscious decisions about your daily food intake. Start jotting down your food habits through this table.

( ) Breakfast ( ) Lunch ( ) Snacks ( ) Dinner		Cost: P ____
Were you hungry? ( ) Yes ( ) No		Time:
Food	Beverage	Feelings before and after you ate

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Buko-Pina Smoothie

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:41:09 +0000

Here’s another smoothie recipe my grandmother taught me using pandan leaves. These abound at their home in the province and she would always make us whenever we spend our summer vacation there.

Ingredients:
1 pc buko, meat shredded, (reserve water)
18-20 pcs of pandan leaves
1 can (240 ml) Pineapple Juice
1/2 cup sugar

For 5 minutes, boil pandan leaves in the reserved buko water plus 1 cup of water. Remove leaves and add sugar. Stir until dissolved. Cool and combine buko and pineapple juice in a blender. At high speed, mix. Add to pandan mixture then serve with crushed ice.

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Pineapple Carrot Smoothie

admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:40:09 +0000

We are recommended to have five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. And the best way to serve it is through smoothies. Smoothies are loaded with vitamins and minerals. Not only are they great tasting, they’re healthy drinks, too! They are great for breakfast or any time of the day.

Sharing a recipe which my grandmom taught me.

Ingredients:
1 pc small carrot
4 to 5 tbsp sugar or 1 tsp honey
1 tbsp raisin
1 can (240 m) Pure Pineapple Juice
12 pcs ice cubes

In a blender, blend carrot and raisins with the Pineappe Juice until crushed. If your blender doesn’t like carrots try chopping it up and adding it one piece at a time during the blending. Add the rest of the ingredients and blend until smooth.

Makes 4 servings
Excellent source of Vitamin A for good eyesight.

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Butong Pakwan

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:51:31 +0000

- dried watermelon seeds
- a popular Filipino salty treats during drinking sessions or while watching your favorite TV show or movies
- comes in big plastic packs in supermarkets and groceries but these can also be bought from the sari-sari store in smaller labeled packs (Captain Sid)
- to get the edible white seeds inside, bite the edges in vertical position until the seeds break in half
- anticipate to have wrinkly lips and a sodium headache after finishing a big pack of it
- pringles’ “once you pop, you can’t stop” also goes with eating butong pakwan

Food Nutrients Trivia for 100 grams of Butong Pakwan as calculated by Calorie King.

Nutrition Facts
Calories 543	(2271 kJ)
% Daily Value 1
Total Fat	45.7g	70%
Sat. Fat	9.4g	47%
Cholesterol	0mg	0%
Sodium	86mg	4%
Total Carbs.	14.3g	5%
Dietary Fiber	7.1g	29%
Protein	27.1g
Potassium	628.6mg

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Tips for Feeding Vegetarian Kids.

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:08:01 +0000

I could say that Asher, at this stage, is a vegetarian kid. He loves eating mashed squash, soyote, eggplant, carrots, broccoli, stringbeans, potato, malunggay, spinach and saluyot leaves and even those uncommon vegetables that we have on our Dinengdeng dish like the green spaghetti-like “alukon”. What he abhors eating are any meaty texture – pork, beef or chicken. At first, I got worried because he may not be taking in enough protein and other key nutrients but my research in parenting books says that “vegetarian kids can be very healthy, as long as you keep these few simple rules in mind”:

1. Dairy foods (such as milk, eggs, cheese) are great source of protein.
2. Whole grains have lots of proteins, too.
3. Variety of beans,nuts, legumes, and some soy foods together with whole grains cover the baby’s protein requirements.
4. Serve a vitamin C–rich food (which boosts iron absorption), at every meal to make sure the toddler makes the most of the plant-based iron he’s eating. Plant-based iron (called non-heme iron) is not as easily absorbed by the body as animal sources of iron (heme iron).
5. Milk intake should be carefully regulated for vegan kids. While milk is packed with calcium, vitamin D, and protein..it has no iron. So if a vegetarian kid bottoms up just milk, he’ll not go hungry for solid foods in meals that contain iron and many other nutrients. Instead, if he clamors for more milk, serve him some enriched soy milk – which contains iron.

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