Rice and chicken stew with tomato and the very nutritious malunggay/moringa. Cooked by Yui’s grandfather (Mom side) no less. Tasted it. Even sans salt, it was delicious!
Category Archives: food
rise and shine!
Where usually we get only advertisements or health tidbits on the inner top cover of yogurt packaging, I got this last night.
You’d be surprised how it could help, at times; especially since it’s a first after hundreds that you’ve had.
out with white bread
Finally, an access to my WordPress app! Couldn’t access the app for a almost a couple of weeks in that I had to reinstall the app. Thing is, I had to try several times to get the right password. But finally, thankfully, I now got an access!
So. Last post was about eating healthy goodness and here is yet another one!
As much as possible, whenever I feed Yui bread, I try to give her the healthier option. Thankfully, she loves it as well!
Hijiki (seaweed) rice bread (the one with white powder on the top) and rye wheat bread.
I also have these two for lunch at least once a week.
When I was pregnant, I love Muji Café’s wheat bread. Now, both Mom and baby love the bread.
Let’s opt for the healthier choice Moms and Dads!
eating right, early on
Whenever I prepare the ingredients for Yui’s food, there’s only one phrase I have in mind – only the choicest of ingredients. So I was really thrilled when I saw this “baby leaf” package in the store. Only the choicest of leaves for our baby. With ten different salad greens.
Each leaf is already quite small actually but I still cut them off in halves before steaming to avoid Yui’s choking on them. I steam a batch, store and get a portion to match with a serving of another batch of dish that I made. One example, this minced pork-tomato-potato-onion-natto dish.
Yep, there’s natto on it – that sticky, stinky but very healthy fermented beans. The first time I served natto to Yui, she had it with tofu and rice cereal.
Did she like it? Just look at that smile.
Now, I really wasn’t a healthy eater. But buying all this healthy stuff for Yui makes me think of making healthy dishes for Hubs and me as well. So even if we’re not babies, I also had the baby leaf for us adults.
I added in tomatoes, bacon, cottage cheese topped with onion dressing.
I sometimes vary our salad and put in boiled eggs and yellow bell pepper instead. Still with cottage cheese and onion dressing.
Last weekend, I decided to let Yui taste ampalaya/goya/bitter melon. As I wasn’t sure how Yui would like it, I added the ampalaya/goya/bitter melon in this asparagus-minced beef-tomato-string beans-cottage cheese-bean sprouts dish, all of which Yui had before in different mixes.
When Yui tasted it, her eyebrows were at first furrowed. But as she chewed on, a smile slowly crept on her face until it became this.
And since of course I only use up a portion of the vegetables I buy for Yui’s food, Dad and Mom had the remaining vegetables. I decided to have a goya champloo.
We had a superstition on the Philippines – that if you cook ampalaya/goya/bitter melon and it doesn’t taste bitter at all, you will have kind in-laws. Now, I’m really blessed with the kindest in-laws. Suffice it to say that my goya champloo absolutely didn’t taste bitter. 🙂
I’m not a medical professional so what I know about health and nutrition I only got from our doctor, books and Internet. But having had read extensively thus far, I am quite sad and surprised that some doctors in the Philippines still advise that milk is still enough to provide nutrition for toddlers. Toddlers and preschoolers definitely need more than milk for optimum growth. Let’s do our best Moms and Dads!
daycare Summer Festival
The daycare staff picked a good day and time to have the summer festival/natsu matsuri. It started off at 5:30pm so when we left our house, there was a cool breeze blowing, not humid at all.
At the registration table right before the entrance, Yui was given a sling that would keep tab of all our “purchases”.
Yui keeping tab of what we’ve ordered so far ^-^
The first floor was where we could buy festival food – frankfurts, yakisoba, choco banana. It’s only for the older babies and adults though, we had to bring Yui’s food with us. It felt weird to bring food at the daycare since they usually provide food for Yui. With a couple of the senseis.
We ate our fill at one of the rooms of the second floor. Dad and Yui while Mom eats her yakisoba. It was the most bland yakisoba I’ve ever had though – naturally, because it’s also meant for kids.
Yoyo ball pool!
We didn’t get one for Yui. Turns out she wants one for herself!
We had this for Yui though.
Please tell me what to do sensei
Art time! Design-your-own-fan.
Mikoshi time! For the older kids. Sorry for the blurred photo.
Obon dance time.
Thankfully, the time was right for Yui’s sleeping cycle that’s why she didn’t have a meltdown. A lot of kids had a meltdown however towards the end of the program (it lasted about two hours). Hubs and I could understand. Both of us were actually tired after the activity, to think we just looked around. How much more overwhelming it would be for the kids, and the teachers for that matter!
Instilling culture right at a very young age. Very nice. Thankful.
what’s in the steamer this Thursday
For Yui. Carrots, okra, tomato with cottage cheese.
On another note, since last week, the colourful meal and baby yogurt I’ve been giving Yui doesn’t seem to be enough for her. Even when the volume of her colourful meal is just a bit more than enough for babies. She ends up crying for more. Finally confirmed this evening what she’s been looking for. She wants her soup with her meal. She probably got used to having soup with her meal since on her two meals at the daycare, it’s always with soup.
And so from this evening as well, I might have to start preparing batches of soup. First in the list – miso soup! Bought these earlier.
Ok, now back to the kitchen.