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!
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!
hottest summer thus far
It is already very hot even in the mornings in that last Friday, even with sunblock on her skin, I made Yui wear her hat again. But she absolutely doesn’t like it at all that even when we were still in front of our door, she took her hat off. But I firmly put it back again on her and again and again repeatedly told her “it’s so hot, Yui needs to wear a hat” on our way to daycare.
Admirably, Yui obeyed Mom. But she was holding her hat the whole 15 minutes that we walked from our home to daycare.
With a frown.
She probably wants to tell her Mom she doesn’t like the big ribbon on her hat 😀 Don’t worry baby, Mom realised she doesn’t like it either.
It’s been terribly hot lately. I grew up in a tropical country, with my hometown much closer to the equator than Japan but it only gets humid there whenever it’s about to rain. So the actual temperature is almost certainly the same as what you’d really feel. And there’s the wind, there’s always the wind to help keep things cooler. At least in my hometown. It’s an altogether different story with Manila. The last time we visited during the peak of summer, it was unbearably hot in Manila (well, I was pregnant then so it really is hotter for me than usual).
With my weather forecast app though, where we usually get only the sun, rain, clouds, wind or snow, we now have a thermometer, indicating how unusually hot it’s gonna be where we live.
And yesterday, we actually had a “feels like 48degC” temperature (“feels like” includes consideration for humidity).
Hubs said this summer is the hottest in Japan in 1000 years. I wouldn’t argue. I wonder though how the people managed the heat – no airconditioning back then! Yikes!
Take care in this summer everyone!
library
Now organising photos from my phone and our camera. Came across this photo I got ages ago (from the internet i think. I wish I could give credit to whomever I got this from). It would be lovely if we could have this. For the Dad and Mom and Baby Bookworms.
