Healthy Food
Pumpkin pasta for kids
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Tried and tested, simply nutritious and absolutely delicious!!!!
I made up this recipe today. Try it. You must!!
ONE serving for a Tee sized little person. That’s about ONE METER TALL.
Boil some pumpkin in salted water (say, 3″ x 6″ worth of pumpkin without the skin nor seeds and a pinch of salt in water) until pumpkin […]
Hiring a helper for my own sanity
Thursday, October 30th, 2008I’m 80% sure that by the end of this year, I’ll be filling in forms to hire a helper for the Lee Household. I’ve taken care of Tee single-handedly for a whole four years and feel that it is time. Despite the Hubs’s severe need for privacy around the home and despite his ache in […]
12 hours with my in laws from Kota Bharu
Friday, October 24th, 2008At 9am this morning, Tee and I dashed out the door like professional sprinters running errands for the in laws, and I kissed my husband’s toes for canceling the plumber’s visit today as I really would have broken down to the floor and cried my eyeballs out.
After completing our errands with breakfast on the go […]
Why I am always stressed out
Sunday, October 19th, 2008.
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Tee barely ONE YEAR OLD eating pasta.
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Licks her bowl clean like a dog….
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Then pours everything else out onto ground, table, clothes, everywhere. She then rubs her hair into the pasta pretending they’re beads and thinks it’s funny.
NUFF SAID.
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And I haven’t even shown you the end result.
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Making fresh orange juice
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Some of Tee’s favourite drinks include Orange Juice, Almond Tea, Honey Water, Ribena and Apple Juice. Milk - she loves it sometimes and sometimes she’s not in the mood for it. Never water. *sigh*
Fresh orange juice has always been a sure winner though so whenever she feels like orange juice, I’ll make her make it […]
A meal made from love….
Sunday, September 7th, 2008That’s what my mother does as she knows no other way, apart from dishing out dosh. Many mothers show their love through cooking. It is quite amazing that I have learnt to show love in other ways. It proves that just because you didn’t get it doesn’t mean you cannot give it. It means that […]
On crystals again, the fat losing kind…
Monday, October 15th, 2007YES!!!!
There is such a thing!!!!
Well, it’s probably not as absurd as it sounds. It probably has some energy thing that increases your metabolism or something which in turn makes you kinda lose weight. Capiche?
Anyway, my mother, who loves me so much and has so much faith in me losing weight, bought me two ‘lose-weight’ crystal […]
Obesity and weight loss
Friday, October 5th, 2007Ever since I met the Hubs, my weight has been climbing a steep ladder, step by step, over the last ten years. It is discouraging to say the least but thankfully, I don’t feel the need to have the houston lapband just yet. I pray I never will.
However, for many people out there who have […]
Weight loss or inch loss?
Thursday, August 16th, 2007At Tee’s Doctor today, I weighed myself with a real weighing machine. Not a wonky one like the one I have at home. My heart skipped a beat at the extra kilos till I pacified myself that perhaps I was building muscle.
My jeans are certainly looser.
Yesterday, I did 5km on a bike and 2km walking on […]
Carving Yellow Watermelon Balls
Sunday, July 29th, 2007When Tee was learning the colour yellow at school, they did yellow activities ALL WEEK. Anything to do with the colour yellow, they did it. Even in Mandarin. At the end of the week, they had a yellow party in which Tee had to bring in yellow food. So I got her to prepare her […]
Toddler on Hunger strike
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007For the last 2 weeks, my daughter has decided to join the anorexic gang. :-(
She used to be a really good eater, sometimes even eating more than her own father, but of late, she eats less than a fistful, HER fistful, of food.
I’m at my wit’s end and am considering reverse psychology, and put her on […]
Killer Tomato Salsa for 2
Sunday, July 22nd, 20073 ripe tomatoes (chopped)
3 pips garlic (minced)
3 small onions (chopped)
3 twigs coriander (minced)
3 chilli padis or jalapenos (minced)
3 pinches of salt
Cook tomatoes alone in a saucepan for a few minutes (only because cooked tomatoes offer more nutrients than uncooked tomatoes - did you know that? Even ketchup benefits you more than raw tomatoes, apparently). Then add all […]
I hate models
Friday, July 20th, 2007It’s official.
Here’s why.
6am at the airport: The models (secretly famine victims from Ethopia) dive in to McDonald’s meals (all of them) and not just 1 meal per model. On top of their value meals, they have side orders of extra hash browns, french fries and chocolate sundaes. I had a turkey ham sandwich from a […]
What’s your family food plan?
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007I’m nosey. I can’t help it. Born like that. Just like how I’m impatient, lazy and boring…..and err….so many other things.
Today, I read this, so I thought I’d share what we had on our carefully planned out menu this week. Considering I am on a low-carb ’so called diet’, we’ve been avoiding the good Chinese […]
About Pumpkins
Sunday, July 8th, 2007For someone whose blog’s url is called Big Pumpkin, I sure HATE. Absolutely DETEST……..cutting and de-skinning pumpkins. From today onwards, I shall bring the pumpkins to my Mother’s house and get the maid to chop them up.
Unfortunately or fortunately, Tee loves eating pumpkin. And it is a very nutricious vegetable.
But I’ve had enough of pumpkin […]
Toddlers making Toddler Fruit Salad
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
Tee made a fruit salad by the pool with her friends one day. They had a fruit lesson in texture, smells, sight and taste AND they got to practise their gross motor skills! Tee is a pro at cutting with her knife and chopping board as she has lots of practice with me in the […]
