Archives for September 2011

AQIVA’s Treats for Tots: Healthy food your child will love

When it comes to my kids, I am really lucky that they are not picky eaters. There are times though, that they are fixated on eating certain food like shrimp, corned beef or chicken. I have to trick them just to eat the right food for them such as vegetables. I usually tell them that those were their favorite dishes when they were younger and it is effective so far. The only vegetable that they cannot eat is ampalaya, and I don’t even eat it myself.

Of course even though they are not picky eaters I still want to make sure that they eat as much veggies they can and I am really glad that I have been part of AQIVA’s Treats for Tots: Healthy food your child will love. Chef Carina taught us two dishes that the kids will surely love but is actually a very healthy treat.

We were grouped and all participated in a cook off. Now, these two dishes are not very new to me but the way Chef Carina prepared it, that is something I am not familiar. Two students from FEU Culinary School (Makati, where the event was held) helped us in preparing the dishes (Thank you so much Louise and Ina). We committed a lot of mistakes and put a lot spices so I am quite surprised that our dish won over the other 4 groups.

Rowena and me while preparing (Thanks Ferdie for the photo) Super Healthy Kiddie Spaghetti and Chicken Fingers. The spaghetti was super healthy because it has spinach, broccolo, green peas and carrots on it. It’s actually 70% veggie sauce. The chicken on the other hand was baked. Surprisingly the spaghetti taste good and the chicken is something that my kids will really love. I was able to take home a sample for the kids and as expected the chicken was a hit. The spaghetti didn’t taste as good as it was during the event, somewhat the taste of broccoli surfaced and one can actually know that the sauce is about veggies but the kids loved it nonetheless.

And as the winning team (photo above), we were able to take some goodies from Healthy Options

AQIVA is a nutrient-enriched milk supplement from Wyeth that is designed to fill the nutritional gaps of children 4 years and older. AQIVA contains more than 40 ingredients including 25 essential nutrients and it comes in a great-tasting vanilla flavor.

My memory card has been corrupted and I lost all my photos.. I am really thankful that Rowena of Animetrics allowed me to use her photos.

Nescafe Sweet And Mild

I prefer my coffee bitter and sweet.. and creamy too. I still have to taste this Sweet and Mild from Nescafe. The girl being so sweet on the video is beginning to grow on me. The first time I watched it, I find it annoyingly sweet but then again, she is just being sweet and there is not annoying about that. So when I finally accepted her sweetness, I already liked her already and not to mention that song really sticks on the mind.

I wish I can have her sweetness when dealing with stained scion floor mats when the car has been to car wash. Sweet and Mild lady, please brush off some of your sweetness to me 🙂

Please do watch the video, I specially liked the last part.

Finally, I learned who was singing in this nescafe sweet and mild commercial.. the girl’s name is Andrea Bocobo (thanks to JJ)

Best Of Both Worlds

I feel like I have my own day care center here.. 5 kids.. you can just imagine how it is. 4 of them are mine while the plus one is my sister’s who lives with me. Bathing them alone takes 30 minutes of my time. Every morning we need to prepare the 3 oldest to get ready for school and almost every afternoon I had to teach them to prepare them for the next day’s lesson.. wait did I say day care? I take it back.. I mean my own school! But I am not complaining. In fact I am more than thankful for having 4 kids and of course for having my nephew here. This is what I want to do ever since.. I really want to have a big family, lot of kids.. lots of laughter. I do not know where I got my patience, I enjoy playing pretend with them, doing art works, teaching them, spending an afternoon recreating their lessons for them to understand well. I love cutting papers and creating images that they will love or as simple as making an alphabet chart for them. I love doing it all but..

The thing is, sometimes I wish I don’t have to work online.. I do enjoy writing and blogging specially when I get to interact with stay at home moms like me.. work at home moms as well.. but the burden of having to earn makes it a bit hard for me. The pressure of deadline tasks against spending more time with the kids or doing some artworks for them is very stressful for me. I wish I can be like other moms who’s blog earning are merely for their hobby, travel or shopping.. if that would be the case I wouldn’t mind having no hobby at all or having not to travel or having no fashionable shoes to wear.. I would rather spend my time with my kids..

Part of my earnings also goes for my mom.. so even if I want to stop earning, I can’t. In a way, I am more satisfied now than I was before.. I get to earn a little and able to help my mom and still spend time with my kids since I work at home.. well there goes the saying, You just can’t have it all..