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5 Reasons Why US Potatoes Is The Best Breakfast For Kids

I have 5 kids and 4 are already attending school, 2 must be ready by 5 AM while the older 2 must start getting ready by 6 AM. The youngest, I pray everyday that he won’t wake up until 7 AM. It’s a daily challenge but mostly it’s a win. I have with me a support system that makes everything seems easy. For one, my husband is trying to be the one to pacify Marius when he wakes up earlier than 7 AM. Husband usually sleeps at 2, I can’t thank him enough for doing that extra job. My mother on the other hand, help me with what the kids need.

Breakfast is one thing that I always try to be the one to prepare. It’s my way of saying or showing to them that even with the new baby, I still have time to take care of them. I make sure that they always eat a complete breakfast. One that is loaded with carbohydrates, protein, and fiber from fruits.

We try to alternate it with bread and Potatoes and I know you are going to ask why! So here’s 5 reasons why we include US Potatoes in my kids’ breakfast:

It is easy to prepare and versatile. From fried to bake to even making it in a soup. Potatoes can be served as snacks, breakfast in our case, or even as a main dish. Here’s a sample of a US Potato used as main dish:

That’s Seafood Potato Stew and the recipe you can find here: Seafood Potato Stew Recipe. US Potatoes is also good for baon. Last year, I made a one week baon menu using US Potatoes.

US Potatoes is delicious and my kids really love the taste no matter the recipe is. Of course our favorite will always be fried (specially the criss cross one) but we’re also inclined to choose US Potatoes Croquette.

US potatoes provides the energy, carbohydrates and potassium kids need to power performance throughout the school day. And that is the reason why this mom is all about potatoes. Being in the school for more almost 10 hours can be really tiring. I make sure that they have the energy they need by serving me the right food in the morning. US Potatoes is an ideal part of their breakfast because of the energy and potassium it provides. It’s also good for me since I am breastfeeding. Potatoes’ a good source of Potassium.

US Potatoes is available in leading supermarkets. Hindi sya mahirap hanapin and I can always get a bag of potatoes when we do our grocery, whatever supermarket it is.

It is relatively cheap specially the frozen. US potatoes affordability and versatility makes it the perfect breakfast for my kids. Hindi compromised and budget at health ng kids.

Potatoes USA, an organization that has thankfully brought US frozen, recently visited the culinary club of The Raya School in Fairview, Quezon City to demonstrate the potato’s versatility. Two potato dishes that was prepared were Broccoli Cheddar Potato Puffs and Chocolate Mashed Potato Truffles.

Broccoli Cheddar Potato Puffs

Chocolate Mashed Potato Truffles

US potatoes are available in supermarkets and groceries nationwide. For more information on US potatoes, visit www.potatogoodness.com/ or like and follow Potatoes USA-Philippines on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PotatoesUSAPhilippines/

Best Tupperware For Freezer

Grocery is on a monthly basis sana para tipid oras, pagod, ang also easier to manage the finances. But with the use of cheap containers and recycled containers, napansin ko na hindi na fresh ang wet goods pag iluluto ko na. My mother has been telling me to invest on Tupperware because of assured freshness. Sige na nga, let’s give it a try, si nanay na nagsabi e. So what’s the Best Tupperware for Freezer?

A quick search from Tupperware Brands Philippines website, and the best Tupperware for freezer is Feezermates. It comes in different sizes:

650 ml small solo
1 L small solo
1.5 L small solo
2.3 L Medium

Best Tupperware For Freezer

The 650 ml small solo is perfect for one cook, good for 3-5 persons, meal. The best Tupperware for freezer for seafood or meat that we usually cook during lunch.

The 1 L small solo is the best Tupperware for freezer to store our meat/beef/seafood that’s scheduled for dinner. That’s for a family of 5 kids plus 3 adults.

The 1.5 L small solo is good for big fishes like Tilapia and Lapu Lapu while the biggest one, Freezermates 2.3 L medium is good for big amount of food, which in our case, bulalo or whole liempo.

And yes, freshness is what Tupperware Freezermates is all about. When you put the food inside make sure all air are released. There’s a technique to do that. Just need to press down the cover before closing.

3 Things I like about Tupperware Freezermates

Tupperware Freezermates keeps my food fresh. My husband is very keen on freshness and with the use of the best Tupperware for freezer, maintain ang freshness ng food kahit monthly ang pamamalengke namin.

Tupperware Freezermates helps me in achieving my goal to be eco friendly. We bring this to sa palengke. This is our container for our seafood, tapos from palengke, straight to the freezer na. It makes you feel good about yourself, na in a way, you are helping the environment by not using single used plastic.

And even sa grocery, Shopwise is always accommodating to this kind of request. Sa ibang grocery kase they would insist on putting the meat sa plastic. Sa Shopwise, they just calibrate the weighing scale para diretso na doon ang meat namin. TIP: Sa takip nyo ipalagay ang tag price, mas madali sya alisin.

Tupperware Freezermates keeps my kitchen clean, organize, and tidy. Kase nga stackable, ang ayos tingnan when I put it in our kitchen lalo na sa loob ng freezer. And it’s easy to identify the food contents because of sheer base and polished windows.

Where to buy Tupperware Freezermates?

You can check Tupperware Brands Brochure every month through Tupperware Brands website: Tupperware Brands Brochure

You can also go to the nearest Tupperware Brands branch:

But if I were you, I would apply to be a Tupperware Brands dealer. You get to buy Tupperware Brands products at dealer’s price and pwede ka pa kumita!

How to be a Tupperware Brands Dealer? Here’s a step by step guide on how to be a Tupperware Brands dealer.

I am also planning to be because I want to buy more Tupperware Freezermates, this is really the perfect Tupperware for freezer.

Amazing (and Easy) Halloween Decorations for Your Garden

When you take the kids out trick or treating around your neighbourhood you can’t fail to be amazed by some of the outdoor and indoor decorations that some dedicated followers of Halloween have put together.

Next up, you’ll wonder exactly how they found the components – and the time – to get it all done before the big night itself. Chances are, most of their displays weren’t that hard, so with a bit of online and junk-store shopping, alongside a smattering of craft-smarts, you too can wow this year’s crop of willing victims…sorry, trick or treaters!

Invest in some welcoming signs
Heading to My Security Sign and ordering some fun and welcoming Halloween garden signs is a great way to let people know you have a big stash of candy waiting for them inside. Best of all, the only skill you need is the ability to use a sense of humour and a buy now button!

Go to town with the spiders’ webs
This couldn’t be easier. Order or shop for an industrial amount of fake spider webbing, locate a few fixing points around the front of your house – from the roof to the ground and beyond – and get fixin’! Tree branches, hooks, garden furniture and rocks can all serve as anchor points and when the web is spun, you can scatter its victims around it. Buy the biggest fake spider you can find and place it in the centre, as well as some gruesome looking egg sacs.

Create a sinister ambience with a smoke machine
Again, this couldn’t be easier – using the dark magic of online shopping you can source a user-friendly smoke machine and the fluid then use it to spread a creepy mist around your garden. If you can get hold of some fake gravestones as well, you’ve got the set of an old-fashioned horror film right there outside your front door.

Have a skeleton campfire
Buy some plastic skeletons from the decorations aisle in your nearest emporium – three or four should do – dress them as cowboys and arrange them on logs around a (fake) campfire. The campfire is easy to make, just stack branches and twigs around some super-bright yellow and orange LED lights. You could leave a couple of spaces on the logs free for the living so they can take photos with their skinny new friends.

Hang loads of bats from your trees
You can have some fun here, because you could find some glow-in-the-dark bats, or ones whose eyes light up so that people can see them and avoid bumping into them. Then you could add some that don’t glow in the dark so that people can’t avoid bumping into them…

Carve some pumpkins
You have to, really, or it’s not truly Halloween. You don’t have to restrict yourself to scary faces, though. Or, indeed, to classic orange carver pumpkins. See if you can collect together lots of different sizes, shapes and colors of pumpkins, squashes and gourds so that there’s variety and interest for people as they walk up your garden path.