Breakfast of the Day

Have you taken your breakfast? What do you have? I used to love KAYA with toasted BREAD and a cup of nice fragrance Milk TEA.... I still love them now but only have them once in a blue moon after noon time. Why after noon time? Do you know that from 4am to 12 noon is the elimination period for our body? It is best not to have heavy breakfast which will take your body hours to digest. Because the energy supposed to used for elimination will be used for digestion instead. If you are not allowed to dispose most of your rubbish from your house, will your house stink after stacking all your rubbish in your kitchen for days? It's the same logic.... So it is best to have juices and fruits in the morning. Juices does not need to be digest, it will be readily be absorbed by your body. For fruits, it will take about 1/2 to 1 hour to digest, depends on what fruits you eat.

My breakfast for today is Orange Juice, freshly squeezed from TSL Kitchen. After one hour, I have my Favourite SMOOTHIE. Having fruits is good but having smoothie is like giving the **SPARK** to your meal. I like the surprise everytime I make my smoothie, the taste can be different and interesting.

Best Juice I know

The best juice that is recommended by Ray and Siok Khoon is to have CARROT+BEET ROOT+CELERY in the morning, but I don't have the leisury in making my own juice after becoming a MUMMY. So I just cut the orange and mouth juice. Or I can have watermelon or coconut.

Smoothie for the Day

As you can see from the above pictures, my smoothie for the day is BANANA+BLACKBERRY+STRAWBERRY+DATES+RICE MILK. This smoothie taste great, I love the berries and blackberry gives a unique taste. Dates are very nutritious, I will try to take it almost everyday for IRON. The people of the Middle East consumed dates, as a part of their staple diet, because of its high nutritional value. It is rich in natural fibers and contains a lot of other nutrients, like oil, calcium, sulfur, iron, potassium, phosphorous, manganese, copper, magnesium, etc.

Personal Sharing with Maitri

What do I eat during my pregnancy time?

1 year before my pregnancy, I started having juices and fruits for my breakfast and salad+carbo as my lunch. This gives me a drastic changes in my body, it improves internally and externally. I used to poo poo once in 3 days, now I can do it twice in a day, this is my internal changes. External changes? It remove my tummy tire and my skin is smooth. No more make up or facial cream for washing. Now I use Dr Bonner Soap to wash my body and face. The rest of the time, I only use water to clean my face. No pimples at all and no acnes. So amazing! I saved a lot on my monthly facial and make up product. $$$$

I stopped my meat in take after I know I am pregnant. In my 1st trimester, I can't eat most of the food, I vomitted most of the time. This is due to my high level of toxic in my body which the body tries to cleanse it for my baby to grow. Ray and Siok Khoon helped me through some short fasting during that period and this helps me to have some appetite for food. I lost 3 kg and I hold on till my 2nd trimister then I started to take proper meal. I still takes the same meal as before my preganacy, juice and fruits in the morning and salad+carbo for lunch. Dinner? I took brown rice and cooked vegetables. This continues till I gave birth and during my confinement, I also take the same meal. Of course, there is a lot of nagging and arguement. I am in a better position than most of my friends who take this path. At least my mother and mother in law did not enforce it on me. They only pursue... I have heard of one case that my friend got beaten by her mother for not sending her daughter to the hospital. I also have a friend whose mother must have her grandson to have fish during his meal and checked up on her every now and then.

Exercise

It is very important during pergnancy, it helps you to have an easier birth.

The best is to do swimming. I started in my 2nd trimester and I swam once a

week and also suntan at the same time. From the time I admitted to the hospital until I gave birth, it is only 4 hours. With addition that the doctor gave me drips and burst my water bag during the process.

Sunlight

It is very very very very very important things to do everyday for EVERYONE. Vitamin D! I tried to get out in the sun as much as I can and exposed my tummy to let my baby get the sun too.

***This is only my sharing on my experience. Please do some consultation if you want to have any changes in your diet. ***

My Favourite Dip

Someone told me that it taste like one of the French dip and again another friend told me that it taste like Sour Cream Pringle!!! YEah, it is CASHEW CREAM CHeese, they call it. I will always want to have this when I happen to buy some good bread from Cedele, maybe I should say better? Whatever... Now MOH is promoting Wholegrain Bread instead of plain white bread. I used to love bread + kaya + butter or even peanut butter... SINFUL STUFF! But now I am trying to cut down on them if I could zip my mouth.

This is my Favvvvvvvvvourite DIP, yummy... Get your 120g cashew nuts presoaked for 4 hours, juice of 1 lemon (put less or more according to your taste), 1 tsp miso, 1/4 onion, BLEND THEM UP! ***Take note, add some water before blending, add more water if your blade is not moving or help to stir up a bit*** Leave it in the fridge and it will thicken abit. Keep it in the fridge for freshness. I usually eat up within 3 days but I think to keep 1 week in the fridge should be fine.

Remember DO NOT OVEREAT and EAT WITH MODERATION. Good food does not means eat all you can or eat as much as you can. There should be a balance in life beside pure food, we also need sunlight, love, good relationships, exercise, calm mind, spiritual, emotional health..... and Everyday is a GOOD day! :) Enjoy.

Recipe reference : Raw Living, Kate Wood

Banana Cookie

I just finish my 1^st batch of cookies selling, thanks to my friend's support. It is not easy indeed but there is a feeling of satisfaction. During the weekend, I tried a new ingredient for my cashew apple cookies. Sad to say I am a lazy person, I will use the ingredient that saves time and easier to handle. Hmmm…. Maybe Banana will be a good choice, no need to wash, remove skin with equipment and cut. So I just soak the cashew and blend it up 1^st in the blender then added in the banana one by one. Mix in the raisins and throw them in the dehydrator to dry up. I don’t bother to shape them up as it is for testing only. After a few hours, a fragrance smell lingered in my kitchen…. Woah, I sniffed around and it was from my BANANA COOKIE, so nice. I can’t wait to eat them. The taste turned out GREAT but the image a bit ARhhhhhh… like … you know lah… I planned to improve on that before I posted any photo on the blog. You can try them yourself, if you have better ingredient, let me know.

TSL Kitchen

Having some friends asking about my cookie, I have decided to give it a try......

I will be selling :

1) Apple Cashew Cookie

2) Flaxseed Biscuit

3) Fruit Strips

In 2 type of packaging:

1) Box --- cost $10 for ea

2) Bag --- cost $5 for ea

Samples of Box and Bag as shown below:

Order taken once a week

Closing date is every Friday, 6pm

Collection date is every Monday, 7pm at MRT station

Or postage with additional $2 charges for Bag

To order, please send email to tanshellin@hotmail.com

Same Ingredient with 2 looks

Flaxseed Biscuit VS Mummy's Cookie

I saw the Flaxseed Biscuit from Kate Wood's book and got so excited and decided to try it but she is using Brazil nuts, ohhhh... that is expensive.. her favourite ingredient.... So i change it to Almond instead. All her recipes that ask for Brazil nuts, I changed them to Almond. It turns out to be hmmm hmmm....

Ingredient : 150gAlmond, 120gFlaxseed, 100gRaisin, 1 tsp cinnamon, 2 tbsp agave nectar

To prepare the Almond, I soak it overnight, remove the skin. Flaxseed to be soaked for 1/2 hr. Blend all the ingredient together with some water except for raisins. Add in more water if the blender is not moving. Mix in the raisins to the blend then spread the the puree on the dehydrator tray and dehydrate it for 6 hours, flip it over and semi cut into small squares for easy breaking up. Dehydrate further for another 8 hours or so until it totally drys up.

For the Mummy's cookie, I made the name myself because I created this cookie while making milk for my son. He drinks Almond milk instead of Cow's or Goat's milk. This is another Topic to be discussed, it will be a long one, so we will postpone to another blog ya... Ok, yah, almond milk, I learnt it from Ray and Siok Khoon to replace this milk if you have insufficient BreastMilk or you like to have supplement for your baby or yourself. But BREAST MILK is the best and only you can give it to your precious child. You cannot buy any off the shelf? Can you? And this is a very Noble JOB. Hip Hip Hurray for all Breast Feeding Mum, you are doing a GREAT Job.

Oh Ya, coming back to Mummy's cookie, I handle the Almond and Flaxseed the same way as I mentioned above. But I only use 2 teaspoon of Flaxseed for the milk. After blending the nuts and seeds with water (1 cup of seed vs 2 cups of water), I strained off the leftover nuts and keep the milk for my son. He don't like pure almond milk so I have to add Rice milk to it. With the left over, I stirred in cinnamon, rice milk and raisins. It turns out to be a wet dough, then I shape then into cookie size and dehydrate it. It tasted like the CNY white cookie, it will soften in your mouth.

My Favourite Cookie

This is my 1st favourite raw cookies. It is so simple to make and so easily finished up my ME. I always told myself not to overeat but I just cannot RESIST. So I stopped making them to zip my mouth. It is make up of APPLE, CASHEW NUTS and RAISINS. That's all, you want more??? No more, only these 3 ingredients. What I do is I deskin the apple, chopped them up into pieces. For the cashew nuts, you have to pre soaked them up for 4 hours. Place 500g of chopped apple and 120g of soaked cashew nuts in a High Power Blender if you have, then BLEND them up. My blender is not powerful enough, I need to add some water and do some stirring to get it going or else you will smell SMOKE in the air, ahhh... *Motor Jam* After everthing is blended up nice and smooth, mix in the Raisin, the amount depends on your liking (estimate 100g). Scoop a table spoon up and place them on the dehydrator to make it into nice round cookie shape or you like HEART shape better, your choice, leave 1 inch of height. Remember that it will strink by 50% after dehydrating. Flip the cookie over after 6~8 hours, I took around 12 to 16 hours to dehydrate this.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, is this true? It depends on how you eat. It is important to take fruits and juices 1 hour BEFORE FOOD. Eat them in an EMPTY stomach to get the full benefits of Fruits. Juices does not require energy to digest, it can be absorb by the body almost immediate. For fruits, your body needs the minimum energy to digest as compared to vegetables, meat and grains. You should know the logic, 1st in 1st out.
For more details, check out Harvey and Marilyn Diamond, FIT FOR LIFE. For the recipes, I got them from Kate Wood, Raw Living if you are interested in making some. I maybe selling some of these mentioned cookies and fruit rolls in my blog if there is any demand. PM me if you are interested. Bye for now.

***Eat with Moderation***