Real Food @ Molito Alabang

After our brunch @ Designer Bloom's cafe,  just a few steps away,

we found a healthy neighborhood grocer :)

It's like Healthy Options store for our local products.

Or more like, Echo Store

And they carry a lot of products - some are familiar and others I haven't heard of.

I just bought some of our staples from Echo store so on our trip here, I only bought 1 tray of their organic eggs.

 Coconut flour, nutritional yeast, Chips

Happy place!

We scanned the place not just once, checking out each and everything, reading labels, exclaiming 'ay mero palang ganito' ;)

There's no excuse of going 'healthy-healthyhan' nowadays ;p

Life Lately: Feb eats and happenings

Some eats:

my first time to eat Durian :)

So it tastes like a mushy langka and super bitter. 

I just don't know why it tastes bitter for me but M and the rest of my family said it's not :/

I also tried making it as a shake with lettuce

Tried this Bonuan Bangus Longganisa :)

Avo-sandwich for snack (avocado, boiled egg, lettuce)

Simple and super easy to prepare pack lunch : broccoli and carrots, brown rice, boiled egg

ipa-ibabaw sa sinaing and broccoli at carrots :)

Ramen ramenan sa bahay

Spinach, cucumber, ginger with Extra virgin olive oil and calamansi dressing 

Got this from Garlic Pretzels from Healthy Options, kinda salty...

 The week of Chinese New Year, we bought Green Tea Tikoy from Eng Bee Tin.

Tastes like pandan

And my Feb highlight ..

just a simple lunch with M's mom and lola in our place  

They brought lechon head, hardinera, pancit lucban (I'm craving again), embutido, biko.

On our side we just prepare inihaw bangus and tilapia and sinigang na hipon :))))

Exciting times ahead I'll blog about it in detail sooon :)

JuJu Eats at Podium

Finally there's a branch in Ortigas :)

We arrived during the peak of lunchtime so there was a long queue.

Behind the glass counter, you can see how they prepare your order.
You can choose from their own creation of salads or you can also come up with your own.

I ordered Ceasar Salad wrap for M and Summer salad wrap for me.

The summer salad wrap is yummy sweet and very refreshing. All the ingredients tasted good together.

It consists of lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cilantro, basil, corn, red onion, raisins, french beans, grilled asparagus and mango pineapple dressing.

The Chicken ceasar salad wrap: romaine, grilled chicken, parmesan, bacon, herb croutons,caesar dressing. This is also good, crunchy and creamy. 

I went back here for lunch with a friend.

I ordered their summer salad again but not the wrap. 

This is really good I should try making this at home.

I ordered Korean Kimchi wrap for me, spicyness!

(Korean bean sprouts, kimchi, tofu. carrots, cucumber, vermicelli, shiitake mushroom and korean dressing)

And my friend had the Pesto Pasta wrap:

fusilli pasta, cherry tomato, corn, basil, french beans, parmesan, black olives, pesto dressing

What I love: Reasonable prices (starts from P180 and above) plus it helps us include some greens in our food without making it look boring or giving you a feeling of punishing yourself with a diet.

We'll visit again for sure :))

Juju Eats 
Podium G/F

Healthy Inspiration: Pre-Breakfast

Just sharing two of the healthy habits I learned from 52 Healing Habits.

1. Drinking pure calamansi first thing in the morning  

The suggested number of calamansi is 25 pcs! (Uhm pwede po 5 pcs lang, effort maghiwa)

I only use 5-10 pcs of calamansi depending on size and besides I really find it difficult to drink

2. Eating fruits for breakfast

Actually it is  better if you eat nothing until noon but fruits - kaloka

I do that sometimes but for weekends or some mornings when I'm extremely hungry, I usually have fruits as my pre-breakfast then I would wait for 30mins to 1hour to eat my rice brekky.

We feel sleepy after eating sometimes because digestion use up a lot of energy,

Fruits are digested easily without too much effort and nourishes our body right away so we have energy for our next body activities.

Okayyyy I read that from another health book (na gusto ng itapon ni mike)

Here are some of the fruits I usually eat:

papaya, pears, grapes, pineapple, turnips, mangoosteen, mango

During the first week, I felt like I'm on a strict diet and these looked lonely and sad.

 I can then relate to a friend who tried a calorie diet meal delivery and stopped eventually because she felt like she was punishing herself.

But then I persevered (tiis-ganda lang 'teh) I remember I had a skin breakout that time (kasalanan yata ng mga Piattos at chocolate)

So after two long weeks of adding these on my daily eats, I noticed that:

1. I no longer feel fatigue in the afternoon 

2. I have extended energy that keeps me awake until late evening 

3. and what I like the most: it balances my hormones because of fruits alkaline effect in our body

So then, I will continue to add these on my daily eats. 

I am not actually very strict, there were mornings that I don't feel like eating fruits so I just had calamansi or there were also times that I wanted to eat fruits only, either one. 

My sample routine:

7AM - Drink Calamansi

8AM - Eat Fruit 

9AM or 10AM - Breakfast with rice

Or 

7AM - Drink Calamansi

8AM - Eat 1st serving of fruit 

10AM - Eat 2nd serving of fruit

11:30 - Lunch

Or (if medyo gutom ;p)

7AM - Drink Calamansi

730AM - Eat 1st serving of fruit 

8AM - Breakfast with rice ;p

For me, the key to any diet or healthy habits is not to be hard on your self, just listen to your body :)

And since I've been doing these for more than a month now, if there were no calamansi or fruits around I really make an effort to go out and buy (hinahanap-hanap ko na siya ;p )

Happy Sunday and have a healthy week ahead!

Healthy Inspiration: 52 Healing Habits

Remember when I posted about 52 Healing Habits last year here?

52 weeks have passed since then and finally, I finished learning all about these healthy habits compiled by Bo Sanchez.
Every week, I received an email, a few pages of explanation about it. Sometimes they also send an extra Happy Healing E-Magazine and an inspirational talk by Bo that you can listen to.

I already knew and practiced some of the habits and there are also habits that I knew but forgot to apply especially the proper food combination when eating.  There are also some new to me and I'm also skeptic on some.

But honestly, there are new habits that I find hard to incorporate like
why you should drink calamansi first thing in the morning and why eat fruits for breakfast.
After a year, I finally started doing these little by little and discovered how my body reacts.

Subscribing to 52 Healing Habits is a good way of reminding me to live a healthy life and teaching me ways to achieve it. It was like someone is gently checking on you every week if you are nourishing your soul and body. It's not only about what we feed our tummy but also what we feed our mind and soul.

If you are interested in learning the 52 Healing Habits, you can click here to subscribe.
First 2 months of subscription is free and there is a fee of P499/mo afterwards, You can opt to stop your subscription if you want.
But why pay, you may ask. It will help support Bo's foundations so I think of it as a donation.  (Honestly, I haven't been to any of his live talk/conference/preaching. But I do read his books and I like his beliefs pertaining to health, wealth and religion)
And also, if you are one of the people like me who tend to ignore healthy advice that are given for free, then paying for it will oblige you to follow. Heck I paid for it I might as well try it. ;p


PS: I also enjoyed reading GodWhispers everyday. Subscription is FREE.
Something inspirational to read in your email every morning.
Good vibes is healthy for us ^_^

Healthy Inspiration: May to July Healthy Eats

My last healthy inspiration post was last April so this post is a rewind from May to July

Champorado with Almond milk

 the milk tastes a bit weird because it has a mix of coconut

Bangus Tinapa, from SM grocery

Tortang Talong

Kamote and omelet is a really good combination

My usual meals:

Black rice , Boiled Sayote and Carrots

Squash

Broccoli

Bokchoy

Ampalaya

Tinola for rainy days

Simple Salads

Avocado Shake

But because of the weather, I stopped preparing fruit shakes recently...

Bellpepper Sandwich

Egg Sandwich

Almonds, Dark Chocolate and Apple combos for afternoon treats ^_^
(This is my last bar of dark chocolate from Subic, we only bought 3 bars, should have both 12 ;p)

It is really helpful for me to document my eats for inspiration later on and to assess what I ate. Comparing this to my previous healthy inspiration post, I have few fruit intake and my salads looks like rabbit food. And I also observed that the weather affects my mood for food, my approach is just listen to my body and keep looking for healthy alternatives :)