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We stay and wait for my husband to come from the office for about 2 hours in SM Megamall every Monday and Wednesday. By we I mean my two younger children and I.

it is dinner time when we go there. We bring milk drinks with us as their drink as they have their dinner. We usually just stay in the mall’s basement food court near the parking area we chose to avail of.

The children usually choose Greenwich for food. We used to order those meals with fried chicken, pizza, macaroni salad and drinks. Lately we have been ordering their rice meals like Chicken a la King or Adobo or we go for another kind of food from a different food store.

Anyway, the Greenwich Macaroni Salad is often LEFT UNEATEN. The kids do not like this and neither do I.

Why they have to put fresh tomato and sliced lettuce bits in the macaroni salad, puzzles me so just because. Somebody clue me on this, please 😀 This part of the meal goes to waste so we do not buy these anymore.

The children love macaroni salad, they do, but this one is not a favorite.

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I may not be able to do some  blog hopping because we have a whole day United Nations Day Program today. WIll be visiting your posts when my sked is a bit free. Thanks for dropping by.

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We have not been having soft drinks a lot lately. One reason is because my husband has been having upset stomach when he does. I just hope it isn’t the beginning of an ulcer.

Another reason would be our attempt in trying to have more nutritious food and drinks at home. We have even resorted to bringing food and drinks whenever we go out of the house.

It is important to watch what we put in our bodies. Becoming healthy does not mean one has to shell out large amounts to be able to be one. Those “lowly” green and leafy vegetables are wonderful sources of nutrients that we need to be healthy.

Backyard gardening is one answer to having fresh food. Buying reasonably priced nutritional supplements like Orovo is also a good thing.

There are so many choices when it comes to getting good drinks. There is a variety of teas available. We have yellow tea after dinner. The children have fresh lemon grass tea at night too. There are also drinks that provide nutritional supplements. Fresh coconut drink is also one drink that we like.

Even if we live in they city, we can still have these fresh produce as alternative to fast food.

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They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Filipinos are know to have heavy breakfast of rice, eggs, meat and fruits. Or pancakes, champorado, porridge and pandesal with limitless choices for filling.

For those on the go, the easiest way to have breakfast is by making sandwiches, preparing oatmeal and cereals with milk or having a glass of fruit smoothie.

What is you favorite breakfast meal?

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We love pizza. Who doesn’t?

But with the prices of everything going north, at times, we resort to having these done at home, using whatever food we have. The dough is store bought, for I can buy these ready-made dough in the supermarkets I have already forgotten how to make one  when I enrolled for baking classes eons ago.

The pizza above was made from the store-bought dough, cheese dog slices, pineapple pieces, spaghetti sauce (I put some dried basil in the sauce and itty-bitty garlic bits) and cheese. Not as good as the pizza that can be had in pizza places but the children enjoyed eating what we prepared and that what matters most.

By the way, my children just love the all-cheese pizza and not the one with all sorts of toppings.

What are your favorite pizza toppings?

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Taking food photos is a bit tricky.

I admit this is what I need to work on, taking food photos. I have never quite made myself good at this. It is all trial and error of course, which makes me frustrated at times but I am willing to work on it.

This got me thinking about how to take better photos of food.

I think one of the things that make food photos look good is the way it was prepared. Food styling is an art in itself, I believe.

Another thing that makes food photos look good is the lighting. There are restaurants that have good lighting one would think they got maxim lighting stuff.

Let’s take a look at these two food photos that show how lighting make the food look better. These were not altered in any way except by cropping and putting my blog’s name on it:

Arni Sto Fornou or slow roasted leg of lamb served with potatoes and lemon au jus from Cyma in TriNoma during the Bloggers Spot Pass Food Tour last summer

This spread from Mamou in Serendra was for our perusal. I took photos here because the lighting was better than the one where the food were for taking photos. This reminds me that I have not written a post about this leg of the Bloggers Spot Pass Food Tour in Serendra, my bad. I have a post for the Spot Pass Bonifacio High Street Bloggers Food Tour restaurants though for the same blogger event

There are also restaurants with bad lighting that no matter how delicious the food is, and how well it looks, and how wonderfully it was presented, the photos do not do justice to the finished product and that is a sad thing.

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I posted early because I have work tomorrow and may not be able to put my link.

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I am sure by now you are “umay” already with my posts featuring the food from Burgoo. Just to make it clear, we don’t regularly eat there (its not the food but definitely its not inexpensive) I just happened to take some photos in the few times I have been there 🙂

Here is a meal that you won’t probably say no to: Chicken Barbecue

Sarap to the bones?

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