My Smoothie Dinner on the First Day

I haven't take any hard solid for the past 13 hours and just taking my smoothie. At this very hour I had a feeling that my stomach is really adjusting. I think I am having muscle spasm in my stomach area. So what I did was, I had 4 pcs of soimai before taking my smoothie.

INGREDIENTS:

My Green Smoothie for Dinner

Note: It is better not to eat anything except for your smoothie for the next the first 3 days for the cleansing to normally do its course.

My Red Smoothie Diet

When I took my all fruit and vegetable diet. I felt that I needed to have more fiber intake. I felt that I need to do more than just 3 fruit and 3 green leafy vegetables, that's the usual combinations.

 However, I wanted to experiment. I wanted to increase the fruit and vegetable intake. Fruit and vegetable are rich source of vitamin and mineral. It is also a very good source of fiber which is essential in proper bowel movement.

Ingredients:

2 pcs banana, 2 cups spinach, 2 pcs bell pepper, 1 pc green apple, 1 pc red apple, 1 pc cucumber, 1 pc beet, 2 cups fresh orange juice

Blend all ingredients until desired smoothness.

Day 1: My Own Version of Smoothie Cleanse (Breakfast)

Living in an urban community somehow offers a lot of innovative ideas from technological advancement to food. Ever since I know that I can always make a smoothie out of fruits and normally I add a lot of things there say for example sugar and milk or sometimes I will add sago for that matter just to add something different. I never knew that vegetable could play a very important role in making your smoothie healthier.

Kessa, a friend of mine, introduced a way of cleansing and detoxifying your body. So she told me that we could mix fruits and vegetable and so she showed me ways on how to prepare it. Well there's no harm on trying, its for my benefit anyway.

Well in my circle, we all love eating. We love to eat meat, fish and meat again then poultry products. Only once in a while where I would consider cooking vegetable with of course meat and most of the time, in the office we always have our lunch break to either Mc Donalds or starbucks or any other fastfood chain available.

This time around I would like to start my own 3 day smoothie war. My intention here is to get as much fiber as I can and to increase my fruit and vegetable intake in a day.

My First Day Ingredients

1 pc cucumber

2 pcs banana

2 pcs bell pepper

4 pcs Asparagus

1 stalk of Celery

2 pcs of tomato

1 pc  Red Apple

1 pc green apple

10 pcs grapes

2 cups of fresh orange juice

1 beet

Please note: wash your fruits and vegetable properly. You can also peel off the apple but I prefer not to. I also recommend to remove the seeds.

I was able to make 1.5 liter of smoothie out of this. I had 2 tall glass of smoothie for my breakfast. I was able to consume the rest before lunch time.

During the day I noticed that I am craving for a real meal (3 cups of rice and viand). Of course I have to force myself not to eat rice.

Not My Usual Shopping Cart

I decided to start my fruit and vegetable diet. So here's what I am planning to achieve in my shopping cart.

When I go all organic will it be called dieting? Maybe, to some it could be dieting since I am slashing my meat and fish and poultry products in my shopping list. I decided to go on a smoothie diet or detox. For me, this is the best way to slash out some of your weight.

The best way in dieting is taking an ample amount of food to give you energy to do your course in a day. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner plus snacks are part of our daily life. But then, it is our decision as to what should be serve during those meals that would make the difference. When you go on dieting don't starve yourself to death! Let mother nature take its course by eating the proper food.

Watch out for my diet plan!

Favorite Tea House: MoonLeaf McKinley Hills

I would say I am a tea lover. It actually started when I was teaching Korean students way back 5 or 6 years ago. They were my greatest influence when I when it comes to drinking tea. What I love most is the wild mountain tea found mainly in the mountains of Cordillera. I love the aroma and fantastic taste of the said tea.

However, when I came to Manila to work I rarely had a chance to drink a cup of tea. May be I just don't know where the best places are. Of course it needs to be budget friendly but taste ridiculously good.

MoonLeaf has captivated my taste buds ever since I started drinking the tea and their employees at McKinley Hills are extravagantly friendly. They're addictive. The sense of humor is there that I love. The jokes they crack are really friendly and smart.

My Favorite MoonLeaf Crew team. They don't just deliver right into your desk they also deliver magnificent customer service. Photo Credit

Aside from the excellent customer service, the tea they serve is also wonderful. I love the taste. Sometimes though its pretty sweet but you can definitely adjust the sweetness according to your preference.

Here are my two favorite tea.

Wintertime Milk Tea

Pudding Milk Tea

The shop is also welcoming. The light is not that strong that makes it really relaxing.

The Crew at work.

And of course I always make a chance if given an opportunity to announce Project Mountain Alphabet's existence. I practically just wrote the name of the project on their free wall.

Paris Roxas: From Call Center Vogue to Fashionista Guru

I really haven't had an idea when a colleague suddenly appears in a prestigious fashion competition like Mega Fashion Crew (TV reality show in the Philippines). Got really excited to watch him compete and made it to Top 4 or Top 5.

Later on I happen to know that he is styling for different Local TV shows like Paroa: Ang Kwento ni Mariposa and Ikaw lang ang Mamahalin  Hiram na Puso both starred by Barbie Forteza, and Faithfully headlines Maxine Magallona. All shows are aired at GMA 7.

According to Paris after quitting her call center job. She then realizes that she is more fulfilled to become a fashion stylist. She started as associate fashion stylist from different magazines and tv shows. As hardworking as she is, she gain her own spotlight as fashion stylist.

She has styled various local artist. Below are some of her sample works.

1. Bella Padilla

2. Jon Avila

3. International Ford Super Model Danica Magpantay.

Paris Roxas has styled some of magazines fashion editorial like MEGA Magazine and Uno Magazine to name a few. Below are samples of his work.

So you want some styling... you can contact her thru her facebook.

(Note: All photos here are taken from Paris Roxas with of course his permission)

Random Pictures at Salcedo Village Weekend Market

Another reason why Salcedo Village is haunting is because of their wide array of food, beverage, kitchen stuff, vegetables and fruits.

Here are some of them that are totally delicious in my eyes.

The Foods you wanna indulge:

Not only that... they also have these bread, pastries and cookies that I really like:

And of course nothing can beat their well taken cared flowers. I am a flower lover and I cant resist myself from buying. If only I have a good place and or a house here in Metro Manila am sure I have bought a lot of these flowers at Salcedo Village Weekend Market.

While roaming around the market. My eyes caught these beautifully beaded table utensils. I love them.... I am almost tempted to buy them....

 Who says you cant bring your kids while you do shopping for your kitchen needs. At Salcedo Village they have these park just beside the Salcedo Village Weekend Market. You can definitely bring your kids and have them play while you do your buying stuff. This would definitely distract them from going along with you and keep bugging you on something out of your shopping list.

So folks.... See you at Salcedo Village Park next weekend? Or if you have ever been to Salcedo Village share me your stories and experience there....

Salcedo Village Weekend Market: My Favorite Filipino Goodies

Filipino have their own distinct desserts and goodies we just love and enjoy. These are the foods I would say every Filipino would love. Every weekend I normally go out and buy any of these following goodies.

Most Filipino Kakanin (goodies) are normally made of malagkit rice (sticky rice or gluttonous rice), coconut milk, milk and sugar. This makes these foods really tasty.

Charity At Work: Hearts Day Edition

Am sure lover's out there are pretty much excited on the upcoming February 14 Valentines Day celebration. Maybe a lot of us are preparing for some romantic activities. For some, they might be spending a family dinner. Sales for valentine cards, flowers, chocolates, cupcakes, cakes will shoot up in the week of February 14.

Our group too, called the Project Mountain Alphabet sees this an opportunity to do some fund raising activities at work. At least, we will be selling bouquets of flower, cupcakes and cakes free delivery since we deliver the flowers in our office.

The proceeds would then be used to buy books needed for the school library. This would be our last fund raising for this season and we will be coming up for more all through out the year. We hope that there will be more people who are willing to help and donate their books, school supplies and maybe even used clothes for kids so we could give it to the school who needs them most.

Another Weekend at Salcedo Village - The Streetfoods

Its always best to know the street foods Philippines has to offer. For me I don't usually eat street foods just anywhere else. I love going to certain places I know I would enjoy and Salcedo Village Weekend Market is just one of my favorite places to go to during weekend.

The food there are superb. I just love all of them. One reason why I want visiting that place once in a while is that it caters almost everything I wanted to eat. They have what I am craving for.

The aroma of grilled meat makes me really hungry. I can smell the spices and burnt meat. It is quite amusing because they captured the taste I wanted my barbecue should be.

Another interesting street food that I really enjoy is the castania. I love cracking those tiny nuts... Am sure if you are a nut lover this is the nuts you wanted to taste.

And if you love sausage.. This Hungarian Suasage is just the right one for you. I just love munching this sausage its best and its best is when it is fresh from the pan. Hmmmm more food from Salcedo Village Weekend Market in the next few days....