Comments on: “Dieting” a la Marketman

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:18:38 +0000

hi annamanila, you can use the frozen strawberries in milkshakes or protein shakes. You can cook them with sugar for a sauce. Or even bake them into pies or pastries. I did a feature on a berry compote a few weeks back that might be of interest to you.

By: annamanila

annamanila — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:49:48 +0000

You mentioned frozen strawberries. I’ve had these two packs I got from Makro really cheap, buy one take one yata. I still haven’t figured out what to do with them. Pwede ba sa cheesecake? fruit shake? Syruped and then used as icecream topping? Which reminds me i also have a big bottle of good shepherd strawberry preserves, untouched. That was why I was interested in puff pastry you mentioned in another post.

Ty very mucho.

By: Shay

Shay — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:52:10 +0000

that don’t seem to look really appetizing. Your red rice looks a little different from the one I have. I eat red rice too! I bought this thai red cargo rice at Carrefour and they don’t seem to soften as yours in the picture above. What kind of red rice is that? More importantly how do you cook it to make it really soft and gentle to my teeth? They can be as hard as stone sometimes. Ouch!

By: Myra P.

Myra P. — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:04:45 +0000

Apicio, yeah, when I make pho, I do pause a second before dropping in the raw beansprouts… :P But if you have constructive, step by step tips for growing my own beansprouts, please send the info my way! MM has my email addy. I dont have tiered, ridged plastic trays like you, what can I use instead?

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:47:26 +0000

treehugger, I try to make up for it by planting over 100 hardwood trees per annum and using a market basket to reduce on plastic waste… :)

By: treehugger

treehugger — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:09:06 +0000

My eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets when I read about your three refrigerators. I refrain from counting the carbon dioxide emissions. I hope they are energy efficient for your pocket and the environment.

By: CecileJ

CecileJ — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:32:54 +0000

Trish, try the wheat pandesal of the house bakery at Shopwise. Best whole wheat pandesal I’ve tasted so far.

By: Apicio

Apicio — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:53:57 +0000

Myra P, I picked up this three tiered plastic round trays with fine ridges on the bottom to retain water from a hippy fair oh in the early seventies. The bean sprouts you get here are about three inches long but I want mine just germinated and about to cast off its green skin (2 cms say). As one of the commenters above said, it is great sauteed with taufu, onions and black mushrooms eaten as is or used for filling for fried lumpia or okoy. If you use organic beans I guess it would be organic but in any case I felt vindicated doing this all these years because there was a serious break out of e. coli here in Toronto last year that they traced to several batches of bean sprouts. Just to think that they dump them raw in Vietnamese soup makes me shiver.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:07:33 +0000

thank you everyone for those inspiring comments, tips, diet tricks, etc. I agree that copious amounts of exercise combined with careful choice of intake is really the way to go… let’s see if I manage to lose the weight before Christmas… :)

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:32:37 +0000

To stay fit is physical and emotional challenge like trekking in a slippery slope full of valleys and hills. It takes a lot of courage, sweat and discipline and the reward is noticeable – when you dress up there is no battle with the zipper. The zipper will zip at a breeze!