Toddler Food Battles – Know where to draw the line DATES : NOV 10 Thurs (English) and/or Nov 12 Sat (Chinese) For Moms, Dads, Grandparents PLUS I run a Chinese session too! Get your ayi on the same page. I’ll discusses how to deal with the frustrating feeding challenges that many parents and caregivers face with toddlers. Find out where [...]
Happy October… Yikes!!…Lesson learned. Never plan to do a blog series, especially when undergoing some training over the summer. I don’t know how other mommy bloggers do it, but I clearly do not have the blogging/tweeting gene. If you have been wondering where part 3 of my drink series was, here is the long delayed one. The previous two on [...]
Last month I talked about the outright calorie bomb summer drinks. Most of the time you should be able to recognize them. Typically they are the cold slushy things that look so good with beads of condensation rolling down the sides and perhaps even has a nice swirl of whip cream on top. The other ones were those that look [...]
Day 3: Right before the feed Looks like I caught a live one! Ok at this moment it is all the acid loving bacteria doing the work of creating lactic acid. However that is what we want. A nice acidic environment to wake up the right yeast that will eventually be strong enough to build good bread and create that [...]
Recently Dr Richard Saint Cyr of the blog MyHealthBeijing talked about how yogurt can really be good for you. Apart from being a good food source of probiotics, it may even cause weight loss. A few familiar brands were discussed and they are all quite fine I am sure. However there is no denying that home made yogurt would be [...]
I’m feeling inspired and thinking of making sourdough bread again after a hiatus of a few years. I used to make them, before China followed by baby came along. My original starter was made using strains I bought in the US and it did quite well for a while in Singapore, but it did not survive our transition to Beijing. [...]