Good Bar: Health in Every Bite

Health and fitness is a trend today. The healthy-living and the fitness-junky portion of the population is thriving in levels too ridiculous for me to believe. Not that I'm complaining. I'm actually very glad to see people running here and there, finishing their marathons and sweating themselves up. Good for them. My IG is flooded with green smoothies & green juices that just by the mere act of checking my feeds, I feel like I have already took in enough amount of greens that would last me a month. Like I said, it's disgusting ridiculous what people would do to become healthy.

So I'm doing this not because of the hype but because I think I should. I have a heart I need to take care of and a fragile underweight body that needs boosting and nourishing. Since I came to this realization (though it's a little later than most people, don't remind me), I became so hooked to doing researches on healthy habits and healthy lifestyle, in general; which include healthy foods. 

Budget Baon: Buttered Suaje

or suahe. Remember the one-day cooking technique that I usually do? Poor Venus lacked the time to take care of it the past weekend so she had to cook them breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily this week.

It was my first to partner with this seafood in the kitchen. I was thrilled because aside from its novelty to our list of monthly rotating viands, this almost-as-good-as-sugpo food is also one of our household's favorites. For those who are not familiar with this particular creature, suaje is another type of shrimp along with alamang (krill) & sugpo (prawns). 

Kanto Freestyle Breakfast = LOVE

At long last, the goal to sample this intriguing "restaurant" has been fulfilled as the Springbreakers braved the interior of Mandaluyong City in a busy midweek evening. 

Kanto is known for serving delish-fine-dine-restaurant-level gourmet food with price and ambiance of a carinderia (streetside eatery). I learned that this is not all true though upon checking out the menu. Carinderia meals normally range from 30Php (Rice and vegetable dish) to 60Php (Rice and meat & veggie combo). I should know 'cause when in urgent need of food and no time to cook, I prefer them over fastfood.

Haven Lia's Fruity 1st Birthday & Dedication

Just like with weddings, it was also my first time to attend a Baby Dedication last weekend. My goddaughter Haven Lia celebrated it in one with her 1st Birthday at KFC St. Joseph, E. Rodriguez, Quezon City on July 14.

Let me squeeze in a little FYI here: Unlike the Roman Catholic part of the population, Born-again Christians get baptized as a decision to publicly declare that they are surrendering their life to Jesus. Obviously, a 1-year old child does not have the capacity to decide on which spiritual track to choose yet so instead of infant baptism, we have Baby Dedication as a way of welcoming the child to the world and submitting his/her life to our Creator. This is more of a way for the family, relatives, and friends of the parents to celebrate with them, support them as they raise their child in a manner God wants them to (Ephesians 6:4, Proverbs 22:6, Proverbs 29:17, Psalm 127:3-5), and stand with them in prayer until the day the child can already make a decision on his/her own to follow God.

The Mitzi-Ryan Wedding

I was super excited to attend this wedding for the very reason that this is the first wedding i'll be attending that's not mine. I'm out of words so let the photo blog speak for itself.

Gotta love them drapes!