Mommy Tips: Weekly Menu

Weekly Menu for June 24 to 30

If you have been reading our blog and chance about our post of who we are I made mention that I am into planning our weekly menu. Why??? because I wanted to save money. I don't like wasting food and other resources. I wanted our household to be very kin on not wasting anything. It's not only the food that I am very particular about. I also save on electricity and water. I always close the lights when it's not needed (unless my husband comes in and opens all the lights, which I close after him! hahaha). Open our veranda doors for air instead of the electric fan.

For about a year now I have been successful with this planing of menu. =) We have managed to cut our grocery purchase down to half (beaming with pride!!!) and I have also managed to cut down cholesterol counts, sugar counts and sodium from our quarterly blood-test. =) Today, I have decided to share with you guys our weekly menu. I hope you guys can learn something from this.

Monday:
Breakfast: 
Beef Tapa with Cucumber and Tomatoes side dish, 
Egg (optional), Fried Rice, 

Drink: Coffee or Hot Chocolate (I like Antonio Pueo Hot Chocolate Drink) 

Lunch: 
Sinigang na Hipon with kangkong and labanos, 
Plain Rice and Fried Bangus Belly
Fruit: Ripe Mango (1 slice only)

Dinner:
Soup: Soup of sinigang from lunch with veggys
Tortang Talong, Fried Chicken and Rice

Fruit: Papaya

Tuesday:

B: Oatmeal with fresh apples, Spam and Coffee or Soy Milk

F: Mango (1 slice only)

L: Pork adobo, Rice, Beef clear soup with carrots
Gisadong Baguio beans with giniling or shrimps
F: Papaya

D: Amapalaya guisado, Steamed Lapu-lapu with soy sauce or Fish fillet with (I like Jufran) Sweet Chilli sauce, Rice and Nido soup
F: Orange slices

Wednesday:

B: Chicken Arozcaldo or Tokwa Arozcaldo

F: Apples Slices or Banana

Lunch: Breaded Liempo, Rice, Paksiw na bangus with Talong and Ampalaya
F: Melon/Orange slices

D: Pork or chicken Menudo, Grilled Bangus Belly with Tomatoes, salt and onion stuffings, Steamed okra with bagoong or other veggy
F: Melon/ Avocado

Thursday:

B: Ham and Cheese Sandwich with coffee

F: Banana / Papaya

L: Chicken or Beef broccoli, Fried Tilapia and Misua Soup with garlic (optional)
F: Avocado

D: Korean Beef Stew with carrot wedges, Toge guisadoa and Fried Dilis.
F: Melon

Friday:

B: Longsilog with coffee and cucumber salsa

F: Banana

L: Mongo guisado with beef or pork ribs and dahon ng ampalaya and Fried Tinapang bangus
F: Kiwi

D: Fried Chicken, Cream of mushroom soup, mashed potatoes and Steam corn
F: Kiwi

Saturday:

B: Oatmeal with Ma-hu and coffee

F: ponkan

L: Chopsuey with chicken liver, shrimp and pork slices and Beef nilaga with pechay and Repolyo
F: ponkan

D: Eat out (bonding) 

Sunday:

B: Fried Dangit with cooked kamatis (as sauce), egg, and garlic fried rice with coffee

F: Pomelo

L: Pancit guisado, grilled pork bbq and halabos na hipon w/ ginger
F: Pomelo

D: Eat out.

As a rule of thumb for every 1 kilo that is good for 10 people, of-course in small servings =). If you are on a diet you may substitute the White Rice to Red Rice. In our house we use Red Rice. You may find the red rice a bit hard. What I do is we wash the rice and the measure the water and let the rice soak on it for a good 30 minutes before we cook it. This will allow the rice to soften.  

If you are pregnant and is on a strict diet or maybe suffering from Gestational Diabetes, my nutritionist Dra. Virgith Buena suggest that I take fruits first before every meal, followed by soup, then veggies (salad or regular cooked veggies) and proceed with my meal. Before you can even finish your main meal your already full.

If your on breastfeeding incorporate more Clam soup, Tinola Soup with Malungay Leaves and other leafy vegetable.  

As a healthy alternative you may want to use lean Pork, Lean Chicken or Lean Beef. If your not keen on using lean part specially the chicken you may buy thigh fillets without the skin. We also use Free Range Chicken or Native Chicken for our soups and Chicken Dishes. 

I hope in some way I have help you. =) I will try to upload another menu next week. =) Again I said I will try! hahaha! =) 


~~~Mommy Raquel

Welcome to my room ~~~ Saffron

Sometime last week we were supposed to have Mommy Smiley and her kids over. When I told Saffron about it he was excited and so is his yaya! hahaha. Yaya said to me..."Ate ayusin natin yung room" In our house nobody is allowed to move stuffs except me. Why????
1. Because I have good memory so I know all the stuffs.
2. I am the woman of the house.
3. I am good at this. hehehehe.

So we spent the day fixing Saffron's room. Now I will share it with all of you.

Upon entering you will be welcomed by this shelf, on the side of the shelf is another play pen 

(back of coke can) this play pen we use when we go out of town.

 it's super compact and his basket ball ring. 

Mats from Baby and company

This baby use to be besides the shelf, now it stays outside of the room. Too big. =) 

Shelf on the right was previously owned by my husband. =) This shelf serves as storage for toys. 

His study table we got from S and R

Easy access to coloring materials (please do not leave your kids unattended, when using colors)

Wooden toys are more welcome in our house. =) The clock was from Jon when he was still a kid. Another heirloom piece. The other wooden toy was a gift from his Godmother Ivy. 

We got this 2 foldable storage from SM. Black storage store pillows and the Iron Man storage bin from Toy Kingdom stores bedsheets. 

The three tier storage bins are from Baby and Company. Stores more of the little trinkets like bowling pins, small balls, cooking stuffs (yes we have cooking stuffs), animals, cars etc. 

The cooking stuffs and other stuffs.

We own this Uratex memory foam bed topper that we don't use anymore. 

We folded it down to its 1/4 size and wrap it with 

Spiderman blanket as lounging chair that Sam and his baba

 uses when they read a book. 

On nap time we unfold it in half and cover with a different bedding. Converting it as his day bed. 

Day bed with his pillow and favorite blankie. 

Saffron has a 3 in 1 wooden crib which is inside our room. We decided not to put it in his room since it would take too much space and since we also co-sleep. =) Sometimes Kuya Tristan (my nephew) uses it when he sleep with us. 

his bookshelf/toy shelf: This piece was from me. This use to be my book shelf. 

Pardon the laundry basket. hehehe! foldable laundry basket from IKEA 

Closer look at the shelf:

George showing some love with his Sam's photo. 

His 1st business attire photo taken by Stanley Ong during our Ankong Val's Dbay

VCD, CD and Cassette tapes. Those cassette tapes still works all from his baba. 

The Gang: Sponge bob his current fave, 

Shrek (handme down from kuya Carlos), 

Elmo (handme down from Tristan)

Mcqueen was his 1st stuffed toy purchase at rustans

Cookie monster his 1st purchase from Toy kingdom

Scout gift for the Villamiel's =)  

Framed photos: the on the brown frame thats Jon's baby picture. =) Carbon copy. 

This is by far the most expensive purchase we got for Saffron. Much expensive than his crib. hehehe. 

Top part is really a changing table, but we decided not to use it as changing table for safety reasons. =)

Top counter were we store diapers, vitamins, cottons, etc... 

So maybe your wondering how can we fit all his stuffs inside those drawers? Here's how...

This is how we fold his clothes. We fold it down to its smallest size as it can be. 

Insert shirt with its pair. why? So it's easier to get. It always comes in pairs.

to avoid discoloration of pairs. 

We always use the pairs. If the shirt was washed we wash the shorts too.  

And then we store them vertically to save space, easy access and easy checking. =) 

2nd row of drawer holds his Lampin,  socks and clothe diapers

Storage bins from Uratex, Study table turned shoe storage from his baba. 

Storage bins stores different types of hand puppets. 

Welcome to his comfort room: 

Bath area. I encourage you to install hand rails. Since Sam is bigger and he can not fit inside his tummy tub we bought him his new tub. We are now using okbaby tub available in Mother care. 

His sink with a free rubber duckie from Lactacyd 

Bath soaps: We use Cetaphil Restoraderm since he has sensitive skin. 

Kuya Tristan uses Breck kids and J&J

Mushroom and the boy bastos from baguio. =) we have to put some little trinkets to make it fun for him 

His chinesse. hehehe 

Tita Michelle De Guzman gifted us this very useful potty trainer. =) Available in Babyland 

We also use this as his ladder for brushing his teeth or washing his hand. 

Towels (and it has to be blue???) 

This is how his room looks like when it's still clean. hehehe! 

After fixing the room, the next day I was down with fever. 38.5 fever. I often joke my friends that I can only walk maximum 200 steps, over that I will get sick...So my husband said...next time don't fix the room. hahaha! So I was down with fever and called Smiley that I have to cancel our meeting since I don't want her kids to get sick. Today...yaya said... "Ate, hinde na dumating yung bisita natin ha. Sayang naman ayos natin ng room ni Sam" hahaha! To Smiley...I hope you can visit us soon. =) 

I hope somehow you learned something from us =) 

~~Mommy Raquel