Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
As many will know, Omega-3 is essential for your body to function, but unfortunately, most of us are not getting enough Omega-3 in our diet! If you don’t consume enough oily fish, including salmon, mackerel and sardines, nor nuts and seeds (another form of omega 3), you will find yourself at risk for heart disease and other kinds of illness.
Want to stay healthy and get moving this Christmas? Then you must check out this brand new Shake Off game from Ideal Games that will make you move to win and get your step counts in quick! The aim of the game is simple – the more you shake, the more you score! It is like a step counter challenge game with family and friends. This game is suitable for ages four and above. It is for two or more players and it’s a great party game to get everyone involved!
T.I.M.E Stories is a narrative and co-operative game where players work as a team to protect humanity by preventing temporal faults and paradoxes from threatening the fabric of our universe. I find that this board game is very challenging and interesting. The game is set in the present time where players time travel using Tachyon Insertion to go into the bodies of beings from different worlds or realities to successfully complete the missions given to them.
Have you been to the B&M January Sales? They have got deals on everything from home deco to bedding at bargain prices! Now you can pick up some brand new home decor to freshen up your home for the new year!
We were so pleased to take part in this campaign and challenge ourselves to grab some bargain items at low prices using the provided £20 voucher. I have to say I failed miserably! I didn’t grab their bargains but instead I decided to spend it all on my children instead!
Regular readers may know that we celebrate Chinese New Year and this year, it falls on the 16th February 2018. As part of our Chinese tradition, we will all have to dress in our new pyjamas on Chinese New Year Eve! This means we welcome the New Year with a brand new and fresh self! New and clean clothing will help you be more prosperous and bring more wealth for the rest of the year.
Get A Grip is a new no thumbs challenge game from Hasbro Gaming. This game is to earn cards by completing challenges without using your fingers and thumbs. It suitable for aged eight and above. It is to be played with three persons.
I’m taking part in the Garden Goals challenge with Homebase and Mumsnet. This is my second post for the ‘add colour to my garden’ project. Today, I would like to show you what I have done for the three different tasks that we had set out.
As I had mentioned on my first post, I’ve not been happy with my garden since all my lavender plants in my back garden died two years ago. I wanted to create a new border and inject some colour into my garden with plants and shrubs.
I want to add colour to my garden! I am so pleased to take part in Homebase’s Garden Goals challenge where I need to complete two tasks! First is to write about why I am adding colour to my very dull garden and tell you what I am going to do about it. My second post is to show you the transformation I have made using the Homebase’s Garden Goals instructions.
Cortex Challenge is a challenging brain-busting card game that everyone will love! It is suitable for aged 8 and above and for 2 to 6 players. It is available to buy from Esdevium store finder RRP £12.99 and Amazon.
This post is an entry for BritMums #MilkDrinkersMilk Linky Challenge, sponsored by Cravendale.
I recently took up BritMums latest challenge #MilkDrinkersMilk with Cravendale to write about our family’s favourite way to drink Cravendale milk. For us, we use milk in so many different ways, like making a cup of tea or coffee, dunking a favourite biscuit into warm milk, drinking it cold with their favourite chocolate straw, making milkshakes, breads, soups and many more.
A few months ago, I tried to bake Jamie Oliver’s Butternut Squash Muffins and it was a great success. I am not a big fan of vegetable cakes like carrot cake but I love the idea of hidden vegetables in cake. Ever since I tried the muffins, I’ve loved it. So I decided to make a Butternut Squash & Raspberry traybake for my Lichfield Mandarin Club’s party. This was my first time baking it and all the children and parents loved it. They all couldn’t detect the butternut squash. The only let down was that the raspberries were slightly sour!
As many of you may know, the brand new Minions movie hits cinemas on 26th June 2015! We can’t wait to watch it now! To celebrate, Green Giant is challenging bloggers to create the ultimate Minion-inspired summer snack.
So I created these Minions sweet corn steamed cakes! I can understand that it might sound weird for some people but in fact, in Asian countries, sweet corn is used in many recipes. We even have sweet corn ice cream, sweet corn jelly and not forgetting the popular chicken with sweet corn soup as found in many Chinese takeaways and restaurants.
Most children love cake! But not all children love vegetables! By combining these two together, we made sweet corn cakes! Sweet corn is naturally sweet, healthy and nutritious!
Recently, I went to the Hillary Blinds craft event in Birmingham to learn how to make a fabric book cover and a bird. Since then, I keen wanting to make a fabric toilet paper holder for the family bathroom toilet. The kids use this toilet the most and it is very plain. We have not yet tackled that room and left it as it was when we bought our home. There is no mirror, shower panels or any pictures. So I took up Hillarys’ craft challenge to use one of their four new fabrics to make something creative.
Mr K is a very imaginative child who loves to invent little games and often comes up with lots of creative ideas. As a parent, we are always there to support and nurture him. So when we came across the BritMums Linky Challenge with Petits Filous, Mr K’s cogs started turning.
Petits Filous Magic Squares is a brand new range available in two delicious varieties, Strawberry & Vanilla flavour and Raspberry & Vanilla flavour. It comes with a unique quadrant shape of two distinctly different flavours. You can either taste one flavour at a time or totally mix it up. Petits Filous contains both calcium and vitamin D which helps build strong bones. They are available nationwide from April 2015 from Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Asda at RRP £1.89. We bought one for £1 in Tesco. My son loves it!
After seeing the squares, it gave Mr K an idea to make his own board game. This is not the first time he has made up his own board game. Last year, he made a Mummy Tummy Pyramid game and he was short-listed in the Young Games Inventor 2014 competition. Unfortunately, we didn’t get enough votes to make it through to the final.
Anyway, this is Mr K’s first draft for his Cops and Robbers board game. There are four rooms on the board game. One room will have the Gem that the robbers have to sneak through to get it before he gets caught by the cop.
This year 2015, I was invited for two fitness challenges which is to trial Epson Pulsense watch and Alive! Women’s energy multi-vitamin.
I have to say that going to the gym or any form of exercise is definitely not my cup of tea. My weight has been like a yo-yo since young. This year, I wanted to be different! So I am thrilled to trial Alive! multi-vitamin to give me the boost that I needed.
Alive! is already a huge hit in the US and is launching in the UK this coming February. Do look out for them. What’s so different about Alive is that it is the only multi-vitamin and mineral brand available in the UK containing a proprietary dried blend of 26 fruits & vegetables including, pomegranate, acai berry, cranberry, blueberry, strawberry, beetroot, carrot, cabbage and apple. It does not contain gluten, soya, dairy, yeast, artificial flavourings or colours.
Each Alive! product is specially formulated for men, women and children from 3 years, taking into consideration their unique needs and ensuring that it is the best and most comprehensive available to the UK consumer.
This is my first challenge as a Bostik Blogger and looking through the crafting box, I decided to make a Chinese New Year Paper Plate Drum as part of the Chinese New Year theme.
