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Peanut butter recalled

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Peanut
Photo Credit: lucyfrench123

We entrusted food companies to produce foods and hopefully safeguard our health.

But more often than not, they have failed us… miserably.

In the latest event, Trader Joe’s has recalled its peanut butt-er jam.

And according to the CDC, it’s said that the tainted peanut butt-er is linked to Salmonella poisoning that caused 30 people ill in 19 states in the US.

Incidents like this make us sick as these companies have breached the trust we have given to them.

Sad but true, this is not a US only issue, it affects every country.

To prevent this from happening, here’s what you can do. [Read more…]

Simplicity Cooking (I break rule again)

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Simplicity Cooking
Photo Credit: Suvodeb Banerjee

As I grow older, I like to remove things from my life instead of accumulating them.

Cooking included.

I try to make it as simple as possible. To make me look good, I’ll call it simplicity cooking.

But in actual fact, I am just being plain lazy:

I just want to cook up a healthy meal in the shortest time possible.

Especially lunch on school days.

While I was trying to do so, I broke some of the pre-conceived notions. [Read more…]

Simple act, huge pleasure

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Simple Pleasures
Photo Credit: Frank Kovalchek

If you pay attention, you’d have noticed I haven’t been writing lately.

If you suspect I am lazy, you’re partially right.

Another excuse I give myself is I don’t know what to write. A writer’s curse: running out of topics.

Another side of the story is we went to my hometown over the last weekend. I usually don’t have time to write when I am back home with my folks and brothers and in-laws. I rather spend time catching up and hunting for food.

Don’t get me wrong. I am NOT writing to tell you WHY I am not writing. [Read more…]

Accepting changes gracefully

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Children swimming
Photo Credit: Yatmandu

In the past two weeks or so, there’s a reshuffle of swimming classes.

J and K used to be in the same group. But not anymore.

K has a new instructor and new students.

J has a temporary instructor and also new swimmates.

Both of them had a jolt from their usual happy-go-lucky style of training.

This is especially true for J. J’s temp instructor is strict and is a no-nonsense teacher – who is very different from J’s last instructor – who is more laid back.

Hence, what J had to do is more challenging and sometimes she has to deal with some styles that she has never done before. [Read more…]