Cheap and Cheerful item from Daiso

I love to shop in Daiso, basically I can spend the whole day there looking at each little stuff and figuring what I can use them for.

I know... it's super "auntie"... but I'm an auntie what!
This is my latest found in Daiso. It is so useful and only $2!

• It is a grater which nicely mesh up apple, pear, etc and I can just directly feed using a spoon from the container (there's a plastic piece and cover which was not shown in the pic)
• there's a tiny suction cup attached to the container, so can also use it as a suction bowl. The suction is not so strong and my boy can pull it out but for the price, I'm not complaining.

Excuse me... are you an army boy?

I was taking the MRT home with Kiiron after his 推拿 (massage) session on Sunday afternoon. The train was fairly packed and there was no empty seats.  Should I expect anyone to give up the seat to me?  Afterall I'm a young mum, pushing a stroller with a baby sitting inside.  I don't need the seat for myself and Kiiron already had his own stroller to sit right?  When one looked at the sticker for the reserved seat, it says... pregnant woman, person carrying a child, old man with a cane and disabled person. Nothing about person with stroller.

Anyway, this army boy looked at me and continued to play his PSP! Shall I tell him that he's hogging the RESERVED seat?

洁语录之...
Next time dont wear uniform, I can see your name... G L Heng
If I want to report you or sent this to STOMP, you will be tracked down in 1sec.










Kiiron is 9 mths now

Lazy mummy's cooking method

I'm a lazy mummy who hardly cook for my boy. Fortunately my mum is a good cook and Bay still gets his fairshare of home-cooked meals.

My parents were not in town for 1 week and I had to take over cooking Bay's meals. I'm a FTWM and had very little time to cook (excuse! excuse! excuse!), so I pre-cooked the soup stock and freeze it.
  

Making the Soup Stock

     

Ingredients

• 1 potato
• 1 large onion
• 1 corn
• 1 carrot
• Lean pork, about 200g
• 1.5L water

Note: Onion has a strong taste, you will have to cook it until it is totally soft to eliminate the "spicy" taste. Dont add if your little one is not used to the taste. You can also add apple into the soup to make it sweeter.

  
Method

There is really no method, just peel and dice everything up then dump into a big pot. Heat up until boiling and simmer till everything is soft. No need to put seasoning when cooking for babies.  I added onion as it is suppose to keep the flu bugs away.

I packed the soup into 180ml storage cups and freeze it. Kept the leftover for Kippy, so nothing is wasted

P.S. I got to know that dogs are not supposed to eat onions!
Luckily there were no issues when we fed him food cooked with onions.realised that 

Ways to use the soup stock

I try to think of various ways to use the soup stock everyday so that Bay can have different type of food.  It takes about 15 minutes to prepare his meals

         

With mee sua    

Method:

1. Wash a small section of mee sua and cut into length of about 2cm. 
2. Add mee sua to a small pot of about 200ml boiling water, continue to boil until mee sua is cooked
3. Strain the water away
4. Heat up a portion (180ml) of defrosted soup stock and add in the cooked mee sua
5. Boil a while more and it's done!

Tips: My mum always cooked the mee sua in a separate pot of water instead of adding it directly into the soup base to cook. This is because the mee sua on its own contain salt and by adding it into the soup base will make it too salty.  I'm cooking for my 8.5 mths baby who is not yet ready to take any salt in his diet, cooking the mee sua separately will "wash out" some salt.

  

With brown rice cereal    

Method:

1. Follow the instructions for the brown rice cereal that you are using to get the correct consistency. I bought the Eu Yan Sang Si Shen Brown Rice powder for my boy.
2. I replaced 1 portion of the soup stock instead of water and add some chopped up spinach and "午" fish.

With porridge    

Method:

1. I use the Tiger Food Jar to cook the porridge. Follow the instructions in trial for tiger food jar and replace the water with soup stock.
2. I added some extra ingredients to create versions of porridge for different days.

Top picture: porridge with just only the soup stock.
Middle picture: porridge with chopped broccoli and soup stock
Bottom picture: porridge with blended steam corn, "午" fish and soup stock.

See also Sweet potato porride in Tiger Food Jar

Sweet potato porridge in Tiger Food Jar

I managed to get quite decent sweet potato porridge with the Tiger Food Jar.
Just follow the instructions in trial for tiger food jar and add 1 serving of sweet potato cut into thin slices.  I did boil the contents for 5 minutes before pouring into the food jar.
  

Right side is how it was like straight from the food jar. (after pouring out the "am")

Left side is how it is after I meshed it with the back of a spoon for my 8 months old baby

Bay is not very enthusiastic about food and takes 45-60 mins to finish 1 small bowl. He loves to drink the "am" though.

See also Lazy mummy's cooking method