Sea Salt

I once read an article about the benefits of sea salt.  It says that the calcium content in sea salt is much lower than the refined salt.

To avoid consuming to much salt I usually control on the salt in my cooking that result a lot of complains from my family because they find the food are tasteless.  

Since knowing sea salt is a better alternative to the normal salt, I started to look for it in the supermakets, surprisingly I could not find any even in the major hypermarkets.  I was happy to see this sea salt in the cosway shopping catalogue.  I bought one bottle for a try and it tastes as good. 

Fresh fruit juice

I always make it a point to prepare fresh fruit juices for my family everyday. We consume the juice immediately when it's out from the juicer, this way we could have all the nutrients from the fruits and vegetable.

In order to have sufficient fruits and vegetable for my juices, I stock up the basic ingredients, apple and carrot are the must have in my juices, simply because my girls prefer apple juice over the rest.

With apple and carrot juice as base, I add in green vegetable, like celery, and any organic vegetable that I could buy from the shop. I like to have green in my juices especially for my hubby who do not like to take vegetable in his meal.

It is also a good idea to include green leafy vegetable in the juices for the kids just like what I do for my daughters who do not like to eat vegetable at all, but in a much lesser portion.

cut them up into small pieces for ease to pass through the juicer even though my juicer can squeeze the whole piece of carrot, I won't want to over work my expensive juicer. :)

A glass of freshly squeeze juice. Sometimes I add in some potassium salt or a packet of green food for extra nutrients, but not for the kids.

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Sparkling Green Cocktail from Belgium

The colour of green is definitely look refreshing to us as compared to the pink and blue ones of the same brand on the shelf, so we bought a bottle thought it is one of the fruit juice.

We were wrong. It is something similar to those carbonated drinks in the market, hardly or contains no nutritional benefit at all.

The ingredient is just water, sugar, aroma, citric acid, co2, color E122.

If you like sparkling carbonated drink, try this one. It would be good to serve this at the party, it gives a loud "pop" sound just like opening a champaign. Best to be served chilled.

Marigold 0% fat strawberry yogurt drink

I bought a bottle of Marigold 0% fat Strawberry Yogurt Drink this evening. My daughter must have attracted to the cute packaging of the 250ml container in the chiller at the 7-Eleven outlet. Honestly I like the design and the cute handy container too.

I usually make my own yogurt at home but my daughters do not like its sourly taste, since she picked this one I thought it would be nice for her to drink some yogurt.

It says on the packaging that it contains live and active cultures, 0% cholesterol, calcium and fruit juice. It is a delicious fermented milk drink specially created to assist the everyday well being of you and your family.

Packed with the goodness of of Live And Active Cultures and blended together with the taste of fruit juice. It is a delicious and convenient way to get your daily boost of Live And Active Cultures.

The ingredients are water, sugar, milk solids, strawberry concentrate, calcium, and Live Cultures namely, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus acidophilus & Streptococcus thermophilus. Contains permitted food conditioners, flavouring and colouring.

Nutritional information for the 250ml container as stated are:

• Energy : 118kcal (493kj)
• Protein : 1.8g
• Total Fat : 0g
• Cholesterol : 0mg
• Carbohydrate : 25.8g
• Total sugars : 24.8g
• Dietary Fiber : 1.8g
• Sodium : 155mg
• Calcium : 168mg

My daughter took a few sips and said she doesn't like it probably because it was not chilled, it should be kept refrigerated below 7 degree C. I drank some and left the rest in the fridge . Hope she will drink it when it is cold.

It suppose to be a healthy drink but I find the taste of this drink is a bit artificial, glad that it is light pink in colour and not dark pink like the packaging. It is sold at RM2.80 per container at 7-Eleven.