Everytime I went grocery shopping, I tried to think of what to cook for my two sweeties especially the young one who is a picky eater just like me. As a mother and wife, I am responsible to ensure that DH and DD get a good diet but honestly, with my limited cooking ability, I [...]

Today we finally stopped by the Fruit Barn at 168 Windsor Road, Rouse Hill. We’ve often drove past the fruit barn but never attempted to stop and have a look. Now that we are slightly relaxed and a wee bit less stressed, we decided to check it out this morning. Unfortunately I have again forgot [...]

Shopping was done at Coles Supermarket (coles.com.au) on 30 October 2009. Please note that food prices do fluctuate frequently.   All prices are in Australian Dollar Dairy Farmers Lite 3 Ltr Fresh Milk — 6.06 Crisco Sunflower Oil 750ml — 4.99 Vaalia 6pk Toddler Yoghurt — 4.49 Cage Eggs 600gm — 2.39 Bananas 1.712kg @ [...]

For years I dreaded making kuih muih that calls for freshly grated coconut such as ondeh ondeh and many others. Although I do have an old school coconut grater (more about that later), I am somewhat lazy to crack a coconut and grate it.   Imagine my joy when I discovered frozen grated coconut. I [...]

  As much as can be placed into the bag (background) for AU$5 from Red Lea. The people behind the counter would usually announce $5 for any of its cooked food about 20-30 minutes to closing time.  This is only the second time we’ve bought this $5 special as we usually leave the mall several hours earlier.   [...]

All prices are in Australian Dollar Dried Anchovies, Ikan Bilis, Malaysia x 2 @ $5.20 each, 500gm packet — 10.40 Spicy Pork Luncheon Meat 340g can x 4 (buy 1 free 1 @ 2.30) — 4.60 Classic Tofu Regular 300g — 0.90 Keeper Fried Fish Ball 200g x 2 @ 2.60 each — 5.20 Golden [...]

Shopping was done at Coles Supermarket (coles.com.au).  Please note that food prices do fluctuate frequently All prices are in Australian Dollar Continental Pasta 130gm pack (serves 6) x 4 @ special price $4 for 2 packs — 8.00 Fantastic Fresh Noodle x 2 @ special price $3 for 2 packs — 3.00 Coles home brand [...]

After the much publicized contaminated milk powder incident in China, the SMH reports today that Cadbury has recalled one of its product off the shelves in Australia ie the Cadbury eclairs (see photo above). Please read the full article on SMH here   Credit: Eclairs Image Copyright © SMH

Last week’s grocery shopping was done in different places, some of which I have discarded the receipts. Here is part of our fresh fruit and vegie shopping at Duffy Bros: All prices in Australian Dollar Watermelon, half (1.8kg, seeded) – 2.37 Butternut pumpkin, half – 2.09 Banana 1.203kg @ $2.69/kg – 3.24 Chinese Cabbage, half [...]

All prices are in Australian Dollar Coles Fresh Orange Juice 2ltr x 3 @ $1.99 each — 5.97 Farmland Fresh Orange Juice 2ltr x 2 @ $2.49 each — 4.98 Baby Potato 2kg — 4.48 Butternut Pumpkin (half) — 2.27 Baby Bananas 750gm x 2 @ $1.98 each — 3.96 Red Delicious Apples 1.5kg — [...]

All prices in Australian Dollar Yoplait Baby Yoghurt x 3 @ $3.32 each — 9.96 Fantastic Noodles 800gm — 2.90 McCains Frozen Peas 500gm x 2 @ $2.76 each — 5.52 Chicken Breast (a pair) — 5.66 Dairy Farmers Milk 2 ltr — 3.98 Half Savoy Cabbage — 2.68 Broccoli 0.637kg @ $1.92/kg — 1.22 [...]

All prices in Australian Dollar Hurricane Laundry Liquid 2.5 ltr x 2 @ $3.99 each — 7.98 Crisco Canola Oil 750ml x 2 @ $3.49 each — 6.98 Watties Baked Beans+Sausage x 6 @ $0.99 each (on special) — 5.94 Coles Baby Carrot 410gm/can x 3 @ $0.99 each — 2.97 Dairy Farmers Milk 3 [...]

When I first went to look for ShaoXing Rice Wine, I had no idea what to expect. It didn’t help when all the labels were in Chinese writing! I almost missed this one as it only has  Chinese writings on the front label until I decided to turn the bottle around and voila, the back [...]

The moment of truth for the Homemade Salted Eggs !  After day 20, I was confident they would be just right (fuiyooo ego nya!).  Took them out from the kitchen cabinet Looks coated enough with salt Washed the salt away and placed them into the rice cooker One broke, poor egg The broken one was [...]

I never realize how expensive salted duck eggs are in Sydney until I actually bought half a dozen for AU$6 and even that, I thought the cashier overcharged me. Well after seeing that the prices are more or less the same at different Asian grocery stores (about AU$1 a salted egg), I now know they [...]