Diet

Before I came up to this blog, I had a hearty breadfast - cooked rolled oats, added vegetarian marmite, dried prune and turkey fig, also nuts (brazil nut, walnuts, madcademia nut and almonds). Today I shall have salad with 50% whole meal bread. It will go with a mix of 5 colors veggi - to extract various nutrients as advocated by many nutritient experts. Dinner will be steam cod fish and green leafy veggi. I will have sweet potatoes and my daughter will have steamed rice. What about her lunch? Think I will cook pasta with chicken soup bought from the hawker stall. It is always a challenge to come up with ideas as to what to prepare for myself and my daughter for meals.

Most of the days I will try to prepare meals at home. However, when we have activities outside of the house, we will eat nearby. Our favourite meals are the fish slice soups noodles/yam rice, or chicken rice at Peh Kio hawker food centre, the hokkien mee/thunder tea rice at toa payoh hdb hub basement food court, crispy noodles/brown rice at hougang kopitian food court, beef udon/yong tau foo at city square mall banquet food court, organic brown rice at fortune centre.

It takes time and discipline to develop a healthy meal plan; creativity to maintain it. Of course, motivation is needed to start the healthy meal plan in the first place. I was tested IGI some more than 10 years ago and declared a diabetic in 2008 to be on diet controlled at Polyclinic. It is crucial for me to maintain a balanced diet. It is not easy to define 'a balanced diet' especially in our country where eating is a national past time. Insofar, my condition has been controlled as evident in my own scheduled blood tests. Anyhow, not to be complacent, I need to revisit my condition often.