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June 24, 2013October 29, 2014 | San

Have your kids been journaling/doodling more during the past hazy week? This is a second exercise book I wrapped with brown paper and simply decorated with a checkered floppy disk label.

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Hi, glad you found my site where I write mostly about my homemade bread recipes enriched with natural vegetables + other things I do daily to slow down a little and pare down a lot, especially on food waste and single-use plastics. Afterall, we only have one earth, let’s be nice to it.

I post a mixture of my own photos and sometimes images that I really like by others, giving proper credits. Email me at {monoandco} at gmail dot com if you like me to remove the post with your image.

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French toast is the next best thing to make for breakfast when you feel like having pancakes but ran out of flour. . Recipe provided by a lovely granny whose mother used to prepare her french toasts using stale bread, and now she is preparing it the same way for her grandchildren. Soak bread in a mixture of beaten eggs and milk, fry both sides of bread until golden brown in a heated pan brushed with cooking oil. Transfer to serving plate, drizzle over with condensed milk, serve warm. . My 10th and last recipe inspired by ingredients that can be found in the School Goodie Bag food pack, a food distribution programme by Food from the Heart that distribute monthly ration to students from disadvantaged families. Eggs, milk, oil and condensed milk are items that can found in the food pack. Takes $55 to sponsor a family for one month. Click link in bio to help.

Plan ahead, whether tabao-ing lunch or not. Useful kit: A good size stainless steel lunchbox, a set of reusable cutlery, and tenugui as carrier, because the metal lunchbox can get too hot to hold after filling up with steamy dish.

Easy stir fried macaroni elbow. Heat up oil and minced garlic in a pan over low heat, let oil be infused with fragrance of garlic. Once minced garlic starts to brown, add chopped parsley, sliced mushrooms and stir fry until ingredients are cooked. Add salt and pepper to season, then add cooked macaroni. Mix to coat macaroni elbow with ingredients and seasoning. Add more salt and pepper if needed. I sprinkled mine with red chilli pepper, something always given in excess of what is really consumed with pizza takeaways. Dish No.9 cooked with ingredients (macaroni, oil and canned mushrooms) from Food from the Heart’s School Goodie Bag programme. Fundraising campaign with @singaporehomecooks until end of the year. $55 to sponsor a family. Click link in bio to help.

How to make one egg feed three. To a beaten egg, add cornflour mixed with 1/2 cup of water and light soy sauce, stir well. Steam on high heat until custard is set. The addition of cornflour helps to make the egg-water mixture curdled, without the need for too many eggs, a trick taught by a mom who had to stretch her every dollar to make ends meet. . My dish number 8 cooked out of the composition of the School Goodie Bag programme food ration. It takes $55 to sponsor one bag for a family. Click link in bio to help.

My bread/cake/hamjeembang/youtiao tabao box becomes durian tabao container today. Lots of styrofoam boxes avoided. . Lucky me, I have never encountered any bad experience when I shop with my reusable beverage cup/lunchbox or shopping bags. Maybe the eateries and shops in the heartlands, where I frequent most, are used to such byo consumer behaviour.

The aluminium foil wrapped cake boards feel too solid to be made out of styrofoam. So I remove the foil, only to unveil ... compressed wood board! What a waste if discarded, so now I have two more pot stands to protect my kitchen counter surface from heat damage. Never mind the grease stains from the cake, my pot stands never look new in the first place.

Finally get to meet @bamboostrawgirl in person, what a sweet lady. The #noplastic straw fits my byo cutlery box perfectly, now I can offer my hubby one when he orders his teh-c peng! I can drink mine sans straw.

Bee hoon breakfast stir fried with just garlic, parsley and bean sprouts. Simple items put together for a nutritious meal to start the day. Similarly, Food from the Heart’s School Goodie Bag food distribution programme that reaches out to students from needy families has a food ration pack that is made up of 15 basic but essential items. I used the red rice bee hoon to prepare this breakfast. It takes $55 to sponsor a food pack for a family. Click link in bio to help. :)

I have weaned myself off buying ziplock bags but found these replacements instead. Resealable packaging from an array of products: teabags, dried mango snack, frozen dumplings, and dehumidifier refill. A quick rinse and air dry, they are ready for reuse.

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