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Valentine’s Day has come and gone but still the feeling that love is in the air pervades.  So to further this “loving feeling” lets share more stories of love for our third week of The Love Month Meme.

For this week, lets share some of our favorite date places with our special someone.  Just to make it more exciting, how about telling us about your favorite destination when you were still going steady and when you finally got hitched.

Its our second week for the Love Month Meme and things couldn’t be more heart-filled and romantic.  Valentine’s Day is just a few days away and love is definitely in the air.  I’m pretty sure that we’re all looking forward to spending some quality time with our significant others and even with our precious kiddies.

So for this week, lets talk about our most memorable Valentine’s experience.  Lets take a walk down memory lane and try to recall those giddy moments.

And before I forget…here’s wishing you a…

Update :

Here is this week’s round-up of entries…

Maver - “For Heart’s Sake”

Wenchie - “Memorable Valentine Experience”

Cookie - “My First And Last Valentine”

It’s the 4th and final week (for now) of the Lunch Box Meme. Share what you’ve got up you sleeves, moms and wives! Posting of links will be on Friday.

In February, we’re giving the lunch box a break, so we’re doing a different meme. Stay tuned, or better yet, come around next Tuesday to find out. We’ve got some nice things a-brewing. ;)

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Mauie’s Bigger Boy’s Korean Beef Stew

Maver’s Pancit Efuven

Lynn’s Chicken with Sweet Peas (Guisantes)

Julie’s Baked Mussels and Home-Baked Bread

iMom’s Chicken Tocino and fresh pineapples

Cookie’s Karne Frita and Broccoli and Mushroom with Garlic Cream

One of the things that can enhance the memory would be food. Now why would we even consider this as important?

Memory is a thinking process for recalling information among others. This is one of the many thinking processes that we need, that our children need too, when we face the day’s challenges.

So what does this mean? It means we should eat more of these kinds of food so that we can improve our memory skills. Ahem, there’s no denying we have these “duh!” moments or memory gap moments or, sige na nga, senior moments then :D

Do you have these in your lunchboxes?

  • Foods rich in B vitamins and folic acid (dark leafy greens, strawberries and melons, beans and legumes among others)
  • Antioxidants like vitamin C, E and beta carotene (berries, nuts, green tea, sweet potatoes among others)
  • Omega-3 fatty acids (from fish, walnuts and flaxseed among others)

Source: http://www.helpguide.org/life/improving_memory.htm

Ok, now are you ready to tackle the challenges? For more tips, don’t forget to click that -> Feed Your Head.

Round-up will be done for posts that will make it till Friday :)

UPDATE :

Here’s the round-up of those who participated this week.

Mauie’s Picnic Lunch

Cookie’s Ginisang Ampalaya and Pork Steak & Fries

Maver’s Economical Chicken Curry

Lynn’s Chopsuey with Quail Eggs

TeacherJulie’s Fried Cream Dory Fillet

Imom’s Pork Patties & Mushrooms

Week 2 of our lunchbox meme, yey! (insert banana dance here)

Leave your link and we will have these in our round-up.

We learn from each other’s preparation and so we get ideas on what to do next, plus we also get those link love. So please, go get your cameras, take a photo of what you have prepared for your loved ones, write a short and post and leave a link here. Link love will be done till Friday.

Thank you and now, I will go write my entry :)

And now for our participating lunchboxes:

Julie’s Field Trip Food

Mauie’s Beef Tapa and Fried Egg

Cookie’s Chef Salad and her hubby’s Christmas Ham Sandwich

Maver’s Spanish Sardines Pasta

Lynn’s Egg, Mayo and Wheat Bread Sandwich

Manang’s Organized lunchboxes (This we gotta try doing!)

Salen’s Homebaked Chocolate Chips cookies (with the recipe)

iMom’s Baked Herb Chicken Thighs with a link to the recipe here.

Lunchbox Meme for 2009 is back!

Which means it is back to work for some of us and back to school for most of the children.

I am sure we’ve had enough of those meaty food during the holidays. Now is the time to make good on our promise to have healthier food choices, for ourselves, and our family members.

Grab the badge and join us here, just leave a link if you played.

The meme will be opened every Tuesday. Final round-up will be done for entries that will make it till Friday. So now there is no excuse to let this pass as you all have four days to take photos of what you have prepared in your lunchboxes.

Share your secret recipes so we can all learn something new.

Let’s bring a whole new meaning to the word LUNCHBOX :)

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Julie’s Lechon Kawali with a (sort of) recipe here

Mauie’s Big Boy had Chicken Curry Maki

Maver’s Healthy Chopsuey

Lynn’s Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger!

iMom’s Homemade Chicken Tocino (with a how-to)

Iska’s Bacon and Cheese Sandwich/Pandesal and Shrimp/Vegetable Salad

[UPDATED with round-up below. Sorry for the delay, folks.]

It’s the final week for Fab Holiday Finds and the theme is RED and/or GREEN.

Please leave a comment here if you joined this week. Round-up will be done by tomorrow, Wednesday, morning. My family is travelling back to Manila from Baguio today. *sigh* Vacation is always over too soon.

Anyway, it’s been fun hosting this meme and playing it with you! Next month we resume the Lunch Box Meme. We hope you could play along again.

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Fab Finds:

Ibyang’s red hot accents

MommyBa’s jade ox

Julie’s red tree and tree ornaments

Lynn’s fab daughter’s fab find

Mauie’s prettified tree

iMom’s fab ukay find

[ 2nd UPDATE: Links to all who posted entries are now complete. Sorry for the delay. Holiday bug's bitten me, hehe. ]

[ UPDATE: Round-up posted down below. ]

This week’s theme is GOLD.

Please leave your comment and link here so we know you joined. I will do the round-up tomorrow morning. Tonight I will be on the way to Baguio City to celebrate Christmas there with my family.

And, oh -

Merry Christmas to all the readers of FMB!

May your celebration be filled with making happy memories with your families and friends.

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Our Fab Finds: (Links open in new window)

MommyBa’s gold ornaments

Mitch’s golden shoes

Cookie’s fab tree

iMom’s gold ‘flops

Mauie’s gold bangle

Julie’s tree ornaments

Lynn’s gold pouches

 

 

 

 

(UPDATE: Round-up of blogs at the end of post. Next week’s theme is SILVER. ;P )

Fistly, we’d like to thank all the fab finders who participated last week. Wasn’t it fun?!

It’s now week 2 of Fab Holiday Finds, and our theme is WHITE.

I’m having quite a difficult looking for something fabulously white.  But I’m sure we will all come up with something. Don’t we women always do, anyway? ;)

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, will be the round-up. Just leave a comment here and I will update this post with links to your blogs. Go ahead and grab the badge.

Happy hunting!

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Our fab finds: (Links open in new window)

Ibyang’s Fab Folder

Cookie’s White Nativity

Lynn’s Krispy Snowmen

Mauie’s White (and blue!) Cap

Julie’s White Gifts

iMom’s Zebra Clutch

Mitch’s Holiday Cards

 

 

Only two days to go and December finally rolls in.

In case you haven’t noticed, mornings in the past week have been a lot cooler. Homes and streets are starting to light up one by one. Traffic in the Metro has become more horrible, and malls are full with shoppers even on weekdays.

Christmas is officially here!

To usher in this wonderful season, FMB is hosting a meme called Fab Holiday Finds.

The mechanics are simple:

1.You shop for holiday finds - they could be decor, food, gifts, the clothes you got on 70% off. You can also share about a certain shop or bazaar that simply dazzled.

2. To make it more interesting, let’s do a “colors of Christmas” theme per week. But to give everyone more time to prepare, week 1 won’t have a specific color theme.

  • Week 1: any color
  • Week 2: White
  • Week 3: Silver
  • Week 4: Gold
  • Week 5: Red and/or Green

3. Post photos on your blog. Don’t forget crucial information such as where and how much. Grab the badge above if you please.

4. Drop a comment on the round-up post here on FMB, so we can link bank and visit you. As with the Lunch Box Meme, we’re doing this every Tuesday this month.

It’s not just the season of buying and spending. It’s also the season of sharing. So please join us and share your fab holiday finds. Let’s see what’s in your stash. :)

Fab Holiday Finds start on Tuesday, December 2.

The Lunch Box Meme will resume in January 2009.