Mink,
Well I gotta stock up just in case we got hungry in the middle of the night or especially weekend if we're too lazy to go out to eat. I forgot to mention, I also stock up on canned food like sardines & corned beef/mutton and canned mushrooms. Tuna is very high in protein and is a healthy choice of food but unfortunately, we don't eat tuna, don't know why. The only 'leceh'(troublesome) thing abt frozen food is that u need to thaw them.
At the moment, my new home in JB has no stove. We moved into a bare apartment, the only thing available are the ceiling fans & lightings. So no kitchen cabinet or stove ... So I have to depend on my own rice cooker, microwave oven (only use for heating), a mini conventional oven with a hotplate and an electric wok. My mom is giving me her electric 'steam boat' cooker so I could cook soup. I thot of getting one of those induction cooker later on cuz I saw one quite cheap at Sheng Shong, for like less than $50. One thing it is safe, no open flame and no gas. I also depend on my thermal flask for drinking water cuz I don't trust drinking straight from the tap in Malaysia. I would cool the boiling water in a big jug/pitcher for drinking or making milk and some in drinking bottles to be put in the fridge for cold drinking water.
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Ya lah, scared my family starve! Actually my main worries are that being a working mom with no and never had a maid, and especially now on course 3x p/wk and ferrying back & forth Sin-JB, just in case if I'm back home late or if all the eateries/foodstalls selling cooked food closes for some reasons or perhaps I have no cash in hand to buy cooked food, there's plenty at home to survive ... even for a week. I make sure I have atleast 10kg of rice & 5kg of oil and couple packs of plain flour(pancakes & malay jemput-jemput or fritters), a couple packs of pasta (macaroni & spaghetti) and also meesua/dried egg noodles (meesua soup with chicken/ikan bilis stock, yes stock up on stocks!). I make sure we have enough carbohydrates, then a bit of protein (frozen chicken, sausages, beef patties/burgers, fish/sotong balls, milk & cheese) and a bit of veg (carrots,tomatoes,mushrooms) and fruits (grapes, bananas, watermelon, apples & oranges). For snack, I like to stock up on nuts, chocolate, raisins and sunflower seeds as they are all good source of energy, not forgetting cereal & oats. My girls epecially eat alot of cereal(usually coco crunch) and oatmeal(quaker instant oats)even for supper sometimes! And they like to add sunflower seeds in them. Btw, besides the normal refrigetrator, I do have a small box freezer
easy for me to stock up food. But of course if mom stop by, she won't know what to do with all the food that I have because she can't use much of them to cook any traditional Malay food. My menu at home are simple these days, either western fast food (beef burgers, fish/fried chicken & chips), stir fry food (fried rice, stir fry spaghetti, fried macaroni or macaroni & cheese, stir fry sweet sour fish/chicken), 'dump everything' soup (fish/sotong balls, chicken, mushrooms, carrots ... in chicken stock soup, add meesua or dried noodles and have soup noodles!) The canned sardines & corned beef/mutton can be cook as a dish just by adding chilli paste or curry powder and eaten with rice and also can use to make sandwich. Eggs are my favourite cuz I can make a variety of ommelette with it, scramble eggs, half/hard-boiled eggs in soya sauce, mashed egg sandwiches, fried bread-in-egg the list goes on. Another thing, the oats, cereal, nuts, raisins and melted choc or honey combined can make a 'power' muesli bars! With the fruits, I would make fruit salad or fruit kebabs with the kids and also add milk and into the blender you got fruit flavoured milk shake!
Well since I have class on Saturdays (except for the nex 2-3 Saturdays, as we are doing research now), I'm only back in JB on Sunday mornings. We'll leave for Singapore on Monday mornings and back in the evening. Tuesday since I have evening class, we'll spend a night at my mom's and my hubby will relief driving the cab, then we'll go back to JB on Wednesday evening and again Thursdays since I have class, we'll spend another night at my mom's and hubby drive the cab again. He usually drives from 9pm-3pm. We'll go back to JB on Friday evening but hubby will go back in Singapore around 9pm to drive cab. Saturday noon we'll go in Singapore cuz I have class, hubby & kids will be at my mom's. Hubby will drive cab on Saturday night so we'll spend another night at mom' and will go back to JB on Sunday morning. I spend Sundays doing the laundry and catching up on housechores. I do my grocery in the evenings at Pandan City once a wk now as it opens from 4pm-3am, though the supermarket closes at 12am.
Of course I do my Hari Raya visitings in Singapore as I have no one to visit in JB! I'm still doing my visitings, even this evening cuz we have a big family in Singapore. Both my mom & dad are the fifth & sixth generation, respectively in Singapore. So loads of great grand aunts & uncles, grand aunts & uncles, aunts & uncles and countless cousins, second cousins ....
Btw, I'm planning for a playdate for my 2.5 years old boy for the next couple of Saturdays ... he really needs social skills cuz I think he's spoilt by his grandparents and his former caregiver, who is also my maternal aunt. Not sure where to go or what to do ... I mean I got so much ideas but not sure what the other mommies want to do. Anyone here want to join us?
