Justina's life in Foods

I moved!

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:26:00 -0700

Hello everyone,

I am happy and sad to say that I moved to wordpress!

Yes, I have my own domain now!

I decided to use wordpress because of its professionalism. It also allows me to neatly organize my posts and make it more presentable. If you clicked on the link, then you will clearly see what I mean.

I won’t be updating on here anymore so if you miss me, then you are free to visit the website. The cool thing about wordpress is taht people who don’t have an account can STILL subscribe/follow me! All new posts will be notified via email! I guess that can be a good or bad thing…haha

Thanks for the amazing 2 years! It is time to move onto bigger and better things! There are only a few selected repeated posts on the wordpress, but I’m excited for doing new things on it!

Good bye and thank you for the amazing 2 years :D Come visit me!

Good bye summer.

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:16:04 -0700

Good bye summer.

Photo

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:31:51 -0700

Vietnamese coffee at a french bakery. Weird? Not really because...

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:12:48 -0700

Vietnamese coffee at a french bakery. Weird? Not really because the french had a slight influence on vietnamese coffee during colonization (Taken with Instagram at Extraordinary Desserts)

These are stone crabs. Interestingly, the stone crabs claws are...

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:06:27 -0700

These are stone crabs. Interestingly, the stone crabs claws are huge for its size. They are harvested by breaking off the claws and then throwing the amputated crab back into the water. The crab will grow new claws. The claws that are taken off are considered a delicacy.

The taste? Delicious!

Tip: a boring cereal can be fun if you add fruits such as...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:07:52 -0700

Tip: a boring cereal can be fun if you add fruits such as blueberries, strawberries, bananas, raspberries, and etc.

Im trying “healthier” cereal. This is the cereal “total.” im trying to analyze their nutrition label with other cereal.

Din tai fung - Arcadia, CA If you have never been here, i...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:03:44 -0700

Din tai fung - Arcadia, CA

If you have never been here, i highly suggest you go. The dumplings are wrapped so exquisitely that even if you pick it up, it wont break. Also, a good dumpling is one that can hold the soup inside. These dumplings do. One bite of it pours out of it extremely hot soup. It tastes so homey. Bite with caution. It is very very hot. Delish!

No food is a BAD food

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:58:08 -0700

It is easy for a nutrition person like me to say that those food with saturated fat is BAD for you. People often see posters of GOOD food and BAD food. It is easy to find yourself conforming to these categories.

The truth is though, in high amounts, any food can be BAD for you. You can get toxicity from vitamins or minerals and those are the things that are prized so highly.

If we stream away from consuming too much of food like ice cream or coke or hamburgers, then they arent necessarily BAD for you. Ice cream is giving you calcium. Even coke is providing at least calories. Food is giving you nutrients that your body needs. Just because a food is claimed as a bad food, doesnt mean you should cross it off your list and never ever eat it again. It only means to eat it in MODERATION.

Thats the secret, thats the key — eat in moderation. I love ice cream. I only eat that once a week or even sometimes once a month. Learn to self-control your diet. No food is a bad food, but it is if you make it as one.

This is my view as a nutrition person.

Let the healthy food chime in!

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:52:24 -0700

I like to see that fruits and vegetables are given side options at various food places, and the one place that I’m happy to see it at is DISNEYLAND.

Not only does Disneyland provide fruit stands around the park, but it also offers it with your meal. Instead of choosing fries, I chose fruits. They give you enough. I’m happy that Disneyland, being such a huge company, is doing its part in preventing nutrition-related health problems.

All it takes is one ripple.

Disneyland’s chicken salsa hamburger next to space...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:49:06 -0700

Disneyland’s chicken salsa hamburger next to space mountain and autopia.

DELISH

You like dem’ chicken and waffles from Roscoes? Waffles...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:47:51 -0700

You like dem’ chicken and waffles from Roscoes?

Waffles and fried chicken are a delicacy back during the flappers’ time and after slavery for African-Americans. Fried chicken became so hard to come by that on Sundays when they ate it, it became a tradition. It’s soul food here in Los Angeles.

I’d love to learn more about this history!

The cone had two cone-holes. Being the ice cream lover I am, I...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:41:16 -0700

The cone had two cone-holes. Being the ice cream lover I am, I had to try that unique cone. It was made for me. Single scoop of mint chocolate chip and coconut macadamia nut ice cream that looked like double scoops. I’ll tell yah that I was super full and fell asleep right after.

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Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:38:50 -0700

MHT in San Jose won an Honorable Mention from First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move Video Challenge

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:58:57 -0700

MHT in San Jose won an Honorable Mention from First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move Video Challenge:

My professor Dr. Freedman created this wonderful program at Most Holy Trinity Church last summer (My school should be so proud of it). It incorporates two of the main tools that highlight the importance of being healthy: physical activity and healthy eating.

I’m so happy that she has won an honorable mention from this challenge. It is a blessing to work for her and have been taught by her. There’s always good work happening in every corner!

I love bun beo. This way of makin is from central vietnam. The...

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:18:30 -0700

I love bun beo. This way of makin is from central vietnam. The ones from the south have slightly different ingredients. Vietnamese cuisine. :) (Taken with Instagram)

S’more fun On the last day of teaching and being a...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:30:19 -0700

S’more fun

On the last day of teaching and being a counselor, we had smores. It’s not certain where the origin came from, but it can trace as far back when the girl scouts first had it in its “recipe book.” They made it during campfires which is the reason why today, most camp outs will have this famous s’more treat

2 squares, 2 blocks of hershey chocolate bar, and one marshmallow = 20g of carbohydrate.

Pirate’s snack boat When I think of pirates, I think of...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:09:00 -0700

Pirate’s snack boat

When I think of pirates, I think of scurvy. Scurvy was popular on the 7 seas and it was because they didn’t eat their fruits and veggies so no vitamin C. With the kids at diabetes camp, I did a boat balance with them. This boat had the food groups and together was 15g carbohydrates.

The chex represented “wood,” baby carrots were the “pirate pegs,” cheese was the “plank,” the grapes were the “cannonballs,” and the sunflower butter was the “ocean.” It was very interesting what the kids did with those items. One kid spread the butter on the bottom of the boat and then glued on the chex to make the deck! He used the string cheese to make a flag. It was so adorable and so cute.

Worm is dirt cup - Mad Scientist Day Instant pudding only...

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:12:18 -0700

Worm is dirt cup - Mad Scientist Day

Instant pudding only solidifies with milk. If you plan on using any other liquid, you can either mix it with milk or add casein protein. In this experiment, the instant pudding didn’t solidify with neither soy milk or coconut milk. It did with lactaid and regular milk. Turns out that casein and calcium together interacts with an ingredient that is found in the instant pudding to solidify.

One instant pudding package uses 2 cups of liquid. Mix it together until well blended. Let it sit for about 5 minutes to solidify. Scoop out about 3 oz. of the pudding. Add in one crushed oreo and one worm. This individual cup is about 15g of carbohydrates.

This is one of the snacks we made for the diabetes camp

Ants on a log - “can you take a picture of my log?”...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:10:27 -0700

Ants on a log - “can you take a picture of my log?” i love this part of my job!! :) (Taken with Instagram)

Food stamps cut rejected

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:44:07 -0700

awesome