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My Top 10 High Protein Vegan Foods
By Victoria Q A very common concern about a vegan diet is that they might lack of protein intake. When talking about protein, everyone already knows they’re from animal products such as cow’s milk, chicken breast, lean pork, lean beef, eggs, cheese, yogurt and many more. What people don’t know is that many plant-based foods…
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My Healthy Diet
By Victoria Q There’s a phrase saying “You are what you eat. Which is the reason so many of us feel like rubbish.” And it was true. A few years back, I never really take care of my health. I don’t exercise, I don’t eat vegetables and I sleep late at night. I felt like…
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Tips For Slow Living
By Victoria Q We are all living so busy in modern life – busy catching up on our works, responsibilities and commitment. Daily life seems to have become a never-ending list of tasks to be done – get up early, make breakfast, get the kids ready and send them to school, rush to work, get…
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Benefit Of Drinking Teas
By Victoria Q Aside from water and coffee, tea is one of the most consumed beverages in the world. There are two main categories of tea – true teas and herbal teas. True teas are made using the leaves of the tea plant known as Camellia sinensis – green tea, white tea, oolong tea, pu-er tea,…
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Better Quality Of Sleep
By Victoria Q Getting a good night’s sleep is important for your mental and physical health. This will directly affect your daytime energy, productivity, emotional balance, and even your weight. Even so, many of us regularly tossing and turning at night, struggling to fall asleep or to get back to sleep after awake in the…
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Cope With Overeating During Period
By Victoria Q As a woman, you’re probably familiar with the craving to eat certain foods just before your monthly period which are usually high in carbs and sugar. It’s totally normal as fluctuating levels of estrogen, progesterone and serotonin levels during period. These hormonal changes in the body cause a drop in blood sugar…
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Preparation For The Next Period
By Victoria Q Let’s be honest, many people get emotional and have cramps before and during their period. Most women, over 90% , say they get some premenstrual symptoms, such as bloating, headaches and moodiness. Some may get severe that affect their daily activities such as working, walking and even sleeping. However, these symptoms tend…
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Benefits Of Mindful Eating
By Victoria Q What is mindful eating? Mindful eating means putting our full attention on the whole process of enjoying a meal. It means turning off the TV, ignoring any distractions, sitting down at dining table and putting 100% of our focus on the meal itself. The point is to be fully focused on sight…
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How Many Serving Of Each Food Group Should You Eat Per Day?
By Victoria Q Eating a healthy, balanced diet is one of the most important things you can do to protect your mental and physical health. By doing so, it can lower your chances of getting major diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and many more. A healthy diet can reduce blood pressure, helping you…
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Eating Your Way To Mindfulness
By Victoria Q Mindful eating is an act of mindfulness or being present, pay attention to what you put into your body. The goal is to shift focus from external thinking about food to exploring and enjoying the eating experience. It has become popular as a way of self-calming and as a method of changing…
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4 Steps To Stop Binge Eating
By Victoria Q Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder. It is a mental illness in which a person, due to underlying issues and other risk factors, develops a pattern of binge eating which they come to rely on food as a way of coping. If left untreated, BED can lead to…
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What To Do After Binge Eating
By Victoria Q So, you just had a whole large pizza, three burgers, a bag of chips and a whole sleeve of cookies. Afterwards, you felt guilty for eating too much and being in a negative mood which then leads you to starve yourself for the next two days, going on an extremely strict diet…
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5 Reasons You Might Have Binge Eating
By Victoria Q Everyone overeats from time to time. But binge eating disorder is different from normal overeating. Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is a mental illness in which a person, due to underlying issues and other risk factors, develops a pattern of binge eating which they come to rely on food as a way of…
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No Spend Challenge and Save More Money
By Victoria Q No spend challenge has become trendy nowadays. “No spend” simply means not spending on anything unnecessary. This challenge can be a great way to save money and you’ll learn a lot about your spending habits through the process. How To Do A No Spend Challenge No spend challenges are flexible and customizable.…
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7 Simple Ways to Save Money
By Victoria Q Saving money is important and we all know that. But, sometimes the hardest thing about saving money is we don’t know where to begin. We’re all living in our comfort zone that we don’t realize how much we actually can save each month. You may not know but a majority of people…
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How To Find Time In A Busy Life.
By Victoria Q Have you ever asked yourself how many hours did you sleep on an average night? How long have it been since your last meeting with your friends? When was your last visit to your parents’ house? Almost everyone is having the same issue here. Working from 8am to 5pm, skipping breakfast because…
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Korean mochi (Vegan) -Chapssaltteok 찹쌀떡
Chapssaltteok (찹쌀떡) is a Korean style of mochi, made of sweet rice flour a.k.a glutinous rice flour. It was called ‘daifuku’ in Japanese and in Chinese version, it was called ‘muah chee’. ‘chapssaltteok’ and ‘daifuku’ was similar which they use red bean paste as filling, meanwhile ‘muah chee’ used crushed peanut and sugar as filling.…
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Black Sesame Glutinous Rice Balls (Vegan)
Muah Chee is a type of Malaysian sticky rice balls coated with sugar, grounded roasted peanuts or grounded roasted black sesame seeds. It was a popular snack among Malaysian. Muah Chee was made from glutinous rice flour and tasted soft, chewy, and springy. It was similar to Japanese Mochi and Korean Chapssaltteok but much easier…
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Chinese Pumpkin Sago Dessert (Vegan)
There’s a shop that sells Pumpkin Sago Dessert nearby our house and it was so delicious. My mum loves it so much. Unfortunately, they closed down the shop and we can never have it anymore. My mum missed the dessert; hence, telling me to try making it for her. My first trial can be considered…
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Homemade Cornflakes Cakes (Vegan)
Have you ever wonder what should you do with a huge pack of cornflakes that you bought some time ago? You bought the largest pack to save money but it ended up sitting in a container in the pantry. So am I! I’ve been thinking for quite some times and at one moment I remembered…
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Homemade Granola (Vegan)
Having granola at home can be really handy especially when you don’t have enough time to make yourself a healthy breakfast. Granola has been my favourite quick and easy breakfast, snack time and emergency food when I haven’t done my groceries shopping. Granola can be quite expensive and if you’re vegan, you might need to…