A day with a happy tummy

Food is one of the important things we should have in our daily livings .We need food every now and then ,we need food for us to energize our body .Food is life ika nga .My father once said before "never complain what you see in the table,whats important that we had something to eat,we are still lucky and blessed that we can eat 3 meals a day" .I grow up with that reminder and since I am a mother now ,sometimes my eldest son are complaining if he don't like the viand or the food and I remind him of what my fathers said ,good thing my son is listening .

Many said that breakfast is the most important meal coz we get our whole day energy from our breakfast meal ,I don't know if it exactly true,comment down below if you know this.But for me since I am a breastfeeding mom ,all the meals are very important to me ,I can have a twice breakfast sometimes ,lunch and dinner hahah! If you are a breasfeeding mom ,maybe you can relate this ,every now and then I always wanted to eat .Thats why I am gaining so much weight now.

I remember before when I was working ,I always budgeting my salary coz I need to paid for the room I rented and I gave also money to my mother ,so I need to budget my money ,that 1 instant noodles was ate for my breakfast and lunch ,but most of my viand was an egg coz it cost only 5-6pesos that time.If I don't have time to cooked ,I ate at a small eatery for 10pesos budget,5pesos for rice 5pesos for gulay or pancit and I will just asked a soup that was last 2012.Now you can't buy 5pesos of rice ,15-20 pesos each servings na eh.

Preparing and thinking what will be our viand is one of my problem everyday especially if I don't have much budget ,it was hard to think what to prepare if you could'nt see something in the kitchen.It so hard to think what to prepare especially we are 9 living in one roof,it was hard to budget about the food ,honestly we can't save money now from my husbands salary coz we spent so much for our food,it was a big difference before that we live separately to them. Every payday of my husband ,I budgeted 1500pesos for viand ,I can buy a tray of eggs,veggies,dried fish ,chicken /pork meat and fish .But that amount is not enough even if I tried to budget it but most of daily needs now is increasing the price .

Food we usually had everyday

• Breakfast-for breakfast I usually cooked dried fish ,egg ,hotdog and sometimes fried fish.If we don't have much budget ,I cooked instant noodles with malunggay or egg.

• Lunch-my husbad's family loves to eat viand with soup,mostly I cooked fish or meat with soup and for if we don't have enough budget I cooked sardines with noodle/miswa and cooked with soup.

• Dinner-same for our lunch and but I was trying to prepared veggies also.

Food we usually have everyday payday

We can ate delicious food during my husband and my sister in law's payday .My sister in law which in abroad now was working as a domestic helper and every payday she had ,she always sent us money and wanted us to eat delicious food.She always told us ,"eat whatever you wanted ,I am happy seeing you my family ,eating happy together in one table".My husband always wanted to buy a delicious food every payday he had,but me since I'm the one who budgeted his money ,I am not agreed sometimes coz I am thinking the next day he always said "thats why I am working ,I wanted to give you the needs of the family and I wanted that we can eat this food even not often" ,so I better do what he wanted coz he is working for it hahaha!.

Mostly these are the food we had in our table during their paydays:

• Pork/chicken meat-adobo ,grilled or sinigang

• Fish-the expensive one,we grilled and cooked with soup sometime

• Shrimp-buttered shrimp and sinigang

• Roasted chicken -if we are running out of time to cooked,the ready to eat food.

So ,yesterday's we had a budgeted food but it makes our tummy happy.

In the morning I cooked pancit and I used the left over viand from our dinner which is an adobong chicken liver ,I used this as a sahog for my pancit .I bought two packs of pancit cost 24pesos ,a super budgeted viand but makes our tummy full and happy.

In the afternoon since I was busy doing my laundry ,my mother in law wanted to eat chicken with soup ,so ayun kinatay ang alaga niya manok .See we did'nt spend any amount for this hihih.My mother inlaw together with her grandchildren prepared this ,coz I am busy doing my laundry .

For our dinner ,I decided to cooked a dynamite but my kids will not eat this coz its spicy so I made a vegetable lumpia for them .For my dynamite I am using slice hotdog instead of ground pork ,since its budgeted same for the vegetable lumpia I add 1 chopped hotdog and charrann ,a budgeted but truly makes our tummy happy.I spend 100pesos plus for this.

And for our snacks yesterday,our neighbor are selling snacks ,a casava roll and banana cupcake ,but I wasn't able to take a photo of it.

And thats it for today ,how about you ?How do you prepared a budgeted food?

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