Me Time!

[zac's mum]

Apples have a lot of good nutrients in the skin. The best is don’t peel off the skin.


Can cut in advance to save some time. Just soak in salt water to prevent oxidation (the flesh turning brown). Some vitamins may be lost if keep too long in cut state though.

[starlight1968sg]

Zac Mum

Some said there may be pesticide on the skin and so I usually remove it.

[sharonkhoo]

MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"1904637\" time=\"1554180814\" user_id=\"43981:

starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1904622\" time=\"1554180104\" user_id=\"14025:

Ladies
Am thinking how to reduce my rubbish generated and my usage of plastic bag to lin the kitchen bin.
I try to do massive peeling of skin for say potatoes, winter melon at one go.

Because I cook almost everyday, I need 1 plastic bag for wet thrash daily. The plastic bag for dry rubbish will be used for few days.

I use 1 bag for the kitchen every day also. I try to reuse bags, eg. the bags from supermarkets for bagging fruits and veg, bread bags, bags from hawker stalls, etc. So I hardly use any of the \"normal\" supermarket bags. I don't have many of those anyway as I usually bring my own reusable bags to the supermarket. Unfortunately, because I order groceries from Fairprice, I have a lot of those very large bags which I hardly use, and they are piling up. I mainly use them for wastepaper baskets, but only 1 a week.

[starlight1968sg]

Janet

https://www.cpf.gov.sg/Members/Schemes/schemes/other-matters/cpf-contribution-for-employees

The company and not SP shld pay $$ to interns

[MyPillow]

starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1904663\" time=\"1554183429\" user_id=\"14025:

Zac Mum
Some said there may be pesticide on the skin and so I usually remove it.

there is waxy feel on apple skin too,, need to soak in salt water for at least 20 plus min -hoping to clear off
unwanted chemicals ,,, but we usually peel off skin

[sharonkhoo]

MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"1904652\" time=\"1554182696\" user_id=\"43981:

starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1904641\" time=\"1554181056\" user_id=\"14025:

MKS
I cook almost daily too.
Is your plastic bag of wet thrash filled or half filled? If little wet thrash, can consider using a small plastic bag

Star, I reuse the ntuc grocery plastic bags..if put the eg harder plastic cover for fruits then yeah the bag will be full..anyway if cannot slide in then I just throw those plastic cover separately. I think have to use at least one bag as if no plastic bag to contain those watery stuffs, the rubbish chute will be badly stained yeah..end up more roaches. yeah, I reuse those smaller bags that we used to buy apples/lemons as well.

I recycle all the plastic boxes etc, as well as cans, bottles, cardboard etc. So my daily trash is quite little. I recently bought some small plastic bags for those days when I don't have any small ones available.

[janet88]

starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1904663\" time=\"1554183429\" user_id=\"14025:

Zac Mum
Some said there may be pesticide on the skin and so I usually remove it.

I peel off apple, pear and also grape skin because of pesticide sprayed on the fruits.

[starlight1968sg]

For grapes, I hv to rub off the white powder and this is a chore.

[sharonkhoo]

Estéema\" post_id=\"1904619\" time=\"1554179895\" user_id=\"66413:

I got a white board with days/mth for DS. He will update daily & whenever there is any assignment so I’ve full view & award. I leave it to this young man to exercise his discipline & almost letting go (hopefully by next year). He’s on his own whilst DH & I outbof sight. Works well to give him more space to manage on his own. Then we’ll discuss the gaps when back.

For most kids, they should get the hang of it by sec school, or at least, parents should be able to gradually reduce the supervision. I just have 2 opposites. The older one is the one I am having to supervise fairly closely, but she is improving. The younger one has been pretty much handling things on her own since Pr school, although I keep a distant eye on things. Now she is halfway across the world, I really don't have any oversight. But we have confidence in her so we just leave her to it.

[MyPillow]

MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"1904621\" time=\"1554179978\" user_id=\"43981:

slmkhoo\" post_id=\"1904599\" time=\"1554177567\" user_id=\"28674:

Took the morning off to make sure my older daughter finished an essay. It's not due yet, but she has 4 pieces of written work to complete, 2 presentations and 2 quizzes in the next 2 weeks! She is really bad at planning and disciplining herself to get things done - a real procrastinator, and very indecisive. She didn't have classes till late morning, and I'm away for the rest of the week, so I decided we needed to make the most of this morning. It's part of her learning disability, but it's a real pain. I'll be heading to the office after lunch.

:hugs: somehow could feel some of the frustrations there..after gone through the 1st quarter of the year with dd. Now she will try to tell me what hw she has for the day..but still way exceed the timing given..she will then tell me what extra things she done..always knocking on the door asking her what she is doing I feel it gives her unnecessary stress too..dont want to stress her but seeing revision not moving, that is quite stressful to me.

slmkhoo, your dd has done very well given some of her shortcomings..I believe she is trying her best too..

slmkhoo, my ds also procrastinates ... he waits till last minute or once forgotten his work & squeeze all the work/assignment essay together n do at one go .. few times was until late night
i did wonder does he have learning needs , as in my opinion he is bad in time management - seem like he take it for granted that time is on his side, bad planning and not v self disciplined OR teens syndrome - he commented some of his classmates sleep late most time to rush work :roll: