Sink Drainer

When I was small, I use to clearing the sink drainer while doing the dishes. I wonder why the sink was designed in such a way that the drainer is only 1cm depth and with a small diameter of around 5cm.

Nowadays, my sink drainer is bigger but often with too-wide holes to hold tiny particles of food, the end, most of the food slides down the sink, often led to blockage. 

Later, I Found this sink drainer which has the same diameter as the existing sink drainer, but with a sieve-like surface to hold tiny particles. Now I do not have to worry about blockage :)

Existing sink drainer that comes with the sink

However, I do retain this as this can be push downward to hold water in the sink when I need to soak food. You can even choose to have different drainer each side of the sink. It depends on your usage.

New sink drainer

Heinz Apple Biscotti

I am constantly looking at different varities of on-the-go snacks for my little one, of course within my personal definition of "healthy" snacks. 

No doubt, on the shelf snacks could not beat homemade snacks and with a lot of negative news on the daily food we consume, we as moms who wants to give the best to our child are facing great challenge to choose what are the foods to offer.

As a mom, I could not always find time for homemade food, not to mention the food is rejected when served after hours of hardwork. 

Back to the topic, I found this when I was looking foe toothbrush in a baby shop. Checked on label, it does contains apple puree, not permitted flavouring. Gave a try and my gal took it without much complain.

This is a good on-the-go snacka due to its small packaging. I will put 2-3 sticks into a small Tupperware container and bring it whenever we have outings.

Sunmaid Raisins

The only single ingredients in Sunmaid raisins is California seedless raisins. No preservatives, artificial flavoring or colouring or sugar.

This makes a healthy snacks compared to the previous normal raisins my mom bought from the wet market which I think they at least contains sugar as those tastes obviously sweeter than Sunmaid raisins.

I have given the wet market raisins to my girl as snacks for quite sometimes so today, the first time she tasted Sunmaid raisins, she does not seemed to enjoy eating as much as the wet market raisins. She does not like the little sourish taste of it like me. I do hope she will accept this later. 

Update @ 08/11/2014

Sunmaid raisin is fully accepted since 2 weeks ago. She knows when I say raisins, she will says "Oi" in Cantonese which means "want". I am a happy mom!