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I think that this is my smallest iHerb haul yet! Haha. But there's quite a few interesting items I'd like to share about. 

Listed prices are in USD and subject to change.

The NOW FOODS Organic Popcorn Kernels ($3.92 per bag) are a re-buy; they've been wonderful and I eat a bowl (1/4 cup un-popped kernels) or more almost every day hehe. I really like the crunch, especially that of the half-popped kernels! I air-pop them on a pan, and it takes just about 5 minutes. It also makes my house smell wonderful! ^^ I got 3 bags of it and one more for my friend.

I've not tried the Alter Eco Dark Blackout Chocolate ($3.38), but once I do I'll post about it here.

This is the Solar Energy Gum ($13.76), Satellite Cinnamon flavour. I actually asked my mum whether I could buy gum from overseas online haha (since gum is banned in Singapore). I guess I treat this more as a supplement! It's fortified with B12, but I can't tell exactly how much from the confusing label and Nutritional Info Panel. Still I really like it because it definitely tastes much better than my current tutti-fruitti-tasting NOW brand B12 lozenges. It's a little spicy which is interesting, and though the reviews on iHerb say that the flavour lasts a long time, I'm ready to spit it out in about 1.5 hours.

Energy gum sounds so cool right?? The label says "...resulting in an exhilarating boost of energy". o_o I'm not sure if it's the placebo effect or the act of chewing that makes me more awake, but I think it kinda works. Like I was chewing gum at night a few days ago and then I saw a time-sale on a blogshop and then I felt really awake and like I really had to buy something. Which I did. And I rarely buy clothes online. Haha. Not a really good example though. XD

I've been wanting to try a Go Picnic Ready-to-eat-meal ($4.20) since I saw it on Instagram over a year ago! Back then iHerb didn't stock Go Picnic, but I'm glad to find it now. I saw that there were about 3 vegan ready-to-eat-meals (there are others but they're non-vegan). I wanted to get another flavour, but it was out of stock. :( Oh well, I'll get it next time! I've not tried this yet; I'll update about it here once I have.

There's quite a few mini-packs of things inside. Yay! How fun.

It's quite high in fat though. I'm planning to share this at a picnic or something hehe.

I got Helwa Organic Lemon Wafers ($2.23) for my dad! Wow I didn't think that I'd ever find wafers that are vegan, plus these are organic!!! They taste quite good too... but wafers are rarely my food of choice (they're so airy I can finish the whole packet with ease).

It's so junky but at least there's no dairy!

Does organic palm oil harm the rainforests though?

This article from One Green Planet looks useful. From what I understand, organic doesn't mean sustainable, and this doesn't have the Green Palm logo to certify that this company uses sustainable palm oil in it's products. :(

This is the back of the Veggie Wash ($3.87). Lol at the Common Sense Precautions. It's been great so far!! My fruits have never been so clean. I can't really tell with my veggies but I feel glad that I'm supposedly ingesting in less pesticides and chemicals. I used to use baking soda (which works great too) but this is much more convenient. :)

You can use my discount code MPF483 if it's your first time shopping at iHerb. It gets you $10 off an order over $40, or $5 off an order under $40. Thanks to those who use/have used it! ^^

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Sufood is a restaurant that serves Italian-inspired vegetarian cuisine. This is probably as close to vegan fine-dining as you can get in Singapore at the moment. Yay small-food-on-big-plates! 

I dined here with my parents. It was about a month ago.. so I might not be able to remember every taste :x 

It's located at Raffles City.

Hehe this colour-coordinated family so cute.

The interior is like a modern Asian style. Lotsa seating space!

There's one set meal and it seems really popular.

There are icons to indicate which dishes have egg, dairy, chili, onion and garlic. And the waiter that took our order was very clear about what was vegan and what wasn't. Great!

The SUFOOD Appetizer consists of Japanese Yuca root with blueberry sauce, oriental white water snowflake greens and savoury tomato jelly.

At the back you can see the vinegar. It was sweet and fruity!

The oriental white water snowflake greens (what are snowflake greens even?? Google gives me nothing) was like a tied-up bunch of green stems in sauce. Interesting.

Rosemary Breadsticks. There's a choice of blueberry/mustard dip, but only the blueberry one is vegan! Each person gets 2 sticks. The blueberry dip is like watery blueberry jam. The bread sticks were gooood. Maybe because I love bread.

Now for the salads. The Mushroom Salad looks much more like a stir-fry than a salad though haha. The mushrooms were well-cooked and it wasn't oily.

This is the Classic Garden Salad. There's a choice of sesame/Caesar dressing, but the latter has egg so we got the sesame one! The sesame sauce alone is so yummy - I dipped mopped it all up with my breadsticks! It's creamy and so fragrant, with the right amount of savouriness. Oh and the salad greens were fresh, with no wilt-y bits. ^^

The Summer Salad came on this huge and heavy plate lol. The veggies were fresh and both the sauces were good! The sauce in the shot glass is similar to the sesame sauce.. but different, according to mum.

All soups are vegan yay! The first one that arrived was this Pumpkin Soup. The plating is pretty, but I guess the taste wasn't wonderful enough for me to remember it.

Mushroom & Pea Pottage. It's great how they got this to be creamy without dairy! :) But out of our three soups, this was our least favourite.

This dull looking Root Soup was wonderfully good! There's burdock root, lotus root and cashews in it. Dad really liked it. I felt that it was really flavourful too - and it's not oily! ^^

Half of the mains are vegan. I chose the Wild Mushroom Charcoal Tagliatelle. The mushrooms (they're supposed to resemble... squid?) were chewy and the noodles were smooth. The portion size was quite generous (taking into account the other courses).

This Conchiglie Mushroom Bake is not vegan. Looks like it can easily be done with vegan cheese! My parents didn't finish it; it contained mock meat which mum didn't like.

The Baked Potato Al Funghi was also very mushroom-y. At the left are king oyster mushrooms with a blob of pumpkin puree in the middle.

Those three things at the back are: a cucumber pickle, mint leaf stuffed in a cherry tomato (omg so intricate) and a pickle of some fruit I can't identify.. pear?

At the right is this delicious mushroom-stuffed baked potato!! I should cook something like this!

Only one out of 4 of the desserts are vegan :( I liked the texture of this Osmanthus Flower Jelly, but jelly for dessert is just... ._. 

The desserts are served with the drinks. I got the Passionfruit Calamansi Tea, which was refreshing, though a little on the sweet side.

Mum got the Banana Cheesecake (not vegan) and Mint Herbal Tea.

Dad got the Vanilla Ice Cream with Hot Chocolate (not vegan) and Yuzu Chamomile Tea.

It's hard-shell chocolate.

I left the restaurant feeling like I ate a healthy meal! Which is rare. I really like that the food here is not greasy or oily, and the ingredients seem really fresh! What I don't like is the lack of vegan dessert choices though. (And the fact that there's no natural lighting for photos haha.) I'd recommend Sufood (especially if you like mushrooms, since almost every dish has it lol), but I don't see myself going back often since I've already tried almost everything vegan. Though if they come up with new vegan desserts I'll be really eager to dine there!

SUFOOD Singapore
Raffles City
252 North Bridge Road #02-19
Singapore 179103
Phone: 6333 5338
Opening Hours:
Lunch: 11.30am - 4.30pm (last order 3.30pm)
Dinner: 5.30pm - 10pm (last order 9pm)

I had perfectly ripe avocados and I couldn't decide what to do with them.

Then I went for a jog and ideas came flowing!

This is a Calamansi Lime Freezer Pie, made with a chewy pecan-date base, a smooth mousse-like avocado-lime filling and rich hard-shell chocolate on top. ^^ This is a blend-layer-freeze kinda recipe, with only 5 ingredients, excluding the topping. It can be made raw too, if the nuts you use in the crust are raw. It's kinda similar to my Raw Lime Pie I made a year ago.

Calamansi lime juice is really delicious to add to so many foods! Here I'm using 7 limes and 2 avocados for the filling.

The base is made purely of pecans and medjool dates. I wanted to use cashews but I'd run out. Luckily, pecans turned out very well for this! Sweet and fragrant ^^

The consistency of the base is kinda like that of a Larabar! Yum yum. I didn't use the whole tray of space so that I'll be able to have a thicker base! :)

The colour of the filling is so lovely! 

Avocado + lime juice + psyllium husk + stevia.

I decided to use stevia for this so that it won't change the colour of the filling! The psyllium husk is added to ensure that it thickens up; I only used 1 tsp here but you can use 2-3 tsp for a firmer filling.

Just spread the filling onto the base, add toppings and place in the freezer. 

I left it in for 2 hours because I couldn't wait, but I think it can do with more heh. Though I think my freezer is weak/overcrowded (from all the bananas and dates and vegan puff pastry lol) so it's not really cold; 2 hours may work for you. Also, you can freeze it overnight and leave to defrost for about half an hour. 

And it's done!

I tried to do a nice pattern with the chocolate but I failed haha. It's the same Super Simple Dark Chocolate as the one I used in my Pumpkin Pecan Chocolate Cups!

The base is sweet and chewy, the filling is tart and melty, and the chocolate is bitter and rich. So yummy!! 

You can choose not to add stevia or other sweeteners to the filling too, since the base is sweet already!

Try to resist eating them all at one go. Try. ;)

Calamansi Lime Pie
Fills a 15cm x 15cm tray

Ingredients

Base: 

• 120g pitted dates (about 10 medium medjool dates)
• 50g pecan nuts (other nuts are fine too)

Filling:

• 2 ripe avocados
• Juice of 6-8 calamansi limes
• 1 tsp psyllium husk (or use more for a firmer filling)
• 14 drops NuNaturals liquid stevia (optional)

Topping (anything you want, but I went with): 

• Hardshell chocolate (Super Simple Dark Chocolate recipe here)
• Strawberries
• Hemp seeds

Method

1. In a food processor, pulse nuts until finely chopped and add in the pitted dates. Continue processing until the mix is uniform and can easily form a ball.
2. Flatten the 'dough' onto a tray lined with aluminum foil/baking paper (for easier removal).
3. Blend the ingredients for the filling until it becomes completely smooth. 
4. Spread onto the base. Drizzle on the chocolate and add the strawberries.
5. Place in the freezer for at least 2 hours.
6. Remove from freezer and cut into pieces. Sprinkle with hemp seeds before serving.

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I managed to wake up every morning at 6.15am the last two weeks to cook lunch to pack to work. It wasn't as tiring as I thought actually! Putting more effort to make my lunch taste good and look colourful makes cooking in the morning fun! And I really do look forward to eating lunch. :) 

The difference in the lunches here and in Part 1 is that these have more variety and are more filling too. There's 3 compartments of food, and I have a different main (pasta, sweet potato, wrap, rice etc.) every day. It's more satiating because there's more carbs (yay carbs!) and protein, but I try to keep the fat low. I've not put so much effort in lunchboxes since like Year 1 of poly I think, but this way, lunch is so much more interesting!

This is wholewheat pasta spirals with carrot, sweet peas and baby corn, cooked with 1 tbsp Annie's Organic ketchup, 2 tsp of my grandma's homemade ginger chili, nutritional yeast and a mix of spices. Topped with raisins for more sweetness.

On the side I have butterhead lettuce, cherry tomatoes and a tofu scramble. I've not made a tofu scramble in a long time and this was really good! I hand-crushed some firm tofu and pan-fried it with button mushrooms in a pan coated with oil-spray. Then I added turmeric, curry powder, nutritional yeast and pepper. I had it with a bit more ketchup too - ketchup makes almost everything taste good! Haha.

I always bring snacks along, for the mid-afternoon (and sometimes for mid-morning too). This was a short day, so I didn't bring much.

These are some buys from Marketplace because dad had vouchers! I LOVE Puffins! Low in sugar, high in fibre, low in fat, low in sodium, non-gmo... but still tasting great. The crunch is so satisfying!

Wasa Fibre crispbread taste wonderful too! I would describe it as delicious cardboard (maybe that's not an oxymoron after all). Emphasis on the delicious. ^^

I've tried this brand of spelt flour before and it's good. Not that my tastebuds can discern one brand from another.

• Millet with chopped apples, shreds of carrot and raisins.
• Lightly steamed broccoli and raw cherry tomatoes.
• Za'atar spiced tofu and button mushrooms, pan-fried in oil spray.

The millet, za'atar spice and Charlie's smoothie were from Mustafa! See here for a haul post.

• Too-lazy-to-cook messy wraps made with tomato & herb Mountain Bread, zucchini, carrot, avocado, red bean, nutritional yeast and a squeeze of lime.
• Leftovers of the pasta salad.
• Berries.

The Mountain Bread's from Mustafa too. It's like regular Mountain Bread, I can hardly taste the tomato or the herb. :(

I find Charlie's smoothies too sweet, so I usually dilute it - 2/3 smoothie & 1/3 water. This is the spirulina smoothie by the way. I didn't find the spirulina taste to be strong enough but my friend thought that it was quite prominent. 

I boiled a batch of red beans over the weekend so I had enough to add to my meals the whole week.

• Sweet potatoes and red beans.
• Asparagus and oyster mushrooms cooked in grandma's ginger chili, topped with chives and a squeeze of lime juice.
• Japanese cucumber and cherry tomatoes.

The juice of tiny kaffir calamansi limes magically makes food taste great! [Edit: wow I didn't know that those are calamansis! The package just says 'small lime' -_- Took me lots more Googling to find out]

The Indian-dessert-looking things (according to mum) are Tomato Pumpkin Oat Bran Bars! I'll probably do a post for that soon.

I always bring infused water to work, because I don't really like plain water. :x Like with infused water I can drink a few litres of water but with plain water... less than a cup the whole day. So I usually add lemon, dried hawthorn slices, dried goji berries, or chia/basil seeds if I want to chew stuff.

I was packing my cupboards and found that I didn't use Orgran's Rice & Corn Pasta Penne that I bought from iHerb ages ago.

So I made a kinda veggie stew as the sauce for the pasta... perhaps blending it a little would've made it more appropriate as the sauce. It contained tomatoes, eggplant, carrots, celery, beetroot, Annie's ketchup, nutritional yeast and more (I can't remember heh). The pasta was a bit weird. Like powdery. Because it's gluten-free? Or maybe because it was undercooked. I have close to zero pasta-cooking experience lol. I shall cook it better and make a nicer sauce next time!

I was packing light that day, so I brought a wrap! It's a tomato & herb Mountain Bread stuffed with butterhead lettuce, millet, yellow bell pepper, tofu, avocado, strawberries, beetroot, carrot, red onions and ketchup.

It's quite a small wrap (one Mountain bread can't fit much without tearing) so I bought something else at the hawker centre:

It's a kueh called pulut inti. It's glutinous rice topped with grated coconut candied with palm sugar. I had no idea until I wiki-ed hehe. It was my first time having it I think. Didn't have an interest in kuehs when I was younger. Except maybe for kueh bahulu (tiny crusty sponge cakes). It was $0.70 and it was fragrant and yummy, albeit kinda oily.

• Red bean sweet potato rice.
• Brown button mushrooms, sweet peas and celery, 'stir-fried' in water with grandma's chili.
• Raw carrot & bell pepper sticks and cherry tomatoes.

The rice was SO GOOD omg! I used leftover white+brown rice that I froze, and cooked it with Japanese sweet potato chunks and the red beans. I made the rice become more porridge-y and moist. I LOVE porridge-y rice. Mum tried some rice and beans and she thought that it tasted like png kueh (a pink waterdrop-ish shaped kueh filled with glutinous rice) filling, but less salty. Lol! It was also very satiating. :)

At the top left you can see the delicious cardboard.

I added strawberries and lemon to my water, and it tasted wonderful! All the pink-ness goes into the water...

And at the end of the day you get white strawberries! Cool. And I find that my water tastes good the entire day. :)

Lols my food looks so similarly colourful every day that I almost forgot to add this in.

• Pumpkin & french bean porridge-y rice.
• Baked eggplant strips (in a little oil spray). My friend said that it tasted like mushrooms lol!
• Baked mushrooms, raw cherry tomatoes and butterhead lettuce.

Sometimes I bring veggie sticks too! I like carrot and celery the most because they're so crunchy.

So... packing lunch to work is really not that difficult at all! You can bring leftovers from dinner the day before, or meal prep in advance. Saves money and it's probably much better for your health too! And you can be 110% sure that it's completely vegan. ^^