What do you do when you always feel tired and have no energy? For us Chinese, we double boil some ginseng to drink. It really works. At least for me. Lately, I’ve been sleeping late and waking up lately. I explain my situation to my aunt and she reminded me [...]

Rice is our staple food. We eat rice very often even though is not everyday but at least 4-5 times a week. Sometime early this year, the rice prices went up and became almost twice as much. It was a sudden change and many restaurants bought many sacks to keep for stock.
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I paid a total of $4.50 for all the above grocery items. Hahaha … so cheap.  It was 7/23 and Albertsons was having a General Mills promotion where you buy 4 items, you get $6 off. Each of these items were already on sale for $2.50 each, and with the promotion, they were only [...]

Are you a mango lover? My hubby is. And when this box of Farmer Best 10 mangos (currently on sale – this week) only going for $2.99 at 99 Ranch Market, I couldn’t stop myself from buying a box. This product is from Mexico. I don’t know what type of mango, my MIL refers them [...]

Have you ever stress out for a presentation that you yearn to be successful? This is what usually happens to me. I am a real estate agent and I do a lot of presentations. And most of the time, the listing presentation is performed at the seller’s home. A new environment plus being in front [...]

These Scott Facial Tissue boxes are so cute. The pictures depict our local fruits including, durians, mangosteen, pineapple and banana. I am definitely going to take them back to LA. The pack comes in 4 boxes, each with 170 sheets. This pack has a free smaller box of facial tissue attached. [...]

Two weeks ago I saw a good deal at Slickdeals dot net for Slim Jim. My hubby’s favorite snack item is beef jerky. This is such a good deal that if you buy over $49 of the participating products from Amazon, you will get $25 off the total purchase, plus free shipping. I added enough [...]

I like to shop at Albertsons because it is nearby my home. They have very good sales too at times. Last week (sales ending 5/13) I bought some groceries from this store and save a bunch. My brother, my hubby and my son all loves Chips Ahoy minis. And I only buy the Nabisco Snak [...]

Last week, Albertsons was having sales on these No Preservatives Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine’s Frozen Meals. They were only $2 a box. Regular price on these are $4.59 each. It is more than half saving per box. I decided to get 4 boxes for ‘just-in-case’ lunch or dinner meal for us. [...]

There are two grocery stores within walking distance from my home.  I love to walk out to these places with my son in the morning.  Today is no different.  I checked the sales flyer and found a few items I wanted to get so we headed out to Food 4 Less at 11am. 
Here were the grocery items we bought today:

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Today we had Toddler’s class at Griffith Torrance Adult School. There is a park nearby and a Farmers Market every Tuesday and Saturday. We usually walk by the Farmers Market after the class before we head home for the day. Today, there was no different. We went to walk around the [...]

I love shopping at Trader Joe’s because I always see something new on the shelves that I would like to try them. This time is this Organic Mini Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers for only $2.19 a box of 9oz/225g. They are yummylicious. Once I start eating them, I can’t stop. My [...]

The day before my brother boarded the plane to LAX, my aunt (kammo) gave him a few boxes of the local delicacies to bring over to me. They are the Penang famous Him Heang local biscuits including the following:
Him Heang – Beh Teh Saw RM6.50 (8 pcs) (purple box)
Ingredients: Wheat molasses, sugar, flour, peanut oil, [...]

Our staple food – rice, price is going up.  Already went up about 50%.  My MIL told me when she bought a bag of 50 pounds rice it was around $22, a month back.  Used to be around $20.  And when I bought me 25 pounds Jasmine rice imported from Thailand a few months ago [...]

Ending today is the sale at Ralphs where you get 10 selected item for this offer, you will get $5 credit at check out. The best deal we found are these 4 FL OZ / 125ml Haagen Dazs ice cream for $1 each. We bought 15 of this ice cream with strawberry, coffee, dul [...]