Considering I eat six smaller meals a day and the fact that everyone seems to be asking for different things at meal time, it’s been rather stressful for me. When I’m not at the hospital I’m at home cooking up a storm in the kitchen or grocery shopping for food to cook.
I should mention here that I'm the queen of raw eating and simple eating cause I hate cooking but with all these hungry mouths to feed I've had no choice but to test out my cooking skills. Little do they know, they're now my guinea pigs at meal times... hahaha.
I know, I know, I could just say a big flat out "NO" but not saying it saves me a lot of hassel in the long run. I hate cooking but it's far better trying to run a boot camp on manners and depending on undependables here.
My father really needs a lot of family time right now and that's exactly what Snickers and I are trying to feed him everyday. I go running while he's sleeping, start cooking when I hear him getting up from bed, spend the afternoons and early evenings with him at my mother's hospital bed side, and then we spend our late evenings sitting out on the porch talking.
It's all about my father and mother.
Moreover he really needs family time, not only because of the current situation but because we don't know when the next time we'll all be in the same country. There's only three of us kids but we live in three different countries. My father really wants us all to eat together but he doesn't know how to cook so he's been eating the hospital food my mom isn't eating. Daily he brings home her hospital food plates and sandwiches so that he can re-zap them in the microwave and eat them. My one brother who is staying here with his wife are all about eating out and eating bad, and depending on them to help with the cooking would mean waiting till the early afternoon for any sign of breakfast. So that leaves the cooking to me and Snickers but because they don't like spicy food it really narrows the responsibility down to just me.
I'm trying to keep my cool and resort to making sarcastic comments about the stress of the whole situation I'm in but I noticed that I've been incorporating "kick in the head" in my conversations a lot lately... hahaha. "Eat it or I'll kick you in the head" I said when they questioned my curry. "I'll kick you in the head if you do that again"... oh gosh... hahaha.
TODAY’S MAIN SIT-DOWN MEALS:
BREAKFAST
DAD – Whole wheat oatmeal
BRO AND BRO’s WIFE – Protein packed banana pancake with crushed strawberries on top
SNICKERS – Banana, fried eggs and toast
ME – Protein-packed apple cinnamon pancake
LUNCH
DAD -- Pasta with spinach and tomato sauce
ME – Whole wheat chicken wrap with spinach
SNICKERS – Three-cheese pizza with mushrooms, bacon and yellow peppers
DINNER
DAD/BRO/BRO’S WIFE/ME – Tuna curry with cucumbers, white Korean rice on the side
SNICKERS – Spicy chicken curry with white Korean rice on the side
Raspberry pie with cool whip for everyone
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's for dinner?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Kick in the head.
-- me
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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