Most people I know “promised” to eat healthier food and live a healthier lifestyle for 2009. I know, that includes me.

I personally made good on my promise to myself that I will try to have a mini-vegetable garden in my backyard. Well, I did and I am ready to say that I do not have a black thumb after all.

Why, see the baby okra in the photo below from the baby okra plants a two months ago.

Of course, I know the yield would not be enough if we were to have these on the dining table, along with fruits that we love to munch on and other vegetable dishes that the children can have without asking them to swallow. I still have to plant more I guess, develop a pattern to schedule the “harvest” (as if, hahaha!).

I plan to serve more juice drinks but not the powdered ones because my son refuses to drink these because it has aspartame

In my list of things to be had is a juicer, one that would extract juices from fruits and vegetables for our consumption. This would definitely give us more energy and nutrients than other artificially flavored food.

The lemongrass plant where we get leaves for our lemongrass tea is dying a slow death, I don’t know why so I really have to get a new plant to replace that. My eldest daughter was asking to drink the tea yesterday because she has slight fever.

I also plan to lose weight by drinking more yellow tea at night (and eating less too).

Leptovox? Maybe.

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