I’ve been toying around with recipes and weekly meal prep for some time. I first started about 3 months back to prep for 2 pax (me and another girlfriend) and it went on to become 5 pax and subsequently a business.
The thing about any business is; there’s bound to be competitors.
I have known of a few that provide lunch boxes delivery; but in the recent months, the number has TRIPLED.
I have never heard of the Laureus til a good friend John (who’s an absolutely sports fiend) told me about it.
Even then I wasn’t particularly interested though I’m quite a sports person myself. The Laureus was more like an event, not so much about playing a sport and my interest in sports has always been about participant and doing; not so much as a spectator.
But I mentioned about it to my editor, and she got excited for a lifestyle angle to the story (since the Malay Mail sports desk is already sending a rep) and asked if I could secure a pass for myself.
Leveraging on the vast pool of contacts I’ve got, I said I’ll try and I did.
To cut a long story short, I got media passes for myself and Joanna; a skilled photographer for the job. Joanna fancies Benedict Cumberbatch very much, which so explains the amount of photographs of Cumberbatch from the event. LOL!
This Luna Bar is one of the tastiest snack bar I’ve had. Well, anything at this point would taste better than a Quest Bar.
I’m not saying I don’t like Quest Bars, but Quest Bars are SO SERIOUS..so nutritionally dense and so … CHEWY.
But the Luna Bar isn’t a bar I would call ‘healthy’ no matter what they claim. It even said “whole nutrition bar for women” and while I concurred on how tasty it is and that a vast majority of women would love it since it’s all fruity, sweet and coated with yogurt, I’m not that forgiving of the sweetness level.
After the Boundless Nutrition Perfect Cookie (Chocolate Chip) and the Quest Bar (Apple Pie flavour), I moved on to the Banana Nut Muffin Quest Bar.
One of the reasons why I chose the Banana Nut one out from my loot of a dozen bars is because I love bananas and I had hope that this will change my mind about Quest Bars since the Apple Pie one wasn’t really to my liking.
After the Boundless Nutrition Perfect Cookie (Chocolate Chip) I started on my 12 bars of Quest Bar.
I’m not sure why, but I decided to pick the Apple Pie as my flavour of the day. Maybe it was because I’m craving for an actual Apple Pie.
Just last weekend I was in SG and I took the opportunity to order some protein bars from someone I know in Singapore.
As you may know, Malaysia is terrible for such imported products. We lack the market (or do we?) and we don’t have the companies or individuals that stocks these items in any of the shops.
My favourite gym/club added another 2 new workout routines with the introduction of the Zumba Step and Zumba Sentao last week.
Lately I’ve been taking the chill pill.
I focused instead on health and took some time off for rest and relaxation after the recent bouts of back-to-back travels.
In December I had long days of shoot with Nokia for The Influencer, a youtube reality series which threw us grueling challenges (watch the video –> HERE) which pushed our physical and mental limits.
I accepted less food reviews and events invites, deciding to take it slow since I had no time to update my blog.
However, if there’s anything that I didn’t reduce, it was my workouts. I continued the intensity of my sessions; (3-4 times a week at the gym/runs) and recently Celebrity Fitness added 24 sessions of Personal Training for me.
