Due to the invasion of rats in my house, I have been cleaning out my cupboards in the kitchen and the dining room and found a couple of suspicious dairy products that may be laced with the dangerous melamine. Just read from CNN that Lipton Milk Tea was found to be laced with melamine also. Here is a partial list of products currently being tested by BFAD.  I am shocked to see,  Anchor Products and several Nestle products included in the...

I had the opportunity to watch a friend operate her rice business. She owns  hectares of land grown with rice and she co-owns a couple of hectares with other farmers as well. I watched her bargain with a farmer about buying their unmilled rice and drying and milling the rice herself and selling it through her thriving store here in rural Misamis Oriental. It is really amazing watching her actively bargaining the purchase from P11/kg to P10/kgs...

When I woke up and went out of our bedroom to prepare our breakfast, what was infront of me totally ruined my day. S h i t ! ! I shrieked and woke up the children. The house rats rummaged and totally ruined the place where I keep some dry goods.  Totally reminded me of an entry by Delish… Instead of cooking breakfast, I ended up cleaning up the mess. The inventory? The rats gnaw open 4 containers of Nestle Cream (mental note: buy them in...

I have a pending claims dispute with my local bank, Banco de Oro.  It all started when the cashier at Makro swiped my debit card THRICE after their POS machine said “comm error” on its teeny screen.  I got tired of the “error messages” so I told the cashier to cancel the debit card payment and I decided to withdraw some cash using the same card at the ATM located in the store.  After withdrawing and looking at the...

I just read from my FDA feed that there is a recall for White Rabbit Candies in the United States due to possible contamination of melamine. Not only that, Cadbury is also recalling 11 types of chocolate products found to be laced in melamine.  Remember, all of this started when the infant milk in China was found positive with melamine. What is melamine and why should we be concerned about it when I have read in an article that “melamine...