Dietary supplements
Do you take supplements? If you do, what do you take?
I used to take, like a year ago but for some reasons I stopped. I’m starting to take these multi-vitamins (left), minerals (center) and plant concentrates – asparagus, cranberry juice, kale, rosemary extract etc. (right) again. Whether I’m getting enough nutrients from my current diet or not, I still prefer to take supplements. It’s a personal choice I think. I just take half of the recommended dosage. Too much is also not good.
Tonight, dinner was supposed to be my regular lasagna-style eggplant with prawns. Well, the sliced eggplants shrank so much after baking them just a little, that they were too small to be used as layers. Instead I added them directly to the prawn tomato sauce and they tasted the same (minus the breadcrumbs + cheese) as the lasagna-style eggplant. The other mushroom dish was similar to yesterday’s one i.e stir-fry mushrooms with some soy sauce and beansprouts. I love this combination. You can also use Terriyaki sauce instead of soy sauce.
Now, on a completely different note … The carpet arrived during the weekend.
I’m still deciding whether to place it underneath our coffee table in the living room or somewhere else, maybe in the bedroom. I like the whole house to be carpeted. Unfortunately with the Singapore weather, it’s impossible.
Tags: dinner, Health, Home, supplements
May 26th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
what’s concentrates for?
oh btw, i made myself a sandwich today :) supposed to be my lunch BUT I LEFT HOUSE W/O THE SANDWICH!!!!!!!!!
:(
in the end, i had laksa for lunch and the home alone sandwich for dinner.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
I only take Centrum’s “A to Zinc” pills everyday. It’s 1 per day. I initially started taking it in my adolescent years cause it contained a great deal of Vitamin A which helped fight against acne and now I take it out of habit. :D
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May 27th, 2009 at 9:56 am
@ Agnes
Those concentrates contain asparagus, cranberry juice, kale, rosemary extract etc. etc. It’s like getting your dosage in just a pill if you are missing out on those stuffs …
It has become my habit to have a homemade sandwich for lunch :) I don’t like laksa but the Katong laksa as well as the penang laksa aren’t too bad because I can eat them :P
May 27th, 2009 at 9:58 am
@ Morinn
Were you having acne problems last time? Yeah sometimes taking supplements become a habit.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Yup that was the last time I had acne, the centrum pills really cleared my skin, that was about 3 years ago. I was using a cream called Keracnyl before that and it was effective but only as long as I used it and I found taking a pill more convenient than applying a cream.
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May 28th, 2009 at 12:06 am
I used to take calcium supplements but I’ve stopped for a while.
The multi-vitamins look like the corn in your dinner plate :P
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May 28th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
I take 3 types of pills. One for my hair, one for my skin and one multi-vitamins. The multi-vitamins are huge. :( :( argh.
Do you keep your pills in the fridge? I just noticed that it is written ‘store below 28 degrees once opened’ on my box of multi-vitamins. In Singapore it is often above 28 degrees right? I should have kept the pills in the fridge. :(
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May 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
@ Aline
Are your multi-vitamins bigger than mine on the picture?
Those pills on the pic are stored in the fridge. I have some others that I store at room temperature … Maybe I should keep them in the fridge! Do you still have many left for your multi-vitamins?
May 28th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
@ Angele
Speaking of Calcium, do you know that if your body doesn’t get enough Vitamin D (free source of Vitamin D is from the sun hehe), all the calcium that you ingest wouldn’t get absorbed …
May 28th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I can’t tell from your photo. I measured mine. They are 2.2 cms long. :(
I have about 50 pills left.
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June 8th, 2009 at 9:22 am
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