Orange Banana Smoothies

According to Wikipedia, smoothies is a blended, chilled, sometimes sweetened beverage made from fresh fruit or vegetables. In addition to fruit, many smoothies include crushed ice, frozen fruit, honey or yogurt, although some smoothies are 100% fruit. Fruit smoothies is easy to make, all you need to do was to cut the fruits into small pieces, combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend it for a minute or two till all ingredients are well mixed. You can even put milk, soy milk or yogurt to get the milkshake like consistency. It's so simple and yet very healthy and not to mentioned they can be pretty fullfilling too. Good to have as breakfast or even treat it like 'snacks' when we were hungry. (very healthy and yet lesser calories, way better than munching into chips) :)

For this smoothies, I had used 3 bananas, 1 orange, 1 carrot, 2 sticks of celery, 1 plain yogurt and few cubes of ice. A nice drinks to have while enjoying a book or movie in the comfort of our own home.

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Herbal Tea

During unpredictable weather like what we are facing in Malaysia, it's best to take herbal tea in order to reduce the 'heatiness' in our body. We can either order this 'leong sui/leong char' in the Chinese restaurant or we can even boil it in our home. The pre-pack herbal tea is widely sold in all the Chinese medicinal hall. A packet of the herbal tea ingredients cost around RM4-8 (depends on the ingredients inside). The process of boiling the drink is very simple.

First, we need to rinse the herbs. Put the herbs into a pot and add enough water. Bring it to boil for 1-2hours. Add in rock sugar to taste.

Filter out the herbs.

A glass of herbal tea for you to enjoy. For those who prefer to take their drinks cold, you can actually put the herbal tea in the fridge.

With such a simple steps, it's definitely not an excuse for us to prepare a refreshing and healthy herbal tea drink at the comfort of our own home.

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