Thursday is usually our most packed day and definitely rush from morning till evening. As usual, I finish housechores in the morning followed by homeschooling my youngest son. Why Thursday is more packed? It was because the eldest son finishes school at 1:30pm, followed by tuition at 2:30-4:30pm and then coding class at 6pm till 7pm. Therefore, for Thursday, I would choose to pack food for lunch and cooked for dinner. The eldest son would eat his lunch in the car then we moved on to tuition.

What I packed today?

I love economy mixed rice whereby there are arrays of vegetables and meat for you to choose from at an affordable price. Although the price increases alot these days due to inflation but the food sellers need to do that or else they will be doing a loss business. I did not mind to support them this way.

What I did to save a bit of money was I would pack three packs for the four of us. One packed fully loaded would be for my husband, I thought he should eat more than enough to have the energy to work whole day. The other two packs would be shared between me, my eldest son and my youngest son. I choose to pack from the cheapest one in town I could find.

Pack #1: For husband

I took for him a chicken thigh rendang, a green vegetables and a braised tofu. This amount to RM9. Super cheap and economical.

Pack #2

This one had fried fish fillet and green vegetables. My eldest son loves fried fish fillet so I would share this with him but I just took few pieces of fish. Mother's love, we would always let the children eat more. RM6 for this. So cheap. Basically this pack for my eldest son.

Pack #3

This one has braised beancurd skins, pumpkin and steamed fish. I shared this with my youngest son. RM9

Total paid was RM25, which I thought it was super worth considering I didn't need to rush at kitchen doing cleaning, preparing, cooking and then cleaning. Save time, effort and energy. And I could cook my soup at 12pm (for dinner) after my teaching session with the youngest son.

What I cooked today?

Super packed day and rush hour called for one-pot dish. I cooked ABC soup. I think I cook ABC soup once a month because this is the soup full packed of nutrients and loved by the boys. We have carbs, protein and vegetables in there. Settled just in a pot. ***Super simple to cook too, I am sure y'all agree with me.

Ingredients needed:

• pork bones and pork neck (I added some fat part too)
• 2 carrots
• 2 potatoes
• 5 tomatoes
• 1 big onions
• 1 to 2 cloves of garlic

Steps:

Cut all the vegetables into smaller sizes. Super love the colors here, I personally think ABC means easy soup and also nutrients-densed soup.

Set aside while preparing the pot of water as well as cleaning the meat. I usually preboiled the pork to remove scum first.

Then, the meat would look real clean and neat to ensure a clean pot of soup.

Added in all the vegetables into the pot.

Followed by adding meat. I used electric smart pot so it was easier, just chose the setting to soup and chose 2 hours.

After 2 hours, I seasoned with some salt and pepper. The result would be a sweet flavourful soup with all the yummy goodness. We loved to eat this just with rice, drizzled some soy sauce on the meat, super duper delicious dinner.

Bon Appetite!

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