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Carmina's quest for the perfect display for her treasured mementos led her to an extraordinary find

Carmina was looking for the best way to hang treasured pictures and mementos from a keepsake. I felt it was time to bring them out and display them on my wall. I saw many options, from cork boards to felt boards , but I didn’t want an ordinary board hanging there. I wanted it to be part of my wall décor, placed above my desk where I sit daily—something I could look up at and be reminded of past travels and accomplishments. Some people keep them in photo albums or store them digitally, but I wanted mine on display. What caught my eye from an ordinary felt board something had a roof which remind me a house. The best part it is light weight and it has a mount tape in the back attached to the felt board included was thumb tacks and something else where can decorate. Carmina had purchased the three dimensions roof felt board wall self-adhesive retro premium wall decoration message measurement of 60x80 cm in color camel for 875.00 pesos ($14.34) not including shipping and handling. The st...

Goodbye 2020 and Hello 2021

  Everyone realize what 2020 has done to them after they have experience a brutal experience that has happen in their life. I’ve always say treasure the people surrounded around you a circle of a family that doesn’t have to be blood related. Life has an impact of what all of us has experience during our covid-19 the life changes that make us realize what we have and what others have experience if all this didn’t happen to us. Year 2021 we have hoped to make new changes of what you’re able to take the time to realize what you want to do in your life with no more regrets. We had a lot of time to think during our pandemic months. It is time to stop procrastinate and move on to what you’ve always wanted to do with your life. I’ve always been spending time with my mom even before all this happen. I am the only daughter she has to rely upon due to my other sister living in California. Even though we are a part my sister and her family would always make time to call her virtua...

Selecta Limited Edition Summer Collection Coco Mango Mochi Ice-Cream

After leaving my mom's home and doing our regular routine when we arrive in our own home I wanted to eat something sweet to have a sugar rush. Manang V and I had some Selecta Limited Edition Summer Collection Coco Mango Mochi Ice-Cream to give ourselves a sugar rush from a busy day we had this was my treat to her being overwhelmed from preparing before year 2020 would end. You can taste the mango, coconut and chewy mochi balls it is sweet for someone who is looking for a sugar rush to wake us up. Selecta Limited Edition Summer Collection Coco Mango Mochi Ice-Cream come in size 1.3L PHP 305.00 ($6.10) not including service change and tip to the rider. Can be purchase from Selecta and be delivered to your home from Grab Food and Food Panda. Note: I am not selling or advertising for Selecta Limited Edition Summer Collection Coco Mango Mochi Ice-Cream. If you have a Facebook click subscribe Carmina Lifestyle - Home | Facebook a place to look, discover and share.

Seafood and Ribs Warehouse Restaurant

Before the year 2020 ends I went to visit my mom and brought her food over this time she was craving for sweet and sour Lapu-lapu. I wanted to eat an American meal the best part I was able to order it in one place. I had tried a new place I have never order from the name is Seafood and Ribs Warehouse Restaurant located at SM North Edsa. You should know me by now I order my food online due our pandemic months from Grab Food. The Ribs comes with mashed potato and mixed vegetables there is no gravy included although the taste is still good. The ribs are very soft and tender I can recommend you trying it for yourself. My mom was happy with her sweet and sour Lapu-lapu no complains with her and of course she took a portion of my ribs. The cost for the ribs is PHP 295.00 ($5.90) The cost for the sweet and sour Lapu-lapu is PHP 585.00 ($11.17) Not including delivery charge and tip to the rider. For your reference you may check their Facebook Page  Seafood and Ribs Warehouse Restaurant ...

Potato Chips Mesquite BBQ from the USA

The best part I don't need to travel to the United States to buy a bag of chips. I can just purchase it online in the Philippines. My friends tell me I didn't know the Philippines carry chips imported to us this is the best way to just shop away and have it delivered to our home. I've always been a fan of barbecue flavored chips and finding this in Herr's Potato Chips Mesquite BBQ is something I can look forward too. Right now I feel like making a sandwich to eat with my chips this way my leftover ham doesn't go to waste during the Christmas holiday. We can never get tired of eating a sandwich and the way I grew up is not always eating rice. People think if you live in the Philippines we only eat rice not really true there are people like me who grew up can cope eating food what the American do. It is just how we all grew up and what our parents feed us since I grew up in the United States. I tend to look for food coming back during the time I grew up. Chips was alw...

Jalapeno Poppers Flavored Cheese Curls and Buffalo Blue Cheese Flavored Cheese Curls

The best part eating snacks is that I only eat a portion of it and don't gain much weight. I have known other people who eat chips every day and the form of their health they end up gaining more pounds going to their stomach. Everyone's body and how much you consume on your food is all based on you how well you can control how much you can consume your food. I have a lot of people who always question me for all the food ventures I have been doing why is that I haven't gain so much weight. To their question is that I control how much I eat and only eat it by portion. I taught myself from my mind the way I think I can control myself. Anyone can do it too it is how motivated you put yourself into it. The taste is great not spicy there is a cheese flavor balance out from eating the curls. I have a friend who says the food is calling them. It is funny food cannot really talk it is just your brain playing tricks on you or an excuse just for you to eat the food that is in front of...

Nama Chocolates Cacao Lab

For the chocolate lovers this place is for you to make your own chocolate at Nama Chocolate Cacao Lab a place my family members made and gave away for their Christmas gifts. To learn about  https://www.cacaolaboratory.com/  click their link or contact located in the picture given to experience something new in your life. The chocolate are not too sweet for those who would like to know what it taste. Note: I am not selling or advertising for Nama Chocolate Cacao Lab.

Prima Laksa and Chili Crab both from La Mian Premium Instant Noodles

  To have the taste from Singapore my favorite is laksa and chili crab noodles either way you get to eat something at home only cooked the instant way. There are other ways to make your instant noodles not taste fully coming from the package you can add other ingredients for example I would add fresh shrimp in my laksa soup. In your kitchen you can make an ordinary meal out of products you have purchase online to taste differently in what you're craving. Don't expect the prices to be inexpensive per piece range from PHP 178.00 ($3.56) to compare traveling there would be costly when you think about it. Some other sellers sell it for PHP 200.00 ($4.00) per piece. All I can say when you see it available grab it or else you will regret it later soon it will be out of stock. What is the taste of the Prima Laksa La Miam Premium Instant Noodles? You can taste the coconut in the soup and being spicy from the chili sauce some people find it too rich for me it is just right. What is the ...

Mango Lolipop

Lollipop is not just for kids now you can get something really spicy with a sweet taste of mango from a place from Mexico. Do you remember the Mangonada Beny Que Mango X-Treme Lolipop taste exactly like it just on the spicy side? I was able to get this free from the seller mac1423 in Shopee when I had purchase Takis Chips. They sell the Beny Que Mango X-Treme Lolipop for one piece PHP 20.00 ($0.40), three pieces PHP 50.00 ($1.00) or one bag with ten pieces PHP 200.00 ($4.00) not including shipping and handling. Beny Que Mango X-Treme Lolipop are sold in Amazon or  My Mexican Candy . Note: I am not selling or advertising Beny Que Mango X-Treme Lolipop. If you have a Facebook click subscribe Carmina Lifestyle - Home | Facebook a place to look, discover and share.

Del Monte Hot & Spicy Ketchup in the Philippines

Putting life into your homemade breakfast burrito when you don't have salsa or hot sauce in your food pantry I used a new product from Del Monte Hot & Spicy Ketchup that comes in a pouch with a knob on the side to close and open when in use. The price of the Del Monte Hot & Spicy Ketchup is PHP 29.00 ($0.58) for 320g. not including shipping and handling. For your reference you may refer to their website:  Del Monte Philippines Note: I am not selling or advertising Del Monte Hot & Spicy Ketchup just something I wanted to try. To get the recipe how to make your own breakfast burrito is by clicking this link: Homemade Breakfast Burrito Recipe If you have a Facebook click subscribe Carmina Lifestyle - Home | Facebook a place to look, discover and share.  

Jalapeno & Cheese Inferno

  Although I cannot travel to Germany right now I can still grab a snack from their area via express from online delivery. I have discovered  Lorenz Crunchips Wow Jalapeno & Cheese Inferno  it is one of my favorite chip not too spicy the cheese overlap the flavor and can be addicting. The price is reasonable was able to purchase online through Shopee from seller  Goodmartph  for PHP 100.00 ($2.00) for two bags. Note: I am not selling or advertising Lorenz Crunchips Wow Jalapeno & Cheese Inferno. If you have a Facebook click subscribe Carmina Lifestyle - Home | Facebook a place to look, discover and share.

Which bag of chips defines who you are from the taste and flavor?

  Which bag of chips defines who you are from the taste and flavor? Every day we have a different mood in what flavor of chips we prefer to eat and no matter what when you eat a small portion of chips you get to limit how much you consume in one meal. I remember growing up in California my mom would make me a sandwich and would put a bag of chips in my lunch bag going to school. Eating our packed lunch made by our parents we tend to eat the chips either alone or with our sandwich and today I was craving for chips imported from the States. My favorite chips are the following Funyuns, Lays Barbecue and Doritos Cool Ranch. Did you know they don't often sell Funyuns in the Philippines?   It is difficult to find it here and when you do we can purchase it from Juty Free Philippines or S&R. Most of time when I visit my hometown my best friend would always make sure she would have a bag filled up to give me to bring back home to the Philippines. I was able to find the last bag fro...

Which cold cut are you craving to make a sandwich?

  Which cold cut are you craving to make a sandwich? The meat I am craving for is pastrami in which I use to buy at a deli in California called Togo's even though I had worked for Subway Sandwiches when I was young. Just like anyone else we eat from our competitor we tend to go toward a deli that also sells sandwiches. We are not a spy just that the fact the way they make their sandwiches is different as well their supplier of cold cuts comes from someone else. No matter where you purchase your sandwiches whatever ingredients inside determines what you crave for and it just satisfy your stomach in what you feel like eating that day. For me Togo's is out of my reach due I live in the Philippines instead I found a place where to purchase it online through Grab Mart via application in my area. The place I was able to buy was at Builtamart in New Manila . Aguila Beef Pastrami Aguila Pepperoni 250g is PHP 193.00 ($3.86) or 500g PHP 386.00 ($7.72) Aguila Lyoner Olive 250g PHP 171.00 ...

The Old School of Reminding Yourself

For those who are not use too using their calendar on their phone, computer and tablet often people who are not literate in using gadgets prefer writing down what events will occur as their daily reminder. My mom is in that old generation where everything has to be noted down on paper calendar to her it is useful in other ways of life people get accustom to jot it down. People who are in the technology would prefer to type it on our phone to remind us to hear a notification on our gadgets. Every end of the month of November my mom would always request me to look for a Hallmark pocket calendar this year it is not available in order to fulfill my mom's wish list of what she wanted this year was to find something similar to what she is use too. Gladly I was able to purchase it online in Lazada a store that carried paper materials that had my mom's paper pocket calendar from  Papemelroti  made in the Philippines . To check out what products that make click onto their name to ...

Future Goals For Carmina Lifestyle 2021

You will see future goals for Carmina Lifestyle upcoming year 2021 I have set aside of places to see, to do and add something new to my personal blog there are opportunities that I had discovered.   No matter if traveling is on hold there are other subjects to talk about in every lifestyle there are more things in life just on own travel experiences. Even though there are limits in your life there are ways to find new subjects to discuss one day you will be able to read, look at pictures or watch a vlog from other than not only about my life to those who will allow me to reveal the life they grew up from decades ago from their upbringing. In each person has their own stories, struggles to pursue them to work harder than others sometimes we take our life for granted and don't see other people's perspective on the life they lived in. Each person's environment and lifestyle are all different to get to know someone is to interview them on their biography for those who will allo...

Chestnut in season for the holiday

Chestnuts come during the month of December in the Philippines often we buy it in Divisoria on a stall in the street where someone is frying in a big pan. In Tagalog we call it castanas they are sold in a brown paper bag newly roasted sold by 1/4 kilo, 1/2 kilo and 1 kilo depending on what size you would like to purchase. During our pandemic months my mom's neighbor is selling it for 1 Kilo for PHP 300.00 ($6.00) the taste is soft, sweet and best hot can be cooked in the toaster oven.  To stay fresh leave in your refrigerator when you feel like eating it again. Or you can remove it from the shell and place in a Tupperware with a lid. To crack it open you can use a nut cracker I just use a crab cracker it does the same purpose. You may purchase your chestnuts at this person who we had placed our order. Note: I am not selling chestnuts just my favorite during the holiday season. If you have a Facebook click subscribe Carmina Lifestyle - Home | Facebook a place to look, discover and ...

What is the taste of Gold Medal Taiwan Beer from other beer products?

What is the taste of Gold Medal Taiwan Beer from other beer products? I was able to take a sip of the beer to see what was the difference from other beer products it doesn't have an after taste of sour bread from other beers I have tasted in the past I asked an expert who drinks beer often. Manang V said it is light and can drink by itself without adding any chaser with it. Every time Manang V drinks any beer made in the Philippines she will always mix it with Coke for her chaser. What ingredient is in Taiwan beer? The ingredients are water, malt, ponlai rice and hops. The best part being made of ponlai rice doesn't affect those who want to drink who have arthritis or gout they can still walk the next day. Taiwan beer has an alcohol level of 5% not too strong. Although it is 5% you can slowly get tipsy in which Manang V had told me after she had finished one can on her own. I had purchased the Gold Medal Taiwan Beer from  Hongkong_house  for the price per can PHP 6...

Let's travel to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for some pastries for the holiday season.

  Let's travel to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for some pastries for the holiday season where you can shop just in one place is at Landers Central. I was able to find this after ordering my other previous food was the Bronx Pepperoni pizza and Horno Hnos Juan Euro Original Mini Doughnuts. It didn't stop me to get the US Carrot Cake Loaf to try and see what it would taste like from my expectation it has chopped walnuts. The US carrot cake loaf is moist and soft letting you know it is baked daily and taste delicious.  To find out where to purchase US Carrot Cake Loaf is at Landers Central is their link  https://centraldelivery.ph/  to place your order online during your pandemic months. Those living outside the Philippines you may want to check out  https://doughandco.co/about Note: I am not selling US Carrot Cake Loaf.

Let's go to Spain to get a snack from my food ventures from Carmina Lifestyle.

Let's go to Spain to get a snack from my food ventures from Carmina Lifestyle a place to look, discover and share. I just ordered from Landers Central for my Bronx pepperoni pizza at a glance I was able to catch some Horno Hnos Juan Euro Original Glazed Mini Doughnuts. Why not splurge over a Sunday and burn it off the coming week. Horno Hnos Juan Euro Original Glazed Mini Doughnuts taste really yummy even if it is small enough to fill me up. What is so different from any other glazed donut? It is made from 0% palm oil. To find products to purchase from Landers Central click here at the link:  https://centraldelivery.ph/ Note: I am not selling Horno Hnos Juan Euro Original Glazed Mini Doughnuts.

Landers Central

Let’s go to the Bronx, New York City to grab a bite to eat through food ventures with Carmina Lifestyle a place to look, discover and share. This is the only thing I can provide for my personal blog is to food ventures and try something new within my reach while I am in the Philippines with a click away to order my own food. Life has its limits but within whatever we can look, discover and share is what I do best you will never miss anything from how I can cope in finding the right place to find what my mood feel like bringing me to a place to order my food. I've never traveled to New York or gone to the Bronx but without any traveling for the meantime we can still eat their food that becomes available in Landers Central. Living in the Philippines there are never limits of what food your mood brings you on that certain day. I was able to order the popular pizza Bronx Pepperoni Pizza of course with some Cavendish Fries and US Crinkles Fries to see what the difference from the two is...

Limited Edition Del Monte Deluxe Gold Pineapple Chunks or Slices

Do you know the reason behind the Del Monte Deluxe Gold?  Why it is limited edition? The reason why it is different from what they produce is that there is 100% Pineapple Juice inside the can rather than having the syrup inside. Nothing gets thrown away when you open up the can of Del Monte Deluxe Gold Pineapple Chunks or Slices. I decided to purchase it since both my mom and Manang V have been requesting me to make them macaroni salad. Every year during our Christmas holiday this is what my family and co-workers ask me to make for them. They know how to cook just that when they make it for themselves the taste is different in what my mom tells me every time. To get my recipe on my macaroni salad click on the link: Macaroni Salad I had purchase my Limited Edition Del Monte  Deluxe Gold Pineapple Chunks or Slices online directly to  Shopee Del Monte Philippines  price per can is PHP 76.00 ($1.52). Note: I am not selling Limited Edition Del Monte  Deluxe...