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As Carmina prepares for the upcoming changes on February 1, 2027

Carmina heard that YouTube has a new guideline for those who are considering to be fully monetized starting February 1, 2027 , lots of people will be affected. People are already having a difficult time accomplishing 4,000 public watched hour what happens when it is double task. Carmina is grateful she has passed the 3,000 public watched hours yet worried if don't reach being fully monetized. I know it explains that won't be affected however we want to make sure by February 1, 2027, that we are fully monetized giving me five months to work harder. As of August 9, 2026, Carmina has 383 public watched hours to accomplish to be fully monetized. My friends tell me better have extended public watched hours just to be safe. The only way to complete the public watched hours is either you have friends play your playlist, go live streaming and do premiere since counted as a live stream. Somehow, I am grateful had encounter YouTube friends helping me with my public watched hours. The...

New Chocolate Birthday Cake and Pineapple Upside Down Cake from Jamba Juice

For those whose birthday is coming up and don't feel like eating a cake we can rely upon drinking something healthy for us this time around. You love to eat chocolate but want to do it the unique way try the new Chocolate Birthday Cake the ingredients are chocolate, low fat milk, granola, frozen yogurt and strawberries. If you're a fruit lover like me nothing goes wrong from getting yourself a treat with an Pineapple Upside Down Cake ingredients are passion mango, frozen yogurt, pineapple sherbet, mango and strawberries. The flavors are in one drink all served in Jamba Juice something you can try and see if you've made the best decision in your life. Of course we don't necessary need to drink it for your birthday in order to try something new. To find other beverage served in Jamba Juice in the  Philippines  click here on the name. Note: I am not selling or advertising for Jamba Juice. If you have a Facebook click subscribe Carmina Lifestyle - Home | Facebook a place t...

Nongshim Real Yakiudong with Eggplant Torta Recipe

  To add flavoring in your instant noodles is to add food that has already been prepared in your home. Today Manang V had cooked torta eggplant in our home for our dinner rather than eating it the normal way with rice I had cooked a package of Nogshim Real Yakiudon Noodles. There was no way for me to understand the instruction due it is in Korean I had played by ear. Cooking Instructions: In a small pot boil two cups of water add noodles until soft strain the water and set aside. Second bowl add the teriyaki sauce, powdered mixture add the cooked udon noodles mix until all liquid has been mixed well enough. Add any vegetable, meat or seafood ingredients that you would like to eat with your dish that has been precooked. To get the  Filipino Torta Eggplant  recipe click on the name to direct you there. Nongshim Real Yakiudong with Eggplant Torta taste spicy with the teriyaki sauce that is included in the package it has a balance taste when you combine your other ingredients...

New Twix x Maltesers Duo Chiller

  Feeling sleepy needing something to wake up in the afternoon while browsing in your Grab application you discover a new drink in Krispy Kreme called Twix x Maltesers Duo Chiller a chocolate that you also eat. Too bad the doughnuts version wasn’t able when I had place my order better than nothing I was able to drink something new for my snack. You can taste both Twix x Maltesers Duo Chiller in the drink topped with whip cream sold for PHP 169.00 ($3.38) 12oz.  Of course to get some doughnuts is always your choice of assorted for one dozen too bad the ones I wanted is no longer available. I was able to get six pieces original glazed, three strawberry sprinkle and chocolate glazed for the alternative for my assorted doughnuts for the price of PHP 490.00 ($9.80). For those who would like to check the website in their location kindly click to the following website. Philippines California Singapore Note: I am not selling or advertising for Krispy Kreme just something I want...

Samlip Man Joo (Chest Nut Bread)

I found this bread funny from the look at the picture when I had purchase it was deceiving thinking the bread was big. After I had receive it being delivered to my home I was laughing because the size was tiny and someone who was much bigger than me can just put the bread inside their mouth in one eating. Of course for me it took two bites to actually finish it up the chestnut is in the center of the bread not bad for a small piece being moist from the outside was something I have never tried before one reason I wanted to try it. I love eating chestnut never seen it in a bread for the price sold PHP 15.00 ($0.30) 23g.  Samlip Man Joo (Chest Nut Bread) is a Korean bread.  I had purchase it at  Assi Fresh Plaza Inc in Eton through Grab Mart. Note: I am not selling or advertising the Samlip Man Joo (Chest Nut Bread). If you have a Facebook click subscribe Carmina Lifestyle - Home | Facebook a place to look, discover and share.

Honey Butter Chip Fromage Blanc

I was wondering why Honey Butter Chips is popular and have seen it at the grocery but never attempt to get a bag. I have seen other people grab a bag or two and place it in their shopping cart. Out of curiosity I decided to purchase mine online recently when I had bought instant noodles from Assi Fresh Plaza Inc through Grab Food sold for PHP 90.00 ($1.80). There are a variety of flavors sold on Honey Butter Chips worldwide. After opening the bag and trying it for myself to see what it had taste like was having a honey butter chip with formage blanc cheese in your mouth was overwhelming good and realize why lots of people are eating their chips. Something that want you to try their other flavors when the time comes available in your area. Note: I am not selling or advertising for Limited Edition Calbee Honey Butter Chip Fromage Blanc. If you have a Facebook click subscribe Carmina Lifestyle - Home | Facebook a place to look, discover and share.

Golden Grape Rejuvenating Serum Infused

  Last November my mom called me up telling me about a beauty treatment she saw post in Facebook she asked me to look into it. Sometimes you read comments from other people who have said they have tried the product and how there was a change in their face after using it with a before and after picture. Does the product really work for everyone having their own beauty flaws on your face? Being unable to go out during our pandemic and not use too not getting our facial treatments on our face we come to a point wanting to purchase items we often see people talk about and take the opportunity when the item goes on sale. There was a promo buy one get one free for PHP 997.00 ($19.94) with cash on delivery and free shipping to your location. All you need to do is message  Belle Asia for their product being interested to place your order online with a given form to fill up a form to give the following details: FULL NAME ADDRESS POSTAL CODE NUMBER OF ORDER CONTACT NUMBER You w...

WouldULike Specialty Coffee in Salapan, Philippines

  We often see people post dalgona coffee during our pandemic months. Rather than making it on my own I decided to try ordering at WouldULike Specialty Coffee in Salapan, Philippines to try their dalgona latte taste like your drinking a white rabbit candy. I am also a fond of sweet potato which is kamote in the Philippines. I have never tried it made as a sweet potato latte something that caught my eye glancing at the menu. The taste is rich and can taste all the sweet potato inside with a milky texture just when you’re drinking a latte. Something to try if you’re like me who love sweet potato you will certainly enjoy this drink. Cookies and Cream Frappe in full cream and normal sweet taste like having a cookie crumble with vanilla and other ingredients although it is really yummy. The interesting part it is inside a can being opened up just shown in the picture and there is a tip once you have open the can turn it around to hold your straw in place is something I rea...

Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun

  You feel like traveling to South Korea and want to eat some instant food there is nowhere to go wrong by stocking up on instant noodles in your pantry. I've already tried Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun in a package where you need to cook on your stove top although you can also find it in a cup by just adding water indicating how much hot boiling water need to be added in the cup. Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun is a mild ramen soup you can add egg in your soup if you feel like it this time I didn't add any egg. There are some seaweed floating in the soup and corn floating in the soup base. I had purchase my Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun from  Assi Fresh Plaza Inc through Grab Mart a place where you can have your groceries delivered to your home during our pandemic months. Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun is sold PHP 62.00 ($1.24) per cup. However Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun are sold in other countries within your location it can be eaten elsewhere. Note: I am not selling Nongsh...

Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun Seafood

  Today I will venture on instant food made only in Korea due to our weather being cold. I feel like eating some soup, side dishes and snacks only made within what the K-drama are often eating when we watch their shows. I haven't tried this instant soup made by Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun Seafood with Beef and Seafood Flavor. I had purchase this from  Assi Fresh Plaza Inc. Eton  from Grab Food to be delivered to my home. It is sold per package PHP 46.00 ($0.92). I had cooked my Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun Seafood with one piece of egg by adding it last just following the instructions on the package and if you're like me cannot understand Korean. I had boiled three and a half cup of water once water has boiled added the noodles, seasoning package and added the egg during the process of being cooked. I had transfer it to a serving bowl your soup is cooked best to eat while it is hot doesn't taste good when the noodles becomes soggy. Nongshim Ansung Tang Myun Seafood i...

Did you ever feel you have the key for your friends to meet someone?

Did you ever feel you have the key for your friends to meet someone? The form by helping others is to help those who need someone in their life we often hear from someone can you match my daughter with one of your friends. Or you find someone who asks among your friends who are also single and want to know someone from your own connection this give you an opportunity to look for someone for them. Circle of friends begin to form up when you match someone you know and friends who your close to that you can refer or what we call the key of finding someone who ask you for a match up. Of course who are screening them is the person who knows the best and what makes it fun these people being matched up have no clue what form you are scooping to get them together. We don't do the high technology where you find your own match through online dating. We do the old school go beyond the list of friends and contacts who we know are looking for a relationship based on your own judgmen...

Escabeche (Sweet & Sour Fish) Recipe

For our second day of our new year Manang V decided to cook escabeche which sometimes is called sweet and sour fish. You can use any type of fish it can be with a bone or fillet whichever is available in your area. Escabeche is a colorful dish which represent what day it is Manang V's birthday a celebration of desire to cook something new for our meal. Escabeche Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Fresh Fish (clean inside and outside) Salt  1 Bell pepper (slice thinly into strips) 1/4 Cup - Vinegar 1 - Carrot (peel and slice thinly) 1/4 Cup - Ginger (peel and slice thinly) 1 - Onion (peel and slice thinly) 4 - Garlic Cloves (minced) 2 - Tbsp. - Ketchup 1 - Tbsp. - Cornstarch (dissolve in 1/2 cup water) Preparing the Fish: Season the fish with salt inside and outside set aside Cooking Instructions: In a pan while hot add small amount cooking oil fry fish cook both sides place on a rack to strain the oil on the fish and set aside. In a separate pan add small amount cooking oil when hot add garli...

Chinese Clear Soup Recipe

  Due to the weather being gloomy the best time to eat soup is during the time when it is cold, rainy and not in the mood to go outside to keep warm. From our leftover tofu Manang V decided to make it into a Chinese clear soup giving you how to make it in your location. Chinese Clear Soup Ingredients: 1/4 Cup - Ground Pork (cut thin stripes) 2 Slices Fresh Ginger (slice thinly) 1 - Onion (chopped) 1 Tsp. - Soy Sauce 1/2 Tsp. - Patis (fish sauce) 1/2 Tsp. - Sesame oil 4 Pieces - Spinach leaves  1/2 Cup - Tofu (slice to cubes) 6 Cup - Water Optional add any noodles to the soup Cooking Instruction: In a pot add sesame oil while hot add onion, ginger sauté and add ground pork. Add six cups of water boil for ten minutes add soy sauce, patis, spinach leaves and tofu.  Add noodles of your choice (optional) Cook for 5 minutes ready to serve in a serving bowl. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your supp...

Ginataang Bilo Bilo Recipe

Ginataang Bilo Bilo is a dessert that is cooked with langka (jackfruit), saba (banana), kamote, sago (tapica pearl), sweet rice balls and coconut milk. Ginataang Bilo Bilo Recipe Ingredients: 1/2 Kilo - Sweet rice flour (Glutinous rice flour) 3 - Fresh Whole Coconut or 4 Cups Gata (coconut milk) 10 - Pieces Saba (sliced) 1/4 Kilo - Fresh langka (jackfruit) slice small stripes 6 Pieces - Kamote (peel and slice into cubes) 1/2 Kilo - Sago (Tapicaca pearls) Brown Sugar (to taste) Step 1: You're using fresh coconut you will grate the coconut meat out of the coconut shell and squeeze out the milk out and set a side to make four cups. Step 2: In a bowl add the sweet rice flour with 1/4 cup of coconut milk stir it until it becomes sticky to form into a ball to look like this in my video If you have children of your own you can do this together it is like clay doe to form into a small ball with your hands. Tip: Add sweet rice flour in your hands prevent it sticky to form a ball in your han...

Tips on How My Mom Gets Around with Her New Phone

Recently I had purchase a new phone for my mom online due to one of her phone broke down having it for ten years. It wasn't one of those android phones it was the less complicated phones we had started ourselves decades ago that was a keypad with no social media accounts connected or any internet that we're all hung up on. Although my mom has two sets of phone one from her Globe Cellular and Sun Cellular carrier due she has friends who have different phone carrier in the Philippines to lessen your expenses on calls or text. My mom wanted to have two separate accounts. Even though it is possible to put two sim cards in one phone my mom prefer to have two separate phones with her to not confuse who she is calling. Living in the Philippines most people have two phones with them to carry along with them all separate simcards and phone carrier. Those living elsewhere you will think we are rich that why we would have two phones to bring with us. The life in the Philippine...

Look, Discover & Share from Carmina Lifestyle

The way we look into something before we can discover something in our life we need to dig into what we have found. I have changed my caption in Carmina Lifestyle to be able to look, discover and share is what we do on our own when you analyze the way we see every concept in how we think. Through our own process we look for something that comes in our mind. We discover something new on our own or from help from other people. We end up sharing what we have learned from base on our own experiences or what people tell us to inform us how their life all has begun. The way we live we look, discover and share is something everyone learns on their own and from others who are surrounded in our life. There will always be something to discover in Carmina Lifestyle when we all look ahead of the coming year and you can learn to share to your family and friends. If you have a Facebook click subscribe Carmina Lifestyle - Home | Facebook a place to look, discover and share.  

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...