[Giveaway] Wild Barley

Product Review

Eating healthy is no longer just a culture outside of home.

Wild Barley Singapore provides a whole range of healthy, organic, and natural food, free from chemicals and artificial additives and preservatives. Conveniently, at a click’s away.

To live well, you have to eat healthy and well. In the wisdom of ages, good health is not the absence of disease, but the daily healthy lifestyle, and healthy mental attitude.

The team at Wild Barley is founded with a simple mission in mind; to source and provide the community with healthier choices to everyday foods. Even comfort food items like pasta sauces, juices, ice cream, snacks etc, are carefully sourced from all over the world. The team at Wild Barley guarantees that they will personally conduct a taste test before putting any of their products on the shelves.

A personalised basket of goodies from the nice people of Wild Barley.

Diferente Aromatic Sparkling Cuvee
This is an alcohol-free premium drink. A great tasting extra-dry cuvee, reminiscent of fresh applesauce, ripe pear and crust aromas, perfect when tasted with sweet and salted dishes, either alone or mixed in a fruity aperitif.
Best served in a large tumbler filled with ice cubes and a few mint leaves, and a whole group of friends!http://www.zeroalcoholdrinks.com/

Natipuri Apricot Juice
40% apricot juice. With apple juice from concentrate, water, lemon juice from concentrate. Organic ingredients. Certified Bio

Ki Mixed Berries Jam
65% berries in varying proportions (raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, currants). With concentrated apple puree, concentrated apple juice. Organic ingredients. Certified Bio

Cello Whisps Parmesan Cheese Crisps
A pure cheese snack made by Cello, an artisan cheesemaker themselves. The unforgettable flavor comes from their very own Wisconsin cheeses. Each wheel is aged and individually selected at the peak of its flavor to make the Whisps Crisps.
http://www.cellowhisps.com/

Wild Barley Dried Lotus Seed
In house brand of dried lotus seeds. Made with 100% natural, dried lotus seeds with no artificial flavorings and preservatives. Nuts are sourced from Vietnam.
Warning! These are super addictive! I can’t stop munching on these nuts once I have started. I personally recommend eating this with some of the sparkling cuvee. Nice!

Three Twins Bittersweet Chocolate & Three Twins Lemon Cookie
Bittersweet Chocolate has an abundance of organic cocoa, which makes it darker than most chocolate ice creams, and it also adds an incredibly rich flavor and texture.
All the ice cream flavors are made with combined organic ingredients, milk and cream with sugar and eggs to make the ice cream base.
http://www.threetwinsicecream.com/

Liquid Gold
100% natural honeycomb straight from the beehive unprocessed. Giving you all the pure goodness as nature created it.

3-Elephants Thai Organic 3 Color Brown Rice
100% whole kernel Thai organic mixed brown rice. Free from chemical fertilizers, free from chemical pesticides and herbicides. Free from additives, coloring and preservatives. No soaking required when cooking.
My children has been eating brown rice for a few years now, so they are not unfamiliar with it. But this 3 color brown rice (Black Rice + Brown Rice + Hom Mali brown rice) is slightly different from the ones we usually buy from the supermarket. Harder in texture but taste great. Since I am a lover of “hard-texture” rice, this suits me perfectly. But the girls, we added a small portion of white rice to soften the bite.
Did you know? Black rice has lower calories and a better source of fibre compared to brown rice?

Ki Shelled & Roasted Hazelnuts
High fibre, contains at least 6g / 100g of fibres or at least 3g / 100kcal of fibres.

Sign up as a member of Wild Barley (membership is free), and enjoy a 10% voucher (redeemable through Promo Code). And as members, you will also get to enjoy discounts or free delivery through Promo Codes which Wild Barley will send out to members monthly.

GIVEAWAY!

I am giving away 3 hampers (worth $70 each) to 3 winners!
Follow the instructions below and stand a chance to win some of the mentioned goodies for your family.
The giveaway will run from today till 23 Feb 2017, 10pm. All the best!

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Ben & Jerry’s ChunkFest 2014

Who doesn’t like ice cream? Especially in our hot humid local weather, a cup of ice cream or more is not too much. But to have free flow Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is just simple a dream comes true for anyone.

When we told the girls that we are attending this year’s ChunkFest 2014 @ Gardens by the Bay, that became the main talking point for almost the entire week at home, in school, in church, everywhere. You know what truly excites the young ones when such fervency happens. Off we go!

Side track slightly. Recently Joey seems to like me to hold her hands when we are out. To be honest, I am so enjoying the closeness.

We have arrived! ChunkFest, here we come!

 

This year, Ben & Jerry’s introduce 3 new flavors – Good to the Core - “Core” line of three new flavors.

Hazed & Confused: Chocolate & Hazelnut Ice Creams with Fudge Chips and a Hazelnut Fudge Core
That’s My Jam: Raspberry & Chocolate Ice Creams with Fudge Chips and a Raspberry Core
Salted Caramel: Sweet Cream Ice Cream with Blonde Brownies and a Salty Caramel Core

ChunkFest is not just about enjoying the ice creams, but also the venue for Social Enterprise Marketplace. This year, social enterprises like Bliss Restaurant, Yellow Ribbon, Edible Garden City, Emmaus Training Center, Saught, Project Happy Feet and Bettr Barista.

We were able to do our part in supporting the Yellow Ribbon project.

Live performance to almost 10,000 fans that thronged the festival grounds of the seventh annual ChunkFest.

More ice creams before we finally took our leave.

The friendly and hardworking staff who served non-stop for all the fans of Ben & Jerry’s.

Jayne had a Moo-licious day!

Dining with AmEx (Part 1)

Sponsored Review

If you are a food-lover like me, or just occasionally looking for a nice place to enjoy a drink with friends, the let me introduce to you the dining privileges offered by AmEx for its American Express Platinum Cardmembers.

With the generous gesture from American Express (AmEx) online PR campaign, we were given the chance to dine at some of the finest restaurants in town and enjoy as much as 50% discounts. Taking the opportunity to bring my wife out for a nice evening of food and drinks, this is what I planned for her.

Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream (15 points scored with wife)

With the AmEx Platinum, we can enjoy the Private Deals and made it special for my wife. Which girl doesn’t appreciate some Mango & Raspberry ice cream?

We took a slow walk along Orchard Road and reached the next venue for the specially planned dinner treat. Making use of the Far Card membership benefits, I was able to enjoy 50% discount on the total bill.

Mikuni (50 points scored with wife)

Mikuni in Japanese means 3 kingdoms, hence the interior dining space is also divided into 3 distinctive areas offering Sushi, Teppanyaki and Robatayaki live stations.

Was very privileged to meet with the Executive Chef Moon as he brought us around the restaurant and even served us something special was off the menu.

The special corn and tomato only available in certain season and offered in his restaurant for this month. Besides is smoked salmon in black sesame sauce.

This has to be one of our best Japanese dining experience in Singapore. The ambience was quite and refine. The staff were all very attentive, alert and friendly. The food was excellent. No wonder the place was fully booked and no surprise for me and wife to visit again.

This was what we ordered.

Ika Kari Kari Age
Crispy Fried Squid, Truffle Miso Mayo, Lime

Toro
Tuna Belly

King Prawn

Teriyaki Chicken

Kagoshima Wagyu Ishi Yaki
Kagoshima Wagyu, Garlic Sauce, Amarillo

Assorted sweets and chocolates.

Usually after a nice meal, we will be rushing home to take care of the kids, but thanks to my mother who helped us for the night, we moved on to our 3rd venue for a drink and some desserts. Again with AmEx Platinum Card, I was able to tap into the Palate Programme Privileges which offers 15% off beverages at bars under the Palate programme.

Napoleon Food & Wine Bar (15 points scored with wife)

I chose Napoleon because of the deco and also the feel of able to chill and relax.

We ordered Tortillas and Lemon Tart.

As for me, the thing that excites me was the “32 wines by the glass” concept. The centrepiece at Napoleon Food & Wine Bar is a selection of 32 European wines, available on Enomatic wine dispenser machines. This offers customers the opportunity to have tasting portions, half glass or a full glass of the wines, with prices starting at S$8 per glass.

Jessie (the boss) came and met up with us and brought me along for a bit of educational talk on the wines available and showed me how to choose and get my wines.

After my selection, we just sit back, enjoy the wine and desert, talked and feel blessed to have such a night off from work.

It’s so nice to date my wife once a while, bring her out for a nice dinner and drinks. Wind down from a period of busyness and enjoy life.

A selfie before we head home (20 points scored with wife)

Perfect 10!

More benefits for AmEx Platinum Card Members:
Lucky Draw Promotion – from now till 9 Nov 2014, you can be one of the 5 lucky winners every day to win S$100 worth of dining vouchers (TungLok dining vouchers for Monday to Saturday draws and Fairmont dining vouchers for Sunday draws). Every receipt above S$50 earns you a chance to win. Enjoy double the chances when you spend S$50 or more in a single receipt at any The Far Card or Palate establishment. Click here for the lucky draw full terms and conditions.

Ready to indulge in some nice food and pamper yourself and probably your love ones? Just apply online.