Salad Bar PH

Eating Healthy at Salad Bar is a Life-Changing Experience

Make Your Own Salad

Making your own salad is a pleasant challenge to come up with a unique creation each time. Our cravings change and what we choose will be instinctively what our body needs and wants - and we can avoid putting on our plate what we don't want to eat. It's a mix, it can be as simple as two or 3 ingredients, or it can be as bountifully beautiful and as colorful as you want it. 

Salad Bar PH

Various vegetables and salad greens

Various fresh and canned fruits

30 pesos only for 100 grams

Weight does not include the container

5 dressings and Parmesan cheese for toppings

Perfect for take out and dine in

Main meal or side dish

Salad Bar PH is the healthy choice with the variety of salad making ingredients enabling possible lots of new salad combination food creation to your liking. The dressing are Ceasar's, Thousand Islands, Garlic Ranch, Asian, and Sesame which have an excellent, thick consistency. There is a light Vinaigrette and also grated Parmesan cheese. There are also croutons available. Take out containers are in various sizes and there is the option to take out the dressings separately.

Savings 

Compared to most ready-made salads that you can buy, Salad Bar PH at 30 pesos per 100 grams is cheaper. A pile of lettuce leaves weighs very little. Add some carrots, bell peppers, onions, grapes, and other ingredients, to a serving size of just what you can consume saves you money.

The savings are more than money. You get to save your health when eating salads. High fiber, low calorie, and all the other wonderful health benefits of eating salad greens, vegetables, and fruits can be yours when you visit Salad Bar PH. 

Salad Bar PH branch locations

Food Choices Glorietta 

GT Tower, Ayala Ave. 

Robinsons Summit Bldg, Ayala Ave. 

Zuellig Pharma Bldg, Makati Ave. Makati.

Learn more like new recipes by visiting the Salad Bar PH Facebook Page 

Sniff Dog Products

A natural flea and tick repellent that is great for dogs with sensitive skin

Our canine friends do get skin problems and when it is really bad, the poor dog will suffer greatly. Their fur serves to protect them yet the exposure to the elements, their health, their diet, and other things such as those nasty ticks and fleas, might make your Rover get to scratch too much or get to lick their paws until these are sore, or even worse with raw red skin areas, and more.

A happy dog deserves the relaxation free from skin problems and of course, tick and fleas. We do have a natural and wonderful smelling option, that brings about the light floral scent to our canine friends and to our home.

Sniff dog products are made with Madre de Cacao. This has antibacterial, healing, and works as a insect repellent. The Tagalog word for Madre de Cacao is "kakawate" . The leaves, bark, and roots of this plant is considered as herbal medicine. This plant parts are used by people who live in the Philippine provinces and in places like Latin America, Guatamela, and Costa Rica as a treat and/or cure for dermatitis, skin itching, wound healing, scabies and more. It is also used as an insect repellent.

Nala after her Sniff Bath

Sniff dog shampoo is a dark, brilliant green and does the task of thorough cleaning with high lather. It is very thick. The dog did not flinch when the shampoo was placed on the head and face. Her ears had dried skin and these got visibly better after the second bathing in a week. The fur was soft and voluminous after being air-dried. I personally tried the soap on my hands and it was like usual people soap and is non-drying, like the shampoo. The very fine dog powder is a clear stark white. The smell of the powder does mask the inevitable dog smell but is not overpowering.

Sniff dog products have received the feedback that it is good for sensitive dog skin, as mentioned by couple of my friends.

It is a natural alternative that will aid in prevention, treatment, and cure of dog skin problems and is a very good set of dog bath grooming products to have, as a little goes a long way.

Please note that relying solely on dog products to take care of skin concerns of our canine friends is not correct, as if there is a problem, one should bring the dog to a vet. 

And also note that prevention is better than cure, so take good care of your pets by using quality dog products like Sniff. 

Puratos: My Bakery App

The best online shopping experience for bakery supplies and ingredients is made possible by Puratos, the generic name for bakery supplies stores in the Philippines. 

Pleasant Baker's Memories

I used to bake for a living. The time that I made cookies, my daughter used to sell an amazing amount of 800 pesos a day, with my cookies for sale at 25 pesos each. My daughter was in high school then, and that was around 10 years ago. Aside from cookies, I used to make leche flan, and other baked products like muffins, supplying a few stores. 

Being a home baker is something that a woman can do when she is to stay at the house to take care of the kids. It is highly profitable and a good way to make extra income and even earn a living. It will help keep more good food on the table as that is the results of being industrious and making quality food products that people will want to order again and again.

I remember when I sold leche flan, the profit from one sale would be enough to buy ingredients and milk and diapers from one of my daughers. Now, that is the provisidions that come when hard work is done, by God's grace and mercy, we can take care of our familiies by cooking, making no-bake products, and baking and selling what we make. 

The very word "Puratos" triggers wonderful memories of my grand aunt. Maybe many of you who do bake now have the same memory of their grandmothers and mothers who chose to shop at Puratos. 

Since the time I was young, I was a main stay in the kitchen of my great-grand aunt, Adelaida Lopez Locsin Ledesma. She used to make her own marshmallows and other baked products like caramel cake. She and my other grandaunts used to frequent Puratos to buy their bakery supplies and talk about what they had recently bought. That was quite a while back. She said that things were cheaper there and she would buy in bulk. Also, she had mentioned the fact that if you buy baking soda and baking powder that doesn't have the quality of the ones from Puratos and those with brand names, you would have to use double the measurements because those low quality ones will not work properly. 

Now, thanks to this digital age, we can shop at Puratos online. 

Download the free Puratos My Bakery app! The privileges getting discounts, promos, and so much more. The convenience of online shopping is made better by the extra special detailed experience of the easy-to-use app from Puratos, one of the first ingredient companies in the Philippines.

 

My Bakery App

Free Download from Google Play or Apple Store

Choosing/Ordering: Flexible Delivery Options

When you have this free app, you can order online, anytime, and pay using it also. There is same day delivery, scheduled delivery, or you may choose to pick up the orders from the nearest Puratos store, finding it with the store locator function.

Puratos Express Delivery

Need ingredients fast? You can order from 8 am to 12 noon and get same day delivery!

Informative

The various products - that cover a wider range from chocolate to mixes - has a picture, description, packaging size, usage rates, recipes, prices, and more. You will get a whole load of information from the app to include videos, blog post, new recipes, and be on top of the latest trends. And, there will be access to exclusive promos, discounts, seminars, and events!

How to Download and Use the App

Handy Baking Buddy

User-friendly, downloading the free app provides you with the extra special online shopping experience. Made for anyone who is in the food industry, this has the high quality bakery supplies and ingredients at low prices. You will be amazed at the wonderful online shopping experience this free app provides. 

For more information, visit the Puratos Philippines Facebook Page. 
image and video credits: Puratos Facebook page

Auratech's PLDT Home Smart Page Digitizes Your Life

Make the digital age work in your favor by owning a Smart Page. Aside from being a tablet, this has fantastic functionalities that you and your family or office team can use daily, aside from having the steady, ready, internet connectivity of PLDT.

There was a time, not so long ago, that accessing documents with a swipe was simply unheard of. Computers then were large and data was store in secured rooms. The amount of data that a PC could hold then was very small compared to now when even memory cards can hold so much GB. 

As technology digitized what we need, some of us very seldom use pen and paper - and with the Smart Connect Home through 4G, PSTN or VOIP of the Smart Page, our lives can be much easier. It can also be more fun as we can play Play games with its quad-core 1.3 Ghz processor. As a tablet, you can use it also to take photos and for video chats, and of course, selfies, as it has 8 MP rear camera and 2 MP front camera. Another functionality focuses on presentations such as that for PowerPoint as it is possible to digitize and even animate material such as posters and brochures. 

These and other functionalities can be yours with a Smart Page!

Planner. Get to sched nearly everything and even monitor if it was done or not! Whatever you input into this planner functionality of the Smart Page can be edited, also. You may wonder what can be planned? Well, it can be as simple as chores, repairs, then be as detailed as what we need for budgeting and meal planning. It can be as complicated as what we require for project planning, such as time management inputs and goal setting. It can be as necessary as scheduling our meetings. For the tasks that need to be done, it is best to have a Smart Planner on hand.

Home Controller. With this functionality. most of your things that operate via remote control can be controlled with a few swipes on the Smart Page tablet. This app's 3D IR remote control will work on most of the common things found in a home such as the TV, radio, airconditioner, dvd player,. home theater, projector, and more.

Home Care. What do you need for health care at home? This app, with is perfect for those into fitness, body-building, and who have health concerns, and for those who want to be able to be in the know for their overall wellness - can be used for watching your weight, bone mass, muscle mass, visceral fat, body fat rate, BMI, BMR, and body temperature. 

Enjoy your life made easier with a Smart Page. You just got to own the Auratech’s Smart Page.

Exclusive for PLDT Subcribers, only P 599/Monthly plan with broadband speedup (1Mbps boost up on your existing plan) + 1 year free Netflix.

Auratech's Fotogo Pocket Photo Printer

Fast mobile printing for waterproof images

Turn your phone into a mini mobile office with the latest mobile photo printer when you own a FotoGo by Auratech  

Not all the pics we take are to be shared on social media sites like Facebook. Some things we want to keep private like that special date, a prospective project site, a new product, and we cant store these on our phone. What if we want to share a picture to someone who doesn't have a phone? 

We capture pics on our mobile phones to store and save digitally. We might have access to photo printing. Yet, wouldn't it be great to own a printer that you can take wherever you go?

See how handy the FotoGo is? 

And the kind of photo you will get printed out in a minute? Waterproof!

These print out 2.1” x 3.4” sticker photos which are waterproof and finger-print proof! What is great is that the printing time is less than a minute! Now that is fast. The process goes from white, to red, then to yellow, to create the vibrant colored photo, and then it is sealed to become waterproof.

To use the Auratech’s Fotogo Pocket Photo Printer requires Bluetooth connection to the FotoGo app that is available on both Google Play and the Apple Store. You can edit the photos using the app to even add emojis and captions - then share it everywhere.

Own your personal photo booth for work or  for play! 

Have the option to print while on the go, with your very own FotoGo!

FotoGo is going to be available soon for only Php 5,999. 

XLOG: End-to-End Logistical Solutions Provider

Manila, Philippines - For people that have experience with shipping and logistics, they would know that the process can be challenging, to say the least.  From trying to find the right supplier that delivers good service at a fair price, to the constant fear of having goods stolen while in transit, it can really be a pain.

With this in mind, Shiptek Solutions Corp., a homegrown technology company, had just announced their solution that looks to revolutionize the shipping and logistics forever.

Meet XLOG - the first ever end-to end logistical solutions provider.

XLOG aims to become a catalyst of business success by making logistics work for you, not against you.  It is designed to take away all the challenges of logistics, giving businesses one less thing to worry about.

"Being in the Shipping and Logistics industry for 24 years now, I've seen all the problems encountered by both shippers and service providers, which served as our inspiration, " says XLOG founder and CEO, Jun Ynion.

"We created XLOG with the goal of bringing Shipping and Logistics into the digital age by creating an online marketplace for both companies that offer and for companies that require such services.  By consolidating all these services on one single platform, it will allow for a simplified process, better tracking and security, and ease of transaction documentation.  This is the next step for the shipping and logistics industry,"

XLOG staff and media guest

UnionBank President and CEO Edwin R. Bautista with XLOG inventor and staff

 

XLOG founder and CEO, Jun Ynion.

XLOG bloggers 

Based on current practices, an average rate request would take at least 1 day to get a standard quotation, and an additional 1.5 days for renegotiated rates.  Beforehand, a customer would have       to email/contact multiple providers to ask whether they serve such lane or not.  These are not the only deciding factor when it comes to choosing the best service partner.  One would have to consider transit times, gate-in deadlines, and other charges which one might have to renegotiate for.  This again would take 1 more day the most.  With XLOG, the entire process is cut down to just 1.5 days by providing an instant quotation to customers from multiple service partners that offers their specific needs.  XLOG helps you make the right decision by providing and instant rate quotation depending on your specific needs.  We reduce the back-and-forth process by laying down all the information needed for a customer to make a decision and we allow customers to input renegotiation requests.  All of this is done in just one click of the submit button and once the service partner receives these information, all he can do is accept/reject.

FINDING THE RIGHT PARTNER
XLog provides shippers a wide range of services and vendors to choose from.  This allows for securing the best possible rates with reputable service providers.

SECURING GOODS
XLog guarantees safety and security for goods in transit with its extensive GPS tracking feature.  Not only will it let shippers know when goods have gone from point A and arrived at point B, but XLog has the capability to showthe exact location of the goods in real time.

EFFICIENT AND QUICK TRANSACTIONS
XLog makes transactions hassle-free and faster than ever by allowing all negostiations and deals to be done online, no actual papers required!  Also, every transaction reference is automatically stored in the XLOG system, easy to come back to in the future.

Through XLOG , businesses, booth shippers and service providers, will now be able to move faster and safer than ever.  This is the future of shipping and logistics.

This is XLOG.

Registration is free https://web.xlog.net/

XLOG: Anti-Smuggling, Lost in Transit Solutions and More

Shipping with transparency 

In these times when the call to honesty is a must, it is made possible for shipments to be tracked and the inventory to be itemized from point of origin to port - and further. 

XLOG Jun Ynion and the staff meeting with UnionBank President and CEO, Edwin R. Bautista, 

A sophisticated logistics website like XLOG gets rid of the clutter of the massive documentation for shipping and while that is being done, it greatly reduces the documents mishandling that can also be the cause of extra "hidden" fees, holding or reduction of cargo for "donation", and the hustle and shuffle of documents being handed over from one to another to be scrutinized and found flaw with. 

As we might be aware, the loading on top of the declared cargo is common practice. Many are in on the take and that system has been integrated for years. With customs duties and taxes needing to be paid, with XLOG, it get rids of the headache for honest customs officials to do their job. It also provides a way for nearly anyone to be able to ship cargo on their own, with a database of reliable service providers.

As the smuggling anywhere in the world is prevalent, even those honest transactions do experience extra loading of cargo without their knowledge.What is dangerous about this things happening is that a container can be loaded with contraband or even drugs.

As we might know, every single steps of shipping can be a hassle. The time it takes is long, the documents voluminous, the communication can be erroneous. XLOG provides solutions.

Author's note: I cannot stress enough the importance of transparency. This would facilitate an honest system. It is possible to use XLOG for solving a lot of prevalent problems.

The issue is - it might not be acceptable as there are the "ways and means" that is integrated in to the shipping system. But, we have to look to the future and gain an impeccable reputation. Honesty has a place in the industry - and corruption can be erased - though it might seem difficulty because of the syndicates.

As we push harder, we should have no fear. As a locator for Hidemitsu Trading, SBMA, my family has thrived and yet still suffered to experience millions lost because of unscrupulous officials and unknown spirits.

Though I have cried because the attorney that I was taking to for our 16 million commission claim was ambushed the very same night, and we still are wondering who is driving our black benz that was held, as the graveyard of our LPG cars remain near PTT, 5 in Upper Mau, 40 vehicles more registered under our name that are missing, and one white benz that has been lost  - as my father, Engr.  Alonso Dominguez had said when we were accused of smuggling out the 16 high end cars out of Subic that we left unsmashed in the warehouse during the time of Gloria... of which we still have a claim worth millions as we chased the partners that smuggled these out of SBMA...

"I am not a smuggler. I am a God-fearing man."

Let us work together to integrate XLOG and other similar checkpoints for our reputation to be spotless and for the best interest of all those concerned.

Learn more by watching this video or visiting the XLOG website.

Live Smart: Remote Control Ease and More with PLDT TELPAD MA7R

Making life easier with an all-in-one device is the smart way to be connected.

Imagine yourself lying down on the sofa, being a couch potato, after a tiring day at work. What do you want in life? Do you have to stand up and do more things than you need to? It is possible to manage your home or office from this PLDT Telpad. 

The PLDT Telpad MA7R has the capacity for one to enjoy the benefits of a smart life. With this device which is a tablet, landline, and broadband - powering up the ease of controlling remote control appliances can be done with the touch of your fingertips. 

Most of us are aware that when we have PLDT connectivity, it is internet that is steady and strong. And, if we have a PLDT plan, we may available of devices such as the Telpad for a minimal additional fee. As technology grows by leaps and bounds, the PLDT Telpad MA7R has provided what we need for landline communication, for internet connectivity with the handset and a tablet. The Android Nougat tablet has all the functionalities expected with the great connectivity that PLDT can provide. 

Working to make better our lives, the Telpad offer a Smart UX experience with an Android Nougat that has the capacity to have unlimited contacts, unlimited call log, and caller ID with photo. The tablet itself had the expected apps such as YouTube and Google Play store - and provides a way to connect it to a TV.

Living the smart life with the home control helps you maximize the ease of using things around your home and even has extra functionalities. This featured smart control can be used on 99% of the remote control appliances that are IR based in your home, office, or facility, can be controlled from the tablet such as making an airconditioner have higher or lower temperature. It is amazingly simple to use this Auratech Telpad that has 3D IR TX. You can even control a TV and recorder when you are not around and schedule certain appliances to open at a certain time with the high texh control H/A from outside through mobile network. This also has what is known as the learning remote control function to level up the Smart UX experience.

And to add the capacity of being able to open and close appliances from wherever you are, taking care of your family is made easier. There is the integrate Home Care which provides what is called Smart Health Care for the family that can aid in basic health care such as the body temperature and body weight/composition, family member record, history, advice and even an alarm. To make communication even easier, there is a way to have a family chat.

As we work hard for our families, we must work smart. It is a life of ease when we use the PLDT Telpad MA7R as we can remotely control and schedule many of our appliances. We have the communication and internet capacity - plus smart living. 

Never take an extra step again. Relax, enjoy life, and get digitized in planning the way to run your home. Do things the smart way with the touch of your fingertips when you own the 

PLDT Telpad MA7R

Essential Oils - EO Philippines

Pain. Stress. Depression. A cure is needed. Relief is sought. There is pain relief, cures, and over-all wellness that may help one live a longer and healthier life.

There are so many sad stories about how medication seems to no longer work. Do we have to reach that point in time where we get desperate for a cure? Can we take action to make the necessary changes in our lives? 

Yet, there are times that we are inflicted with health problems that are hereditary or those that we are exposed. We can point-blame, we may target all the causes, and still feel that we are not doing enough for ourselves and our loved one. 

doTERRA Essential Oils
Image Credits: Aileen de Leon, bitsandbytesandpieces.blogspot.com

Face The Daily Challenges, Naturally

With the world we live in, it might seem to be a challenge yet there is an easy way to have the very air that we breathe one that makes us feel more energized and address other issues such as wanting to sleep.

As the trend is for a healthy lifestyle, to include our food and beverage consumption, being fit, and taking health supplements, and as we still must follow our doctor's advice to the letter, we may desire to fill our homes and other places that we go to with wonderful aromatherapeutic scents to bring about an additional level of feeling good and aid in us getting well.

Our experience with essential oils, especially since we are Filipino, started off since our infancy. Our grandmothers were firm believers in rubbing oil on a baby's stomach to prevent and stop colic attacks and placing oil on the chest and on the back for preventing respiratory problems. As we got older, the cold treatment would be a rub that works as a vaporizer. And, we would even be told to drink a hot citrus fruit drink to get rid of a cold. These and more natural cures worked - and now are within easy reach, from various plant extracts.

Even ancient cultures used essential oils for treatments and cure. Note that the first medicines that were used were mostly plant-based and up to today, many of the medicine that we can purchase from the pharmacy do have herbal ingredients.

Being aware that essential oils are commonly used for cures and treatments, we are also aware that there are some that are made with quality and some that diluted - and that affects the effectivity. We might also be aware that we do have some aromatic oils that seem to diffuse into the air so fast that those lose there scent. And, did you know that some essential oils can be taken internally?

Drops That Make The Difference

doTERRA provides the most tested, and most trusted essential oils on the market through careful sourcing and production. Learn how families and individuals are using dōTERRA products to empower themselves and others with these amazing gifts of the earth. With doTERRA, you can be ready for anything.

When choosing an essential oil, it should be done with the awareness that quality does make the difference in how effective it is, how long the scents and healing properties will last, and how real it is.

This US based company provides us with excellent essential oils. These are high -grade, and tested for the ideal extract composition and efficacy using the Certified Pure therapeutic Grade quality protocol

There are 2 process that are used to create these essential oils which are distillation and cold press. Though the amount of herbs to be processed to make even 1 ml of oil varies, it does adhere to the correct amount required to be considered as pure.

Longer lasting scents, faster delivery of the therapeutic properties, this brand of essential oils has a whole range of plant extracts and blends for use as a natural cure, treatment, pain relief, aromatherapy, and more. 

These essential oils can be taken internally. Take a moment to consider the essential oils that we place in many of our food products, like vanilla, lemon, and orange, and those are a few of the plant extracts available from doTERRA.

doTERRA Essential Oils

Image Credits: Aileen de Leon, bitsandbytesandpieces.blogspot.com

doTERRA has over 100 products to include for plants known for their healing, rejuvenating, as restorative powers such as Arborvitae, Cassia, Eucalyptus, Frankincense, Sandalwood, Patchouili, Spearmint, Lemongrass, Geranium, and much more like the newest releases which are Pink Pepper, Star Anise, and Green Mandarin.

There are oil blends and the topical pain reliever which is the Aromatouch - Deep Blue. There are accessories such as diffusers. 

There are also number of tutorials, demos,and seminars that you can attend like the Amazing Race National EO tour in major cities in the Philippines such as Cebu, Davao, and Taguig. These "Take Control of Your Health" seminars stressed on the importance of living long, healthy lives, and how to use the various oils, among other things. 

Take Control of Your Health Seminar, SMX Aura
Image credits: Blogger Tin Gonzaga, Today-Online

The main speakers during these events were Mario B. Brizuela, MD, Epidemiologist, who discussed how essential oils work in our body to support health and promote healing - making it a natural and easy journey to overall wellness and Elena Yordan, a dōTERRA Blue Diamond Leader and Essential Oils book author who shared invaluable information about how to find and choose what essential oils we need for our health. 

For more information, you may visit the Essential Oils - EO Philippines Facebook page or Contact: Raisa Espartines at 0905-494-1942