Nine photos to wrap up my year in 2024
I can’t believe another year has rolled around and it’s already time to write my end-of-year post.
This year, we accomplished many Continue reading
The Flashfood fridge at Loblaws McCowan, Markham
Use the Flashfood app to save 50% or more on unsold food and items at participating grocery stores like No Frills, Loblaws, Real Canadian Superstore, and more. It’s my family’s best used app for buying discounted goods!
Here is my monthly wrap-up of what we bought. In December 2024, we spent $241.23 (!). Continue reading
18 surprise bags purchased in December 2024
Use the Too Good To Go app to rescue unsold food from going to waste! Participating restaurants and stores will put together “surprise bags” for one third of the retail price and customers purchase it on the app and then go to pick it up in store. It’s a fun way to explore new restaurants and stores around you while saving food from being wasted and getting a great deal on food too! Each store has a different rating, depending on how well they assemble the surprise bags. Continue reading
Happy 2nd birthday to my secondborn child! 😘
Week 222 of motherhood with 4 year old and 2 year old(!): Continue reading
Miss Qu Barbecue & Restaurant located at 505 Hwy 7, Unit 91-92, Thornhill
Last Friday night, we had a mommy-daughter date at Miss Qu Barbecue & Restaurant (曲小姐江湖菜烧烤酒馆). I spotted this restaurant the last time that the husband and I had date night in this plaza. Miss Qu Barbecue & Restaurant is a new restaurant to grace the restaurant scene at Commerce Gate Continue reading
Best haul this month: $0.44 for each item!! (Original price of one is $6)
I am a huge fan of the Flashfood app where I can buy discounted groceries for my family consistently. Continue reading
All the surprise bags I bought from Too Good to Go in November 2024
A food waste prevention app called Too Good To Go is making waves around the country. Have you used it before? Continue reading
Pine House Cafe located at 5661 Steeles Ave E, Unit 21 in Scarborough
We found ourselves in the east side of Markham and I chose Pine House Cafe (松屋) for us to have our late lunch. We had been in this Milliken Crossing plaza many times (where Matsuda, Da Fu Seafood Restaurant, Jatujak, SumiLicious, and Nguyen Huong Vietnamese Sandwich are, to name a few) and hadn’t tried this Hong Kong style cafe out before.
Arriving there at 2 p.m. on a Saturday, we waited a couple of minutes before a booth table was cleared for us. It was really busy in there despite the Continue reading
Flashfood fridges seen at Vi’s No Frills
Flashfood is the best app for saving money. It’s a free app where you can buy items that are nearing their “sell by” date for 50% off or more of their original price.
The 10 surprise bags I got in October 2024
A food waste prevention app called Too Good To Go is a fun way to try new restaurants and buy food for cheap! Restaurants that participate on this free app can sell “surprise bags” of food that they weren’t able to sell by day’s end for 1/3rd of the original retail price. Continue reading
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