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It’s so nice to eat freshly baked out of the oven bread in the morning either with fried eggs, hotdogs or with any spread together with your cup of coffee, isn’t it?  Though you don’t need to bake it by yourself as there are many bakeries in the neighborhood to buy them. In our place, every morning even before the sun came up, there’s a young boy selling freshly baked breads (pandesal) and as he stopped in front of every house, he will yell “hot pandesal”. And every day it became a habit to buy even if there were still some left-over pandesals  from the other day.

These breads have three to four days shell life, just store them in an air tight container to prevent from getting hard. As they were filing-up in my bread box, I decided to re baked them instead of disposing. To give them a new flavor, I used garlic and turned them into garlic bread.

• Cut the bread into halves.
• Spread butter in one side.
• Grate the garlic using a cheese grater, it’s easier this way to get all the juices of the garlic.
• Scoop the juicy fine shredded garlic with finger and rub to the buttered bread.
• Placed them in the oven toaster and toast for 10 minutes or until the breads were slightly browned and crispy.

Another variation is using brown sugar instead of garlic to make a sweet toasted bread. This way no food will gone to waste.

Who could ever resists sweets, the cakes, candies, ice creams and chocolates? Not me for sure, I was born with a sweet tooth. lol. Dental hygiene is what our parents kept reminding us, to brush our teeth after eating those delectable food but often times specially as kids, we forgot. Our friendly dentists are delightful to see us and advice to have our teeth cleaned at least once every six months for cavity prevention. Though we want to, the dental check-up and treatment are quite costly. Good thing there is now a dental plan you can avail to provide for your medical expenses. With all the benefits of a dental discount plan you need not worry if your budget can not accommodate those treatments as these will be shouldered by your dental plan provider.

If only Ameriplan is available here, I wouldn’t have second thoughts of getting their Dental Plus Package with only $19.95 a month, the whole family or anyone living in the same household can avail of their Dental, Vision, Prescription and Chiropractic discount program. But I would definitely recommend this to my brother and sis-in-law as their whole family is now a resident there.