Making Mcdonald's Memorable

Day #3. Cell Group meeting at Mcdonald's Recto-Loyola

Meet Maren and Ycel. Yes I just met them, too. But if you had heard us swapping stories and kidding around at Mcdonald's last night, you wouldn't have guessed that. Its always amazing when I meet people like that, like they trust you as if they had known you for years. And you couldn't stop talking as if you were long lost friends.

Little sleep and yet, beauties all the same.

Both Maren and Ycel are Accountancy Board reviewees. To those of you who have gone through such a thing as a board exam (I haven't), you know what they must feel about the use of their time. But I am so proud of them for seeing the importance of putting God first in everything. Already I'm learning much from these girls.

Dear Girls, I thank you for your trust and for "sacrificing" part of your free time study time so we can talk about life and lessons and God. I praise God for bringing us together at such a time as this.

Yeah, ok, next time I will try to include food in the pictures. And somewhere more interesting than Mcdonald's, I hope. :)

Behold The 30-day Food Blog Challenge

Yes. I am finally signing up for this. I have been thinking about how to do a blog challenge consistent with the theme of this so called food blog and I finally decided on this one. Here is how it came about:

Day #1. Norma at Mcdonald's UST (aka my favorite Mcdonald's branch in Metro Manila)

 

 

Mr backpack guy had a good sense to get out of there..but left his bag!! :D

I invited Norma, my officemate and friend, to our Super Friends Sunday at church telling her we had a very special guest (no less than people's champion and disciple of Christ, Manny Pacquiao :)). The previous day she had gone to a decision making seminar of sorts with our other friend and her church youth group. I was so blessed by her coming and sharing some lessons she has learned because I knew those are what she needed right now (Hurrah for answered prayers!). I feel that this is her breakthrough season and I praise God immensely for it! 

And so i had wanted to do a post about her saying how blessed I was, indeed. That's when the idea for a blog collection of portraits came. But then this is a food blog, right? So I had to improvise there a bit.

Hence, this. 30-Day Dates Blog Challenge, now playing.

One Quick One

I usually go to Mcdonald's after my morning runs out of habit. Since that would be in the early morning i couldn't have my usual pig-out meal of Quarter- pounder burger so I'd try out different breakfast things. Recenly I've been getting the Big Breakfast meal (lots of protein) with orange juice. One cold morning I traded in my juice for hot choco and had a brilliant idea...

So there was my jam, just sitting there because I didn't think it matched the taste of the muffins. Then i decided to dump it into the hot chocolate. Tada! Instant Strawberry Chocolate drink. Next time I'll try this with a helping of Ice cream.

Mcdonalds Apple Pie a la Mode

A friend of mine shared to me this genius Mcdonald's combo:

This has been my favorite after fries and Quarter Pounder burgers since.
It doesn't look so appetizing in this picture but it works because
                   1)their Apple pie is quite decent
  2)the ice cream tastes good
  3)(the best part) its only 38Php or less than a dollar

P.S. if you want to use this reciepe, please contact me and I'll TELL my friend. no, seriously.