Food

Tuesdays are kind of mid, understand? They don’t have the excitement of Wednesdays, when you can truly feel your week beginning to wind down, but they’re not as dreadful as Mondays either. Some people even think it’s the most monotonous day of the week. However, Taco Bell has got your back and it doesn’t have to be that way!

With Taco Bell’s most recent Taco Tuesday promotion, available throughout the entire month of May, you may enjoy your preferred Naked Chicken Taco for just P99 as opposed to its usual price of P239. That’s a saving of P140!

With a heaping serving of shredded fresh lettuce, fresh tomatoes, cheddar cheese, and sour cream all encased in a chicken taco shell that has been batter-fried to a crisp perfection, go for something brave and courageous. It’s a wonderful method to get a fresh taco experience.

Your neighborhood Taco Bell restaurant offers this mouthwatering deal for dine-in and take-out customers. OR you can phone the 8911-1111 hotline and have it delivered right to your door. You can also place an order through foodpanda and grabfood, which are Taco Bell’s authorized delivery partners. Pricing varies.

By liking and following Taco Bell on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, you can stay up to date with the company’s most recent news, promotions, and special offers.

Who is to say that you can’t relish the tender flavor of roast beef every day? You may now enjoy roast beef whenever you have a desire for it thanks to the Roast Beef & Cream Cheese Overload® Pizza from Greenwich, the nation’s top pizza company. With prices starting at P345, Greenwich’s Overload Creations pizza range includes this creative overloaded offer as a premium taste.

“This is our most indulgent, premium beef pizza yet. The Roast Beef & Cream Cheese Overload® Pizza is full of flavor and savory goodness! As always, we want to give you a deliciously awesome food trip with the barkada, with an overload pizza creation that is incredibly filling,” said Ali de Torres, Greenwich’s Head of Marketing.

Fresh from the oven, the Roast Beef & Cream Cheese Overload® Pizza from Greenwich features a cream cheese crust, a layer of flavorful, succulent roast beef, and sauteed onions and mushrooms. There will be two sizes available: Double (P345) and Barkada (P585).

Greenwich will also provide a special Mother’s Day Bundle that includes one Double Size 9-inch Roast Beef & Cream Cheese Overload® Pizza and three Lasagna Supreme® Chicken Combo for only P699 because moms deserve to be honored!

Beginning on May 8, 2023, the Mother’s Day Bundle will be offered at all Greenwich locations across the country for dine-in and take-out exclusively. Additionally, you can order Roast Beef & Cream Cheese Overload® Pizza online at www.greenwichdelivery.com, through GrabFood, or through food delivery services like foodpanda.com. You can reach them by calling their hotline at #5-55-55.

Visit Greenwich’s official Facebook page, Greenwich Barkada, for further details, or send the page a Facebook Messenger message.

Celebrations, processions, and festivals. Many of us have fond recollections of bright costumes, pounding drums, echoing chanting, and fiesta events brimming with authentic Filipino cuisine that were primarily held during the sweltering summer months. I’m so glad that I had the chance to experience the taste of these delectable flavors of gulaman. This is so perfect for the summertime as it compliments the meryenda session, and will surely aid your thirst. As I tried these dessert dishes with my own version it will surely be a must try for everyone, you can make your own dishes too.

Make your dessert buffet stand out while maintaining the tradition, as almost every home serves their specialties during the summer fiesta season. Serve Filipino fiesta meryenda made with Mr. Hat Gulaman’s recipes to experience the distinctive and wonderful tropical flavors of the country.

After dancing to the pulse of summertime celebrations, cool off by indulging in some sweet and creamy panna cotta, cool buko pandan sago gulaman, mango-flavored halo-halo, or vibrant jelly cake or fruity jelly. The fiesta dessert spreads, which are all produced using Mr. Hat Gulaman’s jelly powders come in a variety of tastes that are sure to please visitors and make celebrations more special. Hala, Bira Meryenda!

Serve the tropical fruit jelly cake using Mr. Hat Gulaman’s orange and white jelly powders with your mix of favorite fruits, coconut milk and sugar.

Make the mango jelly and vanilla panna cotta using ripe mangoes, mango nectar and puree, yellow and white unflavored Mr. Hat Gulaman, milk, sugar, cream, vanilla extract, and salt. You can swap the mango flavor with buko pandan, coffee jelly, or your preferred flavor. Swap the color of the unflavored jelly powder as well to match.

Give the traditional sapin-sapin a twist by making a jelly version using white, yellow and red Mr. Hat Gulaman unflavored jelly powder. For this dessert creation, you will also need ube flavoring, coconut milk, condensed milk, glutinous rice flour and water.

For uniquely Filipino recipes such as crema de fruta, coconut gulaman cooler, ube taho or strawberry taho jelly, champurrado jelly pudding, among others, check out Mr. Hat Gulaman’s recipes here –  https://seanlucinc.com/recipes/?category=mr-hat-gulaman.

With its unique blend of carrageenan, sugar, and other flavorings, Mr. Hat Gulaman’s jelly powders can be used to make a variety of traditional fiesta desserts. Mr. Hat Gulaman’s jelly powders are versatile, easy to use, and perfect for all your meryenda needs. Whether you’re celebrating a local fiesta or simply looking for a refreshing summer treat, Mr. Hat Gulaman has got you covered.

Make your own traditional and memorable fiesta drinks and dessert menu using tropical gulaman flavors such as buko pandan, mango, orange, lychee, strawberry, grape and even coffee.

Match the colorful fiesta colors and create your own distinct flavor using Mr. Hat Gulaman’s unflavored gulaman which comes in black, orange, yellow, white, red and green colors.

Distinctly Pinoy

Mr. Hat Gulaman is a popular dessert ingredient in the Philippines that can be used to make a variety of sweet treats, such as jelly, flan, pudding and other types of desserts.

Seanluc, Inc., a food and beverage manufacturer with its headquarters in the Philippines and a number of goods, makes Mr. Hat Gulaman. The best natural seaweed extract is used to make its jelly powder. Carrageenan, sugar, flavorings, and colorings are all used in its production. A frequent ingredient used in food items as a gelling agent is carrageenan, a sort of seaweed-derived substance.

Money is not an issue with Mr. Hat Gulaman. For your fiesta and regular meryenda meals, get all Mr. Hat Gulaman flavors! Lazada, Shopee, and other national retailers all sell Mr. Hat Gulaman.

Visit the Mr. Hat Gulaman Website for additional information. On TikTok and Facebook, follow Mr. Hat Gulaman.

How to cook: (my own version of Mr. Gulaman)

1. Prepare six (6) cups or 1.5 liters of water (not warm or hot) in a casserole.
2. Gradually sprinkle one sachet of Mr. Hat Gulaman in water and stir until dissolved.
3. Heat. Stir constantly until it boils, “add sugar or milk to sweeten, I also add pineapple to add flavor on the gulaman.
4. Slowly pour mixture into mold and let it set.

McDonald’s Philippines outperformed its pre-pandemic (2019) sales performance in 2022, setting new records for sales.

The quick service restaurant (QSR) giant, which is owned and run by its Chairman and Owner Dr. George T. Yang and President and CEO Kenneth Yang, credits its performance to its ongoing commitment to offering customers value for money, exciting limited-time menu offers, and an elevated omnichannel customer experience.

“McDonald’s Philippines’ strong performance in 2022 wouldn’t have been possible if not for the trust and continuous support of our customers all over the country. As we aim to consistently improve how we serve McDonald’s favorites to every Filipino, we are equally committed to providing feel-good experiences to our people [crew and managers] who make it all happen in our stores, and in communities where we operate for many years to come,” said Kenneth Yang, President and CEO of McDonald’s Philippines. 

Feeling good, feeling safe

Since the establishment of its first location in Morayta, Manila, in 1981, McDonald’s Philippines has upheld international standards for food safety and quality in the production and delivery of its meals, whether customers eat in, carry out, use the drive-thru, or get McDelivery.

As part of its M Safe program, which was launched in 2020, this was further improved during the pandemic. In order to improve its third-party food safety audit findings and customer perception scores on safety and trust, the company doubled down on its efforts in food safety and quality through ongoing monitoring, crew and manager training, and other means.

Since the launch of M Safe, the company’s findings on ‘brand trust’ increased by 5.4% which contributed to increased dine-in guest count, lifting market share for McDonald’s in 2022.

Setting the standard for doing good 

McDonald’s takes pride in its global learning and development programs from Crew Training to Restaurant Leadership courses to its Digital Academy. As one of the biggest employers in the country, McDonald’s Philippines believes that everyone has the opportunity to grow and succeed in the company which starts by first having job security. McDonald’s is the first quick-service restaurant in the country to practice a direct hiring policy, providing regular employment to all its crew members. In 2022, McDonald’s Philippines hired more than 17,000 new employees in support of its new store openings—employing working students regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. 

To date, the company has close to 60,000 employees in over 700 stores across the Philippines— with over 47,000 employees in Luzon, close to 6,000 employees in Visayas, and 5,000 employees in Mindanao.  

Serving meals with kindness 

McDonald’s also prioritizes its commitment to the communities where it operates. To serve meals to underserved families without access to food, McDonald’s Philippines launched the Kindness Kitchen, a flagship program of its charity of choice, Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC). 

In December 2022, Kindness Kitchen has served over 800,000 meals, a 33% increase from 600,000 meals served in May. The initiative aims to serve 1 million meals by the end of 2023. 

McDonald’s is an example of constantly moving one step ahead in upholding its dedication to world-class excellence because it continuously improves the quality of the food, offers career possibilities to its employees, and has a beneficial impact on communities.

Yang reiterates, “It is these customers we serve, the people working in our restaurants and communities that we help that inspire and motivate us to be and do better. As many Filipinos continue to face challenges and recover from the pandemic, we want to be a place where they can experience feel-good moments. We want to be a company that Filipinos today and the future can trust.” 

Since industry and society benefit from having access to a clean, sustainable supply, water continues to be the most valuable resource on earth. Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc. (PCPPI), the sole producer of PepsiCo products in the nation, is committed to protecting the environment. One of these obligations is using ethical, responsible practices to manage its water consumption in cooperation with its many partners.

World Water Day is observed on March 22nd, and in addition to putting industry best practices and rules into place, PCPPI promotes process improvement to further optimize how water is used throughout all aspects of operations. “Maintaining our dedication to responsible water stewardship extends beyond having the procedures and guidelines necessary for our personnel to perform their duties successfully. As part of our advocacy, we urge our staff to embrace innovation,” said Frederick D. Ong, president and CEO of PCPPI.

Strategic plans supported by strong partnerships The water resource management policies of PCCPI are embodied in the Luntiang Yaman program, which covers the organization’s sustainability efforts.

These include the 3Rs approach to manage water consumption: reduce, re-use, and recycle. Other than reducing water use,

PCPPI also has protocols in place to optimize electricity use, optimize fuel yield, manage solid waste output, and community engagement. PCCPI also works with government authorities in the communities where it operates. For example, the organization actively works with the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) to periodically assess the health of the waterways in the communities they operate alongside multi-sectoral groups.

Sto. Tomas: Shifting the traditional mindset PCPPI’s commitment to responsible water management is demonstrated in its manufacturing facilities, particularly in Sto. Tomas, Batangas. The plant has twice-received PCPPI’s Galing at Sikap Plant Excellence Award in Sustainability in 2021 and 2022. This recognition is given to the business units with the highest performance ratings on key focus areas of operations, including environmental resource management.

“The Sto. Tomas facility was lauded for its efforts in consuming water and energy in the most economical way, thereby minimizing environmental impact,” Ong added. According to Plant Manager Chrysler Salcedo, one of the best practices at work at the Sto. Tomas plant includes setting definitive operating hours for optimum target volume of water required, both for the products to be manufactured and for its manpower’s daily water consumption. This encourages all employees to become more mindful in their water use in daily operations. Regular training sessions on resource conservation are also scheduled, and serve as checkpoint meetings where employees can proactively address potential areas of concern.

“Open communication and collaboration make even the most complex policies work. In Sto. Tomas, it remains important for our team to engage in discussions about how we can best manage the resources we look after: water, electricity, and oil, among others,” said Salcedo. “To become more effective in our industry, we recognize the value of implementing more creative, cost-efficient policies so that we can better serve our communities,” he added. Strategic and planned updates in the Sto. Tomas plant have also been implemented to further manage how the facility consumes water, one of which involves decreasing the frequency of production line Clean-in-Place (CIP) procedures. These pertain to the overall cleaning of equipment used after continuous production.

“We shifted to a 72-hour cycle, which will allow us to save 780 liters of water a week. Combined with our stringent sanitation protocols, we are confident that our operations will continue to meet internal and industry standards while maximizing financial and resource savings,” Salcedo explained.

In this nation, PCPPI is the sole maker of PepsiCo beverages. Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, 7-Up, Mirinda, Mug, Gatorade, Sting, Tropicana, Lipton Iced Tea, Milkis, Chum Churum Soonhari, and Premier are just a few of the well-known brands that are distributed by this company. Visit www.pepsiphilippines.com for more details on PCPPI and its products.

Greet the warm weather with gulaman, a delicious delight from the tropics and our collective childhood! With the uniquely Filipino flavors of buko pandan and mango from Mr. Hat Gulaman, make Summeryenda times more memorable while remaining cool and hydrated.

Complement your Summeryenda menu by preparing cool, refreshing snacks, desserts, and drinks with various tropical gulaman tastes like orange, lychee, strawberry, grape, and even coffee.

Do you desire additional tastes? Use Mr. Hat Gulaman’s unflavored gulaman, which is available in black, orange, yellow, white, red, and green colors, to indulge and create your own summer concoctions.

Bring the summer vibe with you wherever you are with the versatile gulaman – at the beach, a picnic in the park, on a hiking adventure, or hanging out in each other’s homes. Make jelly drinks or “samalamig”, flans, gulaman desserts, even gummies you can nibble on. The possibilities are endless.

Mr. Hat Gulaman has perfectly captured the Filipino taste. A popular flavor in the Philippines, the mango-flavored Mr. Hat Gulaman powder has a sweet and fruity taste that is perfect for summer desserts.

Buko Pandan is a Filipino dessert that typically features a mix of coconut and pandan flavors. Mr. Hat Gulaman’s buko pandan-flavored jelly powder captures this unique taste and can be used to make buko pandan salad.

Mr. Hat Gulaman’s strawberry-flavored jelly powder has a sweet and tangy taste that is perfect for making strawberry-flavored desserts that kids especially love.

What are you in the mood for? What is your favorite gulaman recipe? Whip it up with Mr. Hat Gulaman!

Mr. Hat Gulaman is a product of Filipino firm Seanluc, Inc. Its jelly powder is made from the finest natural seaweed extract. It is made from a mixture of carrageenan, sugar, flavorings and colorings.

Carrageenan is a type of seaweed-derived ingredient that is commonly used as a gelling agent in food products, while sugar is added for sweetness. Additional ingredients such as fruit flavors and food colorings are added to create unique flavors and colors.

Making jelly using Mr. Hat Gulaman does not require elaborate preparations. This makes drinks and dessert creation quicker, without sacrificing quality and flavor.

Even those on a tight budget can take on Mr. Hat Gulaman. To keep cool and refreshed this summer, stock up with Mr. Hat Gulaman varieties! Grab Mr. Hat Gulaman in all flavors and colors from Lazada, Shopee, and other local retail locations.

Check out the Mr. Hat Gulaman Website for more information and updates. See Mr. Hat Gulaman on TikTok and Facebook.