Behind-the-scene : Awani Pagi

Last Wednesday, I was invited again to appear on Awani Pagi, a morning talk-show with ever lovely Dangsuria and a very humble Zaiful. I arrived there very early to avoid having to go through the same bad experience as in my last show. I blogged about it here. Since both hosts were still live on-air when I arrived, I comforted myself at their pantry, where I met our internet millionaire, Irfan Khairi (IK). We talked briefly on our tv segments and blogs. IK, who is also a frequent guest at Astro, is also the host of an up-coming reality tv show, produced by Erma Fatima. Later , Zaiful came and joined me. We exchanged some notes on the topic that was about to be interviewed ‘How to shop for groceries healthily’.

We came live on air about 9.30am and the session lasted about 20minutes. I talked about how to read the nutritional labels behind the food packages. I also brought along with me some packaging samples like cereals, rice and bread – the basic food that can be found in everyone’s homes.

I am happy that it went well. Most of the infos that I intend to share did get across. However, I wish there was more time given as there were so many other things that can be shared with the viewers like how to shop for ‘fat’, how to shop for vegetables etc. There are so many ‘hidden’ truths that the food manufacturers are hiding on the packages. Well, I don’t really blame them entirely though as they are just trying to sell their products, and food needs to taste good. As consumers, we just have be aware of what we are putiing into our mouth. Often times, we are putting too much sugar and bad fat. What are the limits again?

Sugar - max of 25% of total calories

Fat – max of 30% of total calories (Personally, I use the 20% rule)

Take care everyone, and let us try to ‘preserve’ life!