Who has time to prepare delicious healthy meals every day, all while juggling deadlines? This balancing act can get all sorts of tiring—but it doesn’t have to be. All thanks to Happy Ongpauco-Tiu, one of Philippine’s culinary girl bosses, now you can serve topnotch meals even during busy days. Mom Made, Happy's latest venture in the food biz, offers ready-to-cook gourmet meals that are healthy and scrumptious. It’s perfect for people on the go!
This idea of creating Mom Made’s frozen meals is a testament to Happy’s mama-gerial (mama + manager) skills to serve nutritious meals to her four kids and husband, all while running the numerous restaurants she owns under the Happy Concept Group. She wanted to make sure that despite its convenience, all of these food kits are healthy—which is why she does not use any preservatives, MSG, and MDM (mechanically separated meat) in the process. Each food kit goes through a rapid freezing technology to preserve quality and ensure freshness, and then it's packaged beautifully with a cookbook-like box.
Each Mom Made food kit can serve 2-3 people. Choose from the many mouthwatering dishes: Cornflake Chicken Drumsticks with Honey Dip sauce, 24-Hour Crock Pot Beef Pepperoncini, Baked Parmesan Crusted Salmon, Maple Spiced Beef, and the Beer Battered Fish and Chips. If your go-to meal is pasta, a sure winner is Mom Made’s pasta sauce kit which includes Truffle Carbonara sauce, Puttanesca pasta sauce, and the Bolognese pasta sauce.
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How Happy Ongpauco-Tiu Continues Her Family Legacy While Growing Her Own Food Empire
Happy—it’s more than her name. It's also the emotion she wants every restaurant patron to experience through her food. True enough, customers step out of her dining establishments with satisfied stomachs and smiles on their faces.
“As long as the people who eat my food are happy, I’m happy, too,” she says.
Meet Happy Ongpauco-Tiu, the culinary mastermind behind a successful chain of restaurants that includes brands Pamana, Hawaiian BBQ, World Topps, and a number of other dining endeavors that go beyond the typical eatery.
The skill and discipline that Happy needed to manage a restaurant were fostered in her starting at age six. At the time, her parents, Rod Ongpauco and Liberty Ilagan, had already been running several restaurants including the popular Barrio Fiesta. In her own little way, a young Happy did her part by handing out menus to customers.
Her roots in the food industry were pretty much known, and she was beloved for it. “My teachers knew that we were in the restaurant business so I would get away with a lot of things just by bringing crispy pata to school,” she recalls.
Chef and Entrepreneur Happy Ongpauco-Tiu Launches Mom Made, Healthy and Delicious Frozen Food Products for Busy Moms
Chef Happy Ongpauco-Tiu, the entrepreneur behind multiple successful food ventures under her company Happy Concept Group, has just launched Mom Made, frozen food products for busy moms looking to feed their families with top-quality, nutritious food at home.
Packaged in a quirky cookbook-styled box, Mom Made was born out of the society chef’s commitment to serving only healthy and delicious food to her family. The 2015 Lifestyle Asia cover girl has also made sure that her products lack any MSG and only uses top-quality produce and meat. “Each meal is thoughtfully prepared in small batches to promote proper food handling. Aside from that, each box contains dishes that are individually packed for convenience and better thawing process,” Happy shared in a press release for Mom Made.
The brand also practices the highest standard of hygiene when preparing their products. Their innovative Rapid Freezing Technology allows food from Mom Made to keep its nutritional value and freshness. In addition, this process rids the meals of any bacteria and food born pathogens. Happy hopes that each Mom Made meal will bring the same happiness to your homes as it has with hers.
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We always think of the phrase “mother knows best” in relation to the things she tells her children. But that phrase is getting turned on its head somewhat with Mom Made. After all, if there’s anyone who’d be able to create the best way to cook healthy but fast and stress-free meals, it would be a mother herself.
Mom Made is the brainchild of Happy Ongpauco-Tiu, a mother and chef known for being behind a number of culinary concepts such as The Boutique Bed and Breakfast, Pamana, Private Dining, Tsokolateria, and more.
Mom Made might just be the most personal of all of chef Happy’s concepts. “Mom Made was born out of my commitment to serve healthy, high-quality, and delicious meals to my family,” Ongpauco-Tiu writes on Instagram.