Hello, my dear fellow Hiver friends! I hope you're all doing well. I wanted to share a little glimpse into a typical day in our lives, especially the journey of how we got into the sausage business. Today was another busy day. After finishing my housework, my husband began preparing 30 kilos of minced pork for making sausages. We’ve been working on fulfilling an order for 100 kilos of sausages, and it’s always a team effort when we’re getting down to it. He started by preparing the Italian-flavored sausage, which is one of our best sellers. While he worked on that, he asked me to wash the intestines, which we use to make the sausage casings. It’s a bit of a messy job, but it’s all part of the process. After that, he set up the manual sausage filling machine, which we use to stuff the sausages. It’s not a fancy automated machine, but it gets the job done. Once the machine was all set up, we were ready to start. My husband weighed the meat once again to make sure we had the right amount, and then we jumped into action. He worked on filling the sausages, while I focused on tying off the ends and cutting them into perfect links. Each pack needed to have exactly 12 sausages, so I spent a lot of time measuring and packing them carefully. It’s a repetitive task, but there’s something satisfying about getting everything just right. We worked through the afternoon, and by 6:30 p.m., we had finished for the day. Afterward, we had some tea, and I took a well-deserved bath to relax a bit before starting on my article about sausages.
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Now, let me share with you a little more about how we ended up in this business. It’s been a long road, and we’ve faced our fair share of challenges. After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, our lives took a huge turn. We were already struggling, but COVID pushed us to our breaking point. During the pandemic, we had to close down our construction business, which had been the backbone of our livelihood. Then, after the lockdown, we lost our hardware business as well. To make matters worse, we had invested everything into our farm, where we had over 5,000 chickens. Unfortunately, a virus wiped them all out, and then our ducks, also numbering around 5,000, became sick and died as well. It was a devastating blow, and we were left with nothing. At that point, we had to close the farm too, and with it went our last source of income. To make matters even more difficult, the bank took our house and my car. It felt like the world was closing in on us, and we had no idea how we would move forward. But my husband, ever the resourceful man, had his Hilux, a truck we used for business, and he started driving for Lalamove just to make ends meet. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to help us survive.
One day, however, he came to me with some good news. He had found a meat factory that offered very reasonable prices for small businesses. This was a turning point for us. After thinking about it carefully, we decided to start an online meat store. It was a huge leap, but we had nothing left to lose. We started small, but over time, things began to pick up. Eventually, we decided to diversify and offer Filipino sausages, something I knew my fellow Filipinos here in Malaysia would love. It didn’t take long before my husband came up with the idea to create 20 different flavors of gourmet sausages. We got to work, experimenting with different seasonings and meats until we found the perfect recipes. Now, years later, our small sausage business is still going strong, and we’re proud of how far we’ve come. One of the biggest milestones was when we started supplying one of Malaysia’s top grocery brands. They have 20 outlets, and we’re honored to be part of their offering. We’re not asking for much—we just want to keep doing things the right way and hope to make a living doing what we love. Looking to the future, we’re hopeful that one of our five kids will carry on the sausage business. We want them to do even better than we did and take it to new heights. It’s a dream of ours that one of them will find success and bring our family business to even greater heights, but for now, we’re grateful for how far we’ve come and excited about what’s to come. That’s our story. It’s
been a long, hard road, but we’ve persevered, and we’re proud of what we’ve built together. We hope our journey can inspire others to keep pushing forward, no matter how tough life gets.
God bless your small business Madame! I am happy you found a meat supplier for your sausage links. Great thing you found a good partner that has the same goals as yours.
Thank you for reading my story an yes we have a really hard time but we support each other, that's a good thing when we have someone supportive will lessen a bit the heaviness.
Congratulations on small your business, running a business with the support of your partner in life is always the best and your children are so lucky they have you as a parent.
thank you for reading my story, and yes that's a huge gift I receive from god to have partner in life always beside me and supportive whatever situation become lighter when have someone can understand you even in one look.
That is true, you are both lucky to have each other, I admire you both 😀 I wish your business to grow more and more in the future :D
thank you for your nice comments and a good wish for our business, I really wish to that the universe will give our family a prosperous life.
You're WELCOME :D
Congrats teach for having a business and having a good partner, both of you are resourceful on how to handle the challenges. Through your perseverance no doubt your business will grow big.
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I hope your business is well 😍😍 I bet your sausages are really yummy if I was close I will be sure your costumer my hubby love sausages. 😍😍
Yes, the sausage is good so many expats here in Malaysia every week ordering us with they are meat all groups of friends and families. I'm not bragging but it's really got standard because I always compare our sausage to the high-class supermarket, I will buy few brands and flavors to compare our sausage ours is better.
I am glad you found success in that endeavor. Continue making progress over there. Be an inspiration to us fellow Filipinos that no matter where we end up we should always be determined to go after opportunities and make wise decisions. Take care and keep thriving over there. Best of luck to your future endeavors.
Yes, this is why I love sharing my story and experience to inspire others, and most of all I'm showing my children how to deal the roller coaster life, I showing them how to handle and face all the trials in life.
Sausage-making while blogging (or the other way around heheh). Such an inspiring background story of how the sausage business started. You did not let those challenges win over you, instead you rose victorious over those difficulties. I can say that the products surely taste good because you are supplying your products to famous grocery store with many outlet. Not every small businesses have the capacity to do this. More power to your business!
Thank you that you read my story and understand the how many downfalls, Yah, we have to just go on despite all the trials we can't stop just move on and find something to do. life is full of creativities some reason why this happens to our life it because if we still in the situation we don't discover more.
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wow!..this is a good business ,your a hardworking wife and mom.