Wednesday, 18 October 2017

     Hello and welcome back today's blog features 
Eat Real Healthy Snacking 

RISE OF THE HEALTHY ADULT LUNCHBOX!
If you thought packed lunches were just for kids - think again!  The number of adults swapping canteen food for lunchboxes is on the rise* as more and more people choose to satisfy their appetite for a healthier lifestyle with a healthy packed lunch.


I was sent a selection of four flavours, I had no idea what was in the box. 
So as you can imagine it was quite exciting picking up a box from the sorting office getting it home and opening it up.
Everyone enjoys crisps right?

So, shouldn't you have the choice to eat healthy also?
Of course, you should Eat Real is a healthy, light flavourful addition to your lunch box and a snack.
Sundried tomato and roasted garlic
Ridged, crisp, delicate and just enough to satisfy. 


Kale, tomato & spinach
Personally, I think these are one the best.
We all like a quirkily shaped crisp, yes we do!
These would be really good with a dip or salsa, happily, unlike some 'crisps, these are non-greasy.

Sea salt lentil chips
Eat Real are 40% less fat than the regular potato chips, they are gluten-free, suitable for vegans and have no added sugar.

Finally my favourite of all the chips
The Hummus sour cream and chives.
They are the most mouthwatering, creamy, crunchy, seductive chip known to man.
Shaped like pasta shells, these morsels are the pinnacle of any snack.
I firmly recommend they are to be tried, tasted and tested.  
To help pack a lunch punch without compromising on taste, Eat Real’s pulse and grain-based snacks deliver a healthy lunch munch in a range of on-trend flavours and are perfect for anyone either making lifestyle choices or living with dietary intolerances.  Gluten and lactose-free, and suitable for Vegan and Kosher diets, they contain significantly less fat (up to 48% less) than traditional potato crisps – and some have no added sugar.
Eat Real’s Hummus Chips, Lentil Chips, Quinoa Chips and Veggie Straws come in a wide range of yummy flavours - including Creamy Dill, Sundried Tomato & Roasted Garlic, Chilli & Lemon and Sea Salt – and in handy packs (22-25g), impulse bags for bigger appetites (30-45g) and sharing bags (80-135g).
They’re available from independent health stores and most major retail multiples including Holland & Barrett, Tesco, Co-op and Morrisons.  RRP: 50p -£1.79.
 
*Adults have consumed an extra 100 million packed lunches in the past two years (Kantar Worldwide 2017). 
                                                       
This blog was brought to you in collaboration with 
Leapfrog Food & Hospitality 


Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Bessie's vintage

Hello and welcome back
I have been very busy writing, getting published, travelling and having some huge adventures.
I found a new job on my beloved Humber Street, started writing for three magazines and am waiting to go away to The South Of France for a few weeks.

Until then though, I'd like to talk about The lovely lady that is Bessies Vintage.

Don't say who, the lady behind the brand is a total joy.
By the way, she's a new found friend.
I came across Debbie AKA Bessies Vinatge via Instagram

Debbies selective vintage eye is a magical throwback for me.
Look, I am at heart a HU5 girl, if you know me you know I love, I hoard and I collect Vintage everything. 
Debbie's beautiful eye casts me back to a shop long gone from Princes Ave's Polly Anna.
Don't be 
GREEN WITH ENVY 
though darling
those days were good, they were great.
Bessie's Vintage brings it all back!

I invited Bessie's vintage to my place and she brought a HAUL of goodies.

Debbie couldn't wait to show me the box and I couldn't wait to see what was in it. 

Crates are all the rage right now so look at this little delight for eggs.

We all know a QUEEN who'd love this for their bathroom to hang there gown on

This vintage flour dredger could have you whipping up a cake or two like Nigella Lawson 
Be a devil, make the Devils cake with it.




Debbie has a keen eye for all things up and coming. The letters are divine, they could be painted or left totally naked.


Lighting has always been a trend there are so many choices out there Bessie's stocks many great alternates


You can view Beesie's Vintage on Facebook

I couldn't help shoot this 
Led, neon style metal 
LOVE sign 
in my very own boudoir such a fitting place for something, sensual, seductive and utterly in keeping. 
There's even a news letter for when you need to purge and indulge 

Buy it here


Stary nights star light

There's a lovely little gift wrapping service! 
Now that's a service I want.


I have a huge admiration for Debbie, this is her full-time job. As a fellow self-employed lady, I know Debbie's plight and how much hard work it is. It's a dedication to doing what you love, making it work and working tirelessly because you just love it that much. 



Monday, 12 June 2017

Hello 
welcome back

I have been busy with some major private work, some consultation work, cheffing and writing for a published magazine hence any break here.

I am back though, so thanks for the wait!

Today's lunch
Whipped cream cheese Welsh Rarebit
With a hot dog mustard and a French cheese.
A side of baked, heavy seasoned tomato. Over toasted brioche fingers with a hand made red onion relish.
Home city pride, this event in Hull
Tasting table bring you this huge controversial bagel war
Boiling is the traditional manner, this place steams

Foodie biking trips
Total heaven
Via
Tasting Table
This queen,
forget Beyonce, she's shit!

This space

Lunch never looked so good! 
Steamed eggs, smoked bacon & sourdough 
Home cooking at it's best
Dating don'ts 
Some hellish kinda tweets

Relatable shit if you are dating

Really guys?
That burn 
My all time FAVE show 
First Dates 
Made a splash with this moron

Archdaily 
brings you this and I LOVE it
If you read regularly you'll know I love a good English Sunday Roast, I love to call 
No6 Kitchenette 
Chris answers, know's what I want and even cracks a bottle of red open for me ready & waiting. 
Now that is good customer service
My home girl releasing ANOTHER amazing track/video

Now be honest we have ALL been there
Thanks Buzzfeed

High

Nothing beats some peace, ultimate peace of my Ella Street garden
Full of flowers, sitting areas, fruits, veggies growing and most of all sunshine
Inhabitat
Sends you this glorification 
A fellow pastry chef and  fellow "facebook" friend started his own magazine
Congrats Nick Muncy, congrats
See it here
Divine dining 
Via
Tasting table
Import
Saveur
The morning after the night before, testing some Korean facial products. Needless to say, it worked, my skin is plump (I must admit I don't have deep wrinkles actually I don't have any) but the product I tested was non-evasive, delicate and the effects was I would buy it for an every other week pick me up 

Guy Bourdin, visuals
via
AnOther
This ever so sweet video from a man who brought many of us up to learn all that's good in the world
Sir David Attenborough
Decor GOALS
From 
MADE.COM
Dinner with Friends on Humber Street
Cakes 'N art, 
yes art these are truly stunning 
Okay, okay I may have changed base on my place to go on a Sunday morning.
I have a sense of guilt over that, I love Harry's it's a blessed space but 
Zoo, Newland Avenue 
Is a walk away for this HU5 girl and I love rocking up for a cuppa, sitting in peace knowing my place is a five minute sunny walk away.

Knew it and so did you 

We all know a messy chef

I have an infinitive love for gelato and ice cream
Yes, you read right gelato and ice cream
I have had both far and wide all over the world 
Upon having a foodie conversation 
(very normal in my world)
I was told about 
Zachary's
Of course, an eager friend took me, I have to say this far out ways any other in Hull
Yes I said it and it's true, not only is it very very pretty.
Matching the famous Harrods parlor (Yes I have been and it was divine) even dare I say my favorite and adored Fortnum and Masion 
(forgive me F&M you have my heart) 
This is a pure delight, devoted to splendid decor high back stools, studded and glorious. 
Padded and sumptuous seating built in with ever so pretty lighting. Zachary's has no match, the blueberry frozen yoghurt was not only crisp, sweet, generously served it was deep in flavour as well as colour.
I normally opt for a chocolate anything, through sheer unwilling and devout love for it but this was a very fair trade and now I want more!

Feet dangling like a child, after all, doesn't ice cream just take you back to that time and feeling?

I work with fish most days, I never home cook fish which is crazy.
This is oven baked haddock
with a fresh mango, chipotle hot salsa
DWELL 
smashing design every time
Now 'N then we all need to laugh 
COS gauffing (mainly that word)
 is for w@nkers, remember that the urban dictonary can make you sound like a total shitter