Tuesday 28 October 2014

Review: Breville Blend Active

Before we go any further I want to make it clear this is not a sponsored review I bought this product with my own money to review for you guys.
Recently I have been seeing this blender on various YouTube videos and was curious to see if it was any good.
I have tried various blenders for example the Kenwood smoothie to go, Blentec, Russle Hobbs Blender and a Lakeland Blender.
All good for different thing but this time I was looking for a easy clean, quic and simple blender. I also wanted it strong enough to blend ice.

So I paid £20 for this blender as it was in the Argos sale, however I only got 1 cup with it there are various pack with 2 or even 4 cups for a higher price.

So to test it out I made myself a green smoothie.
What i put in it:-
5 large pieces of ice
1 1/2 handfuls of frozen berries
1 banana
Milk
1 handful of British green leaves
1 tbsp peanut butter


The blend active had no problem blending it into a nice smooth consistency. The only thing I was left with was the seeds from the berries which I expected as its difficult to find a blender that will totally blitz the seeds.
Only having 4 pieces, the motor, the blade, the cup and the cup lid it is easy to store nd very easy to clean.

Overall I am very pleased with this blender it is up there with the £300 blentec. Definitely worth buying.

Monday 27 October 2014

Weight Gain/Body Changes......

So after you have a baby loosing weight is really difficult. My son is now 2 months and 3 weeks old but I am still gaining so much weight. I thought it would be easy to loose all the weight I gained during pregnancy. When you are going through pregnancy your body is out through so much and takes ages to repair itself.
I walk my dog twice a day I am up and down like a yoyo dealing with Leland and doing housework so I can't understand where I am going wrong.
So today I decided it was time to make more of an effort to try loose weight because it is affecting me in more ways than my clothes being tight, I have very little confidence to go places on my own and I feel like everyone will look at me and think I'm fat.
Today was the start of healthy eating we had hot chorizo salad. A combination of grapes mushrooms, chorizo, caramelised onion chutney, balsamic glaze and salad leads.


Its a pretty simple and quick recipe.


Final outcome!

Fingers crossed I can shift this weight so I can marry Joe next year when I get my confidence back.

Tomorrows a new day and a new start for exercise and healthy eating.

Saturday 25 October 2014

Money Problems and Planning A Shopping List

Today has not been the best day.
Getting news that you won't get help paying for rent and then they double your rent arrears, because they stop paying 2 month ago with out telling you!

Now I really have to get my bum into gear and organise money.

So today I spent my day watching videos on how to plan Your meals.
Obviously I can't stick to them religiously as sometimes my fiance doesn't get home till hlf ten which is a bit late to eat.
I sat and looked through all my cook books and put sticky post it page markers at every recipe I fancied.


I gave a colour to each meal.
Orange = breakfast
Green = lunch
Yellow = tea
Pink =sweet snacks\desserts

So after all that i got another piece of paper and put it into sections. Meat, Veg, Tins and Other.


So flicking through the recipes I was writing down all the ingredients I needed and how much I needed, and that was my shopping list.

Not shopping till Wednesday so fingers crossed I can keep to my shopping list.


Friday 24 October 2014

Let's Bake...... Pretzels!!!

So you know when you have those days when all you want is something sweet but a bit savoury at the same time.
Well today was that kind of day for me.
So I made pretzels!


So I cheated and used the bread maker but it will just end the same way and it would if I made it by hand it!


Raw pretzels! Mmmm... Tasty


So after 8-10 minutes I have lovely golden brown Pretzels. Not all the perfect size or shape but as a first attempt they are not too bad.
Now for the exciting bit...
TIME TO ADD THE CINNAMON SUGAR!!!

Obviously you can add any topping like chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, melted nutella the list is endless.


End result!
Cinnamon Sugared Pretzels.

If you want the recipe leave me a comment!





Thursday 23 October 2014

Get To Know Me...

Since this is the first time we have met, here is a little bit about me: I am a bubbly, coffee drinking, dog loving, sweet treat loving, red haired mum to a beautiful baby boy.
My name is Megan-Lavinia: Lavinia after the character in the Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus (my mum fell in love with the name when she studied the play at school)
I live at home with my fiancé, my dog and my son.
I spend most of my free time; creating, crafting, taking photos, buying way too much stationary and just enjoying spending time with the people I love. Life is pretty normal for me!
I started this blog to share stuff I create, what I get up to and my challenge of  organizing and get through day to day life as its not always easy being a 19 year old mum.
Anyway that's just a little bit about me.
I hope you stay and hang out.

I'm just starting out so any hints, tips and constructive criticism would be much appreciated.

Thanks guys
Megan xx