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9bar Breakfast Energy Boost Review

The first time I came across 9bar was when I visited their stall at the Good Food show and I instantly fell in love with their Original and Peanut bars. They are packed full of delicious seeds, nuts and a thin layer of chocolate! They are flavoursome and so easy to eat. They are not too hard nor are they too dry.

Early April, they have launched the deliciously moist & chewy wholefood 9bar Breakfast, available in four mouth-watering flavours. 9bar Breakfast is a convenient, nutritious breakfast alternative with the right mix of carbs and protein to provide the slow release energy you need to get through the morning rush hour. They are gluten and wheat free.

9 bar breakfast review

Halloween Zombie Fingers

Halloween is coming soon. Have you thought of what you are going to bake? If not, why not try baking these Zombie fingers. I am not a professional baker, but just an enthusiastic amateur baker. I believe you could bake better fingers than me. This is a recipe from Patsie Cheong, One Day One Dish book which I bought while in Singapore. I have altered the recipe slightly to suit the Halloween theme.

halloween zombie fingers cookies

Pretty Pink Halloween Pumpkin

This year, we are doing things slightly differently with our pumpkin and making it pretty unique. Ms C’s favourite colour is pink and so we decided to paint our Halloween pumpkin pink and call this girly pumpkin Emma.

Last week while both kids were in school, I went to the supermarket and bought a large pumpkin. Always remember to check the surface of a pumpkin for holes or mould, making sure it is firm and not soft.

Painted pink flowery pumpkin

Grand Designs with British Gas

Mr C and I always love to watch Grand Designs presented by Kevin McCloud on Channel 4. We like to dream about how we are going to transform and equip our house with lots of gadgets!

Grand Designs has been exhibiting for years now and we never had a chance to go. We were so pleased that British Gas kindly gave us and one of my blog readers tickets to go to see the exhibition. As we had never been before, we didn’t quite know what to expect for the exhibition.

We arrived there quite late and it was really busy with massive amounts of people inside the exhibition halls. There were split into different categories like garden, innovation, kitchen, building etc. The first thing that caught my eyes were kitchen! We had a look at all the different brands of kitchen appliances and worktops. I always dream of having a well equipped kitchen with the latest gadgets. Well, for now, I can only dream as it is outside our budget to redo a kitchen!

British Gas Grand Designs

Hundreds and Thousands Mini Cake

This is a recipe from One Day One Dish book by SeaShore publishers which I bought when we were in Singapore. In the book, the recipe is called Chocolate Rice Sprinkle but instead I replaced the chocolate rice with Hundreds and Thousands.

hundreds and thousands mini cookies

Cat’s Tongue Cookies

Cat’s Tongue Cookies is another recipe from The Secret of Cookies by Gu Huixue. I totally love this book my friend bought for me in Singapore! One of the ingredients is cake flour which I replaced with plain flour.

Cat’s Tongue Cookies tea party

Simply Granola Bread

Making your own bread? Why not try adding granola, dates and walnuts or olives? Making bread can be so much fun! We have received a packet of Jordans Simply Granola crunchy baked oats with a hint of honey to try which is available to buy in Waitrose and Tesco at RRP £2.69 for 750g.

simply granola bread jordans

Almond & Sunflower Seed Tuiles

This is another recipe from The Secret of Cookies by Gu Huixue. In her book she has a recipe to bake almond tuiles. Instead of using all almond flakes, I am using a mix of sunflower seeds and almond flakes. Also one of the ingredients is cake flour which I replaced with plain flour.

Almond & Sunflower Seed Tuiles

Tuesday Tutorials Week 35 Food

A huge welcome to Week 35 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week I am featuring food. Each week after watching Great British Bake Off, I can’t wait to get baking! So I made white lotus sandwich cookies!

tuesday tutorials Tuesday Pintorial Food

White Lotus Sandwich Cookies

This week I decided to adapt a recipe from The Secret of Cookies by Gu Huixue and bake White Lotus Sandwich Cookies. Instead of using black dates, I am using the leftover white lotus paste I had from the Swiss Roll Snow Skin mooncake and Colourful Snow Skin mooncake. Also one of the ingredients is cake flour which I replaced with plain flour and a few other alterations.

white lotus sandwich

Birds Eye #Afterschoolchefs Challenge

The summer is finally over as it is getting colder and it is back-to-school time now. I am so pleased that both children have been able to settle back into their routine quickly. But actually I struggled a bit! After I had not cooked for three weeks after a holiday in Singapore, I struggled to take up the pots and pans!

Luckily, Birds Eye knows it is not easy to get back to routine and offered us to take up this challenge via Britmums. So I went to our local supermarket and bought a lot of delicious looking Birds Eye frozen foods like fish fingers, crisps chicken, peas, potatoes waffles and others.

birdseye butterflies flower #afterschoolchefs

Tuesday Tutorials Week 33 Halloween

A huge welcome to Week 33 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! We are in the second week of school term and I can’t believe how quick it’s going! This week I am featuring Halloween! Yes, we are nearly in October and so should start planning for Halloween parties!

tuesday tutorial halloween

Cadbury Banger

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone.

After visiting Cadbury World with my children, I have always wanted to make my own chocolate character like a chocolate hand, chocolate house, chocolate ultra-man for my son etc. Then last week, #CollectiveBias had a #shop to work with Cadbury and it was like a dream come true. Now I have reasons to make a creative mess and make my own chocolate character! So I decided to make a chocolate banger to coincide with Cadbury’s competition to Win a Banger! Did you know that they are running a competition for you and your friend to win a chance to drive a prime banger from Lille to Barcelona in The Wacky Rally 2015? This is an amazing experience to be part of the 4-day Wacky Rally. You will join the 60 to 80 other cars in a ‘Barmy to Barcelona’! So don’t delay and enter now!

win a Cadbury Banger

Amoy Mid-Autumn Recipe

Tomorrow will be the Mid-Autumn festival where Chinese celebrate the fifteenth day of the eight lunar month – the Mooncake Festival. Last year, I explained the story behind this festival which you can read more here.

amoy mid autumn

Healthy Hearty Breakfast with Regis Stone

JML has just launched Regis Stone which is a revolutionary pan with a non-stick coating. It eliminates the need for additional oil or fats and with the hybrid stone coating, it helps conduct heat much faster than regular pans. It comes in 20 cm, 24 cm and 28 cm sizes, prices range from £19.99. I have received the 24 cm pan to create my perfect healthy fried breakfast using the pan for a blogger challenge. I am delighted to take it on.

My first impression is that this is a great quality pan and does not feel very heavy. It is very easy to wipe clean in between frying the bacon and sausages. It comes with a rustic speckled finish which looks lovely. It is suitable for use on gas, induction, electric and ceramic hobs.

JML Regis stone pan 24 cm

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I'm Eileen, a proud mum of two teenagers (aged 18 and 16), my daughter is living with visual impairment. Since launching this blog in May 2012, we’ve continued to grow and evolve, sharing our family’s journey and passions.

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