Hans Sloane Drinking Chocolate

Happy December everyone, not only is Christmas fast approaching but this month 

I will be having my baby! 

So this month I have scheduled a few posts but plan on taking a little break once

little one decides to make an appearance. 

Today I am telling you about a range of Drinking Chocolate that I have recently come by, Han Sloane.

Hans Sloane drinking chocolate is the only hot chocolate made from pure chocolate beads. 

 Their company mission is to bring the taste of chocolate back to drinking chocolate and their beads melt perfectly in hot milk or water to create a richer chocolate drink. 

Available in 270g packs, Hans Sloane Drinking Chocolate comes in five varieties, including: 

 Smooth Milk

 Rich Dark

 Madagascar 67%

 Ecuador 70%

and their unique flavor Natural Honey.

This Christmas Hans Sloane has created the ideal stocking filler.

Their Christmas bauble which is filled with chocolate beads!

 Simply shake to hear the chocolate beads inside before popping the bauble into a cup and adding hot milk or water.

Priced at just £2 this stocking filler is great treat on Christmas morning. 

I love hot chocolate and have mug almost every night so was thrilled to try a range

I hadn't previously heard of. 

My favorite from the range has to be natural honey followed by the smooth milk flavor.

I love that compared to the usual hot chocolate the Hans Sloane chocolate beads have a more richer chocolaty taste. 

They melt really well too but make sure you stir like you would do with your usual hot chocolate as otherwise you will end up with a lump of chocolate at the bottom of your mug. 

Halloween Dinner Party Competition Entry

Atlantic Shopping is a leading home furnishing company operating from a warehouse facility in Birmingham city center. 

They cater for the latest trends in household goods at great competitive prices. 

To enable to achieve their goal they have recently re-developed an online store, now you can get all the latest items which are available in store from the comfort of your own home! 

Atlantic Shopping are holding a competition for Halloween with a prize jackpot of £500 to spend on

dining sets, dining chairs and dining tables. 

All you have to do is describe your perfect Halloween Dinner Party.

You can be as creative as you like but there are two requirements: 

1. What guests would you invite for example Zombie Elvis Presley or Vampire Marilyn Monroe. 

2. What dishes would you serve? for example sugar mice for starter a pumpkin pie for main 

and then jelly worms for dessert. 

Entries will need to be in by Midnight on 31st October so get your thinking caps

on and let your creative juices flow.

Here is my entry into the competition: 

The guests I would love to invite to the dinner party would be: 

- Dracula Paul McCartney

- Vampire Marilyn Monroe

- Frankenstein Sooty 

-  Witch-y Amy Winehouse

- Ghostly Madonna

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For the food and drink I would start off with a lovely pumpkin soup which I would make gruesome 

by adding prawns too it to make it look like maggots.

The main would be spooky pasta with cheese sauce which I would use food coloring to make

green and then add cheese to make it look like cobwebs and black olives to look like beetles.

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For Dessert there would be some yummy looking pumpkin cookies and some

blood curdling cupcakes. I would make the cupcakes so that some oozed jam to look like

blood and some that would ooze green fondant to look like slime. 

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As for drinks I would have a wide range of cocktails in goblets like the ones below 

I would make them hauntingly delightful by adding jelly worms and floating eyeball sweets. 

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If I was to win the competition I would choose the Tempo Dining Set so that we had enough space to have

everyone over for Christmas. 

I love the sleek black design with chrome frame finish and black glass top.

Shloer Celebration

With moving into a new home which will be our family home once little wiggle bum arrives in December. 

We decided that a fresh start is worth celebrating but with being pregnant champagne is out of the question. 

So what better than being able to have a glass or two of Shloer Celebration! 

Shloer has got even bubblier and putting more fizz into special occasions. 

Shloer celebration is a alcohol free bubbly served in a celebratory style bottle with a popping cork

giving your special occasion an extra sparkle. 

Shloer has long been the alcohol free drink of choice for those looking into indulge into a glass of

something special. So if your not drinking , you can still enjoy the sense of an occasion and sip 

on a tall glass of chilled bubbles.

Shloer Celebration comes in two different flavors of sparking grape juice 

white grape and rose. 

I have always loved a bottle of Sholer as generally I've never been much of a drinker. 

I think that Shloer will be the drink a lot of pregnant women will go for

as it has such a pleasant taste and you feel like you are drinking something special. 

I love the idea of celebration range even more due to extra bubbles and fizz. 

Shloer Celebration is available in supermarkets nationwide and Retails at £2.99 for a 75cl bottle. 

Will you be trying the new Shloer Celebration? 

#LiveForNow Sensory Experience

Pepsi have always come out with some great campaigns over the years, and now they have launched their first global campaign. 

If you were in the Southbank area between the 5th and 9th  of March you would have seen a rather odd and large looking
black box with the phrase #livefornow  emblazoned across the side.
There were a lot of people who were intrigued about  it especially as there was a countdown as well.

When it got to zero people were allowed to enter the box and find out what was inside.

The cube which was 9 meters by 9 meters gave people the chance to have a multi sensory 
journey through the box with water and other things to see,feel and do including levitating cans 
of Pepsi Max. 

They also gave out free cans of Pepsi Max and participants of the cube also got 
to have a personalised bottle of Pepsi Max which has a photo of them inside the cube.
A few of the campaigns I can remember included the likes of Britney Spears, Pink and Beyonce as gladiators 

and the transformation bus stop and the most recent with Dynamo levitating on the side of a London bus. 

Mothers Day with Aldi

It's that time of year again! Mothers day is almost here. 

This year I am going to give my mum one of these bottles of wine and 

some flowers. 

Aldi always do a great selection of products for mothers day and I plan

on popping into my local store to see what flowers they have more closer to the time. 

I'm a huge fan of Rose wine so I will be keeping a bottle for myself to have over the mothering Sunday weekend. 

Aldi have a wide range of White, Red and Rose wines so you have a good selection to choose from to suit you

or whoever you are buying for. 

The Torro Loco rose retails at £3.79 and is a fruity Spanish rose with an elegant aroma of 

raspberry and cherry together with a hint of citrus. 

It's deliciously fresh and best served chilled. 

The Grapevine Rose retails at £3.25 and has a delicate floral aroma,with  ripe summer fruit flavours

of strawberries, raspberries and pear. 

It's a lovely Spanish wine to have on it's own. 

These wines are part of Aldi's permanent range. 

My Weight loss Essentials

 When it came to weight loss there are a few things that I have found to be essential 

to have. 

Clothing

When it comes to loosing a lot of weight most people will buy new clothes

for each size they drop down to. I however tried to make as much use

out of the clothes I have had only been shopping are rare few times for new clothes that fit. 

- A good pair of leggings is essential to me as you can still wear them when they are slightly too

big,unlike jeans. So I literally live in them at the moment until I hit target 

and can start wearing jeans as well again.

- A bra that fits I normally buy ones from M&S at £16 but when loosing weight

I found I was going down in size constantly so I ended up buying cheaper ones for now. 

I brought a good one from Peacocks for £5 just the other day. 

- When it comes to tops I layer them when I can to keep warm I also 

buy smaller sizes as I know that I will get into them quite soon.

Fitness

I've never liked the idea of paying out to go to gym as its so pricey.

Their are however cheaper ways to keep fit and tone up and products to help too. 

- Games and DVDs 

I currently love playing on Zumba 2 and Zumba core and really want to get the

new one that was released last year and the Zumba dvd set.

I also use a dvd that aims to tone your abs I do however have my eye on

Davina's new dvd for 2014.

- Slender Tone

Ok so its not entirely essential but I won this last year over on facebook

and I use it often and I feel that my stomach muscles are getting stronger but 

this maybe down to the ab exercises I do.

I tend to wear this while I am doing the chores or just relaxing with a book. 

- A good sports bra really helps for giving you support whilst exercising

I find this essential as it stops the bounce so you can feel confortable

and you have no wires digging in too.  

Other

- Mugshots which are packets of pasta that you just put in a mug and add hot water too

they have been a life saver on days you don't want to bother cooking too much for lunch. 

- Brita Filter bottle

This has made me drink a lot more water than I use to and is very handy to pop in your bag. 

- Beanies Flavoured coffee

I love coffee and its nice to have a flavoured coffee and its saved me £s in both terms

of the word as they are free on the slimming world plan.

- Diet/low calorie drinks 

I love diet coke its my favourite drink and I love that I can drink fizzy

as long as its diet or low calorie. 

What are weight loss essentials? 

Diet Coke Break

We all need a break from time to time from what life throws at you. 

So why not sit back and relax with a magazine and some Diet Coke. 

Between 17th February and 30th March  Diet Coke have teamed up with fashion bibles

Look and Now, to offer a  free copy of a magazine with every purchase of promotional packs 

of Diet Coke.

Taking 10 minutes out of your busy day to flick through a magazine is the perfect way to unwind 

and spend your Diet Coke break. 

To redeem a free copy of Look or Now, all you have to do is purchase a

promotional pack, visit dietcokefreemagazine.co.uk, enter the unique code from the pack, 

choose your preferred magazine, print off the voucher and take it in store to redeem.

I was sent a rather exciting goodiebag to help me to relax and enjoy my Diet Coke break. 

I also feel I must add that Diet Coke is my favourite drink and I do drink it a lot hence 

why I jumped at the chance to receive a goodiebag. 

As you can see above I received an 8 pack of Diet Coke,  a limited edition Nails Inc Diet Coke nail

polish, a lovely Jo Malone candle and a copy of Look and Now magazine which was all

inside this gorgeous bright red Warehouse bag. 

The bag is a gorgeous bold and fiery red and is very spacious hence why it

was able to fill the amazing goodies inside. 

The Nails Inc Diet Coke Limited Edition polish is bright and bold and 

great for using to pamper yourself before a night out or in. 

I was so excited about the Jo Malone candle I have wanted a Jo Malone

candle for ages, but as you know I like to be thrifty and frugal

and didn't want to spend the £39 that this candle is worth. 

It smells gorgeous too the fragrance is pomegranate noire. 

Last Sunday before a day of work I decided to have my diet coke break 

reading the magazine and sipping Diet Coke and just having a bit of 

"me" time. 

What's your perfect way to have a Diet Coke break? 

Alibi Health Drinks

You probably know by now in the last year or so I have been loosing weight

and trying to feel more healthy and tone up too. 

I have been more careful about what I put in my body as I have noticed how awful I feel

if I have haven't been as good as I can be. 

You know the feeling bloated and just in generally yucky. 

I even had a moment  last year when I went out to an all you can eat Chinese buffet 

with family and ended up eating way too much. Which then made me ill the next day. 

I don't normally take vitamin supplements but recently I have been feeling tired an awful lot . 

I think that maybe due to after Christmas I was in a food comer haze and didn't stick to

my diet as well as I could have done,which meant I lost less than I did last year by this point. 

But I am back on the weightloss bandwagon and lost 3lb last week. 

 I also think that because I have felt really depressed within the last few weeks that  hasn't

been entirely helpful. 

I was sent some lovely pre-detox drinks last week to which I was happy to try out

as right now I really need to feel the energy and motivation to sick at the slimming world plan.

 So Alibi is a sparking and fruity health drink that is packed with 20 essential vitamins, minerals and natural herbal extracts. Alibi replenishes, hydrates and supports your bodies natural defences. 

which comes in two wonderful flavours citrus and pomegranate and I believe

they are coming out with a new flavour if it isn't out already blueberry.

I was surprised by the taste of these drinks as I was expecting them to be rather sweet,

however they are pleasant tasting fruity fizzy drinks. 

I have been sipping on two cans a day over the last week and have noticed 

that I feel more energised and don't need as much caffeine. 

I think I am going to have a break from them for now and keep some aside now that 

I am feeling better with my diet and fitness at the moment.

 I am sure these are going to come in handy when I have days of feeling not myself 

and need a little pick me up to get me through the day.

Have you ever considered these kind of drinks?

Valentines with Aldi Part 2

When it comes to Valentines day if like me and Stuart you are staying home,

with a meal for two or if your single and having a night on your own or with friends,

or even going out with your loved one. 

Why not start off the evening with a bang with a bottle or two of 

bubbly from Aldi 

First off we have the Philippe Michel Cremant Du Jura, £6.99.

This french wine with hints of apple and lemon citrus is a perfect Chardonnay which is fantastically crisp 

and elegant with persistent bubbles. 

Moving on we have the Valdobbiadene Prosecco Spumante DOCG, £7.29.

A delicately floral and fruity concoction with a light and creamy flavour a fab Italian

sparkler. 

Both of these wonderful wines are now part of Aldi's permanent range.