Protection from Hedrin

Since being back at school in September my little one has come home with 3 or 4 letters in regards to the dreaded head lice going around, which i have been lucky to avoid so far, but to make things easier a great new product from Hedrin called Hedrin Protect and Go.

As far as head lice treatments go Hedrin are number one in the UK, with a range of lice treatments on offer. Hedrin Protect and Go has been clinically proven as a head lice protection and also a conditioning spray, it is gentle enough to be used on small children from 6 months as well as being used daily on wet or dry hair with no need to wash out.

 

I was pleasantly surprised by the fragrance it wasn’t an unpleasant strong smell that you get with many other Lice treatments but was in fact very pleasant and fruity scent comprising of orange and mango.

This product is available from most chemists and priced very well especially as you can use it daily. It costs approximately £4.30 for a 120ml bottle prices may vary.

Also available on the Hedrin website is info on treating and preventing lice which can be found here.

Less waffle at the table with McCain.

A good business comes from good ethics which is the philosophy of the McCain brothers the founders of the famous McCain brand. They carry this theory through all aspects of their life from their products, the customers and the farmers they work with. As well as taking care of the business they are also out there with the community and environment.

The McCain family values include a positive can do attitude, strive for excellence in all they do, work hard everyday to ensure smiles on the faces of their customers and consumers but to top it off they take pride in being a family business.

 

Just before Christmas i was sent a couple of packets of McCain Waffles. I am not normally a fan of things like waffles but these were really nice. The kids and I ate them regularly for the duration of the packets (2 x pkt of 8). They were full of potato not hollow like some products of a similar kind.

They are so quick to cook and go with all sorts, beans, spaghetti, fried egg, on their own with lashings of butter or even as a part of a Sunday fry up, which was a favourite of ours. I will definitely be purchasing these in the future

 McCain are available from all leading supermarkets eg Tesco, Check out the range of products McCain have to offer here.

Send a thought

Had a thought? Why not send one with Send a thought which is a great concept which was started by two sisters who have a passion for all things beautiful and impeccable attention to detail.

You will find an array of amazing gifts on their website that cover a wide range of occasions such as  a birthday, an anniversary  or something as a house warming gift there is something available for all budgets.

The little boxes of glee are well presented and come with a cute wee card.

My little box of joy contained a little wooden frame with the words Live Well Laugh Often Love much on it .

This cute wee frame came at the right time as i had not long moved in to my house.

Thank you Sendathought .

 

Beauty in a Box

Betrousse is one of many companies which provide beauty boxes which i had not heard of until a friend told me about them so i was excited to see what they were all about. The beauty boxes are delivered to your door for a Cost of £10-£20 and have a range of products inside that are worth alot more than what you pay in costs.

Betrousse offer a different themed beauty kit each month, i received the Trousse Absolutely Fabulous kit which contained   DUCK ISLAND Sensuous Shampoo was lightly fragranced and left my hair feeling really clean. There was an  exfoliate creme which was really nice and gentle on my face, also there was the hedelweiss serum and cream by HELENERE this left my skin feeling really soft.  The skin-balancing face wash ORGANIC SURGE left my face feeling so clean and refreshed without drying or irritating my skin . And finally a Sculpted Silhouette Inch wrap Firming Gel. All of these products were lightly fagranced and not harsh on the skin at all. 

This particular kit is currently £19 the contents are normally £119 bargain! They come in a lovely packaged box about the size of a shoe box.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful Bouquets

Who doesn’t like receiving flowers and even more so when they are delivered to your door? It certainly put a smile on my face when i received flowers from Bunches.

Bunches are a family run  business which started with the parents of Danielle Turner who is the managing director, Her parents Erik and Sandra started the business in 1989 , it aall started on a small stall inside a shopping centre called The Four Seasons which is in Mansfield, Nottingham. It wasn’t long after that they started selling their gorgeous flowers online to be delivered to homes across the UK. 

They have many different stunning bouquets and flowers to choose from and prices vary depending on what style or occasion you are looking for, they also sell gift sets and helium balloons which are delivered 1st class via Royal Mail. They arrive in a box so they are in tip top condition when they reach the destination.

I received a bunch called Joyful Wishes from their Christmas Collection and they were absolutely stunning, this bouquet consists of a red Germini surrounded by deep red single and spray Carnations, long lasting Anastasia, Santini and Euro Chrysanthemums and Pittosporum leaf greenery and to add to the festiveness 3 gold baubles were included. There were lots f red and green colours and the gold made them very Christmassy you also get care instructions and food for the flowers to put in the the vase before the flowers.

I would recommend Bunches to anyone they have a fantastic range and very reasonably priced and well packaged too. 

Check the range here and put a smile on your loved ones face.

 

Boost Morale

A few years ago when my marriage ended i wanted to do something to take my mind off things, as i was alone in a country with no family(i had some good friends but as with everyone they had their own things going on too). So i signed up for adopt a US soldier…you have to register on the site to which your details have to be verified and then you get info on your given soldier which takes about 2-3 days. After a couple of days i received my soldiers details i wrote but didn’t get a reply so it was kind of a none starter which at that time looking back was probably a good thing in long run as i had a lot of changes and stuff happening.

Anyway recently a friend of mine said she wanted to write to someone in the forces so i told her about the adopt a US soldier and she now has her soldier to converse/correspond with, which prompted me to try again which i have done and upon checking my email this morning i have details of my soldier and have sent my first email.

I think this kind of thing is a great idea for all the guys a girls out there who spend alot of time away from their families and loved ones especially at this time of year.

If you are interested in doing the same check out their website here.

Christmas has come early with personalised cakes from Bakerdays

You will find Bakerdays situated on the outskirts of The Sherwood Forest, which was founded by Andrea Guzyova and Alan Hawkes who is a greetings card entrepreneur.

Bakerdays have an array of cake sizes, designs and flavours which can be personalised to suit your occasion, and if you can’t find what your looking for drop them a line and they will design one for you at no extra cost! To make sure they reach you fresh they are handmade to order. One of the sizes is a letterbox cake which is a really cute wee cake (for 1 or 2 persons) that does fit through your letterbox, these are great for as a wee gift for someone especially with the gorgeous new Christmas designs.

I was sent a Christmas letterbox cake to which i had to choose the design which was really hard as they have some really cute designs, i chose a the fluffy penguins design,

Cute

although if i had may way i would have chose one of each of the gorgeous designs, the cake flavour i received was a fruit cake which i wasn’t sure if i would like but to be honest i really enjoyed it as it was not too rich like some fruit cakes you can buy,

The cake was well packages arrived in a box with a little gift card Christmas hat, Christmas cracker and of course the cake itself in a lovely tin which can be used to for something else once the cake is all finished.

Take a look at the range of designs and flavours here at Bakerdays

 

 

 

 

Warm up with Glorious Soup

Glorious are passionate about the flavours of their soups and dips, they have a very authentic and unique tastes from many different countries, they come in fresh and funky containers (thus not needing to put into a different container after opening like with cans). The product are free from flavour enhancers nor do they contain artificial colours and comply with the  FSA 2012 salt guidelines.

There are a lot of unique flavours in the range which can be found here on their website.

I was sent some vouchers to purchase some for myself to try and review. I chose  New England Butternut Squash and Fragrant Thai Carrot.

The Butternut one i chose for Mr 6 as he likes pumpkin soup but have been unable to find any in the supermarket for him and thought this would suffice and although had a bit of spice to it which i didn’t expect but was pleasantly suprised as it wasn’t overly spicy and Mr 6 and I enjoyed it very much.  The colours and flavours coincide well for this time of year.

The 2nd one i tried was Fragrant Thai Carrot which when you first open it and taste it you can smell and taste the coconut along with   carrot, lemongrass, ginger, lime and coriander, very flavoursome with a kick i enjoyed this one very warming which is what is needed on these dark cold evenings.

 

Our Choices

Black Farmer Breakfast Pack

The founder of The Black Farmer range Wilfred Emmanuel – Jones can be found on his farm high up on the hills of the Devon & Cornwall border.

It was after many years of travelling Wilfred would return to the UK  yearning  like many men for a full English breakfast, but some realised the poor quality of such produce we see all the time in our supermarkets.  He went on to develop a sausage with higher meat content and uses 100% British pork in his sausages which are also made with soya flour thus creating a lighter sausage so that everyone including those with allergies could enjoy a good ole British Sausage.

He also produces free range eggs, bacon, chicken and cheese to find out more check out his website on the link above.

We were sent a breakfast pack which contained 6 free range eggs, 6 gluten free pork sausages and dry cured hickory smoked back bacon. I must say i was dubious about trying the gluten free sausages but i was certainly pleasantly suprised they were delicious, as were the eggs and bacon. You can cook them in the usual ways grill fry barbecue, i did mine in my George Foreman (as i do for all things similar)and i was pleased to see there wasn’t a lot of fat from them and the bacon did not shrink unlike some you can buy. Both sausages and bacon were very flavorsome.

Tetley Tea

Drinking tea is iconically known as a British thing to do/drink.  I for one am predominantly a tea drinker like millions of other people in the UK.

It was in Yorkshire, England in 1837 that the Tetley brothers went in to business and in 1953 they first introduced the first teabag to the UK, by 1968 tea sales had risen to 5,000 tonnes a year, 1989 introduced the round teabag.  Tetley also have a range of green/fruit teas which were on out shelves by 2004. You can find out more here

For the endless cups of tea we all drink Tetley buy in over one million kilos of tea.

Tetley were kind enough to send us a box of their New Estate Collection for us to try and review free of charge, which was great as we drink a lot of tea and even more when my mum visits lol.

This collection has been hand picked at high altitude from the east of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.

I am a lover of Tetley tea and i really enjoyed the taste  of the New Estate collection to me it was has a stronger flavour but still tasty all the same, and i do think i prefer this blend over the classic blend.