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Graze is an online company that send out ‘nibble boxes’ weekly so that you can snack on healthy treats instead of biscuits, chocolate and crisps which I’m addicted to.  I’d stumbled across Graze’s website quite a few times before but never really paid attention until I found a code online (XR53H7N) which gave me my first box free and my second half price.  So every Tuesday I get a box (that fits through your letter box) full of four cute treats which I’m always SO excited to get in the post.

In my first box I got apple and cinnamon flapjacks (ABSOLUTLEY INCREDIBLE!), a cheese, onion and chutney focaccia bread (looks gross but was actually alright!), yin & yang – almonds, cherries, raisins and dark choc buttons (so delicious, espec the dark choc, ha!) and seaweed peanut crackers (one of my fav snacks). 

In my second box I got ‘cheeky monkey’ – banana, cranberries and walnuts (quite tasty but boring after a while), pitted olives with herbs (haven’t tried these yet, I love olives but I’m slightly scared to try these!), ‘funky gibbon' – milk chocolate, puffed rice, cashews and banana, and vanilla roasted seeds (I scoffed these before I even took a picture, they were lovely!)

My third box was my absolute favourite so far!  Honeycomb flapjack, honey nut cashews (absolutely delicious), jaffa cake (hazelnuts, orange raisins and choc buttons) and lightly toasted pistachios! 

The boxes are so cute and I really look forward to Tuesdays now to get my week’s worth of snacks.  Each box is £3.50 (inc p&p), but you can actually use my code and get your first box free and your second half price too – you just need to type XR53H7N into the offer box when you sign up. 

I think this is such an adorable idea and a great way to get people trying different snacks and more healthy foods.  Also, the great thing is that you can cancel at any time or push a box back a few weeks if you can’t afford it for a while etc – which is an option for me at the moment because of my low funds!  They also have a list of all the snacks online and you can click ‘bin’ ‘try’ ‘like’ ‘love’ or ‘send soon’ on them so that they have an idea of your favourite tastes and you can tell them what you never want to receive, or what you want to try in your next box.  You can visit their website here!

Have you tried Graze before?  What are your favourite healthy snacks?

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This is going to be quite a different post on my blog today! 

I moved out of home in September to be closer to uni in London, and obviously I had to learn how to cook myself a decent meal.  I’ve always been really good with food, I used to date a waiter who taught me SO much about food.  He taught me how to cook and introduced me to ingredients I’d never heard of, (he worked at Jamie Oliver's restaurant!!) .  Since then, I’ve adored cooking and being adventurous with new foods. 

Recently, I’ve been cooking ingredients I’ve never cooked before, and trying out different combinations and generally trying to be healthy.  So here I will show you some pictures of some meals I have cooked recently.

King Prawn Fajitas!

 

Ingredients – Red onion, one garlic clove, red pepper, roquet salad, avocado, kidney beans, king prawns and fajita wraps! 

This is so easy to make and it takes about 10 minutes, so its great if you are on the go.  I’m going to cook this again for dinner tonight as it was so nice!

Katie’s Special Baps!

Honestly couldn’t think of a better name! Haha!

Ingredients – Wholemeal bread roll, avocado, salad, red onion, pepperoni.

Tadaaaa! Simple as.  Whack all the ingredients and its done!

Katie’s Healthy Roast Salad

Ingredients – Butternut squash, red onion, garlic, red peppers, avocado, wholemeal pitta, button mushrooms, salad, oil, feta cheese

This one takes longer as you have to prepare the butternut squash and roast it with the mushrooms, pepper and onions for about 45minutes, with lots of oil and garlic.  Once thats done, you just pop it on top of a salad of your choice, add avocado and feta cheese! This tastes AMAZING. I was SO proud of myself after I made this, I couldn’t believe that I made something so tasty.  I was so excited I even made it for my whole family once I was back home and forced them to eat it, haha!

You can kinda see the kind of ingredients that I adore at the moment; red onion, avocado, prawns etc!

Sorry this post was so random guys, I just wanted to show off my lovely new cooking skills!  I still can’t make cheese sauce though, or a jacket potato for that matter.

Me and Jamie O! The guy I dated was actually a really good friend of Jamie, so obviously I begged him to introduce me!  Jamie is so so lovely, he called me tiger! Haha! And I ate some food that he cooked himself – it was a chicken caesar salad – gorgeous!

What does everything think of this post, and my food? Would you like to see more monthly instalments of my fattiness? Haha!  Please tell me if you need the recipes and I will type out how I made them for you, and if you make any then let me know!

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