Go NUTS for Harry’s Nuts! this Christmas

In our family we are Nuts about Harry Hill, I know lots of people are, Conor is a massive fan, has the knitted Character and a joke book signed by the funny man himself.

That he has added his name to nuts seems very apt. That they are Fairtrade was a lovely find for me.

Harry Hill makes absolutely no money from these nuts,  the money goes to the farmers in Malawi. I have to add that when I read up on this I found he is not just a figurehead for the brand either, he is closely involved in the taste and packaging too and visited the country to be involved.

He cannot stop with the fun though as you will see from this feature.

Oh you might want to know what the taste verdict is and its in no way secondary to the nutty celebrity.

 Who wants to win a copy of Harry Hill's new book, Livin' the Dreem? All you have to do is come up with an idea for what flavour of nuts you think Harry should make next. The best answer will win the book. So what flavour?



http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1612110023#!/pages/Harrys-Nuts/174273552607012

They are really really good, fresh, tasty and I recommend you have these if you want a tasty snack this Christmas.

We all love nuts at Christmas – in our snack bowls and in our Christmas stockings. A third of all nuts are sold in the run up to Christmas* - and as Harry Hill’s Fairtrade salted peanuts and cashews it’s never been easier to give a tasty treat to the comedy lover in your life.

Harry’s Nuts! are cooked for longer than other salted peanuts and cashews to give them an extra crunchiness and deeper flavour. And, fitting in perfectly with the true spirit of Christmas, Harry makes no money from these products – it’s all about helping farmers in Malawi and other countries building a better life for their families.

 Harry’s Nuts! are now available in 800 Tesco stores as well as Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and other outlets.

For more information see www.chooseliberation.com/harry

 

Harry works alongside Liberation Foods on Harry’s Nuts! – a company co-owned by farming groups from Malawi, Mozambique, Bolivia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Peru, El Salvador and India. Farmers receive the guaranteed fair price which come with the FAIRTRADE Mark for their produce (see www.fairtrade.org.uk) and receive a Fairtrade premium often spent on projects which benefit the entire community.

NADIA SAWALHA EXERCISES HERSELF FROM FAT TO FAB!

There are always a rash of celeb DVD's at the turn of the year and I have not really been interested, don't get me wrong I admire the effort that people have gone to and how good they look, but they just seem to suddenly go from overweight to stick thin and it never feels like its going to last. I did sit up when I saw this one though.
HERE  Nadia Sawalha's Fat to Fab Workout

I have always been an admire of  Nadia Sawalha love her sister Julia too  and  loved their actor dad.

She was brilliant as Annie Palmer in Eastenders and I loved Passport to the Sun.

When she did Celebrity Masterchef  won I was so pleased as she was our favourite, I have the cookbook "Stuffed Vine Leaves Saved My Life" its a book brimming with recipes and lovely stories too.

I have watched her for years and remember even two years ago her mentioning unhappiness with weight but Nadia says seeing this unflattering picture just last summer, finally  she was inspired to change.

Nadia talks about not wanting to exercise at all when she first started she says "It was ugly!"  but promises that you will have bags of energy once you start.
The routines are in bite sized manageable portions a warm up which is vital every time and the fat burner then short toning sessions ideal if you are pushed for time.
I love the final step the indulgent, time to stretch, relax and take a little "me-time"

A lovely feature are  the  7 mouthwatering recipes that Nadia shows you, saying "not only do they they taste great, they are good for you too!

The DVD is available on the 27th so only a few days to wait you can put your order in now and save pennies as well.
Its on Amazon at £12.93 currently. http://amzn.to/ewnv1E

Have a look at the trailer and I think if you are looking for that change in health and weight you won't go far wrong with Nadia's Fat to Fab workout.






Nadia says“I’ve wanted to be slimmer for over twenty years but never did anything about it. I had nearly given up my ‘slim dream’ before I found this routine, not only is it fun but I actually love doing it! And most importantly of all it really works, I’ve gone from a size 18 to a 10 in four months!

I honestly never believed I’d be able to lose the weight or have a toned size 10 body.


But now I have…and so can you!”



Serial yo-yo dieter, Nadia Sawalha, can relate to all those women out there who lose weight, only to pile it all back on again. After numerous, well-documented, successful weight loss attempts in the past, busy mum of two and TV star, was at her all time heaviest at a whopping three and a half stone overweight before starting the workout.


Nadia knew her entire lifestyle had to change. So, out with the old and in with the new, Nadia adopted a manageable fitness regime and adapted her cooking style, exploring a new world of healthy but tasty recipes. The magic formula, she devised for herself worked; Nadia dropped 49lbs, reached a size 10 and now reveals her secret weapon in her battle of the bulge in her brand new fitness DVD Fat to Fab.

Fat to Fab is an interval training programme offering short, sharp, effective results. It will appeal to everyone with busy lifestyles, proving there are enough hours in the day to keep fit and healthy. Bucking the fitness DVD trend, this isn’t just a collection of workouts - Fat to Fab includes an entire section on healthy eating, where Nadia, 2007 winner of Celebrity Masterchef, demonstrates the preparation of her ‘Slimmer Dinners’, sharing her tasty recipes and cooking tips to suit every palate.


Fat to Fab includes 5 fantastic workouts, including:


 Warm Up - Don’t miss this one out! It’s really important to warm up you muscles.


 High Energy Fat Burner – You’re going to get sweaty but who cares?! You will be burning fat!


 All Over Body Blast – This will get your heart rate up, designed for all over body toning with a section focusing on the arms


 All Over Body Toner – All over toning with a focus on the core


 Cool Down – Time to stretch, relax and take a little ‘me’ time!


The DVD also Includes a FREE booklet of 7 of Nadia’s mouth watering recipes that helped her get into shape.


Workout to Nadia’s brand new DVD and you will go from fat to fab in double quick time by making simple, but effective lifestyle changes around the way you approach food and fitness. Use the latest DVD technology to cherry-pick a short workout or recipe section when time is limited.


Nadia says “Fat to Fab really does work. I still love food and my recipes allow people to eat and stay healthy at the same time. As for the exercise, it will totally change your body shape. It’s fantastic”.

Buy here for a great £12.93  http://amzn.to/ewnv1E“Nadia Sawalha: Fat to Fab Workout ” is on sale nationwide from 27 December 2010. (RRP £19.99 Universal). © 2010 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.




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Baileys Hazelnut Flavour Perfect for Christmas

For a taste of luxury this Christmas try new Baileys Hazelnut Flavour




You may have seen the campaign to get Britain guessing the new flavour, it started in October and was great fun, Baileys gave away a 1000 bottles on their Facebook page, a great place to find out more and join in the fun.
www.facebook.com/baileysGB



Baileys is probably a Christmas favorite for many households, we are never without a bottle for Christmas Eve, its a lovely end to the evening.
 As the children quiet down and we wait for them to drop off, the stockings are waiting to go up. The tree is twinkling and the presents contents are tantalisingly close to being discovered.
This is the moment when I have my glass of Baileys and mince pie. I have a new flavour to sip this year.

This year we have been sampling the new Baileys Hazelnut Flavour, its definitely got a smooth creamy baileys taste with a sweet hazelnut tone and is perfect for Christmas.
Oh and don't forget to mix a little with whipped cream and add to Christmas pudding, its tasty.

To celebrate the festive season, the makers of Baileys Irish cream liqueur have created Baileys Hazelnut Flavour, a new recipe that blends the premium ingredients of Baileys Original - fresh Irish cream and triple distilled Irish whiskey - with the delicious taste of hazelnut.

With its velvety smooth and luxuriously rich taste, there is no better way to discover the delights of new Baileys Hazelnut Flavour than by pouring it over ice and sharing it at home with your partner or friends. Or, if you know someone who loves the taste of Baileys, why not surprise them at Christmas with a bottle of the new flavour?

Accomplished photographer, model, and the new Baileys brand ambassador, Helena Christensen, has already given her personal stamp of approval. “Baileys has always been one of my favourite drinks and the new hazelnut flavour is a delicious excuse for me to enjoy a glass of Baileys over ice with my friends this Christmas.”

Since its introduction nearly 30 years ago, Baileys has successfully combined the delicious flavours of vanilla, chocolate and fresh cream with Irish whiskey. Now, with the addition of Baileys Hazelnut Flavour to the range, there's a whole new dimension to the Baileys experience.

Baileys Hazelnut Flavour Over Ice (1 unit)


Step 1: Drop three large ice cubes into a tumbler



Step 3: Serve with friends

Available at all major grocers with RRP £18.50 for a 1ltr bottle of Baileys Hazelnut Flavour is perfect as something new to share at any get-together.

Get Nakd and get Healthy Review

Brace yourself!

We’ve just made three of the greatest new healthy snack bars of all time: Nākd Cocoa Delight, Nākd Cocoa Mint and Nākd Berry Delight. We believe they are going to take the healthy snacking market by storm. When you examine, compare and taste them, we think you’ll love them as much as we do.

Well this was my challenge and I tried them and totally agree. I love them.

I do try to eat healthier snacks but often they lack that tasty treat feeling either as they are not sweet and lack chocolate, the epitome of a snack.

The Nakd Berry Delight are very fruity and chewy you can taste the raspberry, its natural and not overly sweet either.

 The Cocoa ones are chocolatey and the mint one so tasty.

They are like fruit chew bars but also cakey as well.  

Actually 1 of your five a day, how cool is that?

A tasty treat that's good for you now that is good!

WILDLY DIFFERENT AND GENUINELY HEALTHY

So what’s the big difference from other bars? As you know, nearly all so-called ‘healthy’ snack bars on the market rely on intense heat-processing, refined sugary syrups and mysterious additives. Take a look for yourself; your typical cereal bar, for example, has between 15 to 30 ingredients, many of which are completely unrecognisable and several of which are often just various types of sugar. Despite what decades of slick marketing and packaging seeks to imply, heavily processed, syrup-laden and additive filled is not a credible recipe for ‘healthy’.

Our new Nākd bars, on the other hand, are made with a wholefood approach. Instead of heavy processing, sugary syrups and mysterious additives, Nākd bars rely on raw fruit, nuts and natural flavours rolled together. That’s it. Simply wholefoods rolled together and nothing else. Literally, any more natural and you’d have to peel them. Consequently, they are genuine nutritional powerhouses bursting with natural raw nutrients, are wheat, dairy and gluten free, vegan and are one of your five a day. They are as different health-wise from most snack bars as freshly squeezed orange juice is from fizzy orange.

 

SHOCKINGLY DELICIOUS

Now, it’s easy to read all that and think, “wow, anything that simple and healthy must not taste good”. But this is the really exciting part. They taste fantastic! Flavourful and satisfying – almost too good to be true; you have to taste them to believe it!

 

THE NAKD PHENOMENON

You may have noticed that over the last few years Nākd bars have exploded onto the healthy snacking scene. Nākd now routinely out-sells long-established snack bar brands and is the fastest growing healthy snack brand in the UK – and when you experience these new bars you’ll understand why.

The three new bars join four others in the range including Ginger Bread, Cashew Cookie, Pecan Pie and Cocoa Orange.

RRP 72p.

A  selection of the three new flavours is available exclusively in Waitrose and all good independent health food shops.

 

Nākd bars are widely available in Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Waitrose, Boots, Holland & Barrett and independent health food shops.

Sound Asleep Pillow Review

I have a problem with this review already, its caused a verbal pillow fight.

Now as you know I have two older children, both have iPods as do I and Chris so who gets to keep it? Well Paige said her as she goes to sleep to music relaxation music and dolphin sounds which do carry through the house some nights. Conor said it should be him, as he turns anything up loud enough for all to hear.


 

I as Chief Reviewer pulled rank and got to try it out first.
In everyday terms its exactly the same as any usual pillow, its lovely and fluffy. Very comfortable for a good nights sleep, I had no neck ache the next morning despite that its really high, so its a good quality pillow.

Whats fab is the  ability to listen to your fave music, the radio or TV without cumbersome headphones or in my mind irritating ear buds.
I was concerned that a speaker in a pillow would be uncomfortable, but I never felt it at all. Chris and I both tried to locate it and its near impossible, that's how comfortable and fluffy it.

What continues to amaze me is once I sorted the volume was one how amazing that I could hear anything that's surrounded by a pillow, which lets face it can be used to muffle sound, well the foam can. Yet its clear and easy to listen too, yet the person next to you can sleep undisturbed.
Even awake Chris could not hear my music, well unless I broke into song, not recommended!!!

Two that it did not disturb anybody else. Chris sleeps soundly anyway so for review purposes he tried it and I was sure when lying down I would pick up sound, but not a note!
Its so good when a couple are in bed and one is wanting to be awake and the other is tired. No disturbed and grumpy partners.

My children have nabbed it now and are sharing week about and as they have a love of youtube at the moment, this is ideal if they want to play via the laptop at the weekend in their rooms. 
I definitely could do with another and I have also spotted the memory foam pillow version great for me I think.

The Original Sound Asleep pillow is the best-selling speaker pillow on the market.

Made in the UK with a luxurious hollow-fibre, the speaker is undetectable and offers a totally restful sleeping experience. It’s a perfect gift for all ages – young children listening to their favourite audio books, teenagers listening to their latest tunes or insomniacs who need to listen to white noise in order to nod off.

As the speaker is built inside the pillow, this unique product requires absolutely no headphones. You control the volume of the sound, so only you can hear your personal music, meaning your partner can sleep in peace.

The Sound Asleep pillow requires a music source, such as an MP3 player, radio or a television (as long as it has a 3.5mm stereo plug to connect to the pillow). The pillow will not emit any sound until it is connected to your device.

Not suitable for children under 5 years.

www.soundasleeppillow.co.uk

Simpsons Microwaveable Sponge Pudding

Its a tough job reviewing sometimes, having to try out the Simpsons range of sponge puddings!

But I am not one to shy away from a tough duty to bring my readers the scoop on these new desserts! Aren't I good to you?................Stop, ok I am lying no tough duty here at all, just a totally warming sweet experience.

With the snow thick outside what could be more comforting than a hot sponge pudding and custard.

Only there's no bowl steaming over a pan of water for hours, just heat in a microwave for 40 seconds, just time to open a pot of cream.
Then the only other problem you have is which one to eat next, my faves were the Chocolate Sponge and the Sticky Toffee Sponge, the Strawberry Jam, Syrup and Spotted Dick, yes they were all favourites, so moist and tasty.

EASY TO COOK SPONGES NOW BEING SERVED

Easy to heat sponge puddings that melt in the mouth are yours to enjoy any day of the week thanks to Simpsons of Manchester.

Simpsons, which celebrates its centenary this year, has launched a range of 130g microwavable sponge puddings with sauces, for two.

Simpsons twin pot sponge puddings consist of five traditional favourites - Strawberry Jam, Sticky Toffee, Syrup, Spotted Dick and Chocolate. Each one can be microwaved in under a minute.

And the even better news is that each pudding is also available as a single pot with custard. Go on, treat yourself!

Both pudding formats are available from Asda and Morrisons priced approximately £1.29 to £1.35.

For more information, visit http://www.simpsonsfoods.co.uk/

WIN A Reisenthel Wash Bag Winner

Another lovely giveaway at an end, its been lovely again and my thanks to Girlstravelclub.co.uk for the prize.

Somebody now will have a gorgeous bag with lots of pockets to store all their toiletries when travelling.

Don't forget if you have any travel needs then they have some amazing must have accessories and some wonderful gifts for anyone who likes gorgeous items on travel around the world or at home.

The random generator has been cranked up again at Psychic Science and it has thrown out another winner.

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@missdaisy32

Congratulations! Please email me your details and I will pass them on to the lovely GTC.

More giveaways soon, until then please keep visiting to hear me talk nonstop about products that are hot, cool and make me drool!!