Mornings with the Candyfloss family

Morning everyone! Well morning for me not so much for you probably.  You see I'm writing this at 7:46am due to the fact this blog will be about the Candyfloss family. Well more of mine and David's as Matthew (my partner) leaves for work at 6:45am.  David however can wake up anywhere between 5am and 8am......8am is lovely ha ha.  Oh I miss the days of 10am!  No joke, I was very lucky when David was a baby he slept through the night from Midnight (his final feed) to 10am in the morning...oh I miss those days ha ha.  If he wakes up at 5am I put him back to bed.  I feel like if I allow him to wake up that time it will just put him into an earlier routine which isn't good.  

So first things first I wake up to him now a days growling...this is a new and VERY strange thing. Next after I've managed to climb out of bed I let David out of his room and we climb back into my bed.  David likes to snuggle up with me for a bit, sometimes pretending to go to sleep ha ha.  I get kisses and cuddles from him....and lots of jumping around ow! 

Since his new wardrobe after we've had cuddles in bed he drags me into his room for him to pick an outfit out.  I lift him up and he picks an outfit just like he does at bedtime when we read a book.  After this we head downstairs, normally me and David count but he's gone off counting and is now more interested in saying A and C missing out B.  I swear it's always one thing he misses out.  He doesn't say 1 unless he counts on his own by himself.  Once we get downstairs there is no stopping David.  He runs into the kitchen and goes "tea tea tea tea tea" though now it's actually "cup cup cup cup" he's more impatient then me.  I didn't even realise that was possible to be honest. Oh and by the way, yes he has tea but don't worry it's de-caffeinated ha ha.  

Our tea cups :)

David will either have cereal (most of the time coco pops but he'll have a variety) or toast.  Sometimes both if he decides he's going to be a piggy in the morning! Oh sorry I meant steal my toast if I haven't eaten it by the time I get him out the highchair (I really should make note of that and eat BEFORE I take him out).

David's Breakfast

My breakfast

Once I've done David's breakfast he straight away goes to turn on the xbox. He's such a cheeky little boy, as he knows this is how we watch our programe's (TV licence free whoop!).  I then put it on iplayer and whilst that is loading I put him in the high chair with his breakfast.  When it's loaded all I get from him is "chuga chuga choo choo" as his favourite programe at the moment is Chuggington.  He absolutely loves it gone are the days of Waybuloo (sorry De-li).  

This post is an entry for #MorningStories Linky Challenge sponsored by belVita Breakfast. Learn more at www.facebook.com/belVitaUK

Although this challenge doesn't require me to talk about BelVita unless I got sent a packets of there biscuits (lucky 100 people! Jealous) I am.  This is because I actually love them! I was gutted I didn't get to try out there new flavour but guarantee I will be buying this from the store.  I first tried BelVita biscuits in October last year due to the fact I was staying at a hotel for a couple of days.  To be honest I expected the usual dry flavourless biscuit.  God I was wrong! Even though I got Milk and Cereal it was so tasty! I enjoyed them for several days they were my guilt free treat!  I would recommend them to everyone has wants a quick breakfast on the go when they left to leave for work without eating.  I found out not long ago they brought out a chocolate flavour. I tried this too OH MY GOD, it tasted like Nesquik milkshake nomnomnomnom. If you'd like to find out more (you really should) please visit there Facebook page facebook.com/belVitaUK

onomnomnom get in my tummy!  

Until next week my lovelies!

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Review | Upbeat Protein drink

Hello my lovelies!  Today I am reviewing the upbeat protein drinks!  The lovely guys over at upbeat sent me a massive parcel of goodies along with 2 vouchers for free drinks.  Here is what I received below.  I am so grateful and a lot has come in very handy, even if it did take me and my friends a while to figure out what the "egg" thing was ;D (It's a MP3 player by the way)

We've already used the bag for our lunch when we visited a park in a different town!  Now I'm not going to lie I wouldn't normally buy these,  there just not something that comes to mind.  If I'm low on energy I normally buy a snack bar or something similar.  With high protein and low fat though maybe I should be thinking of these more often?  However it does come along side the problem of actually remembering and of course finding them in the shop successfully (I'll come to that later on).

Before I was given this chance I had never heard of upbeat.  Anyone else or just me kept out of the loop again?  Upbeat is own by the company Good Whey, yet again I've never heard of them (opps). They have a website located here. Which I had to use as I couldn't find the drink in my local stores.  I advice everyone else using the site as well to find out where there nearest is sold.  

That's the number on problem I found with this site.  Even after using the site to find where my nearest store was it still wasn't available even after looking in where it was supposed to be sold.  Eventually I did find it sold in a Holland and Barrett store in Chelmsford.  First I tried the Mango and Passion fruit.  The texture was much like yoghurt so it didn't offer anything new to the department of healthy protein.  The taste was bitter I was not a fan of the Mango club.

However when I tried the strawberry it was much nicer on my tongue pallet.  It went down like a dream. I'm still not a big yogurt fan though so I doubt I would be in a rush to buy these again unless maybe I was on a diet.  However I have told myself not to diet this year.  Instead I am focusing on my teeth (which is going REALLY well bring on September!) 

I do however feel like this is a good product for mums to have if they have the convenience of a shop providing these on their doorstep or near their children's school.  I mean how many mums out there skip breakfast?  Come on own up I bet it's quite a lot right?  Also how many of you go through out the day snacking more then having a proper lunch as your to busy doing housework or work related stuff.  Like this companies aim is it's to "fuel the gap" and I think this will benefit ALOT of mums.

So all in all this drink is not for me but would be very helpful to mums out their that skip breakfast or need more energy throughout the day. Until next week!

*I was sent this product to review and asked to give my opinion about not only the product but the company too.  ALL opinions are unbiased and my own.

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Review | McCain ready baked jackets

Hello everyone.  So today I'm going to be talking to you about these bad boys.  That's right McCains new microwavable jackets!  I'm not going to lie I was a bit unconvinced at first.  I mean I've had microwaved meals in the past and they are never as good as the real thing.  With these my first thoughts were that the potato was going to be dry and not very satisfying.  Was that true? Well let's find out.

So I popped these in the microwave for the suggested time it had on the back of the box which was for about 5 minutes.  Longer if I re-call if you were doing more than one potato.  I decided to cook one each for me and David for dinner that night.  Obviously this was a big dinner for David so no surprise he didn't each much of it.  He still enjoyed it though but he left about 3/4.  I'm not surprised though as these were quite filling and normally I eat a whole jacket no problem.  

Obviously the skin wasn't crispy cooking them via the microwave BUT you also have the option of cooking them in the oven if you wish.  To my delight these jackets were not more dry as any other normal potato I would of cooked from scratch.  I always add butter before I add my topping anyway, but I was expecting to add more then usual but I didn't have to which was nice.

The only bad thing I would say though is I had to bung them back in the microwave for a few minutes longer as they got quite cold quickly.  Maybe it's because they were done in the microwave?  I've never had that problem when baking potatoes in the oven.  I think these jackets are a good source of healthy eating in just minutes if your running late on dinner for your family if say you've been out for the day.  Or if your a student these would be a good thing to buy having one per night.  They are on sale at Asda for £2.50 for 4, Which is about 62p per jacket.  There is however the Asda own range which is basically the same (though I have not tried these) for just £2 which sets it at 50p per jacket.  Still quite expensive so I would wait until they went on offer. 

Obviously there is always buying potatoes and baking them from scratch but like I said previously these are good when you're short on time.  When putting all the factors together I'd give this a rating of 3.5/5.  There good quality potatoes and a healthy way of filling your tummy.  They are also a great quick meal for four BUT the price is quite expensive and they got cold quickly.  I hope you enjoyed my review and found it useful,  until next week folks!

What is your favourite jacket filling?

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