Food Shopping Is Bad For Your Health! We overeat! We buy junk food! Food is expensive! Nope. I do think that food shopping is bad for your health, but not for any of those reasons. If you play along at home with me on Instagram, you may have seen a photo of […]
Food Post
QT Hotel Gold Coast Bazaar Restaurant
I know my photos from ProBlogger last year were pretty food-heavy, but it was for good reason. One, the QT serves really good food. Two, it’s hard to compress two days of heavy learning into a few blog posts. So I left my Bazaar review to be its own post. You can check out the full […]
Easy Bulk Cooking
A lot of January for me is allowing myself to find and set a good routine for 2015. One thing I’ve been needing to do is bulk cook some lunches for work so that I don’t eat out – a drain on the wallet and usually not that great for the waistline either. This […]
Comfort Lifestyle: Comfort Food
Today’s post is pretty simple. Comfort food. Also known as Cheese. I tend to buy Mainland Cheddar in 1kg blocks. What’s your current comfort food?
2014 Brisbane Good Food & Wine Show
Disclosure: I was offered a media pass with the giveaway I ran for this event. As always, all opinions are my own. First things first: I will freely admit that it is crappy to go to a Food and WINE show when you can’t drink. Damn unplanned wisdom tooth extraction! I have actually been wanting […]
Cooking Day
Today I decided to catch up on some of my bulk cooking. On the menu were hard boiled eggs, beef chilli, blueberry muffins and chicken stock. The hard boiled eggs were a late addition, mostly driven by me trying to find soft foods to eat after my wisdom tooth extraction yesterday. I was playing […]
Food Shopping on a (very) tight budget
I’ve been tweeting my food budgets each fortnight as we scrimp by on my part time income. We’ve been ranging from $50-90 per fortnight. Some people have been curious, so I thought I would list my items & receipts and talk about how we use the items. This was a particularly large spending fortnight as […]
The Real Steps to Packet Mix Baking
I’ve been restless all day. I finally decided to watch Bones and bake some apple cinnamon muffins from a packet mix. I know. I use packet mix. Call the CWA on me and have me beheaded. I started off by reading the instructions. Immediately, I started laughing because eating the batter and by extension, […]
Breaded Camembert with Cranberry Sauce
We ducked out last night to Woolies to grab a few bits and pieces and I came across this Breaded Camembert with Cranberry Sauce marked down. For something like $2, I figured, why not?! And one came out of the oven like this: Overall, it was pretty nice, though the cranberry sauce […]
Pina Colada for Cheapskates
It’s only in the past year that I’ve found drinks I enjoy. Such as the Something On The Somewhere cocktail. Then I tried Pina Coladas. Yum. The problem is I don’t drink often enough to keep fresh ingredients on hand, so to make it cheaper and to save on waste, I started to experiment with […]