We ordered a delicious Vegetarian Curry Hamper £50 quid from This & That (rice and three type place). 2 chickpea curry, 2 Kidney bean and potato curry, 2 spinach curry, 2 mixed veg curry, 4 rice, 4 naan/chapatti (we replaced the bread with an extra bag of bahji’s), 4 onion bahji, 4 samosa. Amazing authentic curry! 😋
Phone to arrange delivery of a hamper (within around 3 miles) 0161 832 4971
6 bonus things that have happened during quarantine:
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Barry M have collaborated with the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation and artist Emily Lamb to create three limited edition, vegan Wildlife pallets (£7.99). The special thing is that 20% of the net profits go straight to the specific animal on the pallet you have chosen. The tiger pallet has neutral and very warm tones but I’ve always loved pangolins and rhinos so I chose those two. They happen to really compliment each other too.
The Pallets
The Pangolin is the brightest little pallet that I’ve ever seen!
The Rhino is much more neutral but shimmery.
The Pallets
These prove that pallets made out of cardboard can still be sturdy and durable. I love how light and transportable these are and the small but functional mirror is a great touch.
The shadows
The immediate colour pay off isn’t quite as much as I was expecting from such velvety soft shadows and vibrant colours but to be fair, they are very solidly pressed in the pan. They do glide on and are very easy to build to get the depth of colour you want.
The pigment doesn’t shift easily so they aren’t the easiest shadows to blend but because I have oily eyelids and hooded eyes I prefer that they stick around.
The matts have great depth and even the neutral tones show up against my warm skin tone. The shimmers are beautiful with ‘Powerful’ in the Rhino pallet being an actual pan of glitter!
Applications
Ideally I would use the shimmers for my lid, inner corners and under the highest part of my brow. I’ll use the matts in a rounded shape above my lid and outer corners. It would look stunning with just two colours applied all around the eye, like teal and bronze or purple and pink, which is what I’ll do most often.
Put an emoji against each film you’ve seen, count them up and see how you did!
I got 162 out of 225
The Revenant 🙋🏻♀️
Rocky Horror Picture Show 🙋🏻♀️
Grease 🙋🏻♀️
Pirates of the Caribbean franchise 🙋🏻♀️
Harold Lloyd Safety Last 🙋🏻♀️
Footloose
Fight Club 🙋🏻♀️
Parasite
Maze Runner franchise🙋🏻♀️
The Great Gatsby 🙋🏻♀️
Neverending Story
Blazing Saddles
Airplane 🙋🏻♀️
The Princess Bride 🙋🏻♀️
Anchorman 🙋🏻♀️
Crazy Rich Asians
A Few Goodmen🙋🏻♀️
In The Line of Fire🙋🏻♀️
How to Train Your Dragon films 🙋🏻♀️
Napoleon Dynamite 🙋🏻♀️
Labyrinth 🙋🏻♀️
Saw
Step Brothers 🙋🏻♀️
White Noise 🙋🏻♀️
Some Like It Hot🙋🏻♀️
50 First Dates
The Princess Diaries 🙋🏻♀️
The Nightmare Before Christmas 🙋🏻♀️
Scream franchise 🙋🏻♀️
The Dark Crystal🙋🏻♀️
Ginger Snaps🙋🏻♀️
Edward Scissor Hands🙋🏻♀️
Superbad 🙋🏻♀️
Million Dollar Baby 🙋🏻♀️
Harry Potter franchise 🙋🏻♀️
Resident Evil 🙋🏻♀️
The Wedding Singer 🙋🏻♀️
Lilo & Stitch 🙋🏻♀️
Finding Nemo 🙋🏻♀️
Finding Neverland 🙋🏻♀️
Jurassic Park films 🙋🏻♀️
Signs 🙋🏻♀️
My Neighbour Totoro 🙋🏻♀️
Coralline 😱
White Chicks 🙋🏻♀️
Butterfly Effect 🙋🏻♀️
13 Going on 30
iRobot 🙋🏻♀️
AI🙋🏻♀️
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 🙋🏻♀️
Universal Soldier🙋🏻♀️
Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events 🙋🏻♀️
The Devil Wears Prada 🙋🏻♀️
Deep Impact! 🙋🏻♀️
The Gridiron Gang 🙋🏻♀️
Never Been Kissed 🙋🏻♀️
Meet The Parents 🙋🏻♀️
10 Things I Hate About You🙋🏻♀️
Mean Girls 🙋🏻♀️
A Knights Tale🙋🏻♀️
KING KONG
The Terminal 🙋🏻♀️
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants🙋🏻♀️
Baby Driver
Dumb & Dumber 🙋🏻♀️
Final Destination franchise 🙋🏻♀️
Halloween🙋🏻♀️
The Ring
Bad Santa🙋🏻♀️
Hitchcock’s Rear Window
Mrs Doubtfire 🙋🏻♀️
Rock of Ages🙋🏻♀️
Practical Magic 🙋🏻♀️
Chicago 🙋🏻♀️
Ghost Ship 🙋🏻♀️
From Hell 🙋🏻♀️
Hellboy🙋🏻♀️
Secret Window 🙋🏻♀️
I Am Sam 🙋🏻♀️
The Truman Show🙋🏻♀️
The Day After Tomorrow 🙋🏻♀️
Hunger Games franchise🙋🏻♀️
Child’s Play
Seed of Chucky
Bride of Chucky 🙋🏻♀️
P.S. I Love You🙋🏻♀️
Just Married 🙋🏻♀️
Gothika
Sixteen Candles
Coach Carter 🙋🏻♀️
The Grudge
The Mask 🙋🏻♀️
Bad Boys franchise 🙋🏻♀️
Joy Ride
Lucky Number Slevin
Avatar🙋🏻♀️
Alien Franchise 🙋🏻♀️
Ocean’s Eleven 🙋🏻♀️
Ocean’s Twelve🙋🏻♀️
Ocean’s Thirteen🙋🏻♀️
Howls Moving Castle🙋🏻♀️
Bourne franchise🙋🏻♀️
Bond franchise (new)🙋🏻♀️
Black Swan 🙋🏻♀️
Kingsman: The Secret Service 🙋🏻♀️
The Princess and the Frog (Disney)🙋🏻♀️
The Mummy franchise 🙋🏻♀️
Predator franchise 🙋🏻♀️
The Fog 🙋🏻♀️
Ice Age franchise 🙋🏻♀️
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel🙋🏻♀️
Independence Day 🙋🏻♀️
Cujo
A Bronx Tale
Darkness Falls
Christine 🙋🏻♀️
ET 💗
Children of the Corn
Leon 🙋🏻♀️
Maid in Manhattan 🙋🏻♀️
War of the Worlds 🙋🏻♀️
Rush Hour franchise 🙋🏻♀️
The Best Bet
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 🙋🏻♀️
She’s All That 🙋🏻♀️
Calendar Girls
Sideways 🙋🏻♀️
Mars Attacks 🙋🏻♀️
Event Horizon
Ever After
Wizard of Oz (original)🙋🏻♀️
Forrest Gump 🙋🏻♀️
Big Trouble in Little China 🙋🏻♀️
The Terminator franchise 🙋🏻♀️
Ant Man 🙋🏻♀️
Ant Man and the Wasp🙋🏻♀️
Die Hard franchise🙋🏻♀️
Spider Man franchise🙋🏻♀️
Batman franchise🙋🏻♀️
Blade Runner🙋🏻♀️
Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers Creepers 2
Catch Me If You Can 🙋🏻♀️
The Little Mermaid 🙋🏻♀️
Freaky Friday 🙋🏻♀️
Reign of Fire
The Skulls
Cruel Intentions 🙋🏻♀️
Burlesque🙋🏻♀️
Shrek️ franchise🙋🏻♀️
Swimfan
Miracle on 34th Street 🙋🏻♀️
Old School
The Notebook 🙋🏻♀️
K-Pax🙋🏻♀️
Krippendorf’s Tribe
A Walk to Remember
Kidulthood films 🙋🏻♀️
Boogeyman
The 40-year-old Virgin
Little Miss Sunshine🙋🏻♀️
Lord of the Rings franchise 🙋🏻♀️
Indiana Jones franchise🙋🏻♀️
Basketball Diaries🙋🏻♀️
Hostel
Do the Right Thing 🙋🏻♀️
House of 1000 Corpses
Devils Reject
Elf 🙋🏻♀️
Highlander🙋🏻♀️
Mothman Prophecies️
American History X🙋🏻♀️
The Jacket
Kung Fu Hustle
Shaolin Soccer
Night Watch
Monsters Inc 🙋🏻♀️
Titanic 🙋🏻♀️
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 🙋🏻♀️
Shaun Of the Dead 🙋🏻♀️
Legally Blonde🙋🏻♀️
High Tension
Club Dread
Hulk 🙋🏻♀️
Dawn Of the Dead 🙋🏻♀️
Hook 🙋🏻♀️
Mad Max (old or new)🙋🏻♀️
28 days later 🙋🏻♀️
Ghostbusters franchise🙋🏻♀️
Phantasm
Water World 🤣
Kill Bill Vol 1 🙋🏻♀️
Kill Bill Vol 2 🙋🏻♀️
Mortal Kombat
Wolf Creek
Kingdom of Heaven 🙋🏻♀️
The Hills Have Eyes
Miss Congeniality 🙋🏻♀️
The Last House on the Left
Re-Animator
Army of Darkness
Star Wars franchise
Joker
The Irishman
The Matrix franchise🙋🏻♀️
Evil Dead1
Evil Dead 2
Team America: World Police
Red Dragon 🙋🏻♀️
Silence of the Lambs 🙋🏻♀️
Hannibal 🙋🏻♀️
The Breakfast Club 🙋🏻♀️
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 🙋🏻♀️
Grown Ups
Dazed and confused
Natural Born Killers🙋🏻♀️
Pretty in Pink 🙋🏻♀️
Sweet Charity 🙋🏻♀️
Polar Express 🙋🏻♀️
American Werewolf in London 🙋🏻♀️
Fantastic Four 🙋🏻♀️
Leprechaun
The Blindside 🙋🏻♀️
Inside Out
How did you do?
Let me know your score and what you want (or don’t want) to watch! I’ve got The Irishman, Joker and Inside Out on my watch list. I have no intention to watch any horror films – ever.
Pom Bear Crisps
Plus, some of us will have allergies/food intolerances too!
I used to love the cheese, ham and English mustard or pickled onion butties my Mum used to make me for my packed lunches at school and even work if I was running late. As a lot of you will know, now I have a gluten and dairy free diet and I’m veggie, I try most of the time to be vegan because it’s the kind thing to do and I’m nearly there anyway.
Here’s what I used
Genius Seaded Loaf
Vitalite Vegan Spread
Violife Flavour Ham Slices
Violife Epic Mature Cheddar Flavour Block
Colman’s Mustard (a teeny bit)
Verdict on the Ingredients
The ham had some decent flavour and the texture wasn’t too bad, just a little soft. The last ham substitute I tried had the texture of a damp flannel, so this was an improvement.
The block was, almost aggressively, cheese flavoured. It tasted more cheesy than cheesy puffs, Wotsits and Mini Cheddars put together and I have to admit that I liked it!
OMG I do not remember English mustard being blow-your-head-off kind of strong. Whew!
I love all kinds of Genius bread because it really is THE best gf bread you will find.
Vitalite do one of the best dairy free spreads. It doesn’t taste strongly of olive oil (like some) and it’s not as wish-washy as others.
The Result
The ‘ham’ and ‘cheese‘ tasted unexpectedly similar and the textures were identical. I should have cut the cheese chunkier but then the flavour would have been overwhelming. The ‘ham’ and the mustard where perfect together so I just stuck to that for the next sandwiches I made. Ive been eating the cheese on crackers with different sandwich pickles or in a toasty with fresh spring onions.
Can you make a ham & cheese sandwich gluten free and vegan?
Nope!
Hope you enjoyed my little experiment. At least now you know what products are good for other things.
What are your suggestions for gf vegan sandwiches?
🏎 Driven or been driven at 100 miles an hour – No but that sounds fun!
⚔️ Learned a possibly deadly skill – Axe throwing?
👽 Watched Dr Who – Yes, because Peter Capaldi was the Dr
🗝 Visited an actual castle – Many times on holidays in Wales
🎹 Played an instrument – Saxophone (badly), Electric Guitar (a bit better)
📰 Been in a paper/book/magazine – A few times, winning competitions. I got to ask actress Saroise Ronnan and (my idol at the time) Juliette Lewis questions. I also won a huge goodie bag (the middle shelf of Cosmopolitan magazines beauty cupboard) for best outfit. I got the below photo published in Festival Annual (and therefor got a free copy of it).
🦔 Rescued an animal – A hedgehog outside a theme park. Everyone was just staring and photographing it so I picked it up with my hoodie and put it in some bushes across the motorway (where it was heading).
🤩 Met someone rather famous – Erm, Eddie Izzard, Hurley from Lost, Craig Charles
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I got this term ‘core aesthetic’ stuck in my head and couldn’t remember why or where I’d gotten it from. Then I remembered it had something to do with letting Pinterest find your specific look. I typed ‘Chrissie core aesthetic’.
Here’s what it came up with for me…
Alternative and urban things like neon signs, a skull, tough but feminine style, a little bit of bling and even a bee – the symbol of Manchester.
Pinterest has well got me sussed!
I’d love to know what you get and if you agree?
I’ve broken my record for often being ten minutes late by being ten days late as I thought I’d already posted this. Here’s everything I’ve been doing and reviewing!
Sorry I’m a bit grainy. Manchester doesn’t get much daylight in February.
Lifestyle
I created a list post called Self Imposed Ban on Buying and wrote down everything I have a lot of, the reason why I have a lot of it and why I shouldn’t buy any more of it. It’s a lot easier to realise what’s going on and to harden your resolve when you can see it in black and white.
I reposted Spring Cleaning My Beauty Cupboard from last year because I’ve done so well with keeping it ordered and thinking thoroughly about my purchases, that I’ve not needed to do it again this year.
Food and Dinning Out
Me and the Bloke have decided we are going to take it in turns to choose where we want to eat out for the evening (and who pays), at least once a month. The bloke chose Sai Spice an Indian place in Chorlton.
We ordered the veggie starter platter to share and four smaller curries. One spinach and dumpling based, one chickpea dahl, a nutty yoghurt based one and a spicy but not too hot Kolhapuri. Everything tasted amazing! It’s a brightly lit, affordable, family style place and I think Lilly’s would have some competition if they were closer to each other. Couldn’t resist grabbing a kulfi to go.
Here’s my review of Vertigo, the plant based restaurant at First Street, Manchester, which was my choice. I’d been wanting to go for a while but waited until I heard some good reviews as I’m not exactly rolling in cash.
I bought some ‘facon’ in the form of Coconut Bacon by Pimp my Salad, which I’m throwing on pretty much everything or just eating straight from the jar.
We made English Gluten Free Pancakes for pancake day or Shrove Tuesday as they call it.
I sampled one of Clive’s Tarts which I realised tasted lovely chilled or heated up. I was surprised it was both dairy and gluten free.
I’ve finally discover how wonderful Tika is! Tika panner, Tika broccoli (Yeah, I wasn’t expecting to come across that one either) and tika mock chicken. I reviewed two very different Tika Masala Veggie Readymeals, one from Tesco and one from Asda.
Skincare and Makeup
On my never ending quest to find a base that makes me look all glowy and healthy, rather than matte and a bit sallow, I bought Pixi Beauty Balm. Did it do the trick? You’ll have to click!
I’m trying to reduce my carbon footprint bit by bit, so I was pleased to find Zao essence of nature, a natural beauty brand that uses refillable bamboo packaging. I bought the essentials: Concealer and Mascara.
Thank you lovely people, for catching up with me.
These Mummy Meagz Vegan Chuckie Eggs are the perfect sweet treat for Easter, along with free-from hot crossed buns or maybe as a melted sandwich filling in hot cross buns! They taste so much better than cream eggs as they are made with darker chocolate, so not as sickly but the fondant is still lovely and sweet!
I love how easy they are to crack open and eat. I bought these from Holland and Barrett and they are also available from Alternative Stores and other alternative health food shops.
Rating 5/5
