Becoming Vegetarian

For even uttering the words in the title, many of my family members have argued with me multiple times. I have also been told by strangers that no one will want to come to my house ever! Since when did our society think eating mainly fruit and vegetables is a bad thing and no one will like you?! It is unbelievable craziness.

So I have decided to become vegetarian. It is not as easy as one thinks. As before I was planning my meals around one piece of meat but now I have to completely rethink my whole meal plan as you can imagine. With the help of two lifesaving books - 'A modern way to eat' By Anna Jones and 'Deliciously Ella' by Ella Woodward, It has made my journey a hell of a lot easier.

Anna's book really does have FABULOUS recipes that are filled to the brim with flavour. Even my die hard carnivore family really love her recipes. Ella brings alternative easy recipes, which are a godsend.

Now you may be wondering... 'well why become vegetarian?'. Well I am huge believer in animal rights and can't support an industry which kills so many innocent beautiful animals on daily basis, that is just my opinion. I also think that eating mainly fruit and vegetables is the best thing possible to live a healthy life and keeps you energized. I am a bit of a hippy at heart and my main goal is to become Vegan but I am getting ahead of myself. Finally I actually don't like meat, so it didn't make sense to me to keep eating it.

For those of you who are also thinking of doing the same or even doing something similar- 

Buy some recipe books and really plan your meals- as it is a misconception that vegetarians only eat pasta.

Think about why you want to do it and is it something you can do long term.

Overall I have never felt better and I have found a new passion for cooking. As without meat you are a lot more involved with the cooking process.

Sitges, Spain

This summer is absolutely packed full of adventure and the first of my travels was to Sitges, a town half an hour away from the famous Barcelona (anyone else hearing the George Ezra song in their head now?). I went with one of my closest friends and we had a blast! There were lovely beaches that stretched for about 2 kilometres. It was also a lovely walk to get your steps in on holiday. I mean who wants to be a couch potato all the time, right?? So behold some of the pictures I took on my fab new camera. 

We stayed in my family's apartment there which is close to the buzzing centre where there are lots of bars and caberet shows going on. Sadly we did miss the pride by a couple days but rainbow flags were still placed around in all their glory. It was a lovely sight to see people so accepting. Almost a refreshing view to the hate sometimes we see in our normal everyday lives.

My Christmas Decorations! #12DaysToGo!

This is the start of my Christmas countdown,  12 days to go (including today) so i thought i would show you my Christmas decorations for this year, as some of you have asked to see them. Also i love having a nosy and seeing what other people have put on their Christmas tree!

So this is my Christmas tree, it is 7ft so fairly big! Some of you may look away in shame when i tell you it is fake because i know you feel it is better to get a real one every year. Anyway moving on swiftly, we have gone with a gold and red theme every year. We must have a colour theme, gosh wouldn't we be lost without a colour theme.

 A couple of decorations on my fabulous tree. There are a few mismatch ones on my tree which i cannot live without as i made them when i was very young, so it is like tradition to continue putting them on (i have not shown them here as they are that bad).

 This is a decoration i put in my main hall and i love it! It adds such a nice feel with the soft glow of the lights.

 The red star on top of my tree, is very old and every year we have a struggle to get it to stay on there as we believe we have a very temperamental tree.

 A couple of wooden decorations under the tree which i feel just add to it and make it feel more homely and cosy.

I thoroughly enjoyed writing this post! Watch my blog as a new post will be up tomorrow as well!

MUA Eye shadow Palette- Heaven & Earth: First Impressions

I am definitely a neutral eye-shadow girl and do not really like bold colours, also do not like to spend a lot of money. So when i saw this eye-shadow palette from MUA that looks very similar to the Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette i was ecstatic!

MUA (Make Up Academy) is only available in Superdrug and the MUA website,this eye-shadow was £4.

The pigment in the eye-shadows are 'ok' not fabulous but you can build if necessary, the darker colours are more pigmented and between the lighter colours there is not much difference. You have to remember thous there are 12 colours for £4 so it wouldn't be amazing.
Some of the darker shades have a nice glittery which is lovely and totally affordable for a budget.

 

Overall i give this a 4* out of 5, as it good and affordable!