Lipstick, Lettuce & Lycra

Category: Food & Drink

  • Retro Chick Reviews Hoxton Gin

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    I’ll start with a disclaimer. I’m not a gin drinker. When I was offered a bottle of Hoxton Gin for the advent calendar giveaway I decided to be cheeky and ask for a bottle for myself as well so I could review it (read: drink gin). The website promises tastes of coconut and grapefruit, and…

  • Retro Chick Reviews – Style Me Vintage Tea Parties

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    The Style me Vintage series just keeps on rolling! The clothes, hair and make up books have now been bundled into one handy volume. The Style Me Vintage Look Book, and there’s also Style Me Vintage: Weddings due for release very soon. I came home the other day to find the latest release,Style Me Vintage:…

  • Spotlight on Wetherspoons

    Spotlight on Wetherspoons

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    Wetherspoons has long been one of my favourite places for eating out when away from home. The food is generally good quality, it’s cheap, and they have a good selection of meals under 700 calories clearly marked on the menu meaning I don’t go over my calorie limit and still get to eat something tasty.…

  • Healthy Eating at the Hotel Breakfast Buffet

    Healthy Eating at the Hotel Breakfast Buffet

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    Even though all the research says you really must eat breakfast, as people who eat breakfast are slimmer, healthier and altogether more wonderful people, I’ll confess I never used to bother. I was never really hungry first thing in the morning, a cup of coffee and maybe a mid morning herbal tea was normally all…

  • Cocktail Hour – Frankie and Bennys New Cocktails

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    I have very few hard and fast rules in my life. But I think that one of them may well be “Never turn down a free cocktail”. Last week I got an email from Frankie & Benny’s asking me if I wanted to go and try their new revamped cocktail menu. So I said “Oh,…

  • The Problem with Portions

    The Problem with Portions

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    One of my biggest healthy eating problems, especially as a frequent traveller, is with portion sizes. It’s not how much food you put on your plate, but how much other people are putting on there for you. I’m a firm believer in moderation in all things. I think the quickest way to give up on…

  • Hotel Room Cooking – The Healthy Eating Secret

    Hotel Room Cooking – The Healthy Eating Secret

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    Spending time away from home, whether it’s for business or pleasure can make eating sensibly a real chore. Eating out and ordering takeaways can be done healthily but, it’s all too easy to cave in and order something smothered in cheese. I travel a lot, and the novelty of restaurants and takeaways palls pretty quickly,…

  • Land Girls, Beer and Sunshine

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    One of the things I did over my holiday that warrants a little more attention is a trip to a pub. Pub visits are not normally a note worthy event for me. I am a CAMRA member and I love trying different real ales, so pubs and beer festivals are common haunts for me (and…

  • Make Mine a Manhattan

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    Todays post is devoted to my favourite cocktail. The Manhattan. The Manhattan appears to have originated in the mid to late 1800’s, like most cocktails there are largely apocryphal stories about it’s origins. There are references to many similar cocktails about this time, but it is claimed that it was popularised at a banquet held…