Mother's Day is nearly here and I thought it would be a great idea to have a Mother's Day giveaway. SquiggleMum has very kindly joined forces with me to give away some of our all natural handmade soaps.
If you’ve never seen this wonderful blog before, now’s your chance to have a look, SquiggleMum is one of the nicest ladies and very clever too, have a look at the wonderful comp she has put together for me. You can also find some great reading while you sit back and have a nice cup of tea maybe.
All you need to do is to help me out by suggesting what would make a great Mumma-Bubba gift pack and you could win that very pack that you suggest.
Sound simple? full details on how to win a Mumma-Bubba gift pack can be found here, so hop on over for your chance to win yourself or someone special, a well deserved Mother’s Day pressie.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Olive Oil Butter
Butter versus Margarine. What is better for us health wise, butter or margarine? It depends on who you listen to.
We are told butter is bad for us because it’s high in saturated fat and margarine is bad for us because of the trans fats they contain. Talk about confusing, who do we believe?
I think it really is a personal choice. I prefer butter myself, because it's a natural product. Margarine is manufactured and contains not only trans fats, which seem to be in just about everything we buy these days, but other undesirable ingredients as well.
A tub of margarine contains vegetable oils, emulsifiers, preservatives, food acid, flavour and colour.
A pack of butter contains cream, water and salt.
No comparison in my opinion. Natural has to be better compared to a man made product. As long as you don’t overdo the butter of course.
Now we all know how good Olive Oil is for us, not only for our skin, which is why I use lots of it in my handmade natural soaps, but it is wonderful for our inner health as well.
I like to make my own Olive Oil Butter as an alternative to our normal Butter and it’s very simple to make.
Find yourself a nice container that you’d like to use and measure how much it holds. For a 500 gram container you'll need:
250gram pure butter
250gram of light olive oil
You could use Extra Virgin Olive oil if you wish, but I find it makes the spread too strong tasting, but that’s just my taste, you might prefer that. You could even add some herbs if you’d like.
Melt your butter then add the olive oil. Place in fridge and stir every 30 minutes so that it blends well together. If you forget to stir, it could separate.
That’s it, an even healthier alternative to pure natural butter, it tastes great and it spreads well straight out of the fridge.
We are told butter is bad for us because it’s high in saturated fat and margarine is bad for us because of the trans fats they contain. Talk about confusing, who do we believe?
I think it really is a personal choice. I prefer butter myself, because it's a natural product. Margarine is manufactured and contains not only trans fats, which seem to be in just about everything we buy these days, but other undesirable ingredients as well.
A tub of margarine contains vegetable oils, emulsifiers, preservatives, food acid, flavour and colour.
A pack of butter contains cream, water and salt.
No comparison in my opinion. Natural has to be better compared to a man made product. As long as you don’t overdo the butter of course.
Now we all know how good Olive Oil is for us, not only for our skin, which is why I use lots of it in my handmade natural soaps, but it is wonderful for our inner health as well.
I like to make my own Olive Oil Butter as an alternative to our normal Butter and it’s very simple to make.
Find yourself a nice container that you’d like to use and measure how much it holds. For a 500 gram container you'll need:
250gram pure butter
250gram of light olive oil
You could use Extra Virgin Olive oil if you wish, but I find it makes the spread too strong tasting, but that’s just my taste, you might prefer that. You could even add some herbs if you’d like.
Melt your butter then add the olive oil. Place in fridge and stir every 30 minutes so that it blends well together. If you forget to stir, it could separate.
That’s it, an even healthier alternative to pure natural butter, it tastes great and it spreads well straight out of the fridge.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Free Prizes?
Hi everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful Easter:) I just wanted to let you know about a promotion that I'm very happy to be a part of; it's for the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign.
Would you like a chance to win over $2,000.00 in prizes? Leigh from MUM e ASSISTANT has organised 32 different sites to donate over $2,000 in prizes to raise money to help this wonderful cause, so head on over to Mum e Assistant for your chance to win some great prizes.
Would you like a chance to win over $2,000.00 in prizes? Leigh from MUM e ASSISTANT has organised 32 different sites to donate over $2,000 in prizes to raise money to help this wonderful cause, so head on over to Mum e Assistant for your chance to win some great prizes.
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