Aloha! Today I've got a little post about a new Mexican restaurant which has opened up in Edinburgh, called Pinto. I absolutely love Mexican food and this place lived up to all my expectations! And want to know the best thing? It's really affordable! They do an amazing deal where you get any meal, with 2 margaritas or 2 bottled beers for just £10. Bargain or what? 

I had the Baracoa Beef Burrito which was so tasty! They manage to pack your choice of filling, rice, pinto beans, salsa (you choose the spice level), cheese and sour cream into this wrap! It is really filling and even better washed down with a few margaritas! 

I can definitely see me being a regular customer here! And if you don't live in Edinburgh don't worry! They have 3 branches in Glasgow too! 

If you decide you fancy a little tipple after your meal, you can head right across the road to a little bar called Heads & Tales. As you can see below, you can pick your gin, flavour and glass size and they make it into an amazing cocktail! 

I went for Caorunn Gin, Grape flavour and a Highball glass and this was the result! It was delicious! If you are looking for a good cocktail bar in Edinburgh, I highly recommend this place! 

xxx

Style Diary: Pick up a penguin!

Hello everyone! Yes I know the title of this post is super cheesy, but it's Christmas after all! On Monday, myself and all my uni friends went out to for our christmas lunch! Of course christmas jumpers were required, so here is what I wore!

Penguin Jumper- £12 Primark

Jeggings- £17.99 New Look

Knee High Boots- Old (they were about £9 in the Internationale Sale about 3 years ago)

I just love this jumper! I normally find jumpers to be very unflattering for my shape but this one is not like that at all! I've got a few more christmas events coming up in the next week, so I will definitely be breaking this jumper out again! It might even make an appearance on Christmas Day! 

Here we all are in our jumpers! Photo courtesy of the Granary Leith Facebook page! 

Don't we all look so cool? 

xxx

Graze Box: Healthy Snacking!

I know I'm a little late to the Graze Box Party, but last week we got our first box delivered! When you are trying to diet, you need some healthy snacks for those days where 3 meals just won't cut it! 

In our box we got:

1. Walnut & Vanilla Truffle (sunflower seeds, fudge pieces, walnuts & raisins). I quite enjoyed this one but the other half wasn't as keen. I don't really like walnuts so I picked round them. The rest was great though! 

2. My Thai (mini rice cakes and sweet chilli dip). This was my favourite one! The chilli dip was lovely and sticky and the rice cakes soooo tasty! I will definitely be getting more of this one!

3. Chilli and Lime Pistachios- I didn't really like this one but I don't like pistachios. The other half liked it so I let him eat them all! 

4. Jaffa Cake Flapjacks- mmm this one was also good! If only it was a little bit bigger haha! 

I'm sure I will be ordering more graze boxes. They are so handy for popping in your lunchbox! 

Have you tried Graze boxes? What other snacks would you recommend from their huge selection? 

xxx

Banana and Pineapple Loaf

Today I've got a really yummy recipe for you all! This banana and pineapple loaf is such a nice treat with a cuppa! 

Ingredients: 

175g self raising flour

2tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1tsp nutmeg

75g light brown soft sugar

2 eggs

3 mashed bananas

100g melted butter

1tsp vanilla extract

1 small tin of pineapple chunks, drained. 

And it is so simple to prepare. You just throw everything in a mixing bowl, mix together until smooth (apart from pineapple chunks in the mixture). Oil a 2lb loaf tin and pre heat oven to 180 degrees/gas mark 4. Cook for 50-60 minutes and hey presto, you have a yummy cake! Leave to cool for 10 minutes before eating though or it's impossible to cut without crumbling! And guess what? There's only 210 calories per slice! 

Healthy Living..or not

I'm not going to lie, I am terribly unhealthy. I drink far too much fizzy juice, I can eat a share size bag of sweets in half an hour, and I have an unhealthy addiction to crisps.
Despite this, sometimes I go on a health kick and try to keep my eating under control after stepping on the scales and seeing how fat I am!
Now that's naughty calling myself fat, I know but it's a word that was thrown at me a lot growing up!
At only 5ft, I weigh about 12 stone which is not good! I know I'm overweight but I'm comfortable with my body so I don't see what the problem is.
I believe that all women (and men) are beautiful no matter what shape, size, etc, etc, they are! And if you are happy within yourself then bugger what anyone else thinks!
I put limits on what I can and can't have, and limits on how much naughty food I'm allowed. That's the extent of my healthy living. If I stick to my limits, great! If I don't, It's not the end of the world and tomorrow is another day! My weight has fluctuated about 3 pounds either way since I was 13 (no matter how many fad diets I tried) and I'm pretty happy with that.
I strongly believe that you should do what makes you happy. Food makes me happy so I'm going to keep eating what I want (in moderation of course)!

xx

Date Night

Hello everyone!
Hope your week has gone well so far! So today I wanted to post about our date night that we had a few weeks ago! After a hard spell of exams, we decided to go out for a nice evening together.
We went to a restaurant called Twenty Princes Street in Edinburgh.
It was really beautiful inside. The decor was so cool. And even more important, the food was delicious! We had booked an offer online which gave us 3 courses and a glass of wine/beer for £20 each! It was great value for money!
After our meal, we moved through to the bar area which was reasonably priced to our surprise!
Here are some pictures from the evening.

Tomato, Red Onion and Spicy Lentil Soup

Salmon with Chilli and Lemon Sauce, Curried Potatoes and Onion Bahji's

I demolished my desert before taking a photo but I had butterscotch ice cream and my other half had Ginger cake. 

Enjoying my gin in peace! 

We had a lovely evening, thank you Twenty Princes Street for making our end of exams celebration perfect! I would highly recommend the restaurant to anyone, so if you are in Edinburgh at any point, check them out! 

xx