3 Easy Healthy Breakfasts using bananas

For today's post I wanted to share 3 quick and easy breakfasts all using bananas for when you're in a rush or just if you're having a lazy day off and fancy treating yourself to something tasty filling and kinda healthy.

First recipe

Toast and toppings.

This one is probably the easiest of all three, first toast your bread, any kind you like. I then popped on some peanut butter, try and get a good quality one as it has less added fat and salt. You could also use almond or cashew butter. Slice a banana on top then sprinkle with seeds. Lidl do a great little bag of seeds that includes, sunflower, pumpkin and sesame. 

Now you can enjoy your toast ready to face the day!

Second recipe

Smoothie

This one is easy but you definitely have to own some sort of blender, whether it a submersion, food processor or as I have a nutri bullet. I also recommend buying frozen fruits to stash away in the freezer. Chopping up bananas for the deep freeze is also a great thing to do as smoothies always taste the best cold. 

For this one I used, raspberries, blueberries and bananas, start by popping all the fruit into your blender with a dash of milk (I used soy). the bananas should make it super creamy but you could always add yogurt if you want. Blend it up, once smooth you can taste it. If it needs sweetening up I recommend using a natural sweetener like honey or agave. Give it a mix, transfer into your favourite glass or travel cup and you're all set.

Third recipe

Banana pancakes

 

First take a large banana and mash it up, add 2 large eggs and mix well. Add a teaspoon of baking soda and a teaspoon of vanilla. Whisk together and leave to stand over night or just a few minutes will do. 

This is the time to focus on making a cup of tea.

 Heat a non stick frying pan (if you don't have one be sure to pop a little oil in the pan). When they're ready to flip, little bubbles will appear and they will move about the pan easily. Do keep an eye though they brown quickly. This recipe should make 4 fair sized pancakes. 

Top with honey, yogurt and fresh fruit.

So there we go, my quick go to breakfasts to give me loads of energy and help me start the day right. 

Thanks for reading this, you can also find me on Instagram, Twitter and Youtube under the handle lulabelleMUA.

TTYL 

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New Video, A closer look at Pumpkin Bath bomb!

It's fall y'all!

Over the next few weeks I'm going to be doing a couple of in depth videos on the halloween and christmas range.

you can see it here!

I also filmed a video with Sam about the whole christmas and halloween range including some showcase exclusives!

TTYL

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M.A.C STAR TREK | Collection Review!

It's here! I have been waiting for these products all year.

Of course I'm talking about the new M.A.C Star Trek collection (or should that be collective, heheh).

As a long term fan of the show I got stupidly excited when I found out these were being released and ordered them the day they were released.

Obviously my pockets are not bulging with latinum so I chose a few bits that I really loved the look of. 

The first product I got was the  Pressed pigment eyeshadow in 'to boldly go'.

The website describes this as a reddish copper pearl with sparkle.This colour is absolutely gorgeous. I've been loving creating halo eye looks with this and using my fingers to really work the pigment to be super sparkly and vibrant. 

The second thing I bought was a really pretty silver nail varnish called 'Enterprise' the website calls it silver chrome (frost). The formula on this is great! one coat completely covers the nail with opaque bright silver chrome. I also bought the gold in the shade 'holladeck', gold sparkle (frost) which I gave to a friend for her birthday. She was also really impressed with the consistency and shade too. 

The last thing I got was actually a present. I had it in my basket and the took it out last minute. Lucky for me my sister also did an on line shop and very kindly bought me the Lip Glass in 'KHAAANNNN! (berry with red reflect). It's lovely and hands down it's my favourite named product in the whole range. Very glittery and shimmery, very nice over a dusky pink lip colour.

Thank you very much Rosie!

There are so many more things to chose from in the collection and there a tutorials on the website on how to recreate some of the looks from the show. 

Have you any of the collection I'd love to know or read any posts you've written of them.

Thanks for reading.

TTYL!

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New Video and being on a roll!

I've just popped up a new video on my YouTube channel, LulabelleMUA. This one's a haul that I've actually had filmed for a little while but had put off editing as there were a lot of candles to get through. 

I'm quite pleased that I've managed to edit so much recently. I've just had four days off work and it really gave me time to focus on editing and filming. I love where I work but it was so nice to focus on my passion.

 Creating things for people to enjoy. 

I'm also trying to write more, I'm not a natural writer and somtimes it takes me a little longer than some of my rather talented friends (I'm looking at you Lex,Sam and Becky) but I do enjoy it. 

I'm working at getting a desk set up so I can have a nice place to do all the things I want to do. I have big organisation plans in the works.

 I want to have fresh flowers on my desk all the time. Flying tiger have just opened up a store in West Quay and I'm sure they'll be able to help out with cute stationary.

 ♦ Goodbye pay cheque ♦

So here's the video, If you like it then please like and subscribe. 

TTYL

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I made Cheesecake!

Last week was the start of bake off, oh my god! can we just take that in? I freaking love bake off. I can get in, chill out with a nice cuppa and revel in a barrage of informal finishes and soggy bottoms.

Originally I was going to 'bake along' and upload videos of me attempting to recreate the technical challenges, but that hasn't happened... yet. Maybe if there's something that really tickles my (french) fancy I'll make it.

Back to cake week. I decided that it would be fun to invite some friends along for the ride. I'll pop their social medias in at the end if you want to check them out.

I wanted to have something to eat whist we watched, but good gravy was it hot that day! The temperature had risen to 30•C, for Britain that's pretty damn hot. The answer? Cheesecake. Cold, creamy, cooling cheesecake. So I set to work with the help of Milli, a big thank you to her for helping me film.

After a little search online I came across a recipe for a no bake biscoff recipe. you can find the recipe here.

 

You can find a video of me making the cheesecake on youtube, If you like it then please like and subscribe. All your support is so greatly appreciated.

I hope enjoyed reading/watching this, what's your favourite type of cheesecake? Actually, any cake. I just want to talk about cake!

Sam

Angelica

TTYL

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