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Hello my fellow crafters!
Long time no DIY.
So today i come to you with a tutorial on how to decorate china ware. Because let's face it. What's better on a gloomy November day than doing something crafty whilst listening to music or an audio book?
Also, you will be using your personalized cup (for warming tea, hot chocolate or coffee) or your bowl (for warm oatmeal, soup, cereal, casserole) a lot during winter time. Or you could make this a present for Christmas! For your mother, child, partner, grandma...
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I share many recipes on my blog. Most of them are simple, some of them more time-consuming, some of them garnished with love. However, i only post 2 times a week usually, adding up to 8 posts a month. That means, you will only see a maximum of 2 meals out of 21 per week, or 8 meals out of 84 per month. The remaining 76 meals are not photographed, undocumented, and usually not very photogenic to be honest, lol.
So. I'm a student and i do not eat off brownies, cake, chocolate ice cream, truffles and pancakes (though i wouldn't mind too much).
Instead, i base my meals on plain carbs (oats, millet, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, quinoa), vegetables (broccoli, peas, carrots, zucchini, PUMPKIN!) and fruits (banana, apples, pears, berries). And the best thing is: The least expensive food items - at least in my country - are rice, oats, potatoes, vegetables and bananas.
Besides money, another factor is time. Most of my meals will be easy and quick to make because i usually come home starving, and i don't have the nerve nor the time to spend 1 or 2 hours in the kitchen in order to prepare sushi rolls, pizza, falafel, burgers, banana bread or whatnot. So my "usual suspects" are something as shown in the picture above, simple but real tasty: potato wedges, steamed broccoli and roasted carrots.
As much as i love to include dates, nut butters, cacao powder, matcha powder, maca, almonds, walnuts, chia seeds, stevia, coconut blossom sugar and quinoa in my recipes - you don't need them on a regular basis. Simplicity is key!
Here are some options for meals when you are on a budget, taken from the archive of "Maisy's unphotogenic pictures", along with some tips on how to save money:
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Quick ice cream without ice cream maker
Preparation time: 5 mins + 3 hours freezing time
Main ingredients: banana, white chocolate
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1-2
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free,
gluten-free, paleo, nut-free, and delicious "even so"
I love chocolate.
Can relate? Well, welcome to the club of the ever-cursed "hate it and love it but can't stop it".
Also, if you have taken a closer look at my blog, you will not that I love ice cream. It's no secret that i even ate nicecream for breakfast every day for a while.
You
can imagine that combining chocolate and ice cream into one gorgeous
breakfast meal was perfection for me, all vegan of course :)
This
is not exactly "healthy", and i do try to stay away from chocolate or
make my own chocolate creations using dates and cocoa powder (check out
my Chocolate Pudding or my Dark Chocolate Brownies or my Double Chocolate Ice Cream),
but sometimes i just need a piece of real chocolate to melt on my
tongue and make my brain produce the happiness hormone serotonin.
The chocolate i'm using for this recipe is from a brand i recently discovered, called iChoc White Vanilla, which sell vegan organic chocolates in at least four flavours which i've tried all of them.
Ingredients
3 large ripe bananas, peeled, chopped and frozen
around 1/2 bar (50g) vegan white chocolate, chopped
content of 1 bag of vanilla green tea OR 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
dash of soy milk or almond milk (optional)
chocolate chunks and buckwheat groats to garnish
also:
- a high-speed blender or food processor (NO NEED FOR AN ICE CREAM MAKER!)
Instructions
Way
too simple to resist: Throw your frozen banana pieces into a high-speed
blender or food processor (i always use the latter), and blend. Add a
dash of water or plant milk to get the blender running. Then add the
chocolate pieces and blend some more. Lastly, add the content of one bag
of vanilla green tea - or simply vanilla extract. Blend once more,
spoon into a bowl and dig in!
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The most amazing ice cream without ice cream maker
Preparation time: 10 mins + 3 hours freezing time
Main ingredients: banana, mint, cacao
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1-2
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free,
gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, paleo, raw food, low-fat
I'm not sure if the pictures do this knock-your-socks-off ice cream any justice. Because this might just be my Number One favourite!! Hands down, this is the best-est ice cream creation i have come up with so far. It's seriously soo good, i can't even put into words, you just gotta make it yourself!
You should probably be fond of chocolate and mint though, cause this is basically "After Eight" in ice cream form. Nomnomnom! I love love love the mixture of the fresh mint and the sweet chocolate... and the texture of the brownie bites of course which are just to die for!
I don't know what else to say except for: make this. eat it. cherish it.
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