I’ve subscribed to the new monthly foodie’s delight, Europe In A Box.

The box came – oh happy day!

Europe In A Box has been set up by my friend and fellow healthy food-loving blogger Ms Slimalicious.

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Each month subscribers receive a box bursting with interesting, hard-to-find European treats. There is also background information and a small gift.

Look at the lovely things inside the March box.

This sweet little bottle will make a lovely gift for a friend.

 

The Gouda Cheese Bites were absolutely yummy and we scoffed them before I had a chance to take a photograph.

So unfrofessional!

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Once tasted never forgotten!

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Here we have a bove a packet of Spanish Hot chocolate, very sweet and chocolatey.

And my favourites, the French and quite outrageous caramel biscuits. They taste completely of caramel, very novel and very good.

But I did manage to get a photo, thank goodness.

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There was also a lovely little Eiffel Tower Keyring and these very pretty cards.

Merci beaucoup!

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EuropeBox

Europhiles, you’ll love this subscription box service.

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I’ve just made three cups of hot chocolate for myself and the teens, heated and whizzed in the Thermomix. A big treat.

I must try this hot chocolate for breakfast, in a bowl, and with baguette and jam.

Just for a bit of armchair travelling at home.

Treats are important, don’t you reckon?

{ 3 comments }

Seana 1

No, no and thrice no!

It’s not your sex life I’m interested in here.

It’s whether you bung it on when you’re training with your PT.

You know, groan and grimace a bit more than necessary, so that they’ll go a bit easy on you.

Seana 2

These PTs do like to make you work hard.

You’d think it was their job or something!

Seana 4

I know that exercising with weights is supposed to be hard.  And it’s the PT’s job to keep adding the weights on and on.

It’s all mental, I know that!!

Buy sometimes, we mums have had a rough night, an even rougher morning and don’t even mention the night before.

And no coffee!

So yes, sometimes I do whinge and groan and screw my face up… and just make out it’s a wee bit harder than it is.

seana 5

Seana tongue

Oh go on, tell me I’m not alone!

Do you fake it with your trainer?

With anyone else??!! 

 

 

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