Sugar Free Banana Bread Recipe

I'll admit i've lost my way with the clean eating in the last week or two as I went away for a few days and basically ate what I fancied whenever I wanted, bad Steph! 

Now I'm back and it's a fresh week I've started back on the healthy low sugar diet that my body prefers and found this no sugar banana bread (perfect way to use up my over ripe bananas!) 

I was surprised at how sweet this bread was considering there is no sugar used, but the brown bananas and raisins plus a little grind of the Madagascan vanilla beans obviously made it just sweet enough.

I am loving this bread and will be making it again for sure so here's the recipe for you guys to have a go at.

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Top 7 hair products of 2014

This was a hard post to write, I use and try so many different hair products that choosing just my top 7 was always going to be hard, originally it was 5 but I had to add a few extras in but these are my most used and favourite of them all. What's more they are all quite affordable and do different things to help you achieve luxurious hair! 

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Two Faced Chocolate Bar Eyeshadow Palette - is it as good as it smells?

Two of my favourite things, chocolate and make up! Not only is the packaging cute it smells amazing, make up that is made from chocolate (amongst other things obviously) is crazy but such a great idea too. 

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What I got for Christmas (haul)

Every year I see Facebook photos, Instagram posts and Youtube videos of what people got for Christmas and being the nosey person I am I love watching or seeing these post, so this year I thought I would do the same.

I want to state now that's this is in no way a form of bragging, I realise just how lucky I am to receive such wonderful and thoughtful gifts and am very thankful and humble for them. I would also like to just say that at Christmas I look forward to spending time with family and friends and just wish for good health to be able to get through the Christmas season. More than anything i would love to just have my health back and would trade in all my gifts (I'd like to keep my Tiffany bracelet if I could though too?) to be well again. 

The following presents were just ones from Christmas Day, I did receive some lovely ones from my girlfriends too! 

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The Christmas Tag

1. What is your favourite Christmas Movie/s?

This is such a hard one! I try to watch as many Christmas films as I can from the end of November onwards but my all time favourite (I've watched it twice already) is Elf. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen it I still laugh. My other favourite and one I watch every year is Christmas with the Kranks. I don't know if is as well known as a lot of the others but it's got Tim Alan and Jamie Lee Curtis in and it's about them deciding to skip Christmas and go on a cruse as their daughter is not coming back for the holidays this year for her to later change her mind the day before Christmas and they have to make it all happen in one day. Hilarious, worth a watch for sure!

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November Nails

Last month I started nail favourites, this here is last months colours I wore. As you can tell since it was a 4 week month, I may have changed my nail colour more than one a week. Oops, bad habit that! 

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Mini Lush Haul

Back in October i did a Lush haul with Christmas bits in but last week I popped back into Lush to get some Christmas presents (which are not shown here) and I picked up a few bath bombs for me to take away in January to the forest for a relaxing few days away doing NOTHING! 

I decided not to buy all Christmas ones as Christmas will have been and gone by then but I did pick up a few.

As you can tell I think I might have a Snow Fairy problem?? 

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Comparison - how it can steal your happiness

Comparison is the thief of joy. Comparison will cause you to overestimate what someone else has and underestimate what you have or in some cases vice versa. I for one am guilty of doing this on a regular basis if not everyday at some point. In a world where we have the internet and social media it's even easier to compare yourself to others and what they have or have achieved.

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The Autumn Tag

This tag has been going round for the last few weeks & I was tagged by the lovely Emma from Emma Drusilla, so here it is! 

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Healthy low sugar granola

I try to eat healthy as I can and add in the odd naughty thing here and there although sometimes I do have days where I might go a bit sugar crazy I will admit, nobody's perfect! I've been trying to find recipes for healthy snacks and remembered how much I love granola either as an evening snack or for breakfast, the downside though to granola is that most shop bought versions are packed full of sugar and considering this is the first meal you are eating of the day you don't want to spike your blood sugar level.

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60th Birthday Cake

I love a good birthday me, mostly because it means I get to make a cake! Last month it was my mums 60th (sorry for sharing this mum!) and I decided instead of buying her a cake I could make one. Right up until frosting the cake I was still unsure on how I was going to decorate it and pretty much winged it in the end, I was lucky. Haha. 

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What am I watching? The October Edition

This is my first of monthly posts on what I'm watching on TV and Netflix, I watch many different series on TV rather than films and I'm seriously loving these seven right now.
What's interesting about these seven is how different they all are. You've got reality, horror and comedy!

Let's get started..

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Halloween inspired nails

I am a bit of a halloween freak. I love pumpkins and all things autumnal so it's only fitting that I like halloween, there's something exciting about the yummy treats that are brought out at this time and trying on scary masks plus I do love a good horror film!

This year I thought i would try something new and rather than plain old black nails like I usually do for halloween I tried something a bit different with some nail polish I already had.

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That good ol' beauty tag

It's said that the average woman uses 12 products a day. I've seen this little "what's your number" tag going around so I want to see just how many products I use on an average day.  Let's go! 

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Chronic Illness Problems

I tend not to write much about illness mostly because I'm sure no one that is well wants to hear about it, I'm sure if I was I certainly wouldn't.

A chronic illness has taken up the best (I use the term best very loosely) part of 5 years of my life especially the last two. It's changed my life dramatically, I was once a fun, almost carefree somewhat of a perfectionist kind of person I would go out to bars, last night cinema trips, shopping days etc and loved it. Unfortunately a chronic illness like mine means you can no longer do everything you want, yes you can do things still from time to time but I have to pick and choose what I think I can and cannot do. This is depressing. Healthy people take it for granted that you can do whatever you want whenever you want with little health consequences, yes you might feel tired after a long day but you go to sleep and wake up ready to go again. I haven't felt that for 5 years, in the early stages I pushed on through (two years, what a dummy!) and tried to continue the fast paced packed life I enjoyed, little did I know the consequences of doing this and if I had I would of rested back then to save myself from having to be where I am now.

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How to: Rose Swirl Cake

I love baking. Mostly I enjoy baking cupcakes but occasionally I get asked to do a big cake or it's someone specials birthday coming up so I whip out the big guns and go all out! What started off as just a hobby and bringing cakes to friends houses with me has now become well still a hobby but I get friends (and friends of friends!) and family now asking me to bake for there special occasions too. I don't mind this at all as I find it therapeutic and although sometimes it can make my health worse it's nice to feel useful and that my health doesn't stop me from doing everything I used to be able to do.

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Healthy food haul

For health purposes I have recently been trying to change my diet. I have a sweet tooth you see, I love all things chocolate, cupcake and crisps! Especially anything salted caramel (swoon) I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables too and have a varied balanced diet but I just feel I eat a bit to much sugar and I would probably go as far as saying I'm addicted!

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It's the bumble life for me

About a month ago I jumped on the bumble and bumble band wagon. I have read about the products that originate from New York in magazines and many blogs but never got round to trying them. My heat protection spray had run out and I was on the hunt for a new one.
I personally find buying new heat sprays quite daunting because you just never know how they will react with your hair. Over the years I have tried many drug store budget friendly ones and subsequently the higher end salon professional sprays. I'm never sure which are better if I'm honest. My go to sprays have always been TIGI catwalk sleek mystique iron spray which I still love and Paul Mitchell heat seal spray, both of these are on the more expensive side at about £14 each.

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Take a walk in the forest and smell the wild air

Last week I went on a little trip, a "staycation" if you will. We didn't want to go too far (what with my health but that's a whole different story!) and this place was about 2 hours away by car which was perfect. We have been on a forest holiday before to the same location and loved it so decided it was a good option for a relaxing get away for 4 nights.

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Sweet cookie of mine

So I love baking, but normally cookies are not my thing. They are either to thin and a bit dry or really thick and you can taste the flour, I'm just not a successful cookie baker! But i have found the perfect recipe,  hallelujah. Maybe that's just all I needed, the perfect cookie recipe! So Tanya burr the youtube sensation has finally allowed me to have amazingly yummy homemade cookies finally.

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