Frank* bars

Hi there, todays discussion is relating to the topic of food! As I am known to be a beauty and fashion blogger, I do tend to do the odd posts where I go off topic, therefore I am thinking of changing my beauty and fashion status and widening my blog so that I can write more about food and my vegetarian diet as well as writing about two of my passions, beauty and fashion! The reason I made this decision is because I don't want people commenting on how I don't stick to my blog topics, therefore I hope you all agree with my decision and support me with it!

Anyway onto the actual post.. I have been trying something called Frank* bars, and before I go any further here is a bit of information as to what Frank* bars are:

Frank* bars are made with 100% natural ingredients, such as; Wholegrain oats, dates & dried plums, and topped with a delicious dairy free coconut cream chocolate, all that good stuff!

An important factor to me personally is that Frank* bar's are vegan, I am indeed a vegetarian and I am constantly checking wrappers and packets for the vegetarian or vegan logo, and these bars make it very clear that they are vegan.

Frank* bar's also contain ENERGYSMART which is a patented, all natural combination of carbohydrates from select fruits (apple, grape and pear) plus specially developed natural dextrin's from grain which together provide longer lasting energy.

 

These are the flavours I got to try out:

• Oat & Chocolate
• Double Chocolate
• Strawberry & Chocolate
• Orange & Chocolate
• Blueberry & Chocolate

As nice as each bar was my favourite would have to be the Orange & Chocolate, I am a sucker for anything which is chocolate orange flavour and this bar proved my point! When I saw these bars for the first time I thought they would be like any other snack bar, full of oats and cereals, covered in chocolate but these are totally different and something unique to try!

 

My least favourite bar would have to be the Blueberry & Chocolate simply because of the fact that I hate blueberries so the taste wasn't something I would usually go for! However my mum did like this bar as she likes blueberries, therefore everyone will have there own opinion on each of these bars!

 

I found that these bars went very quickly in my house as I have a family of 5 (Including me) and everyone was eager to taste them, you have to be quick in my family before all the food goes, yes we are greedy at times!

 

Altogether I think these bars are great for snacking healthily, these would go perfectly in a lunch box, for work, going to the gym to give you a boost before the work out or simply to just snack on when you fancy! I would recommend any vegan or vegetarian like myself to try these as sometimes because of my poor diet (Yes I am a fussy eater) I can be feeling drowsy some days and a bit lifeless, so these would really help people in a similar situation to me just to give you some energy to be able to get on with your day! I am a massive junk food lover and anything that tastes like chocolate is just for me, so when I found out these were chocolate flavour but full of goodness I was happy to try them out as I would get the taste of chocolate but be eating something healthy for once!

 

Try these out yourself by clicking here to be taken to their website.

They also have a twitter page, so feel free to get in touch with them via twitter if you wish.

 

I hope a lot of you found this post useful, have a great day & stay healthy!

 

 



Need Sweets | Vegetarian/Vegan sweets

hello, and good morning. I have an exciting post coming up for you today about a company I came across via twitter, they are a company called 'Need Sweets' and they specialise in sweets for vegetarians and vegans which I admire as being a vegetarian myself I find it so hard to discover decent tasting sweets that have the 'suitable for vegetarians' logo/sign on. Its handy knowing that all the sweets that are suitable for me are in one place and I don't have to search around for them.

Here is there website: CLICK HERE TO BE TAKEN TO IT.

Now onto the review, I will show each sweet packet and tell you my honest opinions.

These are the flying saucers and at the moment on their website they are only 99p and you get quite a lot in one pack. I am not a fan of flying saucers but I did try one and they are nice but not the sort of sweets that I would go for. However my mum and dad tried these, my dad is addicted to flying saucers so he really enjoyed them. My mums opinions were that they were as nice as the non vegetarian variety, the sherbet is bitter but in a nice way and lastly the texture is nice. Whenever I review products I sometimes add my family's opinions in to show different peoples opinions and in this case you will be hearing opinions from a vegetarian and non vegetarians.

These sweets are in fact Haribo Rotella's. My sister loves these, however again im not as keen on them but they are nice and fruity. They basically are like and normal laces you would buy in packets but rolled up. There is a good variety of flavours to choose from. My mum says that they were very tasty, she would buy these in a supermarket even though there vegetarian.

Here we have a rice crispy square, as you probably know marshmallow contains gelatine therefore the Kelloggs square bars are NOT vegetarian due to the marshmallow that is included. This square bar does not contain gelatine in the marshmallow. They do sell vegan marshmallows which I will later on talk about and I suppose they use them marshmallows for the the rice crispy treats. These rice crispy treats are nice, however the marshmallow taste abit to odd and I think that these would be good with chocolate on.

Vegetarian marshmallows? Yes you read right, I was shocked to and this must be wrong but they are genuinely 100% vegan! However they don't taste just like marshmallows but what do you expect when they're vegan. They are quite sticky but once you chew them they have to same texture as a normal marshmallow, these are vanilla and if it wasn't for the taste they would be quite similar to normal marshmallows. You get quite a lot of marshmallows in one container so would defiantly be worth the buy. My grandad is addicted to marshmallows and he tried one, he liked them but did agree that the texture was different, to say he wouldn't give me the tub back I take that as he liked them!

 

This is Rocky Road and was scrummy! The chocolate was very rich and a nice surprise with the nuts as nuts aren't usually an ingredient in the non vegetarian option. A small amount is enough to satisfy as the chocolate is so dark and smooth



These are hands down my favourite sweets at the moment, vegetarian cola bottles are so hard to find as normal ones would contain gelatine. Without gelatine cola bottles are not as soft and are easy to bite through just as a warning as my mum moans a lot that vegetarian cola bottles don't taste as nice but personally I prefer them as there not as sickly! Its hard to explain the texture of them but once you know what the texture is like you will be able to notice if there vegetarian just by biting into one. When I had the first one of these fizzy cola bottles I was overwhelmed by the sourness of them but once you get use to how sour they are they taste so good and I have got use to them being so sour and prefer them like that now. I got a lot of sweets in what looks like this tiny packet. I would and will be buying these again.



I was surprised to see this little treat in my box of goodies as I have never tried a smores bar before and I can honestly say there very tasty! They remind me of a wagon wheel but with dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. This bar consists of a biscuit base with marshmallow on top and then covered in chocolate. Worth trying!





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