Each year around this time Im forever searching online stressing about what to make or buy for our teacher or preschool teachers but this year in about 5 minutes I found the perfect gift to make for our year 1 teacher.

This is it – found on my new online addiction Pinterest, its cool & colourful idea and what makes it better is its soooo easy to create and embarrassingly cheap too.

What you need

• New or unused crayons
• Glue gun
• 1 card stock
• 1 shadow frame

When I was in Primary I use to steal money from my parents and buy junk food. I use to hide the food under my pillow and eat it secretly at nights. I dont know if it was my favourite, but I use to abuse coke and crunchie chocolate bars – when I say ‘abuse’ I mean 5-8 bars or 5 coke cans a day.
I think this was one of the lowest points of my childhood, even thinking about those days and remembering how I felt stealing food and money my heart beats faster, I feel nervous and ashamed.
About  the same time I met hubby who I confided in about my disgusting habit, he made me go cold turkey with my chocolate addiction, he would come to school during my breaks so we could eat together and at nights he would make me call him as a distraction.

It’s now been about 15 years since I’ve had a taste of crunchie, and today the kids bought me a bar when they went out with mum.

I took a bite and all the depressed, lonely, heart beating nerves came flooding back, even my bedroom smell came back to me.

I realised im not as strong as I thought I was, but I think im wiser where I was able to suppress my emotions and in some way move on to the next thing that was happening.

But what makes it sad is, looking at the 1/2 eaten chocolate and realising my life long addiction to food and how one piece of junk is still til today ruining and ruling my life.

In 2004 after my 2nd miscarriage I was told to lose weight before I could ever fall pregnant, til then I had already tried Weight Watchers & dieting tablets so after a friends huge weightloss and recommendation I joined Sureslim.

I had lost about 8 kilos from memory before I feel pregnant with my baby girl and had to put my membership on hold. I never did go back because I was either pregnant with my other two or breastfeeding inbetween.

Due to the huge amount of money I paid upfront, and also the program unlike any other paid diets I joined as there seemed to be more involved like blood tests, I actual felt more determined to stick to it as it felt more like a health condition and not a simple fad diet.

There was a very annoying thing about this program and that was everything had to be weighed – in the beginning it wasnt too bad but as I started having headaches & hunger pangs I just started getting fed up. I do believe if I continued with the program and wasnt pregnant I would have had a successful weightloss.

Anyways, now that Ive had my surgery and am slowllllyyyy losing weight, I wanted to put my notes up here for anyone who wishes to go through it or even start Sureslim.

Sitting here rereading all my notes, I cant believe I paid $845 to be told something I really knew all along but never followed. Looking at the Meal Planner, I paid that much for this single page info???

I will hold on to the other info for a few more days – if anyone wants it Im happy to send them through.

I havent menu planned for a little while now, its not the time factor but more the kids seem to forever change their minds on what they want to eat that day. I have to keep up with a protein diet and hubby well hubby things him eating 2 servings each meal is ok because his not THAT overweight.

Today hubby was home , the kids have had their breakky so its just hubby and I – oooo how romantic !!!!! not!

I made the same thing Im having for hubby but obviously in a XL size to cater his eating – today we had tomato, cheese & boiled egg.

Ignoring the yellow ‘chicken noodles’ stain in my kids bowls, this is it – theres no carbs high in protein and now fat…apparently this is boring!!!

So hubby being the typical Turkish man took out the turkish bread from yesterday, toasted it in the oven, added butter, feta, and the rest of his breakfast bowl along with a cup of brewed turkish tea and the man was satisfied.

Since becoming a mum of 3 I dread the weekly or even monthly grocery shopping, not just because of the bill but wasting 1 – 1.5 hours at Woolies, lining up at checkout, loading the car, putting everything away and as if thats not enough as every person does I wash all my fruit & veg before I put them away.

When it comes to the apples I dont just rinse them, I have to dry them with a cloth just so theres no white marks left on the skin or else the kids wont eat them apparently their ‘germs’ and yuck!!!!!

I received an Enjo Fruit and Veg Cloth to trial, I use to own a Dust Glove but unfortunately it was put down from over use lol so I jumped at the idea of testing the Fruit & Veg Cloth.

Of course the cloth is green and in a shape of an apple, even the tag at the top looks like the stem. I was actually wondering why the packaging smelt like fruit but would never have guessed there’d be a small apple inside lol.

A little about Enjo!

Not just a pretty fibre, ENJO’s chemical-free fibre cleaning system will change your weekly cleaning and shopping routine for the better. 
It saves what’s precious to you – time and money – and what’s precious to our future – health, water and the environment.

The textured rough side of the cloth removes the wax, dirt, dust, pesticides, fertilisers, fungi (eew) and bacteria while the softer side dries & gives the fruit alittle shine.

It works!!!

I purposely didnt dry the apple just so I can see how this cloth works, my luck I didnt get much of the white mark but it will do for now.

A bit of water was all it needed to remove that ugly white mark using the rough side, but will have to be careful next time as I pressed too hard and damaged the poor fruit…lol.

To be honest I couldnt tell the difference after using the soft side of the cloth to give it a little shine but did have to dry the fruit anyhow.

If you’ve heard or seen Enjo products you would have also noticed the prices – a little ouch! right?…well keep in mind not only are you helping the environment & your health but your actually saving money by not needing any chemicals – just an Enjo & water!

For more info head over to Enjo Facebook or to host your own demo check out Enjo website.