Feel Free Foods - Breaded Hake and Gluten Free Foods

Here at The Amazing Blog, we love our food, but we know it’s sometimes tricky to rustle up something easy, tasty and healthy, especially if you suffer from allergies or intolerances. Thanks to Feel Free Foods, it's about to get a lot easier. The gluten free company have added some great new breaded fish dishes to their frozen products, so that you can make a nutritious meal with ease at the end of a long day. 

Diagnosed a coeliac, Sally Allister started the company back in 2004 after recognising a need for healthy, high quality, gluten free products which are tasty enough to be enjoyed by the whole family. Her latest breaded fish range is made from 100% fish fillet and covered in a crunchy maize coating. The mouthwatering Breaded Cod and Hake Fillets are each available in packs of two, ready to be baked for a quick and healthy dinner. We were lucky enough to try the delicious Breaded Hake Fillets and it's safe to say we’re hooked (excuse the pun).  The fillet was firm, tender and had a delectably crunchy coating.  What’s more, the hake is sustainable, so that guilt free feeling goes a little bit further!  If you have little mouths to feed, the brand also make Breaded Fish Nuggets, as well as a huge range of pastas, sweet treats, and quick, easy meals. 

You can buy your own tasty hake here. They retail for the very reasonable price of £3.99 and are worth every penny! If fish isn't your dish, then fear not, as the company offer a wide range of other gluten free products, and have a selection of recipes for you to experiment with.

Oppo Ice Cream

The Amazing Blog team will never turn down a sweet treat, especially frozen ones as the weather gets warmer here in Chelsea. Too many artificial sweeteners can weigh us down, so when want something a bit more natural we reach for Oppo ice cream as a healthier alternative with the same great taste.

Oppo began when brothers Charlie and Harry Thuillier decided to travel 1000km along the Northeast coast of Brazil via kite buggies powered by the wind. When they started running out of food, they started eating local coconuts that gave them hydration and healthy fats and protein. With their new passion for natural ingredients, they returned home and thought about how coconut milk could replace unhealthy fats in traditional desserts, like ice cream.

After some research and failed first attempts, Oppo has grown into the company it is today. There are three ice cream flavours – Madagascar Vanilla, Salted Caramel and Mint Chocolate Swirl – in the collection, and each one is made with a superfood ingredient for added benefits. All of the flavours are sweetened with the natural, zero-calorie stevia leaf instead of sugar and cream and virgin coconut oil. These are ice creams you can feel great about indulging in.

Oppo ice creams are sold at participating Waitrose stores, so check their stockist list to see if your nearest Waitrose sells Oppo. 

Friday Favourites - Gluten-Free Snacks Feature

Here at The Amazing Blog, we love enjoying delicious snacks throughout the day to keep us focused and energised. For our readers with dietary restrictions, we understand that quality gluten-free snacks are not always easy to find. To solve this problem, we made it our mission to search for gluten-free products that taste great and won’t harm your body. Here are our top four favourites out of the products we discovered. 

All of the snacks from The Foods of Athenry ere a big hit here at the office, especially the cookie shots! They make a variety of delicious treats, many of which are gluten-free, so your whole family can enjoy their yummy snacks. The Foods of Athenry is a family-run business based in West Ireland. Their gluten-free snacks include a variety of different breakfast cereals, cookies, crackers, flapjacks, grab & go bars, biscuits, cakes and scones. Their gluten-free products are certified by the Coeliac Society, since all of the snacks have the crossed grain symbol on the box. Since some of their products do contain gluten, they avoid cross-contamination by using two separate bakeries. You can shop all of their gluten-free snacks here, where you’ll be able to choose from a wide variety of products. 

Perhaps the most nutritious item on our list, we loved the healthy olives from Urbangrains. The two varieties we sampled were the Black Kalamon Olives and the Green Olives. Both olive flavours are organic and are marinated in olive oil and oregano. Since they’re harvested by hand and are delicately prepared without being processed, the quality is top-notch. We could tell the difference in taste between these olives and other types of olives you might find while at the grocery store. They were a satisfying snack on their own, although they would complement a plate of cheese and crackers if you’re in need of a larger snack. Head here to get a few packs of these Greek olives for £3.

Everyone at the office agrees that a yummy chocolate spread is the perfect finish touch on top of a biscuit or piece of toast. Our new favourite chocolate spreads are from Jim Jam’s, a family-owned business that strives to eliminate all of the hidden sugars found in many common spreads. All of the spreads made by Jim Jam’s are gluten-free and contain no added sugar, so you can rest assured knowing you’re providing your family with the highest quality available. The side of each jar contains an easy “choccie milk” recipe, so you can enjoy the spread in more than one way. At the office, we tried the Milk Chocolate spread and the Hazelnut Chocolate spread, and we highly recommend them both. Find out which retailer nearest you sells the Jim Jam’s spreads here. A few popular places from their list are The Co-Operative food and TK Maxx.

Last but certainly not least, we enjoyed the double chocolate gluten-free cookies from Angelic Gluten Free. Each one contains less than 75 calories, have around 30% less fat in comparison to other gluten free cookies and are made with dairy-free chocolate chips. Plus, they have the same amount of taste and flavour you’d expect from cookies with gluten. We loved how perfectly portioned each cookie was; they weren’t too big or too small. They came in a package that made them easy to serve and share with others, or you can keep them to yourself if you’d rather. Head to the Angelic’s website and use their store locator to find the shop nearest you where you can purchase the cookies.

ESTHECHOC Beauty Chocolates

Our team here at The Amazing Blog will never turn down some delicious chocolate and other yummy sweets. In our search for the next innovative treat, we came across ESTHECHOC from Cambridge Beauty Chocolate and knew we had found our newest chocolate obsession. We nearly fell off our chairs when we heard that the clever team at Cambridge Beauty Chocolate created a chocolate designed to make skin look younger.

ESTHECHOC chocolates are the result of 10 years of research related to how cocoa can be used to fight free radical damage to skin. The formula contains 70% cocoa dark chocolate and represents a combination of two of the most powerful antioxidants with pleotropic anti-ageing properties: cocoa flavanols and marine carotenoid astaxanthin.

The delicious treat contains only 38 calories per square, and it tastes as delicious as your favourite dark chocolate treat. It has a distinctly intense, rich flavour that simply melts in your mouth.

Head here to get your own supply of ESTHECHOC so you can look great while enjoying some delicious dark chocolate. Eat one chocolate every day for three weeks for best results.

Oxylent Multivitamin Supplement Drink

At The Amazing Blog we try to remain as healthy as possible ignoring temptations, minus the odd weekend binge of course. However when we received Oxylent Vitamin Supplement drink we realised how simple it was to obtain the vitamins and minerals we need without having to ingest multiple gigantic pills.

There are numerous benefits to drinking Oxylent rather than ingesting pills, first and foremost is the taste, frankly all the flavours are delicious, and the best we have ever tasted. Statistics also prove that taking a liquid supplement drink actually absorbs into your body more so than taking them in tablet form. Oxylent is an Award winning supplement drink, a 5-in-1 formula which contains vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, Amino Acids and Electrolytes. Electrolytes control the balance of fluid in the body therefore preventing dehydration and maintaining PH levels. Amino Acids transport nutrients and oxygen throughout the body and improve the functioning of your body’s immune system. All this in a little sachet which you consume daily or twice a day if you’re exercising, shake pour into your beverage.  

Also did I mention the beverage is energising, does not contain any sugar, 100% GMO free, zero Calories, Gluten Free, Dairy Free and does not contain any preservatives…..

Everybody needs to have this delicious effervescent beverage in their lives, it tastes good and is extremely beneficial to your health. You can purchase Oxylent in some health food stores including Whole Foods but also here online for £27.70….. What are you waiting for?