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Roller Rabbit x Target Collection- Food & Beverages

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It is finally time for the last post in my series about the Roller Rabbit x Target collection! There is just one category I still want to talk about: The food and beverages.

For this post, I decided not to pick any favorite items in the food and beverage side of the collection. The reason is because I have food allergies. Although some of the food looks like it will be ok for me to eat, I decided not to consider purchasing anything from the food and beverage category.

Instead, I decided to show everything that will be available in the food and beverage category. They include cookies, candies, and drinks. In my opinion, I believe the drinks will sell out the fastest. The reason is because the drinks are actually made by Poppi. They come in three flavors: Watermelon, Raspberry Rose, and Shirley Temple. Since Poppi is a popular drink on social media, I think the ones in this collection will be the most popular items in the whole collection.

Aside from the drinks, I really love the cookies. They are decorated cookies and come in two shapes: A monkey and a heart. Both are designs by Roller Rabbit for this collection. Even though I know I won’t be able to eat them, they are super cute!

 

Please Note: All the items mentioned in this post are picked by my own personal taste and is based off what I saw online before anything is available to be seen and touched in person. All the photographs of the products are from Target’s free to download media pack on Target’s website. All the names of the items and it’s cost is taken from the listings from Target’s website.

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Reminiscing & Wondering Where the Children’s Chocolate Advent Calendars Are Sold Today

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Ever since I was a girl, I loved advent calendars. I usually had the calendars with chocolate in them. Every day in December, I would open a new window, find the chocolate, and eat it. When I had a major health crisis as a teenager, I decided to make myself a bucket list of things I wanted to do before I became to sickly to do them. One of the simplest ones was to buy a chocolate advent calendar for children and eat all the chocolate in one sitting. I ended up doing this years after the health crisis. I did this for only one time, but have no regrets about doing it!

Today, I see many types of advent calendars for sale. Among them are Legos, Disney toy collectables, and other toy brands. I’ve seen advent calendars for adults featuring beauty products, books, and socks. I’ve seen food based advent calendars and ones I just don’t understand who the target audience is, but there it is. There are also advent calendars that are for fans of certain movies and TV shows. These include Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls, and Wicked: For Good. (If you haven’t heard, Wicked: For Good has so many brand deals that it makes sense they would have a tie in advent calendar)

Yet, after browsing all these calendars I realized something: I didn’t see any chocolate advent calendars for children.

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Attempting to Make Brioche Bread Again

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Last December, my mixer broke while making a new bread recipe. This recipe was for brioche bread.

Today, I have a new mixer that is stronger than my old one. Even though it is stronger and far more reliable than my old one, I still was worried about how well it would do making brioche. A few weeks ago, I decided to try to make the bread again.

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Kate Spade New York x Target Collection Favorites: Food

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When I found out about the Kate Spade New York x Target collection, I was very surprised by the large amount of items in the collection. Out of all the items in the collection, the items that surprised me was the food.

Although I’ve been a fan of the Kate Spade brand, I never thought about including food in the Target collaboration. Since the food was such a surprise to me, I decided to browse the food and see if there were any food items I liked.

I assumed if there was food in the collection, there would be a lot of drink options. (Kate Spade New York has a lot of references to alcoholic drinks such as martinis, champagne, ect. in their products) Especially alcohol drinks or mixes for alcoholic drinks. Although there are mixes in the collection, they could be used for non alcoholic drinks. Instead, there are a lot of snacks.

When I went through the food options in this collection, I picked my favorite foods based off what I would actually like to eat. I have food allergies that show up in many ready-made foods, but I did not take that into consideration when I picked my favorite foods in the collection. Even though I cannot eat everything on this list, I am happy to see the ingredients listed on Target’s website. This made it easy for me to decide if there are food items I can eat or cannot.

All the photos in this post are originally from the media pack available for free on Target’s website. I edited them for this post.

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Update on Baking Homemade Bread: The Good, The Bad, and The Tasty Mistakes

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A while ago, I talked about my intention to make bread from scratch as well as why I’m doing it in a post. Now that I have had some time to bake bread over and over again, I can honestly say that I love how my bread tastes! It isn’t like the store bought breads, but I still like my bread more. It is heavier and denser than the store bought bread. Even though this is natural for the type of bread I make, it does require me to cut thinner slices. I still haven’t master cutting the right size slice, so the bread is still larger than I want it to be.

Even though the problems I’m currently having with my bread isn’t a big deal, I’m still struggling mastering the recipe. My goal is to eventually become good enough at making the recipe that the only thing I need to review in the cookbook is the exact measurements for each ingredient. I still haven’t made it that far. Because of this, I have made many mistake loafs of bread.

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A Few More Thoughts on Allergies and Making My Own Food

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Over a week, I wrote a post about making my own bread due to my allergy to an ingredient commonly put into breads I normally eat these days. Since then, I started to wonder if there are other foods with my allergies in them. While on a recent shopping trip, I decided to look around at the baked goods at the store I normally eat to see if they contain my soy food allergy.

After walking around the store, I felt really disappointed with the foods! So many of them contained soy! Even though I have a tolerance to soy, and if I eat soy oil is within a certain amount of time after it was created, I noticed I am still suffering from allergic reaction symptoms. After discovering so many foods I normally eat have soy in them, I felt disappointed and discouraged.

For many years, I wondered if should start making my own food. I knew this was a major possibility due to how my non food allergies affect me. At that time, I found many premade foods I could still eat because it didn’t contain ingredients I’m allergic to. All these years, it wasn’t a problem. Today, it is.

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Baking My Own Bread and Why I’m Frustrated With Ingredients in Store Bought Bread

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I have realized for the past few years that finding bread made without my allergens is becoming harder to do. This problem has become worse over the past year. I have noticed my favorite place to buy bread at (a bakery in a specific grocery store) has changed their recipe to include an ingredient that I am allergic to. Fortunately, it is an allergy I have a tolerance for. Yet, after weeks of eating the bread, it became difficult for me to consume it anymore without getting sick.

This has lead me to acknowledge that the area where I live is somewhere where is too difficult to find food I’m not allergic to anymore without cooking it at home. I tried to spread my shopping range to other stores, but, sadly, these stores are usually too far away from where I live (About an hour or more drive)  without it becoming a major hassle.

Since I’m not moving to a different area right now (I won’t go into reasons why), I decided to start making my own bread from home. It may be time consuming, but, after taking into consideration my allergies,  travel time, and expenses, I am sure it will cost me less money, and possibly less time, to do this.

The problem is I haven’t made my own bread in years!

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5 Favorite Summertime Treats

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Summer, like the other three seasons of the year, have certain types of foods that are commonly associated with them. One of the most popular types of foods people associate with the summer season are the treats. Treats can mean different types of foods for different people, but to me it means deserts and other sweet foods. I have many treats I enjoy eating during this time of the year, some are better to eat than others. After thinking so much about what kinds of foods I would like to make for myself, I decided to write a post about five of my favorite summertime treats. These are also the treats I’m most excited to eat this year… if I can make them!

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5 More Favorite Summer Foods

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While I wrote a post about five of my favorite summer foods, I had to leave some of my favorite foods out. This made me sad because I really enjoy eating them and didn’t mind talking about them. Since I have so many foods I enjoy eating during the summertime, I decided to write another post!

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5 Favorite Summer Foods

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Whenever the summer season approaches, I start to change my diet. I know I feel better if I eat certain foods during certain times of the year. During the winter, I eat heavier foods. During the summer, I eat lighter foods. During the spring and fall, I transition between the two types of food.

Since it is summer, I have officially switched to eating as much lighter foods I can. Despite the lighter nature of the foods, they are still nutritious and filling. They just contain more ingredients that sit better on my stomach!

This year, I decided to share five of my favorite summer foods. Not everything is practical for everyone’s diet, but I enjoy them a lot. I have more favorite summer foods I enjoy and want to talk about, but I’ll save them for a future post! Continue reading “5 Favorite Summer Foods” →