Grilled Steak and Cheese Sandwiches

Our local grocery store is Morrisons so since it is only a 10 minute walk away we were really excited to hear about our new cheaper Morrisons. From this past bank holiday weekend they have cut the prices on over a thousand of your favourite products. Not temporary reductions or supermarket smoke and mirrors but new every day low prices on the things you buy every week. How fab is that? So we headed to the store to see how much it would be to make one of our favourite recipes: Grilled Steak and Cheese Sandwiches.

If you haven't been to a Morrisons in a while now is the time to go. The new remodelled stores are amazing and remind me of grocery stores back home in America!

There are misters on the fruits, vegetables and herbs! These are common place in stores in America but I've only ever seen them at Morrisons in the UK!

We love that Morrisons have proper butchers in store. We've found that the meat at Morrisons is always a higher standard and better quality than other stores.

How drool worthy is the bakery counter? There are tons of freshly made creations like donuts, cupcakes, cookies and more! I was so tempted!

I was good though and stuck to the plan to get our ingredients for the steak sandwiches, lots of fresh fruit for smoothies and some few World Cup stickers for a certain little helper!

Steak sandwiches are one of our go-to meals and shopping for ingredients at the new cheaper Morrisons works out to only £3.12 per person! Plus lots of leftover peppers for Blondie Boy to snack on the rest of the week and some fly baguette for NotBlondeHusband to make a midnight snack! We cooked the sandwich two ways, regular for me and spicy for NBH.

Grilled Steak and Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients
2 Scotch Beef Prime Popeye Rump Steaks
Medium Cheddar Cheese
Salad Peppers
Sliced Mushrooms
2 White Onions
Bird Eye Chillies
1 Baguette
Mayonnaise
Sriracha 






1) Roughly chop one pepper into large pieces, chop onion. De-seed and finely chop four small bird's eye chillis.

2) Season steak. Regular sandwich seasoned with salt and pepper, spicy sandwich add dry chillis.

3a) For regular sandwich, pre-heat pan to a high heat. Add peppers and cook for five minutes until charred. Turn down heat, add onions and cook for a further five minutes, add mushrooms and cook for five minutes until onions are translucent and mushrooms are cooked.

3b) For spicy sandwich, pre-heat pan to a medium heat, add chopped bird's eye chillis and onions, cook for five minutes, add mushrooms and cook for five minutes more.

4) In same pan cook steak to desired temperature (we like medium, medium-rare).

5) Slice steak and put in baguette. Top with desired veg and cheese. Melt cheese under pre-heated medium grill.

6) Add desired sauce: mayonnaise on regular sandwich, sriracha on spicy. 

7) Serve and enjoy!

This is one of our go to dinners and I'd say we have it at least every two weeks since it is so easy and quick to make. It's a great way to enjoy steak without having to spend a lot of money. We find these are great on their own but you could serve with fries or a side salad, too!

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The Co-operative Legal Services

When it comes to planning for the future, to put it bluntly, we suck. I don't have a pension (why contribute when I wasn't sure if I'd even be living in the UK), I don't have any investments and we don't have a will. As morbid as it might seem we realise we really need to get things in order in case the worst happens. While we might have gotten away with not planning for the future before Blondie Boy we can't afford not to now.

Luckily The Co-operative Legal Services have recently launched a YouTube Channel, which features simple yet impartial advice on Family Law, Wills and Probate. The Co-operative Legal Services wanted to launch the channel to offer simple, impartial legal advice covering a range of issues (family law, wills and probate). They cover topics such as divorce and separation, child welfare, how best to write a will and understanding probate. The videos are interactive and easy to understand, as they want to offer advice to those people who are looking for it but aren't sure where to start.

I had no idea even where to begin with writing a will so I found this video on what to consider really helpful:

Selecting guardians is obviously one of the more important parts of writing a will when you have children and Co-operative Legal Services advise how best to do this:

The presenter of the videos is Christina Blacklaws who is the Director of Policy at the Co-operative Legal Services and specialises in Family and Childcare Law. She has been featured on Radio 4's Woman's Hour and The Guardian as some examples of how well she is respected in her field. 

Although the videos are produced by the Co-operative Legal Services they do not push their services exclusively. You received impartial advice which is simple and easy to understand. 

You can view more videos on Family Law at the Co-operative Legal Services YouTube Channel.

This is a sponsored post but all views expressed are our own.

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Win Cooking Lessons & A 5 Star Meal with a Michelin starred Chef!

Have you heard of this food and recipes website called the Ideas Kitchen? If you have an interest in cooking you may want to take a look at it to find tips and recipes that can be cooked with your microwave! I use my microwave for making hollandaise sauce myself; I tried making it on the stove once and it was a huge disaster! Microwave all the way!

Even if you aren't the keenest microwave enthusiast The Ideas Kitchen are currently offering a chance to win a cooking lesson with the celebrity and Michelin starred gourmet chef Daniel Galmiche. The 4 winners will also get the opportunity to have a personal cooking lesson with him in his restaurant, The Vineyard, Berkshire. They will be greeted with champagne and canapés and enjoy a sumptuous 5 course tasting lunch at the Vineyard!  Winners travel expenses will also be covered up to £100 so it doesn't matter if you don't live near by!



How can you enter? Answer a simple question: What recipe does Daniel cook in Brixham?
You can find the answer is in one of the following videos:

The competition closed on the 17th of October 2012 and to enter you just need to answer the question and a winner will be chosen among the right answers! Just visit The Ideas Kitchen to enter the competition. Terms and conditions apply; you can read the terms and conditions on the Ideas Kitchen competition post. Good luck!

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Cadbury Mini Animals Dinosaurs

There is a new member of the Cadbury Animals family - introducing Cadbury Mini Animals Dinosaurs!

Cadbury Mini Animals Dinosaurs are tasty bite-sized mini dinosaur biscuits half covered with delicious Cadbury milk chocolate. With Travis the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Trudy the Triceratops, Terry the Pterodactyl, Spike the Stegosaurus and Daisy the Diplodocus, children can discover the gang of five prehistoric dinosaur friends, share their adventures and learn about their existence in a world millions of years ago Plus, there is a sixth mystery dinosaur to be identified too!

One of the best things about the Dinosaur cookies in my opinion is that they are egg free and allergy friendly! There are very few biscuits/cookies Blondie Boy can eat off the shelf so it is great to see not only are there no eggs in the ingredients, but no traces of egg either! We have to be really strict with Blondie Boy's allergy so it is great to have this peace of mind.

Blondie Boy has a lunch box at school full of egg-free treats so that when other students bring cakes in for their birthday he isn't left out and I'll be adding Cadbury Mini Animals Dinosaur to his stash. He absolutely loves them but I'll let him tell you that himself!



Cadbury Mini Animals Dinosaurs launched in Asda stores on 23rd August at a special price of £1, and Sainsbury’s on Sept 2nd at 1/3 off.

This is a sponsored post but we really do love these cookies! I couldn't get a toddler to lie about cookies if I tried :)

Most Deserved Motors Competition

Do you know someone who never gets rewarded for all of their hard work and efforts? Motors.co.uk has just launched a brand new competition to give the most deserving person in the UK a fantastic prize.  I think we can agree a lot of people's hard work and good deeds go unnoticed so Motors.co.uk want to give the winner £10,000 to spend on a used car of their choice from the Motors website, and they will also donate £2,500 to the winner’s chosen charity!

The competition will take place in two stages:

Stage one is where anyone can nominate an individual

Stage two the Most Deserving Panel at Motors will decide on the semi-finalists before inviting the general public to vote. This will whittle it down to 3 finalists from whom the Most Deserving Panel will examine and decide a winner.

So what do you need to do? 

Write up to 500 words saying why your nominee is so special. It could be for any reason- maybe you know someone who spends a lot of their free time helping out at special projects or charities, or maybe it’s someone who has done something amazing to change someone’s life. Whatever the reason, if you know someone who you think deserves to win this fantastic prize and that deserves a big thank you, then this is the perfect opportunity!

Please read all the terms and conditions and good luck!

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